Killington Cluster F - 12/13/2008

[thetrailboss]

I sure do. ...but the icing at Killington was not anywhere that severe.



There are no homeless people sleeping in shelters here. If you have a problem with discussions about ski area operations and want to discuss f'ing homeless people, go find some political forum. This was a ski forum last time I checked. Killington performed poorly. They deserve to be scolded for it.

My whole point here is that Killington is operating on a skeleton staff compared to previous years. They lost a huge number of employees with institutional knowledge of how to operate the resort. It really shows in times of duress. Recall that they screwed up with snowmaking on Double Dipper a week-ish ago and destroyed the snowmaking line on the trail due to a slide. You think that maybe that was preventable? They absolutely cannot perform well when the resort is stressed. We saw this over and over and over last winter since Killington had the most ice storms I can remember in my 30-ish years at the place. In my opinion, these owners are penny-wise, pound-foolish with their tight-reined operating policy. They simply don't have enough ops staff. The resulting bleed from their traditional customer base has been incredible. It's far easier and cheaper to retain customers than to try to win new ones. Saturday wasn't particulary useful for customer retention.

I understand the skeleton crew...that is not good, but again, you can't control the weather. That was the shelter reference....to the people who had no power or heat because of this ice storm, which was severe. So it shows that this was not your run of the mill event. I said nothing about homeless people.

And I was getting to the point that it seems that every other post is a complaint about Killington, so the only two solutions I can come up with is to vote with your dollars and move to another resort or get some investors and buy it and run it as it should be. No :argue: intended here.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Longtime Killington passholders have a sort of sense of entitlement..it's not 1992 anymore..the ski resort industry is way different..alot less employees and less skilled..

 

[andyzee]

..alot less employees and less skilled..

Sign of the times, corporate America.