Opening Day Report - Pics Added

[RedRider]

Steve, will you just go away already!!! No one wants to hear your bitching. You made your decision, you don't ski here, now shut up and go away.

Wow......I am speechless with this rare SND post.

Ditto - SND Did you make turns??

[BrockVond]

I guess I just hate bully's.

Well , la-de-f*ckin-dah, Cindy. This from a guy whose first post was:

"Can you say "sour grapes??!" You are so damn negitive even though you say you LOVE Killington... "

sheesh. Who even says "sour grapes" in 2007? I'm getting nitro bubbles in my stream just going up to take a look at this worthless sh*t.

[shortski]

Steve, will you just go away already!!! No one wants to hear your bitching. You made your decision, you don't ski here, now shut up and go away.

Wow......I am speechless with this rare SND post.

Ditto - SND Did you make turns??

Man of few words............right on.

[Skibumtress]

Thanks for the pics Bubba!
Figures, I have to w*rk tomorrow for a few hours.

[shizzle]

And for anyone who's interested, 24 days of work will qualify you for a free season pass. HR has a table set up in the MR.

Please elaborate HR, MR? Consider me slow.

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uman resorces in maogany ridge

[MrsG]

Steve, will you just go away already!!! No one wants to hear your bitching. You made your decision, you don't ski here, now shut up and go away.

sigh.

These miserable bastards drove me out of Killington - the mountain I love - show me a person who thinks I've going to leave quietly, and I'll show you a person who has another thing coming.

you're the one with the "don't country club killington" sig, by the way.

Whooaoo!

Dave's HERE man!

. . . finally, someone answered the "knock knock"

[Skibumtress]

"knock knock"

"Who's there?"

[owurugby]

I guess I just hate bully's. Between Steve and Brock-Von-Jerkoff - this place has been walked all over for some time.

Bubba, thanks for the report...chopin at the bit right now And thank you for introducing the lurkers to Gimp...you are my new favorite heel

Steve - back of the envelope - 26 posts in this thread alone between 12 & 5 - get a life

[pizza]

I guess I just hate bully's. Between Steve and Brock-Von-Jerkoff - this place has been walked all over for some time.

Bubba, thanks for the report...chopin at the bit right now And thank you for introducing the lurkers to Gimp...you are my new favorite heel

Steve - back of the envelope - 26 posts in this thread alone between 12 & 5 - get a life

sometimes I think I'm the only one who's not dead. wake up, people!

[Vagabond]

I guess I just hate bully's. Between Steve and Brock-Von-Jerkoff - this place has been walked all over for some time.

Bubba, thanks for the report...chopin at the bit right now And thank you for introducing the lurkers to Gimp...you are my new favorite heel

Steve - back of the envelope - 26 posts in this thread alone between 12 & 5 - get a life

sometimes I think I'm the only one who's not dead. wake up, people!

Yes, leave Steve alone, he's skiing nothing but quality resorts this year.

[dansbusy]

I think we should all be happy that the ski season has started at Killington and leave it at that.

It is interesting to read posts from those who like to be "arm chair" ski resort managers. If you think you can do it better, than do it. It is hard to respect those who spend their days writing about where a new chairlift should go, or where snow should be made. Lyndon State College offers a degree in ski area management. That would be a good start for many of you.

I felt as if I could operate a restaurant better, so I opened one. It was very difficult at first, and I had years of experience. If you can do it better than current ownership, then by all means show us.

But until then, let's enjoy this season, and be positive.

[skiingsnow]

It was good to get back out on snow and you couldn't help but have a good time and enjoy everyone else doing the same. It's snow season folks - don't worry, be happy!

and isnt that what its all about? not the 3 pages worth of moaning that turned your thread into a train wreck.

Amen! This board's been pretty tame with the flamin' since Highway Star started the meds. And it's opening day! This thread needs a little bit of skiingsnow!

And it was a pretty damn good day out there.

