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- Thread starter Irish9
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Hey, Your information perplexes me. If you ski the Canyon chair or Bear Mountain there's plenty to do. Add in Vertigo, Ovation, etc. and your steepness is everything you're going to want. Take a straight line down Outer Limits and tell me you're bored.
andyzee
New member
Killington sucks, if I were you I would just drive to Sugarbush every day, it's only an hour ride!
BeanoNYC
Active member
I was going to say the same thing...but I won't be at Killington this weekend! :smile:
Geoff
Well-known member
OL isn't supposed to intrigue anyone. It's designed to get intermediates from the flatlands to buy the "I skied Outer Limits" t-shirt. Back in the pre-ASC days when Killington blew snow on it fairly frequently, it was bumper heaven. These days, it's 50% groomed and pretty much anyone can hack their way down it. At Snowbird, it would be marked double blue like Regulator Johnson.
The top part of Vertigo is likely done for the year. It's a serious rock dance and the austerity budget prevented Killington from blowing snow on it this year.
BeanoNYC
Active member
Sounds like a lot of trees died for some t-shirt marketing.
I've never seen this t-shirt. Would they sell it to intermediates from Vermont and New Hampshire as well or just flatlanders?
SKIQUATTRO
New member
did you look at a trail map to determine that vert?? if so you would have seen your mistake..
SkiDog
New member
Sounds like a lot of trees died for some t-shirt marketing.
Ha...nice one... ;-)
I've seen the shirt as well as the poster...that is the Outer Limits of old anyway....if you could truly ski is back in "the day" when it was narrower and WALL TO WALL bumps you'd certainly be considered more than a "double blue" intermediate skier....
now...I challenge anyone to go top to bottom on OL skiers right without stopping and still tell me its a "double blue"......even if it isnt the OL of the old days the right side of it is VERY reminiscent of those old days....
Killington has a TON of great terrain just management made some VERY bad decisions. Hopefully the new ownership will take us back to the old days.
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Newpylong
Well-known member
I don't ever remember it being narrower though...?
SkiDog
New member
Maybe I just remember it narrow....it looked narrower with all the bumps...might've been a perception thing...in any case it aint the OL that the pictures depict.
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Geoff
Well-known member
The width is unchanged from the early 1980's. The main difference is that they used to drag hoses across the trail and blow skier's right so it was edge-to-edge coverage. Skier's right is now usually a rock garden. They also used to freshen it up every week or so with a few hours of snowmaking. People were also on much longer skis then so the bumps weren't anywhere near as choppy. 160 cm carving skis make for pretty lousy moguls.
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