Killington shills infesting A-Zone....

[BigK]

And how many skiing related forums does Highi'mgay Star post on??

 

[2knees]

A good site to check out is www.paskiandride.com

there is a politics forum and I post over there as well..

come on over to www.2knees.com. its a hooot.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

come on over to www.2knees.com. its a hooot.

Sorry I can't look at porn at work..:smash:

 

[RootDKJ]

.....he actually gets a $300 kickback from Killington every two weeks, and Tom Horrocks writes some of his posts.

WTF! I only get $150 a month and have to write all my own posts!:smash:






Only kidding. I go to K a few times a year, and get in 15 to 20 days there. I have enjoyed my visits there and so long as I'm consider each trip a "success" I will continue to ski there and speak positively of my trips. So does that make me a "shill"? Am I a "shill" because I because I spend my $ at local business up there when I go out to dinner or for a drink? Am I a shill because I stay in places owned by people who live there year round, instead of staying at the Ramada in Rutland and have the profits leave the local economy?

I was trying to give you a second chance, because your posts have been more...well though out...for lack of a better term. This was just way too off the wall for me.

Nope. He called us out. Let's just own up to it. In fact, Highway Star, you and I are the only actual people posting here. Everybody else is just an alias of mine. Well, except for GSS. I couldn't make up the shit he posts...

Cripes, Highway Star - you've reached a whole new level of tooldom with this. :roll:

Actually, I think GSS is posting under several alias and will announce this at the end of the season with his combined post count total of over 30,000 posts! :-D

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

WTF! I only get $150 a month and have to write all my own posts!:smash:






Only kidding. I go to K a few times a year, and get in 15 to 20 days there. I have enjoyed my visits there and so long as I'm consider each trip a "success" I will continue to ski there and speak positively of my trips. So does that make me a "shill"? Am I a "shill" because I because I spend my $ at local business up there when I go out to dinner or for a drink? Am I a shill because I stay in places owned by people who live there year round, instead of staying at the Ramada in Rutland and have the profits leave the local economy?

I was trying to give you a second chance, because your posts have been more...well though out...for lack of a better term. This was just way too off the wall for me.



Actually, I think GSS is posting under several alias and will announce this at the end of the season with his combined post count total of over 30,000 posts! :-D

If Greg charged me a penny a post..he'd have enough money for a lift ticket at Killington and maybe even a $15 burger, fries, soda lunch in the KBL..Killington Base Lodge..I think this thread is great because it's skiing and posting related..two things I enjoy..I sort of want an iphone so I can post on the lift..I'm not one of those who goes skiing to escape..I like to multi-task...if Blue mountain or Killington had a laudramat in the baselodge..I'd be on it like Greg on some Seeded Bumps..I figure during a 30 minute wash cycle I could get 2 laps off the K1 or 3 laps off Superstar..then into the dryer and more laps...then instead of doing a bunch of laudry after a ski trip..it would already be done..now that is MSY..Mad Steezy Yo...

If you stay at the Ramada in Rutland you are still helping the local economy..somebody is baking the muffins in the complimentary breakfast...cleaning the rooms...working the desk and what not. But I find that it's sometimes easier to haggle..especially if you have cash with an owner of a lodging establishment instead of someone working for a big corporation if it's shoulder season.

I only post as GSS...Although I'm a few frys short of a happy meal sometimes..I only have one screen-name..

 

[RootDKJ]

If you stay at the Ramada in Rutland you are still helping the local economy..somebody is baking the muffins in the complimentary breakfast...cleaning the rooms...working the desk and what not. But I find that it's sometimes easier to haggle..especially if you have cash with an owner of a lodging establishment instead of someone working for a big corporation if it's shoulder season.

yeah I know...it was a bad example, but best I could come up with on short notice.

I'll let you post whore away at Blue using my crackberry.

 

[jaywbigred]

Reading about Powdr and KMart is a like some really bad episodes of Dawson's Creek.

LOL. That was good.

I only ski 2-3 days a year at Kmart, so my opinion is meaningless here.

But that comment was good for a laugh.