Honestly it wasn't perfect out there today, And I was kinda hoping for more, but they did what they could with what they had to make it a great day.... And from the snow report, they are getting all the trails that were suppost to open today, open for tomorrow, and additional significant expansions underway... It cant get better then that... If it never r*ined yesterday, I bet it would have been twice as busy, and we would've ended up with the same kind of conditions by mid-day, either way, nothing they can do about it...

And now that I get to say it, Killington has the most open terrain in the east!!!

[skiingsnow]

sounds like just like every other opening day I've ever been at, if anything snow quality inferior than the last four years.

just at least a week later than it would have been, even under ASC.

congrats, powdr.


(and i'm not even referring to the freak october opening. i'm talking about ASC's regular season openings..)

It r*ined, what were they suppost to do? If they opened last weekend, it may have been a nice surface, but half the terrain. Half the terrain, and probably triple the amount of people as today, doesn't sound that great...

Also, they are curently in expansion mode... Lower East fall going, Great Eastern Upper going, Upper Chute going, and MTS going.

Guns set and ready on Highline, Cascade, the Cascade runout/spillway, Superstar, Lower Bittersweet, Lower Great Northern, Lower Chute, and more...

They were supposed to open last weekend.

Half the terrain?? What have they made snow on in the last week that was new?

I bet they could have opened everything they had open today, last weekend.

They were not suppost to open last weekend, they were suppost to open the 16th, today, which they did...

Upper Downdraft and Mouse Trap, and likely other trails that arent seen from the base or the webcams... They also worked on the base on Upper Chute, Lower Chute, Lower Great Northern, and likely more trails that were still not able to open today.

They were working on the base on all trails that opened today, all throughout the weekend, and into this week. If they had opened last Friday or Saturday, they would have had to groom it all out, with much less base, (they aren't going to open the trails with every trail having snowmaking continueing day and night) and then it r*ined teusday I believe... that would've eatin a little out of the base, not to mention how much the grooming and skier traffic was going to eat at the base. They would have been forced to be closed today. After the r*ins came through Wednesday Night, and the first half of Thursday, there wouldn't have been a base left.

Opening day would've been tiny, theres only a few trails that I know of for sure that didn't start snowmaking till late, but im sure theres more up there that didn't start till late as well... Even trails that started early, Upper Double Dipper, today were closed until half way through the day where enough snow was finally made to open it... Opening last weekend would have destroyed the entire ski experience this week and next...

[skiingsnow]

sounds like just like every other opening day I've ever been at, if anything snow quality inferior than the last four years.

just at least a week later than it would have been, even under ASC.

congrats, powdr.


(and i'm not even referring to the freak october opening. i'm talking about ASC's regular season openings..)

It r*ined, what were they suppost to do? If they opened last weekend, it may have been a nice surface, but half the terrain. Half the terrain, and probably triple the amount of people as today, doesn't sound that great...

Also, they are curently in expansion mode... Lower East fall going, Great Eastern Upper going, Upper Chute going, and MTS going.

Guns set and ready on Highline, Cascade, the Cascade runout/spillway, Superstar, Lower Bittersweet, Lower Great Northern, Lower Chute, and more...

Like I said, it is no different than an ASC opening. The snow would have been about the same if it r*ined and refroze on an ASC-owned killington, as it would have been the same as ASC's actual conditions if it didn't r*in this week. It's just a week later. I don't get your logic. ASC would have opened the same amount, with a similar surface all things being equal weatherwise, but a week earlier.

I can't believe I'm defending ASC, but it's true. It doesn't sound particularly special out there.

-steve

Bunch of Crap. read my post above, it all basically applies to your post as well... It would have been less terrain, a lot less base, crowded - causing further damage to the surface besides the r*ins Tuesday, and Wed night/Thu...

[shizzle]

Trail report says snowmaking on Upper Skyelark and Lower Bittersweet-can anyone confirm?