Sleep in your one piece. The parking area was pretty much full at 7:30 Saturday morning. Your plan may work fine mid-week.pcgrantham wrote:I have a foolproof plan on getting good parking no matter what resort I go to. I go to bed at a decent hour. I wake up around an hour or so before the lifts open and drive to the resort. it's amazing how good parking is at 7:15 or so. I usually grab something to eat on the way there, then relax and eat my breakfast at the resort after a short walk from my car to the lodge.Nevada West wrote:Parking has been a nightmare if you arrive later than 8:15. Sure, you can take a shuttle. Carry all of your stuff for the day in the bus to the lodge. I really feel for the guy who's kid forgot something in the car. Not having a lift moving people out of there was a sh*t experience for the day ticket customer.wanderer7453 wrote:I am a little confused with the parking issue. Are they not running shuttles form the lower lots?voice of reason wrote:Speaking of parking, there'd be much more of it if people didn't show up in huge pickups with plows, or worse cars with trailers.
Memo from CN
Moderators: SkiDork, spanky, Bubba
-
Nevada West
- Postaholic
- Posts: 2561
- Joined: May 16th, '05, 16:44
- Location: Edge City
Re: parking
-
skiadikt
- Level 10K poster
- Posts: 11913
- Joined: Nov 4th, '04, 21:43
- Location: where the water tastes like wine
Re: parking
other than bear during the bmmc, i've never seen parking as bad as it was this weekend. certainly makes a case to get a season parking pass. i think there were multiple races going on causing the overcrowding. we usually arrive at 7:30 and kbl was already painfully overcrowded. with the money they spent on shuttles it probably made sense for them to open snowshed. snow was great but if i was an infrequent killington skier, i wouldn't be back. overall not what you'd call a "quality" experience.Nevada West wrote: The parking area was pretty much full at 7:30 Saturday morning. Your plan may work fine mid-week.
spoiled South American skiin' whore
-
millerm277
- Postaholic
- Posts: 2587
- Joined: Nov 3rd, '06, 09:43
- Location: NH
I'm assuming yes, no reason to change that procedure. It's definitely a life saver.TheLurker wrote:Were people allowed to drop their equipment and family at the KBL and then park and take the shuttle up? That way there is no dragging everything on teh shuttle. Works well at Jackson Gore.
Memo to all: Don't abuse the drop off lot. Pull in, dump off the people and gear, and leave. Same thing in the afternoon. Helps a lot. Thanks.
-
Killington Koyote
- Black Carver
- Posts: 465
- Joined: Oct 10th, '06, 17:19
- Location: Feet in powder, head in the clouds
-
Nevada West
- Postaholic
- Posts: 2561
- Joined: May 16th, '05, 16:44
- Location: Edge City
No Doubt! That whole drop off area is a nightmare. Be careful, especially with snow on the ground. Too many folks driving on the first snows of the year (for them), all wound up trying to get in and out of there. Tight turning. Road rage waiting to happen.Killington Koyote wrote:The drop off can be nuts at 7:45, I feel for the attendants, watch the kids closely, lots of SUV's backing up. Past weeks I have gotten into Bay 3 or 4 by 7:50 after dropping off the family.
Watch out for your kids.
And POWDR was aware that this parking disaster was likely to happen this weekend as several complained that it was getting out of hand last weekend. And 2 1/2 feet of snow over the week and you know more people are going to come for the weekend.
Yet, did POWDR even consider modifying their "Plan" to open up RH one week early? Nope. Not at all. Can't go against the "Plan."
Yet, did POWDR even consider modifying their "Plan" to open up RH one week early? Nope. Not at all. Can't go against the "Plan."
-
skiadikt
- Level 10K poster
- Posts: 11913
- Joined: Nov 4th, '04, 21:43
- Location: where the water tastes like wine
been using it for years and never had a problem. usually had the thing to ourselves at 7:30. this year it's been utter madness. it's an accident waiting to happen.Nevada West wrote:No Doubt! That whole drop off area is a nightmare. Be careful, especially with snow on the ground. Too many folks driving on the first snows of the year (for them), all wound up trying to get in and out of there. Tight turning. Road rage waiting to happen.Killington Koyote wrote:The drop off can be nuts at 7:45, I feel for the attendants, watch the kids closely, lots of SUV's backing up. Past weeks I have gotten into Bay 3 or 4 by 7:50 after dropping off the family.
Watch out for your kids.
spoiled South American skiin' whore
I actually think the main problem now is the racks in the middle - they're causing the bottleneck. They need to rethink it, not sure how.skiadikt wrote:been using it for years and never had a problem. usually had the thing to ourselves at 7:30. this year it's been utter madness. it's an accident waiting to happen.Nevada West wrote:No Doubt! That whole drop off area is a nightmare. Be careful, especially with snow on the ground. Too many folks driving on the first snows of the year (for them), all wound up trying to get in and out of there. Tight turning. Road rage waiting to happen.Killington Koyote wrote:The drop off can be nuts at 7:45, I feel for the attendants, watch the kids closely, lots of SUV's backing up. Past weeks I have gotten into Bay 3 or 4 by 7:50 after dropping off the family.
Watch out for your kids.