Opening Day?

[Heywood jablowmee]

Oct 12/13 a few years back. Skied amazingly well for gun snow. Great times…

[Big Bob]

What we need is a tropical storm comming up the coast running into some cold air and dropping 2+' of snow in early November. Can anyone say top to bottom?

Tammy? I saw a forecast that predicted that and LOL'd. Some of these armchair forecasters are delusional. Whatever, even a blind squirrel is right twice a day.

GFS model was spitting this out for Nov 9th yesterday...Calling for 15-30" for seacoast NH.

[skiadikt]

the website is selling tickets starting saturday nov 11 which would make friday the 10th passholders only. based on the forecast, pretty solid window coming up. looks like the guns could fire up sometime monday probably shutting down friday. possible thursday nov 2 passholder opening? do know that they like to be able stay open when they open and the cold spell is followed by a bit of a warmup. we'll see ...

[snoloco]

Ticket availability is generally meaningless for Killington, as they don't set an open or close date. I can't imagine them not making snow. And as long as they make enough they'll open.

[newpylong1]

They'll be open by the end of the week.

[wtf021]

They should skip the Glades and go for ttb on Snowdon.

[rogman]

They should skip the Glades and go for ttb on Snowdon.

Temps looking too marginal to get down that low an elevation. There’s a brief warmup for next weekend then another cold spell. They might go for it then, but I expect they’ll use that to pound Superstar and expand at higher elevation. They tend to be conservative until it stays cold. There is a storm brewing around 10 days out that might shake things up but nowhere near 15” to 30” as some are suggesting. Might be a washout too, and then it all starts over. Any predictions further out than a week are a crapshoot.

[Guy in Shorts]

Reflecting back 29 October 2016 - Day started with the K1 gondola on hold for most of the morning. We started to hike up the mountain on the chance that the Northridge chair would run. Snowmoblies hauling the lift operators pasted us on Great Northern. Handful of thrilled skiers had the Northridge lift to ourselves for a truly magical Killington moment. More folks made the hike until there were about 100 or more total skiers. The gondola then started shortly before noon delivering the Saturday horde to the top just as we called it quits for the day.

[Downdraft]

So many borderline mediocre snowmaking days coming this week. Nothing like making real expensive snow

[newpylong1]

Some of the nights coming up are definitely going to be better than marginal up top.

[skiadikt]

fwiw, with regards to opening, sunday river shouldn't be any competition this season as their plan is to open in jordan bowl on their spiffy new, heated seats, 8-person bubble. that's 1500 vertical feet at a relatively low base elevation. they're also saying multiple trail choices. though they say they've tripled their capacity in jordan, no way they can do that at that altitude given this weather window. but they will blow k away when they do open.

[rogman]

fwiw, with regards to opening, sunday river shouldn't be any competition this season as their plan is to open in jordan bowl on their spiffy new, heated seats, 8-person bubble. that's 1500 vertical feet at a relatively low base elevation. they're also saying multiple trail choices. though they say they've tripled their capacity in jordan, no way they can do that at that altitude given this weather window. but they will blow k away when they do open.

Killington of late doesn't seem to fixated on beating Sunday River (or anyone else) for opening. They do their thing and that's that. Killington's stated goal is to open early and stay open; they don't shutdown midweek early season. Also, their opening day product is typically very good; no painting the trails, they get a good base down before opening.

As a whole Sunday River is about 60 miles further north, but offset by lower elevation. The net result is that Barker is usually a degree or two warmer than North Ridge. Jordan Bowl at even lower elevation (about 1600' at the base I think), is warmer still. I don't see snow making temperatures there for another 10 days or so, while I expect the North Ridge to startup before midnight tonight. I shudder to think what an 8-pack dumping onto a Jordan Bowl WROD will be like.

Right now, the only question left is what day is the pass holder open? I guessed Thursday a while back, but they might push it back to Friday, so they don't open under wet guns on Thursday, as they try to squeeze the last ounce of snow out of this cold weather window.

[machski]

fwiw, with regards to opening, sunday river shouldn't be any competition this season as their plan is to open in jordan bowl on their spiffy new, heated seats, 8-person bubble. that's 1500 vertical feet at a relatively low base elevation. they're also saying multiple trail choices. though they say they've tripled their capacity in jordan, no way they can do that at that altitude given this weather window. but they will blow k away when they do open.

Its not just to use the fancy new 8 seater, its that they are still doing a lot of work in Barker basin and thus Locke's base on the fancy new Heated Barker 6. They have way upped the game on Snowmaking in Jordan, but with needing Lolla TTB to open there, I don't see them beating Killington. That said, the Jordan base is higher than Barker/Locke and often is several degrees cooler out there than even midstation level on Locke. Time will tell.

[MrsG]

North Ridge lift moving on web cam!

[newpylong1]

Also a couple Phazers moved into position on Rime next to the K guns, that tells you that they see better than marginal conditions at night for the next few days. Should be a great opening.