Killington Rumor

[Highway Star]

No. At least not in absolute terms.I wonder how they compare as a percent of total terrain, though?

Search Highway Star's posts (here and on KZ) for all there is to be known about Killington's snow making capacity. Hunter has a blurb about theirs on the web site.

But, given that, once Hunter fires up the guns, everyone knows it's for real. Have to admit, those pictures are an impressive sight.

Hummmm.....

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Over 1,100 snow machines are capable of producing large amounts of snow in minimal time. Most of the snowguns are mounted on towers to insure the maximum amount of "air time" for falling snow to freeze. Hunter has enough air and water available to run half of the snowmaking arsenal at once under marginal snowmaking conditions, and nearly every gun under optimal conditions. Hunter's snowmaking power can resurface virtually every trail very quickly after a warm spell or rain.


Some Hunter Snowmaking Facts and Trivia:
Hunter uses more than 60 miles of snowmaking pipe
Water capacity equals nearly 43 gallons per minute, per acre
Air capacity equals about 90,000 cfm, including all fan guns with onboard compressors
Overall snowmaking capacity equals 40 tons of snow per minute
Hunter can cover one acre (equivalent to size of a football field) with one foot of snow every hour.
In an average season, Hunter turns about half a billion gallons of water into snow
Hunter has the fastest recovery time of any ski area in the world!

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Sounds like overall, their system is about 85% as powerful as Killington's published figures.......which is amazing since Hunter covers less than half the terrain. At the water and air capacitities quoted, it's more like 3.5 acre-feet per hour, not just one.

Other numbers don't add up either, given a water figure of ~10000 gpm, running 1000 guns at once would only give them 10gpm per gun....way low...but they would seem to have the air capacity for it at 90k scfm

At 43 gpm/per acre, it would take them 3 days to produce a foot of snow (on the whole mountain), so obviously they are concentrating efforts on their more popular trails in most cases.

I would think that in 12 hours they could stage an effective recovery by covering 80 acres with a half foot of snow, very similar to what Killington is capable of.

 

[180]

I don't care about the figures. I've experienced those receoveries and they are impressive.

 

[millerm277]

At 43 gpm/per acre, it would take them 3 days to produce a foot of snow (on the whole mountain), so obviously they are concentrating efforts on their more popular trails in most cases.

Most likely. Take the top half of Hunter One, 42nd Street, and one of the West side trails off, and you drop that recovery time down to around 2 days, which is what I have seen from them. Impressive sight to see. Here's one of my favorite shots: http://www.ridehunter.com/photos/daily_06-07/1-17-07.jpg They really do have the best capacity and density I've seen in snowmaking, especially considering their size.

They've got a mix of SMI Highlands and Polecats lining a lot of the wider trails, and modern towers on most of the other runs.

 

[WoodCore]

As far as the greatest concentration of snowmaking firepower per acre in the Northeast is concerned, Crotched Mountain, NH takes the prize! They are capable of pumping 6,000 gpm of water to their fleet of SMI fan guns that cover 100% of their 75 acres of terrain. This translates to roughly 200 gpm per acre of terrain when the system is running at 100%. As all their fan guns have "on board" compressors, no external compressed air is required.

:smash:

 

[skiing is life]

big k this needs to stop. now. quit beating a dead horse. No one cares about killington anymore and no matter how much you try to portray the new owners. most of us dont really care.ive had enough of all you industry rep people and pro killington extremists comming on here and posting crap about other mountains that go above and beyond your standards.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Once operation Blizzard sets in at the Big K..the beast of the east..6 mountain of fun....home of the Juggernaut..will be in full swing..yes you heard it here first..for skiing and riding excitement..visit Killington...oh and Spinmaster..PM me for my contact info so you can hook me up with free lift tickets for this mad steezy plug..O.K..

 

[RootDKJ]

big k this needs to stop. now. quit beating a dead horse. No one cares about killington anymore and no matter how much you try to portray the new owners. most of us dont really care.ive had enough of all you industry rep people and pro killington extremists comming on here and posting crap about other mountains that go above and beyond your standards.

I enjoy Killington and will continue to ski there, but I don't bash any mountains....well maybe Camelback, but I think everyone will understand that.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

I enjoy Killington and will continue to ski there, but I don't bash any mountains....well maybe Camelback, but I think everyone will understand that.

Bashing ski areas is lame except for Camelback..

 

[RootDKJ]

I knew you would understand...

 

[hardline]

Bashing ski areas is lame except for Camelback..

i went there one day on the free pass with your season pass and had a great time granted there was about 10 people there for like 10 runs i never unbuckled my board. the lifty started timing me on my lap times. as the sunstarted going down i kept getting faster.

they lodge with psuedo tiki bar feel is so cheesy. ill take the tents at vernon but it was free so i had fun.

 

[vcunning]

The snowmaking team will be up on the hill tonight.:uzi:

http://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/Killington/6day/top

Yes, it's confirmed the snowmaking team was up on the hill.

Of course, they weren't making snow, they were just putting up the "No Hiking" signs.

 

[o3jeff]

The snowmaking team will be up on the hill tonight.:uzi::snow

How much snow did they make last night?

 

[andyzee]

I enjoy Killington and will continue to ski there, but I don't bash any mountains....well maybe Camelback, but I think everyone will understand that.

Also Mountain Creek.

 

[trtaylor]

Hummmm.....

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Over 1,100 snow machines are capable of producing large amounts of snow in minimal time. Most of the snowguns are mounted on towers to insure the maximum amount of "air time" for falling snow to freeze. Hunter has enough air and water available to run half of the snowmaking arsenal at once under marginal snowmaking conditions, and nearly every gun under optimal conditions. Hunter's snowmaking power can resurface virtually every trail very quickly after a warm spell or rain.


Some Hunter Snowmaking Facts and Trivia:
Hunter uses more than 60 miles of snowmaking pipe
Water capacity equals nearly 43 gallons per minute, per acre
Air capacity equals about 90,000 cfm, including all fan guns with onboard compressors
Overall snowmaking capacity equals 40 tons of snow per minute
Hunter can cover one acre (equivalent to size of a football field) with one foot of snow every hour.
In an average season, Hunter turns about half a billion gallons of water into snow
Hunter has the fastest recovery time of any ski area in the world!

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Sounds like overall, their system is about 85% as powerful as Killington's published figures.......which is amazing since Hunter covers less than half the terrain. At the water and air capacitities quoted, it's more like 3.5 acres per hour, not just one.

Other numbers don't add up either, given a water figure of ~10000 gpm, running 1000 guns at once would only give them 10gpm per gun....way low...but they would seem to have the air capacity for it at 90k scfm

At 43 gpm/per acre, it would take them 3 days to produce a foot of snow (on the whole mountain), so obviously they are concentrating efforts on their more popular trails in most cases.

I would think that in 12 hours they could stage an effective recovery by covering 80 acres with a half foot of snow, very similar to what Killington is capable of.

Thank you. Very informative reply.

 

[RootDKJ]

Also Mountain Creek.

How could I forget that. Thanks Andyzee