bigbog
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WOW, really the Olympic grooming is starting earlier by the decade, isn't Simon Dumont(middle name) Bob R's 3yo son....y/n?
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My dad was a lifetime pass holder, he taught me that Killington is the best. Period. You think your place is better, get out. LOL
If go for 3 days I always ski both, so I count them together, same lift ticket, great deal.
I've never been to SR. The 3 hour drive is further than almost everything in VT for me. The biggest thing is that it just doesn't look particularly challenging. Am I wrong?
Your dad shares his opinion with many, many people. Not the opinion that Killington is the best per se, but rather that they are adamant about disregarding all other opinions. It's really an amusing phenomenon. You go to Kzone and many members are hell bent on Killington doing whatever is necessary "to be the best." They want it to be the most popular ski area in the East with the greatest number of skier visits etc. Go to Sunday River's message board and while people are very much fans of the area, they don't make it their job to prove to the world that their mountain is the best in the east. Nothing wrong with it, but I just don't see any other area in the East have a sort of sports team fan base like Killington does.
It is great that they're on the same pass, but I struggle to count them together. I don't think Wildcat and Attitash skiers consider their mountains the same place. Both share the same pass like K and Pico and though they're not so geographically close, it's really only about a ten minute further drive in the car between those two areas compared to the drive between K and Pico. An even more apt comparison would be Sugarbush & MRG being considered the same place. Those areas are even closer geographically than K and Pico and you'd be hard pressed to find people consider them the same place.
I guess my opinion is why I'm completely against the Killington / Pico Interconnect. I like them both for different reasons/experiences and hope it always stays that way.
I've never been to SR. The 3 hour drive is further than almost everything in VT for me. The biggest thing is that it just doesn't look particularly challenging. Am I wrong?
If you like steep lines and deep base Sunday River isn't on the same playing field as northern Vt. To compare Sunday River and an area like Stowe would be silly. One of the big appeals of the place is the fact that its primarily Boston north, with lots of nh and Maine skiing there. coolest clientele ever IMO. That terrain on either side of White heat is pretty steep and gets lots of snowmaking blow in when the blast the shit out of White Heat.
Vertically, Killington and Sunday River ski virtually the same. Both areas are a series of mountain ridges with terrain pods in the 1000-1700 vertical range and I don't think it can be argued that one area is particularly better than the other in regards to vertical drop. Neither area is all that great for long vertical descents compared to numerous other mountains in New England.
From Southern NH it is about the same to the Mad river valley (Sugarbush, MRG) also Stowe.
From where I live - west of Concord - Stowe, sugarbush and MRG are about 2.5 hours. Jay and Smuggs are 3ish. My phone puts SR at 3.25 hours. I may try it at some point, but the challenge factor looks to be on par with the southern VT mountains...
From where I live - west of Concord - Stowe, sugarbush and MRG are about 2.5 hours. Jay and Smuggs are 3ish. My phone puts SR at 3.25 hours. I may try it at some point, but the challenge factor looks to be on par with the southern VT mountains...
From where I live - west of Concord - Stowe, sugarbush and MRG are about 2.5 hours. Jay and Smuggs are 3ish. My phone puts SR at 3.25 hours. I may try it at some point, but the challenge factor looks to be on par with the southern VT mountains...