Killington is going to open before Sunday River this season.

[mishka]

I am going either Monday or Tuesday

same here

 

[dlague]

The Killington hate is lame. They make the effort to make skiing available as early as humanly possible, and all you can do is complain that they opened before Sunday River.

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No Killington hate here. We book end our season there and catch a day or two between. BTW the free express card is only for me and I would no go and leave my family behind. It was great that they opened but wish we could have all had access.


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[thetrailboss]

I wonder how the west is looking at the east? Killington and their banner of first to open with all the first in North America talk and now resorts in CO are skiing powder and we only can wish we were! Laughable!

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From out here folks sat up when you had the cold snap and opened. But when SR and Killington closed nobody noticed. Remember that TGR or UN post proclaiming that the east's season was well underway when things were on hold?


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[steamboat1]

Me I'll wait for TTB. Whenever

 

[machski]

Check out Sunday River's website. I think they may be trying to open Aurora early with upload/download on the Chondi!

 

[machski]

And sounds like tomorrow may be their reopen as well.

 

[Newpylong]

Interesting. Has SR ever done that before? How much higher is Aurora than South Ridge or Barker base?

 

[deadheadskier]

I've never seen that. Maybe the motivation is that downloading on Locke kind of sucks and the Chondola would provide a better experience.

 

[machski]

Aurora is the third highest "peak" at just under 3000', with an 1100 vert. So the base is around 1800/1900, which is much better than Barker and way better than South Ridge. Plus, Aurora faces more Northerly than Locke/Barker/Spruce so that helps with solar meltdown too. Plus if they are making the lights out/paradigm loop, this allows ski off and back to both the Chondi and North Peak Lodge from Aurora allowing North Peak to be the "day lodge and restaurant/cafe/bar" for the open terrain. This has never been done before but I am thinking more and more given this season's weather, that is what they are targeting for Thanksgiving weekend. The have demo days that weekend so the peak lodge would allow them to stage that up there.

 

[ss20]

Wow. Black Hole is a legitimately steep trail. Airglow is very nice. If those are opened it would be MUCH better than K's offerings.

 

[Vortex]

i drove out towards Jordan and took a look around. Aurora has a ways to go. Wind is ripping. Making top to bottom on Punch. Wind is blowing hard at south ridge and Barker too. Having Aurora open at some point soon seems very possible. Locke on T2 and Punch is what they have posted recently on the Snow Report for tomorrow morning. Temp is 38 in Bethel, but not humid. They are making at marginal temps, but maybe into the teens tonight. My gut feeling is we get top to bottom by the end of the day tomorrow if it really does get that cold tonight.

 

[steamboat1]

K's blowing on upper East Fall so that will likely be on-line for tomorrow also. They usually allow that to bump up early season which is nice.

 

[chuckstah]

Pic of SR snowmaking from Skiesta cam.

 

[thetrailboss]

Pic of SR snowmaking from Skiesta cam.

Schweet

 

[steamboat1]

Stowe is going top to bottom too. They don't plan on opening until next week though.

 

[Tin]

K's blowing on upper East Fall so that will likely be on-line for tomorrow also. They usually allow that to bump up early season which is nice.

Would love to see them go into the Canyon and hit Dipper, East Fall, and out the Spillway. I can't stand the long boring way down through Snowdon. Unfortunately they have to appeal to the masses.

 

[Newpylong]

They won't do Dipper this early in a million years. Requires far too much snow and only covers a portion of ability ranges. It's usually pretty far back on the rollout.

 

[Tin]

I was dreaming. What did they used to hit early, Cascade? Just something with a little character and not cross country skiing along Great Northern.

 

[steamboat1]

I was dreaming. What did they used to hit early, Cascade? Just something with a little character and not cross country skiing along Great Northern.

Upper Downdraft for Turkey Jam.

 

[steamboat1]

They won't do Dipper this early in a million years. Requires far too much snow and only covers a portion of ability ranges. It's usually pretty far back on the rollout.

I think it was 2-3 seasons ago they never blew snow on Dipper at all, Trail never officially opened that year.