Geoff wrote:I'd like to remind idiot boy that it is the 3rd weekend of November. Any references I'm making to skier visits are related to what weekend it is on the calendar. In any other year, the weekend before thanksgiving is frigging mobbed.
You can certainly get from Upper Chute to Mouse Trap. You bang a hard right at the cat track to the poma, walk over the water bar, and traverse below the poma corral across Great Northern to Mouse Trap. The traverse and first few turns on Mouse Trap scrapes the ice off your skis from the water bar. I did many laps yesterday since that was where the guns were blasting.
Skier visits are up SIGNIFICANTLY more this weekend before Thanksgiving, then last year the weekend before Thanksgiving...
shortski wrote:Nyberg at the owners meeting estimated opening day at 900, today maybe 200-300 more, way below normal opening weekend for Killington. I for one love the new model, no crowds and the people that were here for the most part were expert to advanced skiers. tomorrow should be great, sun and warming to the 30's, sweet.
Nyberg have anything good to say today?
SSDD...If it had to do with future actions, vague pablum at best.
Bubba, I heard that they were turning off the mikes on folks whose questions they didn't like.
My friend M said she asked some tough employee related q's and the mike mysteriously went dead and they picked someone else's (shill?) softball.
shortski wrote:Nyberg at the owners meeting estimated opening day at 900, today maybe 200-300 more, way below normal opening weekend for Killington. I for one love the new model, no crowds and the people that were here for the most part were expert to advanced skiers. tomorrow should be great, sun and warming to the 30's, sweet.
Nyberg have anything good to say today?
SSDD...If it had to do with future actions, vague pablum at best.
Bubba, I heard that they were turning off the mikes on folks whose questions they didn't like.
My friend M said she asked some tough employee related q's and the mike mysteriously went dead and they picked someone else's (shill?) softball.
Comments?
Not true at all. She got to ask her question and received an answer even though there was a minor mike problem while she was asking her (very long) question.
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Bubba wrote:
Bubba, I heard that they were turning off the mikes on folks whose questions they didn't like.
My friend M said she asked some tough employee related q's and the mike mysteriously went dead and they picked someone else's (shill?) softball.
Comments?
Not true at all. She got to ask her question and received an answer even though there was a minor mike problem while she was asking her (very long) question.
She needs a lesson in getting to the point, if its the same person I'm thinking of. It was the same stuff they (he and Dave) gave us at our HO meeting before. I only went to the morning thing so my wife could hear them. I kind of figured it'd be more of the same and it was.
The evening thing was good. We liked that. Plus, at random, I sat next to a guy I went to high school with and didn't recognize him until we got to talking. Weird.
Skiing was very good. But I hate how they have yet another terrain park on Reason (or whatever it is called this year). Enough is enough with these terrain parks.
Geoff wrote:I've never understood why Killington insists on holding those meetings in the morning. I never attend since I am at Killington to go skiing.
So people like you don't attend? Which results in less tough questions for them....
Geoff wrote:I've never understood why Killington insists on holding those meetings in the morning. I never attend since I am at Killington to go skiing.
So people like you don't attend? Which results in less tough questions for them....
Sounds like the front running Democrat Presidential Candidate. ;)
throw my pennies in there. emptiest opening weekend i've ever seen and even more so since it was the 3rd weekend in november. i've been to openings in october that were more crowded. powdr's strategy brilliant so far .. chase everyone away and guarantee uncrowded slopes.
agree that the best 2 runs were the upper chute & mouse trap. all of the snowden runs stayed good all weekend. sunday, lower east fall had the biggest whales i've ever seen. tough to get any rhythm on it though, between the nonsensical whales, getting blasted by the snow guns and general skier mayhem. fun nonetheless. on the other hand, the glades runs were skating rinks by 10am each day. also given nyberg's background in grooming, was surprised by the terrible grooming on upper east fall (east glade) and particularly lower bunny buster - just chopped ice & death cookies on sunday.
nowhere as good as mt snow last weekend but overall a very good though not great opening weekend. not particularly impressed with the "quality product". pretty much same old but lack of crowds was great.
Geoff wrote:I've never understood why Killington insists on holding those meetings in the morning. I never attend since I am at Killington to go skiing.
Reduces on-mountain crowding?
"Abandon hope all ye who enter here"
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You can checkout any time you like,
but you can never leave
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function" =
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"There's nothing more frightening than ignorance in action" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
skiadikt wrote:throw my pennies in there. emptiest opening weekend i've ever seen and even more so since it was the 3rd weekend in november. i've been to openings in october that were more crowded. powdr's strategy brilliant so far .. chase everyone away and guarantee uncrowded slopes.
agree that the best 2 runs were the upper chute & mouse trap. all of the snowden runs stayed good all weekend. sunday, lower east fall had the biggest whales i've ever seen. tough to get any rhythm on it though, between the nonsensical whales, getting blasted by the snow guns and general skier mayhem. fun nonetheless. on the other hand, the glades runs were skating rinks by 10am each day. also given nyberg's background in grooming, was surprised by the terrible grooming on upper east fall (east glade) and particularly lower bunny buster - just chopped ice & death cookies on sunday.
nowhere as good as mt snow last weekend but overall a very good though not great opening weekend. not particularly impressed with the "quality product". pretty much same old but lack of crowds was great.
As I understand Chris Nyberg's previous job, he sold grooming equipment for Bombardier. That does not mean he knows how to operate it... particularly on the Ice Coast. I'm willing to cut them some slack given the downpour a few days earlier. They don't have the compressor capacity to resurface and expand terrain at the same time. The only place I'd question is Lower Bunny Buster since it was the only way down. It probably would have been prudent to divert some capacity to it for a few hours on Saturday night.
Nyberg mentioned on Saturday morning that they'd blown a pipe on Friday, I think, that spewed 1200 gpm until they shut it. They were feeding the system from Bear so that may have affected their ability to resurface. I don't know the system design so I have no idea how that would work.
"Abandon hope all ye who enter here"
Killington Zone
You can checkout any time you like,
but you can never leave
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function" =
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"There's nothing more frightening than ignorance in action" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
dansbusy wrote:I've been coming here for over thirty years, and there isn't any more or less people this opening weekend. Perhaps there are less skiers from killingtonzone? I am new to this blog, but everyone I have known up here and skied with is here this weekend.
But, I'd like to meet some of you, we are have some people over tonight, PM me if you'd like to stop by.
Didn't see this post till tonight, otherwise I might have PMd you so I could meet you. Show up at a 10 AM meeting (today's meeting was kind of lame since we could not hold it at the regular place due to guns blasting in that spot) and you will meet many of us.
