andyzee
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Date(s) Skied: Sunday, 11/02/2008
Resort or Ski Area: Killington, VT
Conditions: Man made snow temps in the upper 20s - 30's.
Trip Report: This is the first time we've been to Killington since my wife broke her ankle on Thanksgiving of last year and it felt nice to ski there again as well as see the look on her face.
We stayed at a friends condo not far from the mountain. With the change in time, I woke up early. Wife was still sleeping so I went to the mountain to see how things looked. I got there at 7:00 am to see guns blasting. I decided to sit on the deck and snap some pics. As I sat there one of the ambassadors opened the door and invited me in. I went in and tried to connect to the internet via their network, no luck, guess they didn't have the Internet connection up yet. Beginning of my trip report and pics would have to wait.
While I sat there, the guy that let me in came by and informed me that they were planning on trying to open at 8:30 as opposed to the planned 10:00 am. I immediately called to my wife and told her and friend to get ready. I dropped by the house to encourage the two women to hurry up, suicidal
We did manage to get to the mountain by about 8:45, gondi was still not running. Me and V ran inside to get our tickets came back out and booted up and grabbed our skis, Gondi started loading at 9:01 am. We ran up ran into some Zoners, and grabbed what must have been the 5th or 6th car going up.
Snow was being blown all over the place and not too many people to be seen, sweet! We got to the top came down Great Northern, nice conditions. Down Rime, good stuff! Get to the lift no lines, is this really opening day at Killington? We did a few runs of the North Ridge triple, sweet snow, blue skies and I got my baby back, who could ask for more. She was still a bit over cautious, can't blame her, so we skied to about 12 and called it a day, I'm glad she got the first day under her belt and I'm looking forward to a whole season with her
Conditions were pretty good for the time we skied, but Rime was getting a bit scraped off when we quit. All in all though I have to give Killington credit for doing a great job of opening up. I complained about the price and still thing that the $65 is a bit high for what was open, but on the bright side, it wasn't crowded all day, so well worth it.
I do hope Killington is going back to there old ways of early season opening and late closing, miss those days. Don't have a season pass this year cause of wife's injury, but they keep this up, we're back next year! Pics to follow.
Resort or Ski Area: Killington, VT
Conditions: Man made snow temps in the upper 20s - 30's.
Trip Report: This is the first time we've been to Killington since my wife broke her ankle on Thanksgiving of last year and it felt nice to ski there again as well as see the look on her face.
We stayed at a friends condo not far from the mountain. With the change in time, I woke up early. Wife was still sleeping so I went to the mountain to see how things looked. I got there at 7:00 am to see guns blasting. I decided to sit on the deck and snap some pics. As I sat there one of the ambassadors opened the door and invited me in. I went in and tried to connect to the internet via their network, no luck, guess they didn't have the Internet connection up yet. Beginning of my trip report and pics would have to wait.
While I sat there, the guy that let me in came by and informed me that they were planning on trying to open at 8:30 as opposed to the planned 10:00 am. I immediately called to my wife and told her and friend to get ready. I dropped by the house to encourage the two women to hurry up, suicidal
We did manage to get to the mountain by about 8:45, gondi was still not running. Me and V ran inside to get our tickets came back out and booted up and grabbed our skis, Gondi started loading at 9:01 am. We ran up ran into some Zoners, and grabbed what must have been the 5th or 6th car going up. Snow was being blown all over the place and not too many people to be seen, sweet!
We got to the top came down Great Northern, nice conditions. Down Rime, good stuff! Get to the lift no lines, is this really opening day at Killington? We did a few runs of the North Ridge triple, sweet snow, blue skies and I got my baby back, who could ask for more. She was still a bit over cautious, can't blame her, so we skied to about 12 and called it a day, I'm glad she got the first day under her belt and I'm looking forward to a whole season with her Conditions were pretty good for the time we skied, but Rime was getting a bit scraped off when we quit. All in all though I have to give Killington credit for doing a great job of opening up. I complained about the price and still thing that the $65 is a bit high for what was open, but on the bright side, it wasn't crowded all day, so well worth it.
I do hope Killington is going back to there old ways of early season opening and late closing, miss those days. Don't have a season pass this year cause of wife's injury, but they keep this up, we're back next year! Pics to follow.
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