Because I don't have a home/favorite mountain the way some of y'all do (in this case, Kmart), I guess I have trouble understanding how it is that people get so angry over this stuff. If I owned a property at Kmart or a business that relied on it for income, that would be one thing (and maybe some of you do?), but otherwise, I can't see why folks don't just vote with their feet and go elsewhere.

Also, I am not quite sure I know what POWDR's major transgressions were last year.

I know that they took over, warned that the mountain needed capital improvements and this might result in the cutback of some services, and then proceeded to have opening/closing dates much later/earlier than in past seasons/decades. I also gather that they made less snow generally, spun less lifts (perhaps?), and that they ruined BMMC somehow (not sure how...). Also, now I know they shut down the Killington Chat portion of their website bc they didn't like the content of it, which accrued as a result of their own failure to monitor it to the same degree that ASC had...

Can anyone give a quick, Cliff's Notes version of what else happened? Or correct me where I am off, which may be everywhere? This is for informational purposes only...

 

[2knees]

LOL. That was good.

I only ski 2-3 days a year at Kmart, so my opinion is meaningless here.

But that comment was good for a laugh.

Because I don't have a home/favorite mountain the way some of y'all do (in this case, Kmart), I guess I have trouble understanding how it is that people get so angry over this stuff. If I owned a property at Kmart or a business that relied on it for income, that would be one thing (and maybe some of you do?), but otherwise, I can't see why folks don't just vote with their feet and go elsewhere.

Also, I am not quite sure I know what POWDR's major transgressions were last year.

I know that they took over, warned that the mountain needed capital improvements and this might result in the cutback of some services, and then proceeded to have opening/closing dates much later/earlier than in past seasons/decades. I also gather that they made less snow generally, spun less lifts (perhaps?), and that they ruined BMMC somehow (not sure how...). Also, now I know they shut down the Killington Chat portion of their website bc they didn't like the content of it, which accrued as a result of their own failure to monitor it to the same degree that ASC had...

Can anyone give a quick, Cliff's Notes version of what else happened? Or correct me where I am off, which may be everywhere? This is for informational purposes only...

kchat was killed by asc, not powdr. it went down in the beginning of the 04-05 season i believe.

i'll let the angy mob of killington fanatics answer the rest.

whoops, does that make me a schill?

 

[BigK]

One major thing was none of the cutbacks and price increases were announced before the majority of people bought their passes to K last year. The closer and closer to the opening more and more negatives kept coming out of the mountain ( Lifts and Lodges Closed) Basically it was really questionable business practices by Powdr. People were expecting since the pass prices went up, they would receive the same product or better. Not a sub par product.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

yeah I know...it was a bad example, but best I could come up with on short notice.

I'll let you post whore away at Blue using my crackberry.

Trust me I will....I really enjoyed my stay at the Best Western in Rutland..the Suite was perfect for 3 guys or a small family because it had 2 queen sized beds and a pullout couch. For a longer stay the full kitchen was a plus..but a mini-fridge is always good. I've never stayed on the Killington mountain road..anybody have any $65-$90 a night recommendations..

I'm a new K-mart Homer/groupie/fanboy whatever. My first trip to Killington and Vermont for that matter was in March of 1994..I went with my Dad and we stayed at the ValRoc motel..at the base of the old gondola..it snowed a solid 6+ inches on top of an icy base. The Gondola was on windhold so we began on the Northeast passage chair and I only rode it twice..once getting off at midstation and hitting the short steepish pitches to the skiers right of the old triple in powder then taking it to the top..up Bear Mountain..Up Skye chair..down to Snowdon base over to Rams Head..and then lots of skiing in the basin..then a long ski down to the Sunrise lot..dinner at Caseys caboose...and then the other two days we started on Superstar chair which was actually the first high speed quad I ever rode..

In college I only skied Killington early and late season and then returned a few years ago for early season white ribbon of death action..

Aside from skiing deep powder...a day like April 19th at Killington when I skied with MadSkier and AllSkiing is what it's all about..fast cord first thing while the bumps are softening and then soft mushy bumps that you can ski right through..like in the picture on the ski Sundown ad...it's a ski area in New Hartford Connecticut..they have mogul competitions on January 24 and March 22 of 2009..there might be some AlpineZoners there goose stomping..Ya Heard!!!!

