tuesday 2/6 report
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tuesday 2/6 report
can't get enough vitamin d. another perfect 10 of a day. light turnout. sadly had to leave early. 9-11:45 shift.
highline the usual groomed flat & fast at the bell. main snowdon line quite good. thought today was one of the better grooms of the season on LEF. perfect carving snow. best u can say about the groom on lower dipper was you could get an edge into it. quite firm.
for the 4th day running, the action was in the supe pod under the guns. many laps. both sides skied of supe great. early the bumps on prestons were pretty much buried. they got unburied quickly. lower lark also great. co-rotds. guns off on ovation. generally good. chalky with some slick spots.
claw/burst good and softening on lower. dream hw was ok. just had to keep an eye for some rocks. bummed no snowmaking (so far) this season. hope springs eternal. cruise good. and oh yeah, the south ridge was running!!!!!
highline the usual groomed flat & fast at the bell. main snowdon line quite good. thought today was one of the better grooms of the season on LEF. perfect carving snow. best u can say about the groom on lower dipper was you could get an edge into it. quite firm.
for the 4th day running, the action was in the supe pod under the guns. many laps. both sides skied of supe great. early the bumps on prestons were pretty much buried. they got unburied quickly. lower lark also great. co-rotds. guns off on ovation. generally good. chalky with some slick spots.
claw/burst good and softening on lower. dream hw was ok. just had to keep an eye for some rocks. bummed no snowmaking (so far) this season. hope springs eternal. cruise good. and oh yeah, the south ridge was running!!!!!
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South Ridge running today- bummer, we missed it! Beautiful day, great skiing - waves of groups, but no wait!
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Mohawk was similar, nice surface and vis lended to confident and consistent carving, sun starting to provide a bit of bite again.
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Mid-day Sunday River report - Fantastic. 11:30 - 4:00 shift. Right up there for best day of season. Lifts at less than 10% capacity. Nowhere near as icy as at K. Lots of natural trails in play, all good, and had them to myself. Planning on a rare first chair start tomorrow for the "Roy".
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Don't you let that deal go down
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Looks like its going down no matter what I do !!!
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I’ll throw a Cannon update on this also, since the view over to you guys at K was the best I’ve seen since early December (but Stowe was like an optical illusion, it looked so close I could have tossed a snowball at it). Most of the known gladed runs had sections of icy spots, but secret stuff still only held remains of my tracks from last week. Hardscabble sweet first thing, but even with limited traffic got icy on some steep spots late.
Couple cool things, someone stomped footprints of a giant “LOVE” in Echo lake, and someone went under the Peabody chair to untouched snow and made a couple snowangels (it’s a closed area because where you jump out to the trail would be dangerous merging, but the tracks they left you could see they were expert skiers).
Couple cool things, someone stomped footprints of a giant “LOVE” in Echo lake, and someone went under the Peabody chair to untouched snow and made a couple snowangels (it’s a closed area because where you jump out to the trail would be dangerous merging, but the tracks they left you could see they were expert skiers).
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Is there any rhyme or reason for when the South Ridge lift is running during the week?
I've spent maybe 20 weekdays at Killington over the last 5 years, and have never figured it out.
Mostly, it isn't running. One time, on a Friday, it was running. This past Friday, the lift was moving, but it wasn't actually in service.
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Word on the street is that they use rock, paper, scissors at the morning ops meeting...
...and it's Rime or Reason...geesh check a map!
...and it's Rime or Reason...geesh check a map!
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"The South Ridge Quad is expected to operate on Thu. – Sun. and on Tuesdays over the next couple of weeks. "
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It was discussed earlier how they were supposed to run the South Ridge Quad on Tuesdays and Thursdays, the days the Canyon Quad isn't running, in addition to the usual Friday-Sunday schedule. Budget cuts made at the beginning of January resulted in the schedule being reduced to only Saturday and Sunday. While this past weekend seems to have been good enough to reverse the budget cuts to the lift schedule, their choice to not to make snow at full capacity can't be undone.
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took me a second to get it (only on my first cup of coffee), but then again I’d likely say I just skied down West Glade and gonna ride the triple back up.
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mdskiguy wrote: ↑Feb 7th, '24, 16:52Is there any rhyme or reason for when the South Ridge lift is running during the week?
I've spent maybe 20 weekdays at Killington over the last 5 years, and have never figured it out.
Mostly, it isn't running. One time, on a Friday, it was running. This past Friday, the lift was moving, but it wasn't actually in service.
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Ha ha . . . you know, as I typed it I saw the pun, and came to the conclusion that it as a verbal caper it was a bit of a low road for this snowboard.Stormchaser wrote: ↑Feb 7th, '24, 17:00 Word on the street is that they use rock, paper, scissors at the morning ops meeting...
...and it's Rime or Reason...geesh check a map!
Next time I'll know better . . . .
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I saw that! If I'd only waited a day to post. I'm considering a return trip in a few weeks. If I do, I'm going to hold them to it!newpylong1 wrote: ↑Feb 7th, '24, 17:56 "The South Ridge Quad is expected to operate on Thu. – Sun. and on Tuesdays over the next couple of weeks. "
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I rode south ridge on tues 2/6 and canyon was closed
I rode canyon Wed 2/7 and south ridge was closed
I rode canyon Wed 2/7 and south ridge was closed