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[Newpylong]

If that were true, they would not consistently be first or close to first to open, or skiing T2B simultaneous to the World Cup or shortly thereafter. No question the public product takes a massive hit but I think abandoned is a little overkill. I would say deprioritized.

 

[bigbob]

I was thinking the same on not being able to blow on the rest of the terrain if they doubled the out put on superstar. Could be other upgrades in the future to make that happen however.

 

[drjeff]

As it said in the press release, early season, and during the Worldcup build, often it's the amount of air, not water that has limited them. Now, they should have more water for Superstar when the wet bulb allows. Plus a faster SS build in theory for the Worldcup might sooner free up the air and water that SS gets priority to over the North Ridge pod early season.

I doubt that any of these changes will affect their push to the base of Snowdon to get top to bottom if the conditions down low are marginal.

Plus, one also has to at times, get rid of their older snowmaking notions of what is possible, especially now that the new owners of K really seem committed to upgrading much of their system to more modern equipment. They've shown that they can still put the product down like very few, if any, can when they want to, and I doubt that that will change, even if how they do it may be a bit different

 

[letitsnow1]

I'm excited for the early season rollout with no world cup this year

 

[skiur]

All this water will be great for glacier building in February when it's 10 degrees out. Those cold outbreaks have been getting less common lately so being able to take advantage of the cold/low humidity conditions will be nice.

 

[urungus]

I'm excited for the early season rollout with no world cup this year

New Superstar lift isn’t scheduled to debut until early December. So I’m not expecting much (if any) early season skiing in that pod this fall. I’m also a little concerned about the loss of time to build up the glacier for the spring.

 

[mister moose]

New Superstar lift isn’t scheduled to debut until early December. So I’m not expecting much (if any) early season skiing in that pod this fall. I’m also a little concerned about the loss of time to build up the glacier for the spring.

I'm not worried.

They can still build Skyelark/Bittersweet while construction on the lift is finishing up. Possibly run Stage II to get there and open High Road. Then on the next cold snap in mid to late December hit Superstar with an 80-100 hour run.

The deep build on Superstar doesn't happen before MLK anyway. I'd bet a beer on Memorial day next spring.

 

[WoodCore]

Top terminal of the new lift is coming together nicely.

 

[IceEidolon]

"Previously, the water pipe system on Lower Superstar was slightly undersized for the demand placed on it during World Cup. The old pipe tapered from 6" to 4", starving the hill during peak use."

There's a bunch of other bits and pieces that really suggest Killington wants to feed more water to Superstar. New HKDs might be helping with the limited air supply, too.