Snowmaking underway at Killington

[SpinmasterK]

Snowmaking is underway at Killington for the 2009-10 season! We started around 1 a.m. on Reason and will be moving to Rime and Upper Great Northern later this afternoon/evening as temperatures drop.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/killington

Video coming shortly.

 

[severine]

Forgive me for being out of the loop but does this translate to an anticipated opening day in the near future...?

 

[powhunter]

Great news Spin!!! Thanks for the update!!

steveo

 

[RootDKJ]

Awesome!

 

[sLoPeS]

WOOOO HOOOOOO!!!!

:beer:

 

[WoodCore]

Sweet!!!

 

[Puck it]

Booya daddy!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[SkiDork]

And there it is.

 

[skiingsnow]

Awesome!!

 

[Greg]

Forgive me for being out of the loop but does this translate to an anticipated opening day in the near future...?

I would think/hope so. They need about 60 hours of snow making to get open T2B. Ask Highway Gnar for the precise foot acreage or whatever that is. Anyway, it looks like a stock piling effort up top right now. Hopefully, they can make snow down to the base later in the week.

 

[Rambo]

Found this on youtube.

 

[Highway Star]

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

 

[Geoff]

Forgive me for being out of the loop but does this translate to an anticipated opening day in the near future...?

The long range forecast for next week looks like a return to more seasonal weather beginning Sunday. Lower Bunny is unlikely to last the week. Like the Preston Smith days, this one comes out of the marketing budget. It will be interesting to see whether they are serious about returning to the whole "Beast of the East" thing.

I personally would appreciate more candor from them. "We want to open this weekend but we need temps of Xxxxxx and humidity of Yyyyyy on Lower Bunny for Zzzzzz hours for that to happen." or "We looked at the 10 day forecast and we don't think we'll get more than 2 or 3 days before lower Bunny melts out. The best we can do is stockpile snow on the upper mountain and open on the next cold snap."

 

[Highway Star]

I would think/hope so. They need about 60 hours of snow making to get open T2B. Ask Highway Gnar for the precise foot acreage or whatever that is. Anyway, it looks like a stock piling effort up top right now. Hopefully, they can make snow down to the base later in the week.

Do a search. I don't have time right now to go over the numbers again.

 

[Greg]

I personally would appreciate more candor from them. "We want to open this weekend but we need temps of Xxxxxx and humidity of Yyyyyy on Lower Bunny for Zzzzzz hours for that to happen." or "We looked at the 10 day forecast and we don't think we'll get more than 2 or 3 days before lower Bunny melts out. The best we can do is stockpile snow on the upper mountain and open on the next cold snap."

I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt with the day-by-day thing. They've got a nice window this week so it's cool they're going for it. Doubt they would have this early in the past few years. What 10 day are you looking at Geoff? Looks like night-time opportunities for snowmaking down to the base according to the NWS 7 day.

 

[Greg]

Do a search. I don't have time right now to go over the numbers again.

Don't worry. It's not a critical factoid for me to know right now... :lol:

 

[severine]

I personally would appreciate more candor from them. "We want to open this weekend but we need temps of Xxxxxx and humidity of Yyyyyy on Lower Bunny for Zzzzzz hours for that to happen." or "We looked at the 10 day forecast and we don't think we'll get more than 2 or 3 days before lower Bunny melts out. The best we can do is stockpile snow on the upper mountain and open on the next cold snap."

I was hoping for exactly that kind of response from SpinmasterK!

It's a neat marketing trick but I'm curious to know what they're planning this for exactly.

 

[Grassi21]

Woo F'in Hoo!

 

[Greg]

It's a neat marketing trick but I'm curious to know what they're planning this for exactly.

It appears to me like legitimate higher elevation stock piling, not solely marketing hype. Of course, pass prices increase on Friday so the timing is fantastic from a marketing standpoint. If we don't see significant whales by the end of the week, and the guns shut off on Friday while it's still cold, we'll know the true intention. I doubt that will be the case though.

In either case, this still has me psyched!

 

[Greg]

http://news.alpinezone.com/64916/

Based on the current forecast with overnight temperatures ranging from the middle 20s down to the middle teens, snowmaking will continue for the next four-six days.