What do you mean by close to stopping? Temps were forecasted to drop throughout the day from what I heard. Colder now than it was at 6am. When I looked at the Superstar cam around 9 or 10am, they weren't even making anything on the lower part. Now all the guns at the bottom are running.
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Killington 2016-7: It's On!
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What do you mean by close to stopping? Temps were forecasted to drop throughout the day from what I heard. Colder now than it was at 6am. When I looked at the Superstar cam around 9 or 10am, they weren't even making anything on the lower part. Now all the guns at the bottom are running.
SIKSKIER
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Exactly.In fact,they just turned those on.They were not running this morning.SS should be in great shape by the end of the weekend.They should be able to make snow non stop into Sunday.
Jully
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That's a lot of hours right there. It'll be interesting to see what kind of shape they'll be in after this! I heard they were pushing snow around on part of SS recently too.
Then again, I heard from a reputable source that it'll be a miracle if K pulls this off.
180
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Blowing all SS, just got off the hill. They also groomed it last night
Newpylong
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They're actually coming into the home stretch on production on SS and will begin to move onto Skye Lark and begin heavily working the snow on SS with the cats.
joshua segal
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They had put a lot of snow on Upper Skyelark concurrent with their covering of the SS Headwall. Barring total melt down wx, I don't see Killington having any trouble making their World Cup commitment on Superstar. They have have made A LOT of snow there.
Tin
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Looking like they are putting all their resources on SS again today. 23* and no guns going on the ridge but SS is getting crushed.
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They need to make the World cup happen. Too much at stake and it need to be ready pretty soon.
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Tin
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I agree 100%. But then don't come out with releases and state in interviews how the World Cup preps will have no effect on early season operations and openings (because you've rented extra compressors, etc.) and you're still focused on the consumer.This is a solid window that could have been used to start getting over to Snowdon and getting to bottom and they are not even resurfacing up top (which they also bailed on doing earlier in the week).
Jully
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You sure they would be moving into Snowdon? The weather still doesn't look great long term so they might just wanna wait.
With the amount of work it's taken for K to get SS ready, do you think this is something they'd want to do every year?
With the amount of work it's taken for K to get SS ready, do you think this is something they'd want to do every year?
Savemeasammy
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Right. It's disappointing that they aren't making an effort for t2b... I wonder if they have maxed out water capacity?
Also, what's up with the peak view cam being aimed at Pico? It's been a few days now...
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joshua segal
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Considering that no on else has even attempted to open, I think Killington is being wise using their fire power to keep the North Ridge going and to make their World Cup commitment on Superstar.
Jully
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Thats what I was thinking too. Rime has thinned a few times, if they didn't keep blasting I'm not sure it'd be in great shape now
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Right ON !
Killington is open and the skiing is pretty good there.
Anybody with complaints should open their own terrain park.
Happy Place is sucking tailpipe .. again.
ss20
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Snow report says they're blowing TTB now so the last page of this thread is now irrelevant...
Tin
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Thinking of heading up Tues.
joshua segal
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Probably nit-picking, but they indicated that they are blowing on Lower Bunny Buster and Mouse Trap. Neither of those provides a continuous path to anything! What's more, they had already been blowing snow down there two weeks ago. Progress down the mountain (IMO) really begins when they start to work on Great Northern (Middle) so that one can get back down the hill without climbing 250 steps!
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