It won't be long now...

[Greg]

Check out the Vermont cams at http://www.alpinezone.com/skiing/vermontskicams.htm

Notice the Burke cam showing the first snowfall there and the Killington cam showing that snowmaking has commenced. Cool!

 

[Anonymous]

Awesome! Take a look at K's cam pic for today - http://www.rsn.com/cams/killton

Winter's coming!!!

 

[Gravity]

Got about an inch this weekend at my place, melted off fast but was nice to see!

 

[RJ]

I should be getting my threedom pass in the mail any time now. I hope we have more snow than last winter, even though last winter wasn't too bad snow wise.

 

[Joe]

I as well am awaiting my Threedom Pass and getting that itch to hit some snow. I spent most of my time at Loon last year - Threedom Pass. I am also looking forward to skiing some new terrain as well this year.
Thinking Snow!!!!

 

[Gravity]

Ahh -- it really feels like Fall outside today. Saw some snowflakes this morning, warmer now but still definately a change in the air.

 

[Head(wall)Hunter]

So what's the deal with this "Threedom" pass?What mountains is it good at? How much? How do I get one? etc...

 

[RJ]

The "Threedom Pass" is for Booth Creek ski resorts in New Hampshire. The cost for a pass that lets you ski anything at Waterville Valley, Loon, and Cranmor is $429.00. It was just $400.00, but you had to buy it last April.

My wife and I each had one last year and skied over 20 times. If we paid the lift price, we would have sent at least $980.00 each. So we could either pay $1960.00 or $858.00 to ski for the season. Which would you rather pay?

Some people may not want to ski WV or Loon so the pass wouldn't be for them. Our vacation home is just 7 miles for WV, so we love the convenience of the place. Also, we are 47 and 44 respectively so my days of skiing Outer Limits at Killington are over. I'm much happier skiing with my wife than hurling my body down the side of a mountain with reckless abandon.

 

[Greg]

Here is more info on the Threedom pass.

 

[Greg]

Anyone have any plans for their first outing yet? For me it'll be Killington on 11/16. What are everyone else's plans?

 

[RJ]

I usually wait until the Christmas/New Years week before I start skiing. Experience has taught me that the conditions prior to this week are not worth the effort. Being a Threedom pass holder, I can get in a lot of skiing during my Christmas vacation. Besides, I still hike during the Thanksgiving weekend.

 

[Head(wall)Hunter]

I've skied on Halloween at killington the past two years, and I was planning on doing that again this year, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen. They're not open yet (according to the website) and I don't know if they plan to open tomorrow.

Yeah, the skiing usually sucks. (They haul you up in a pickup truck for a couple hunded vertical feet on the one half trail with snow.) But it's still cool to be able to say you got your first runs in a good two months before most people. Besides, one of these years I'm going to ski in 12 straight months and the easiest place I can think of to bag October, is killington.

 

[Greg]

On 2001-10-30 12:24, Head(wall)Hunter wrote:
...the easiest place I can think of to bag October, is killington.

Is this goal like peakbagging? Slope-bagging? Month-bagging?

 

[RJ]

I've never understood why resorts waste so much money in the beginning of the season making snow just so they can have bragging rights being the first resort to open in New England. The skiing always sucks and you have to use your old skis so you don't chew up your new skis on the rocks. I would much prefer they use the snow making equipment to cover bare spots later in the season. Why is it so important to ski as early as possible?

 

[Head(wall)Hunter]

Admin,

I guess the answer to question(s) is: Yes. I never really thought of it that way, but now that you mention it, that is what I'm doing. Month Bagging. :smile:

And RJ,

I don't think that killington is wasting money by opening early. Last year it was a beautiful day, the "slope" (singular) was very crowded, and they charged us $25 for a lift/pickup truck ticket. The point is, they are running a business over there, so they must be making money or they wouldn't be open. Besides, even though it was a total rip-off to charge $25 for the amount of skiing available, I still drove up from central Jersey to get a few pre-november runs in. And I thought the conditions were awesome. It was like spring skiing. Corn snow, nothing but moguls, and soft landings.

I can't wait for ski season!!!!

 

[Greg]

The thing about Killington is that it's always touted as the first to open in the East (and sometimes the country). This is a very powerful marketing tool. I'm the type of person that gets the itch to ski sometime around June (guess I gotta get up to Tucks next year), so simply hearing that there's skiing going on is enough to get me excited. Most other resorts aim for Thanksgiving.

I've skied K over Thanksgiving weekend in a low early season snow year (96/97) and they did a great job getting enough terrain open for my wife (then girlfriend) and I to enjoy ourselves. We stayed at a neat little place called the Red Rob Inn. I think the deal that year was something ridiculous like $28/night/person.

I'll be up to Killington in a little over two weeks. Hoping we get a nice cold blast between now and then...

 

[Gravity]

Yep its definately about marketing. Mt. Hood never really closes - so the distinction of actually being the "first open in the east" may be true but when they say "first in the U.S." that is dubious at best. But it doesn't matter - all of the major news vendors pick up on the story and it gets national attention so it must be worth it. Because of the altitude advantage, if they wanted to put the money into it the western resorts could ensure that Killington *never* gets to say first in the U.S. . . . but the economics of putting too much effort into that are simply not worth it to them. Though you do see Keystone put a little bit of effort into it now and then but they don't put the $ into it that Killington does.

 

[Greg]

Let's hope the ski-cams continue to look like this...

Think SNOW!!! :lol:

 

[skiNEwhere]

Bump

Is there anyway we could set this back up, like consolidate all webcams at the different ski areas into one page? I think that would awesome, only question is whether or not the ski resorts mind AZ hotlinking their webcam url

Edit: I realize there are a couple at a different URL than the one in the beginning of this post, I'm assuming most of the resort URL's are still not embeddable?

 

[Nick]

Check the webcams link under the skiing menu item

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