 

[RootDKJ]

and here's how HS really feels about AZ...

Maybe we can send some traffic their way and crash their board.....

http://www.killingtonzone.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=24618

:blink::uzi:

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

and here's how HS really feels about AZ...


http://www.killingtonzone.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=24618

:blink::uzi:

Yeah and it only got 5 posts...the people who designed the killingtonzone.com are on something stronger than Long Trail Blackberry Wheat

 

[evil]

Y'all can keep Kmart, Xanadu's where it's gonna be at!!!!!!!!!!

 

[JD]

Killington is a joke. It's all about everything I hate about skiing. The only person I know who was a killington regular is the person who I reguard as one of the large self-absorbed A$$holes on the stowe lift lines. He's all I ever really needed to know about that place....

 

[evil]

Killington is a joke. It's all about everything I hate about skiing. The only person I know who was a killington regular is the person who I reguard as one of the large self-absorbed A$$holes on the stowe lift lines. He's all I ever really needed to know about that place....

heh heh heh

 

[Greg]

Killington is a joke. It's all about everything I hate about skiing. The only person I know who was a killington regular is the person who I reguard as one of the large self-absorbed A$$holes on the stowe lift lines. He's all I ever really needed to know about that place....

Of course, because your experience with one person always accurately reflects an entire group, right?

Kind of backwards thinking if you ask me...

 

[thetrailboss]

Killington is a joke. It's all about everything I hate about skiing. The only person I know who was a killington regular is the person who I reguard as one of the large self-absorbed A$$holes on the stowe lift lines. He's all I ever really needed to know about that place....

Have you ever skied Killington? Lots of good, albeit overskied, terrain.

 

[JD]

Have you ever skied Killington? Lots of good, albeit overskied, terrain.

I left jersey when I was 18. Why would I want to go back.
Greg...It's not my opinion that killington is a joke. It actually is a joke. Actually lots of jokes. Afterall, it's where all the good trees are, esspecially the backside, and I hear there's a shuttle. That type of experience is the absolute last thing I would want to spend even a minute of my free time "enjoying".
The only thing they have going for them is their commitment to maintain their ROD longer then any other resort. A good mtn. to me is an empty one. It's not nearly as much about terrain as it is about snow conditions. Some of my best days have been on glof courses on XC skis with a bro or two and a dog or two...Killington represents the opposite of all those things, and the one person who I know who goes on and on and on about the place is a tool among tools....as much as I do hate to generalize, that experience combined with the retarded nature of the argument represented here is enough to convince me.
That being said, when VT get hit with a dump, it's absolutely the place to be. Every should go straight there, and hike the top for the secret bowls that take you off the backside to the waiting shuttle...and they always get more snow because they have the highest lift served terrain in the east.

 

[Greg]

I left jersey when I was 18. Why would I want to go back.
Greg...It's not my opinion that killington is a joke. It actually is a joke. Actually lots of jokes. Afterall, it's where all the good trees are, esspecially the backside, and I hear there's a shuttle. That type of experience is the absolute last thing I would want to spend even a minute of my free time "enjoying".
The only thing they have going for them is their commitment to maintain their ROD longer then any other resort. A good mtn. to me is an empty one. It's not nearly as much about terrain as it is about snow conditions. Some of my best days have been on glof courses on XC skis with a bro or two and a dog or two...Killington represents the opposite of all those things, and the one person who I know who goes on and on and on about the place is a tool among tools....as much as I do hate to generalize, that experience combined with the retarded nature of the argument represented here is enough to convince me.
That being said, when VT get hit with a dump, it's absolutely the place to be. Every should go straight there, and hike the top for the secret bowls that take you off the backside to the waiting shuttle...and they always get more snow because they have the highest lift served terrain in the east.

I would bet you think 95% of the places I ski are jokes. To each his own.

 

[JD]

perhaps....I bet you think my paycheck is a joke. We all choose our own exsistance.