KILLINGTON: The 2006 AlpineZone Ski Area Challenge

[BeanoNYC]

The majority of people I talk to at Killington don't even know Pico is an option.

Shhhhh .... let's keep it that way.

 

[Bubbartzky]

A HSQ to the top of snowshed??
that seems strange because there would only be a couple hundred feet (max) of vertical..

The plan years ago was for there to be some kind of lift down on the golf course (somehow without interfering with the golfers) that would serve all the condos that ring the course - Trail Creek, Edgemont, Whiffletree, Fall Line and Highridge. I think that plan is many years dead.

ive never heard anything about a high speed there, a lifty told me that they were planning on installing a fixed grip up one of the condo trails in the next couple years, i cant remember the trail name but its the longest of the condo trails, the one closest to bear

You're thinking of Sunrise and they already have a lift. The one they're discussing now is a short lift that would serve the new development that will be built skier's right on Snowshed and they'd put in a lift right behind Trail Creek that would allow utilization of the Trail Creek ski home trail by the new developments and also serve Trail Creek.

 

[thebigo]

After years of little infastructure improvements it appears that your parent company ASC is back in the lift building business. As I am sure you know The Canyons is getting a new HSS and FGQ this year along with terrain expansion and Steamboat is getting the displaced Tombstone HSQ from the Canyons.

Should Killington skiers take this as an indication that we will be seeing infastructure improvements in the near future? If not should we take this as an indication that ASC has chosen to expend their resources on the western areas and neglect the east?

I have also have read that the new HSQ at Steamboat will be powered entirely by wind and solar. Admittedly this is a rumor but is this something that is possible in the east. More generally has Killington explored the use of clean energy?


Source: http://www.steamboatpilot.com/section/news/story/37513

 

[maplevalleymaster]

First I want to thank you for taking our questions and I also want to thank you guys for putting in the effort to get open the last weekend of October. That was a great weekend and personally I would prefer an epic weekend in October to one more week on Superstar in May.

Now a few questions:

It seems to me that Pico is a really underused resource. The majority of complaints on this thread and in general regarding killington are of overcrowding at the trail junctions and this is especially difficult for familes. My question is have you ever considered adding Pico to the trail map. Im not talking about the interconnect, but just an inset the way your sister mountain Mount Snow used to include Haystack on their trail map. The majority of people I talk to at Killington don't even know Pico is an option. I also think this could make Pico more viable without ruining its charm.

About the trail map thing, Killington's trail map is already large enough and almost impossible to read without dropping everything. Pico is not exactly a small mountain and adding that would just make it too big of trail map.

 

[thetrailboss]

About the trail map thing, Killington's trail map is already large enough and almost impossible to read without dropping everything. Pico is not exactly a small mountain and adding that would just make it too big of trail map.

Pico was on the Killington Trail Maps in the late 1990's and in 2000-2001.

 

[Geoff]

Pico was on the Killington Trail Maps in the late 1990's and in 2000-2001.

Speaking of trail maps, I think Killington should bring back the topographic trail map of the 1980's.

 

[thetrailboss]

Speaking of trail maps, I think Killington should bring back the topographic trail map of the 1980's.

From what I've seen, I'm not sure if the Average Joe understands topo maps anymore....I think more people who are going to get confused given K-Mart's main customers are folks who do not spend time in the mtns, but rather in the cities. Nothing wrong with that, just an observation.

 

[thetrailboss]

No more questions?!

 

[andyzee]

No more questions?!

Damn, wish you guys luck going through the ones you got and trying to pick 10. There's a lot of good ones there.

 

[thetrailboss]

Damn, wish you guys luck going through the ones you got and trying to pick 10. There's a lot of good ones there.

Always a fun thing for me to do :roll:

 

[deadheadskier]

any plans for increased 'fusion zones' ?

 

[thetrailboss]

Let's wrap this one up tomorrow.....

 

[Newpylong]

This question may not be in everyone's interest, and it may take some research... but the trail's Pipe Dream and Valley Plunge have snowmaking capability, but they have never been used in the 15 years or so that I have skied at Killington. Both are great trails, and its a shame they only can be skied with a good natural dump. Along with this, is there any reason other trails with snowmaking such as Ovation can't get a few days of good snowmaking for a base on them??? Ovation used to be a Killington signature trail, somewhere I have a T-shirt of it....

Thank you...

 

[BeanoNYC]

This question may not be in everyone's interest, and it may take some research... but the trail's Pipe Dream and Valley Plunge have snowmaking capability, but they have never been used in the 15 years or so that I have skied at Killington. Both are great trails, and its a shame they only can be skied with a good natural dump. Along with this, is there any reason other trails with snowmaking such as Ovation can't get a few days of good snowmaking for a base on them??? Ovation used to be a Killington signature trail, somewhere I have a T-shirt of it....

Thank you...

That question is certainly in my interest.

 

[thetrailboss]

Locking this....thanks folks!

 

[Greg]

I spoke with Tom today and he has chosen not to participate. He does not feel this is an appropriate forum to respond to these types of questions and some of the associated negative comments. He welcomed any specific questions which should be sent to him directly.

 

[roark]

associated negative comments.

Expect to see a few more of those!:flame:

 

[Vortex]

To bad. I bet some good for all could have come out of it.

 

[thebigo]

Why did this reply take four months?

Is he just getting around to reading the questions?

Greg did he not tell you in the past that he distributed the questions to the various depatments? That would imply that he read the 'negative comments' previously.

Is it possible that he was waiting for the final day of the all for one pass sales?

What avenue did he request that his loyal and paying customers use to submit 'specific questions'. Is there an email address or phone number?

 

[Tin Woodsman]

That is pathetic and cowardly. It's bad enough that they took two months to get back to you. To add insult to injury, this is the answer they give us? I'm pretty sure the negative comments were apparent from the get go.

Just another in the long stream of evidence that K-Mart and ASC is a complete shit show.