top-to-bottom tomorrow!

[skiadikt]

since it's been a source of "controversy", thought the announcement deserved it's own thread:

Our snowmaking crew will be taking maximum advantage of the single digit temps in tonight’s forecast, piling up the snow on the lower portion of our top-to-bottom route. In fact, there should be more than enough snow to open that route—Great Northern to Middle Chute to Lower Bunny Buster—by Wednesday morning. You know what that means—you've taken your last trip of the season on the Peak Walkway.

In addition to making snow on Great Northern, Chute, and Lower Bunny Buster tonight, we’ll start our pre-Thanksgiving expansion into the Canyon area, making snow on Lower East Fall and Spillway. As the holiday week approaches, our team will be taking every opportunity to expand terrain in the Snowdon and Canyon areas—stay tuned for more details.

won't miss the walk-out, but grateful for that walkway. by friday, we'll have been skiing for 4 weeks. appreciate the effort and dedication of management and mountain opps for making it happen.

[rogman]

That should shut up the whiners for a few hours, but I'm sure we'll find something ("The 17th gun on trail x was a tad wet..."). If Kzone ever stops complaining that's when Killington should worry. Looking forward to having an up close and personal look at the tunnels. I realize they're not open yet (the toll booths still need to be installed), but it'll be nice to get a look at Snewdon. Will the "other" triple be running? Is Santa coming, too? Feels like Christmas.

[MrsG]

I'm giddy with excitement

[snoloco]

Pretty cool to see expert terrain take such a priority this early. Unfortunately, opening the Caper to Great Northern loop doesn't seem to be a priority which would so greatly help with parking and transportation for the World Cup.

[BobbyVT]

Pretty cool to see expert terrain take such a priority this early. Unfortunately, opening the Caper to Great Northern loop doesn't seem to be a priority which would so greatly help with parking and transportation for the World Cup.
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I cant believe that you are almost as annoying as the HS idiot

[hillbangin]

Pretty cool to see expert terrain take such a priority this early. Unfortunately, opening the Caper to Great Northern loop doesn't seem to be a priority which would so greatly help with parking and transportation for the World Cup.
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I cant believe that you are almost as annoying as the HS idiot

WAY more annoying - at least once in a while H Mo Star is funny

[ski]

Pretty cool to see expert terrain take such a priority this early. Unfortunately, opening the Gaper to Great Northern loop doesn't seem to be a priority which would so greatly help with parking and transportation for the World Cup.

Fixed it for you . .

[snoloco]

So you don't want it to be easy to access the mountain during the World Cup?

[brownman]

Yikes

[ANGUS]

Whats left of my knees likes this. Nice work by mountain ops and the snow making crew.

[skiadikt]

Pretty cool to see expert terrain take such a priority this early. Unfortunately, opening the Caper to Great Northern loop doesn't seem to be a priority which would so greatly help with parking and transportation for the World Cup.

hey rogman, didn't take long ...

think they wanna add another lift and trail pod to the mix, particularly if they're closing the k1 to swap out the cabins. i'm sure caper is on their wish list but right now the priority is to add terrain and spread out the crowd. there's still 13 days til WC, so why don't you chill and give them a chance.

[snoloco]

It makes perfect sense to get Canyon open before the cabin swap is done. I wonder if they will work double shifts like with the tunnel to get it done in 2-3 days vs a week. Not really sure what ttb route they made snow on as the Outdoor Images photo didn't show any on Middle Chute or Middle Bunny Buster. Obviously more trails need to open on Snowdon in preparation for the Snowdon Six Express to open. After that would logically be the Caper/Great Northern loop but I'm not sure if there's time before the World Cup.

[ski2die]

Hallelujah! I made it through another stair season without a heart attack.

[rogman]

Unfortunately, opening the Caper to Great Northern loop doesn't seem to be a priority which would so greatly help with parking and transportation for the World Cup.

Still construction on the six, so we can't ski under it. The GN return to Ramshead's probably an issue too: Surely some knucklehead will poach that trail to return to their vehicle. Still a lot of construction around the base of Snowdon. Peeps should stay out of there.

Anybody else puzzled that the attic of the base of the Snowdon Six is empty? I mean there's nothing up there. Not an APU, no electronics, no secret lifty sleeping quarters. Nothing. Shouldn't there be something? What is going up there? The empty cardboard boxes the lift came in?

All those complainers that said "The world cup is affecting expansion". Now we get the payoff! Those 27 compressors that aren't going anywhere for a while. We should see some seriously rapid expansion. Canyon is the obvious place to "use up" the excess capacity, but wouldn't surprise me to see Ramshead and even Snowshed get some love. Snow makers are going to be jogging.

[winter]

Everyone's talking about the Gondola being shut down for a cabin swap out...

Killington announces we're getting six new cabins TODAY