JerseyJoey
New member
Just don't bet him on it.
-
Welcome to AlpineZone, the largest online community of skiers and snowboarders in the Northeast!
You may have to REGISTER before you can post. Registering is FREE, gets rid of the majority of advertisements, and lets you participate in giveaways and other AlpineZone events!
Killington is going to open before Sunday River this season.
- Thread starter Highway Star
- Start date
Just don't bet him on it.
Vortex
Member
I'll just give you the money so this will go away. Really don't care. Do you want it to still go to Mhs or you? top to bottom mid station, does not matter in 2 weeks 5 or six places will be open and we will be talking about snow depths not who is open.
Last edited:
Geoff
Well-known member
Not 100 on the Hil last Sat. Sunday had a good crowd. Got to agree with highwaystar. It does matter to some..... The mountains and the diehards.
Average skier maybe not, but its in thier mid earlier. Kind of what marketing is.
I bought passes and a Condo and moved my family furthur north mostly due to the length of Season. Value. Early Season sells well at ski shows. Sell passes.
This will all end when a few places are open, but free marketing dollars at this point.
edit i saw your post threecy. I see your point I don't agree with it. You are not the market they are after. I win I skied. Waiting would not have been as fun. I think those who skied are the oens that matter.
Back in the early 1980's, I picked Killington as my place to do a share house and season pass in large part due to the extended season and snowmaking reputation. In those days, I rarely skied in October since my share house didn't open until November 1 and I rarely skied in May because my share house closed the last weekend in April. I had skied Stowe in college so I was well aware that I had better midwinter options. The problem is that farther north in Vermont is awful when there's a snow drought. I'd experienced some bad snow years when I was at UVM so I understood how bad it can be.
As the years went on, I figured out that April into May was Killington's best product. You can see what happened when POWDR showed up and announced a November 15th opening and an April 15th closing. An awful lot of season pass base that didn't own property in town vanished and took their day ticket friends with them. They ripped a full month of use out of their traditional share house market that has always had a 6 month lease. Other mountains offered a better perceived value. Same season length. Better midwinter skiing surface. Lower prices.
Does anybody here question the value of the free marketing and advertising Sunday River got by opening first? It sells season passes. It gets people to drive up midwinter because Sunday River is the happenin' place. Preston Smith understood that which is why first to open was alway part of the Killington hype machine.
Vortex
Member
I guess i miissed that in the post. I have always liked your posts. I do not always agree, but like another view point. Snowmonster, Maineskier, thaller1, terry, me Riverskier, ga2ski were there they may have dropped in on the thread
Vortex
Member
add snowseek to the list. just not use to seeing him around yet. :razz:
JerseyJoey
New member
No money involved. Bottle of grey goose. Nobody won yet.
jerryg
Member
- Joined
- Aug 12, 2006
- Messages
- 757
- Points
- 16
I would have been #9 had I not been on the fall end of our biannual visit to see the Mouse. When I booked the week in question, I hedged that SR wouldn't have the luck they did last year and to a degree, I was right. I didn't factor in the Boyne commitment, though, and As we were boarding our plane, the emails were coming in about SR's opening. LOL. 
jerryg
Member
- Joined
- Aug 12, 2006
- Messages
- 757
- Points
- 16
Could this mean that someone is about to win?
Killingtonmtn:
"Be the first to know when we're opening for the 2010-11 season! Text KILLINGTON SNOW to 71297."
While I follow the K twitter feed, I'm not going to text the number.
threecy
New member
I stand corrected on that point!
Vortex
Member
For the sake of fairness what ever the bet is, was or will be in your view, no bull shit.:razz: I am in and just tell me when I win or lose.
gmcunni
Active member
does this logic apply to closing dates as well? When the rains come in late season and a mountain closes for a few days to drain or for mid-week operations when the crowds disappear that would signal the end of their season. anything after that would be like an encore.
mondeo
New member
What about when 2knees goes to Magic mid-January and breaks the lift again? Does that count as the closing or the opening?
St. Bear
New member
Just got this e-mail from Mountain Creek. Now they they are no longer owned by Intrawest, they have a partnership with Killington.
Highway Star
Active member
- Joined
- Sep 27, 2005
- Messages
- 2,921
- Points
- 36
Killington is making snow again all day, per skippy on kzone. Guns set up down bunnybuster. Hopefully top to bottom by this weekend???
Geoff
Well-known member
I just hope they don't do "manage by spreadsheet" once again and decide that they're going to use the walkway rather than blow snow to the bottom.
mondeo
New member
I'd rather have a little walking and get twice as much terrain. None of it's going to be interesting anyways, might as well get variety of boring and use the walkway for something. And a good park in the mix would be nice.
Geoff
Well-known member
The Glades trail pod only has two trails plus the Great Northern wrap-around. What "twice as much terrain" are you talking about?
mondeo
New member
If they ran the POMA and had everything accessible from the POMA and NRT open, and not have to worry about wasting capacity on lower Bunny, given that some of it will melt anyways. Just going for the fastest expansion route here, given the first decent run they open is Downdraft or Cascade and that doesn't come until after Ramshead.
Not that it would make any more sense to them or the majority of skiers, just to me.
skiingsnow
New member
Have you seen the forecast? Like you said very uncertain, but now talking about INCHES of rain Thursday through Saturday with temps in the 50s... Currently snowmaking window closes Wed morning and that's at 3569'. Calling for basically the same at 2598', but no snowmaking for a while Tuesday afternoon. 36hrs +/- at the base starting tonight right before warm and very rainy weather without snowmaking till Sat night for a short while sounds pretty sketchy. All of course if the current forecast remains the same, but the nws says that the models are converging on this solution. . .
They built the walkway so if the bottom melts out they can stay open up top, with the bottom currently looking like it would melt out if they made snow there I would guess that they will not make any down low. They said they would start out in Northridge and expand to Upper Snowdon and I would expect with this bad forecast that they will stick with this plan. Maybe they are looking at a different forecast though, or hoping things turn around again...
I would have expected top to bottom by the weekend with a good forecast, despite their plan to keep the skiing up high, but not now with the warm and rain that is forecasted, I don't expect it. . .
Similar threads
