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[ss20]

Wow I've never seen coverage like that. OL and Wildfire having bare spots and thinness while Pipe Dream is baked in the sun but well-covered. Looks like a great day!

April 2, 2017- one of my favorite ski days of all time. 40 degrees and sunshine after a foot of powder the day before.

 

[Dexter]

Come. Absolutely come. There will not be a ton open. But if your son only knows Snowshoe and southeast hills it's a trip he'll remember the rest of his life. There will be some terrain for your daughter, but it will be limited. If you guys are skiers that like skiing, come. If this is a family trip and y'all can spend $5,000 of disposable income on another trip in another season and get the same amount of fun, don't come. This sounds like a real family pilgrimage up to the big hills up north. Killington will be open and there'll be more terrain than anywhere in the southeast has when they're 100% open.... sounds like a good time to me!

I went to Alta December 1, 2020. It was the...and I mean THE... lowest snowpack conditions anyone had seen. I had the time of my life on terrain that I thought was incredible in conditions that I thought were the most fun ever. A year later I live in Utah and ski Alta everyday. This sounds like the same scenario for your family... take it.

Got here today and skied this afternoon. Obviously have hardly even begun to explore, but the snow is better than I expected! Tomorrow should be a great day. Glad I took your advice.

 

[ss20]

Got here today and skied this afternoon. Obviously have hardly even begun to explore, but the snow is better than I expected! Tomorrow should be a great day. Glad I took your advice.

Awesome! You'll have a super fun week. I recommend you ski the Bear and South Ridge terrain tomorrow/Monday. They face south. Not sure how well they will be fairing by the end of the week with warming temps and wetness later in the week. You might get a few more trail openings tomorrow up high if they can eek out a couple more inches of snow!

 

[Newpylong]

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I have never seen snow that tall going down Preston's before, and that includes the mid 90s June seasons. Those guns were pointing straight up...

 

[cdskier]

That looks like a pretty damn impressive amount of snow. It definitely looks deeper than last year when I was there around this time of year.

 

[machski]

Tough to tell for sure. They need to bring back the 40' post at the top of Preston's like they had in the 90's just to be sure

 

[JimG.]

Great stoke can't wait to get up there after the rains.

 

[mister moose]

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I think the going rate is one beer.

 

[IceEidolon]

Man, those HKDs on the bottom stretch put in the work!

 

[Newpylong]

They sure puked.

 

[slatham]

Went to Killington today and NO picture can do justice to the massive size of those “whales”. I think we need to move beyond whales. Dinosaurs?

Skiing today was off the hook gorgeous cornucopia.

 

[NYDB]

Definitely making it up there this May for a MTB/Superstar trip.

 

[slatham]

Definitely making it up there this May for a MTB/Superstar trip.

A liftie told me the goal is the spring trifecta - Skiing, MTB and golf.

 

[NYDB]

I used to love golf when I was younger and was pretty decent at it. Played almost every day I could. Junior Member at the Rutland Country Club Even.

Now, not so much. After about 4 holes I feel like I have better uses for my time.

I get in about 3 social rounds a year now.

The most dreaded thread of the year.... The Closing thread......

The mighty Yawgoo Valley just posted on their social media feeds that this coming Sunday will be the last day they spin the lifts this season..... 😪

forums.alpinezone.com

 

[Newpylong]

Bear Mountain (Bear Quad) opening for an encode this weekend. Outer Limits should be sick.

 

[KustyTheKlown]

Bear Mountain (Bear Quad) opening for an encode this weekend. Outer Limits should be sick.

gah. i am saving that last K day for may.

jay and loaf this weekend. considered tremblant, but meh. just checked flights for colorado for today, $499 not that bad, but still not trying to swing that + hotel + car rental

first world problems!

 

[MG Skier]

Say Hello to Jay for me Krusty, I haven't been up this year which is unusual. Hoping to fix that next week/weekend.

 

[KustyTheKlown]

hell yea. i am cautiously optimistic. they are holding on to a high trail count including most glades but today is warm and wet so who knows what tomorrow brings for open terrain. but my office is closed for easter/passover so I'm hitting the road tonight and tomorrow looks like it could be a mid 50s sunshine stunner. a bit more unsettled weather sat and sun. but i am stoked. i haven't skied for a few weeks which is really unusual for me. I'm itching to get out. I'm working from home and am the opposite of productive today.

 

[Dexter]

Our first visit to Killington was the beginning of April and it was mostly midweek skiing. Not every trail was open and not every lift was running, but on the plus side, we always could park right near the K1 gondola and there was never a line for any lift. But that does lead me to wonder:

1. At a busy time - say, the week after Christmas - how bad do the lines get? How long do you have to wait for the K1 gondola? Is the line all the way back to the steps? Does the fact that more lifts are running and more trails are open compensate for the increased number of people?

2. How bad does the parking get during busy times? Do the K1 lots and Vale lots get full, and it's a long walk to the car? (I assume this is so...)

3. We stayed at the Pinnacle condos and they were great. Would stay there again for sure. The only downside was having to drive to the K1 lot and park. But it looks to me like there's almost no way to avoid that. There are few "ski in, ski out" options. Am I missing anything? The Grand Resort hotel is close to the bottom of Snowshed, but is it worth staying there just for that?

 

[KustyTheKlown]

Our first visit to Killington was the beginning of April and it was mostly midweek skiing. Not every trail was open and not every lift was running, but on the plus side, we always could park right near the K1 gondola and there was never a line for any lift. But that does lead me to wonder:

1. At a busy time - say, the week after Christmas - how bad do the lines get? How long do you have to wait for the K1 gondola? Is the line all the way back to the steps? Does the fact that more lifts are running and more trails are open compensate for the increased number of people?

2. How bad does the parking get during busy times? Do the K1 lots and Vale lots get full, and it's a long walk to the car? (I assume this is so...)

3. We stayed at the Pinnacle condos and they were great. Would stay there again for sure. The only downside was having to drive to the K1 lot and park. But it looks to me like there's almost no way to avoid that. There are few "ski in, ski out" options. Am I missing anything? The Grand Resort hotel is close to the bottom of Snowshed, but is it worth staying there just for that?

1. the k-1 line can be bad on any mid-winter weekend or holiday, but the savvy killington skier knows that you really don't need that lift like at all. you can access almost everything it accesses using a combination of the canyon quad, north ridge, snowdon, and superstar chairs. the top of killington peak is for tourists. snowdon6 will have a line but the snowdon3 will not. the 3 is slow but it takes you to the same exact spot.

2. there's a lot of other parking you may not be aware of. there is parking at the skyeship base and at bear mountain that is steps from lifts and lodges and is usually less crowded. there is also parking at snowshed i think, but i haven't been to that lot since i was like 7 years old. unless you arrive super early, parking at vale or k-1 is rookie stuff.

3. i stayed in high ridge condos with my family, again when i was like 8 years old. there's a ski home trail, but i don't recall there being a ski on to the mountain trail. my recollection is that on days we skied home, someone dealt with the car, or perhaps we took a resort shuttle to get to the mountain in the morning. i typically stay in non-resort lodging on the access road or more often than not down in the rut. you and i are looking for different things in that regard. i haven't been in the grand ever, but i imagine its super dated, because it was the hot new place, again, when i was 7