KILLINGTON: 2005 Alpinezone Ski Area Challenge

[awf170]

i really should of asked this ? but forget, ill put it up anyway maybe someone knows. You know how every year ASC ski areas claim increased snow making by about 10-20%, but every year they make less snow, so how do they need increased snow making power but end up making less snow... ahhh yes remembered i could ask Sunday river if you get them greg

Send a pm to Oz of this board. We had some talk about this in the SR board. He moderates over there. He might be able to linc you to the thread. Curious.. I don't doubt it , but where did you get those figures? I would like to read that.

heres for this year at K
Snowmaking Improvements
-- $2 Million In Upgrades

and i have seen this many years in a row

 

[awf170]

and i just found for 2001 30% percent increase in snowmaking

 

[Geoff]

i really should of asked this ? but forget, ill put it up anyway maybe someone knows. You know how every year ASC ski areas claim increased snow making by about 10-20%, but every year they make less snow, so how do they need increased snow making power but end up making less snow... ahhh yes remembered i could ask Sunday river if you get them greg

Send a pm to Oz of this board. We had some talk about this in the SR board. He moderates over there. He might be able to linc you to the thread. Curious.. I don't doubt it , but where did you get those figures? I would like to read that.

heres for this year at K
Snowmaking Improvements
-- $2 Million In Upgrades

and i have seen this many years in a row

This is marketing spin. ASC did very little maintanence to the Killington snowmaking system for 5 years. It costs a lot of money to dig up buried snowmaking pipes and replace them. For the most part, these aren't upgrades, they're emergency repairs.

The "dream" at one point was to pipe natural gas up to Killington and run all the air compressors and water pumps off gas rather than wildly expensive CVPS electricity and diesel. That natural gas line would have also provided heat for the new base village. Between Enron and gas pipeline financial disasters; and Vermont Act 250 environmental law that makes it really difficult to build things like gas pipelines, it never happened.

 

[JimG.]

The "dream" at one point was to pipe natural gas up to Killington and run all the air compressors and water pumps off gas rather than wildly expensive CVPS electricity and diesel. That natural gas line would have also provided heat for the new base village. Between Enron and gas pipeline financial disasters; and Vermont Act 250 environmental law that makes it really difficult to build things like gas pipelines, it never happened.

Between the marketing hype, the re-naming of trails, the addition of tree shots to the trail map, and the general hee-hawing that goes on, it sounds like there is plenty of "gas" up there already.

 

[awf170]

i really should of asked this ? but forget, ill put it up anyway maybe someone knows. You know how every year ASC ski areas claim increased snow making by about 10-20%, but every year they make less snow, so how do they need increased snow making power but end up making less snow... ahhh yes remembered i could ask Sunday river if you get them greg

Send a pm to Oz of this board. We had some talk about this in the SR board. He moderates over there. He might be able to linc you to the thread. Curious.. I don't doubt it , but where did you get those figures? I would like to read that.

heres for this year at K
Snowmaking Improvements
-- $2 Million In Upgrades

and i have seen this many years in a row

This is marketing spin. ASC did very little maintanence to the Killington snowmaking system for 5 years. It costs a lot of money to dig up buried snowmaking pipes and replace them. For the most part, these aren't upgrades, they're emergency repairs.

The "dream" at one point was to pipe natural gas up to Killington and run all the air compressors and water pumps off gas rather than wildly expensive CVPS electricity and diesel. That natural gas line would have also provided heat for the new base village. Between Enron and gas pipeline financial disasters; and Vermont Act 250 environmental law that makes it really difficult to build things like gas pipelines, it never happened.

ya but also 30% for 2001 too

 

[thetrailboss]

So did they ever get the green light to get water from the Woodward Reservoir (if I have that right)?

 

[Geoff]

So did they ever get the green light to get water from the Woodward Reservoir (if I have that right)?

That happened ~4 years ago. Killington now has near-infinite water but limited budget to pay for diesel fuel, electricity, and labor to blow snow.