C'mon Powdr....REALLY?....

[brownman]

...I'll take " I havent a friggin clue" for two hundred , Alex....

Excessive yiddle apparently results in short supply of sensibility and flawed perspective.

a rare pow day marred by key lift outages...

5 reported inches Is only a pow day for a Lilliputian.
Unless you were able to get out west this season,
Most are trying to forget it and move on.

Train has left the station
Suggest remove the bucket ... run Forest run.

[skiadikt]

...I'll take " I havent a friggin clue" for two hundred , Alex....

Excessive yiddle apparently results in short supply of sensibility and flawed perspective.

a rare pow day marred by key lift outages...

5 reported inches Is only a pow day for a Lilliputian.
Unless you were able to get out west this season,
Most are trying to forget it and move on.

Train has left the station
Suggest remove the bucket ... run Forest run.

c'mon man, i've enjoyed a number of nor'inchers this season

[yiddle on da fiddle]

...I'll take " I havent a friggin clue" for two hundred , Alex....

Excessive yiddle apparently results in short supply of sensibility and flawed perspective.

a rare pow day marred by key lift outages...

5 reported inches Is only a pow day for a Lilliputian.
Unless you were able to get out west this season,
Most are trying to forget it and move on.

Train has left the station
Suggest remove the bucket ... run Forest run.

...and YET?....you replied. No further question , your honor...

[brownman]

... rarely pass up a Daily Double

[Snowboardgod]

While I agree w the lift situation being less then optimal, it did keep traffic down on some nice areas of Skye peak etc where fresh tracks for the first couple of hours ruled. Once other lifts were turning, it was gone... Quick.

[skiadikt]

While I agree w the lift situation being less then optimal, it did keep traffic down on some nice areas of Skye peak etc where fresh tracks for the first couple of hours ruled. Once other lifts were turning, it was gone... Quick.

agree sometimes you can turn the lifts-on-hold thing to your advantage. had one such day where i made "trax" for a couple hrs.

[daytripper]

3rd biggest snowfall of the season and an uproar emerges due to weather-related closures
The season that never began ended weeks ago. Deal with it.

For the 100 or so people affected on a late season week day, most of which are skiing on dividends,
'Thank you for your understanding'

If it was just today I wouldnt care so much but its been the normal the last few years and that is sh*t.

[buckethead]

a rare pow day marred by key lift outages...

5 reported inches Is only a pow day for a Lilliputian.
Unless you were able to get out west this season,
Most are trying to forget it and move on.


Train has left the station
Suggest remove the bucket ... run Forest run.

ok brownie, this has been a sh*t season. late in a sh*t season a 5" 'dump' is a fun thing. often enough to ski over previously bare terrain (conclusion a few fridays back was pretty damn awesome on 7" over grass)

in any case a good spring takes the sting out of a bad winter. those who consider the season over already just mean more parking on the access.

have a fine summer and hopefully next winter we'll all be tracking up all the fresh powder and skiing the woods as we're used to.

[brownman]

Hey, don't lose faith. Just put it on hold.
Couple years ago they got ~20" in April after they had shut down K1.
That a depth of snow that gets me motivated
They were able to unwrap the box and served it up to everyone's delight.
If that somehow happens in the next few weeks, see you in K1 queue.

[buckethead]

^^ that was pretty a pretty epic storm. yup k1 was closed and the previous weekend featured just supe/skye/bitter...and made for quite a festive time hooting and hollering in the woods. and days later the snow was STILL great.

we've got the cold temps. here's hoping!

[brownman]

Yeah Baby!
Truly epic for those with enuf patience that morning.

Fresh first tracking Escapade > Flume once K1 finally opened, will never forget 1st run with an amped boarder trying to outpace me.
The guy took big air trying to clear the first water bar on Flume and landed compressed on the downhill berm busting the cartilage right thru his nose with his knee. He was panicking with all the blood streaming from his nose. Fresh snow is beckoning, I'm not about to hang around. Guy was OK, just badly gashed. I told him to pack his face in snow and I'd notify patrol. Bolted, made the notification and reloaded K1. Several front 6 repeats that morning ... kept seeing red blotch on that berm. Tyrolia can confirm the bloody carpet.

Hope the guy wasn't permanently disfigured, but, as I recall, looked like he was going to need some serious nasal reconstruction.

Lead, follow or get out of the way

[da Pimp]

A couple hundred PSIA ski and board folk plus a couple hundred Bit kids, plus whatever public head count. Made for a crappy day today with only the lowdown quad running until late morning/lunchtime when K1, Superstar, Snowshed lifts were loading. Temps should have been no factor, I am so tired of hearing Killington whine about icing or winds or whatever. I have skied 9 other mountains this year in all sorts of good & bad weather and ALMOST never have a lift issue beyond a rare slowdown or 1 minute stoppage for a serious customer issue. At Killington, the lift issues of stoppages and slowdowns are standard WITHOUT weather factors. Not once in a while, it happens a lot. I did notice that both gondolas stopped far less often than the past few years, so their claimed upgrades for those systems seems to have worked. Too bad it took years, but at least it happened.

I think Jeff does a great job with snowmaking, grooming, and trail prep decisions. The Ops staff seems to be trained and on the ball. But I think his hands are tied when it comes to actually FIXING aka REPLACING the unreliable parts of any given lift (sensors, wheel assemblies, control panels, drive parts) because it takes money away from other POWDR ventures, none of which are lift improvements for Killington.

I will try to forgive at this time of the year when the staffing is probably at a season low, the weather was crappy, and they took a serious hurting for cash flow all season. I think it is fair to say that all customers are thankful that snowmaking efforts were strong and long in the face of terrible conditions. But a first class place or even just a well managed organization would not repeatedly embarrass themselves all season with their lift performance. Year after year.

[realreddy]

No excuses. They took my season pass money and I expect a full season worthy of the amount they charged me, period!!!

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[Snowboardgod]

I agree lift issues were pretty terrible this year. I'll get to 100 days pretty soon and I'd bet money that 75-80 of them had some type of lift issue involved.

[yiddle on da fiddle]

...and JUST to rub salt into a raw wound?...MT Snow Unlimited Pass....$599. Thanks ,, Powda...