Killington - Infrastructure Collapse Pending

[ThinkSnow]

Name a lodge at any resort that is NOT like that weekdays...

Wachusett

 

[skiNEwhere]

Here is a picture of Northeast Passage. The liftline trail is Noreaster and was the main run past Sun Dog and at the very top the Hawk's Nest midtation where the steeper runs started.

Regarding Skyeship vs Sunrise after they replaced the old gondy and the lodge was rebuilt it was like night and day better than it used to be: http://www.killingtonzone.com/forums...22266&start=90 (scroll down).

I live east of there so I always use Skyeship and I prefer it vs any other base area. I think Great Eastern is a pretty cool run to end the day with.

For me it's mostly nostalgia and the fact that the Big K has been shrinking from when I began skiing there in the late 80s. After about a 4 year hiattus from Killington I was back there in the early 2000s and did a serious WTF when I saw the chair was gone...

I'd like to see those other sunrise pics if you have them on your computer

 

[MEtoVTSkier]

I'd like to see those other sunrise pics if you have them on your computer

I've got a few saved someone posted years ago.. here's a couple. You can do a search on KZone to find the rest...

 

[steamboat1]

Name a lodge at any resort that is NOT like that weekdays...

Killington, Snowshed, Ramshead.

 

[Newpylong]

 

[Newpylong]

 

[Newpylong]

 

[steamboat1]

Nice pictures Newpylong. Never really rode or skied Northeast Passage to much myself. A few times at best. I do still ride the upper section (Sunrise chair) because I sometimes go down to the Sunrise Cafe for lunch & you have to ride the lift to get back to Bear. Good spot for lunch by the way. The view of Killington Peak from that chair on a clear day is beautiful.

 

[Puck it]

Looked like some decent terrain, better than GE down to Skyeship Base. Never skied it.

 

[MEtoVTSkier]

The remains of the old Hawks Nest mid-station

 

[Highway Star]

You know, Killington / SP Land still owns 250+ acres at Sunrise under the holding company Cherry Knoll associates. I wonder how much of that is resort, and how much is developable land. There's nothing stopping them from building real estate over there at some point and re-installing an access lift. Okemo has done it several times.

 

[Newpylong]

Was going to ask if they still owned the land including the terrain and old lodge/parking lot. Leasing it all to the Snow Toursl co?

A friend of mine who owned there said when they were planning to get rid of the lift the condo association threw a fit. Killington wasn't even going to shorten it as we have today.

 

[steamboat1]

Was going to ask if they still owned the land including the terrain and old lodge/parking lot. Leasing it all to the Snow Toursl co?

A friend of mine who owned there said when they were planning to get rid of the lift the condo association threw a fit. Killington wasn't even going to shorten it as we have today.

It's my understanding that the condo association owns & maintains the Sunrise lift. At least that's what the guy who loads the lift told me. He seemed to have been there awhile & knowledgeable of the arrangement.

 

[skiNEwhere]

Great pics, thank you for posting them

 

[Newpylong]

Glad people enjoyed them - real credit goes to who physically took them. I just downloaded them years ago because I wanted something to match the memories I had.

I know there is better terrain to be had but when you grow up somewhere and it changes like that it can be pretty sad.

 

[Highway Star]

Looking over at sunrise from the bear acces road, it seems like there would be good tree skiing on the north side of sunrise above the abandoned "sunrise trail". If there was enough snow.

 

[drjeff]

Sunrise, especially from the mid station on down to the route 100 base, was a solid pod of terrain for sure. The lift ride when you decided to head back out of Sunrise and "rejoin" the rest of what K has to offer left lots to be desired for sure!

I do miss it though, and have fond memories whenever I drive by the old base lodge at the 100/4 junction and look up at what once was and how is slowly becoming reclaimed by nature wherever the snowmobile operation there now hasn't still worked some of the terrain

 

[MadMadWorld]

Looking over at sunrise from the bear acces road, it seems like there would be good tree skiing on the north side of sunrise above the abandoned "sunrise trail". If there was enough snow.

Dude WTF??? Stop sharing my spots!!

 

[Highway Star]

Dude WTF??? Stop sharing my spots!!

Nobody has skied those trees since they took out that lift.

 

[moresnow]

Nobody has skied those trees since they took out that lift.

Nobody?