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Found them tonite right on the website.... not good.

KILLINGTON RESORT MOUNTAIN FACTS
Opening Date: November 16, 2007
Closing Date: April 13, 2008

If these dates are set in stone without a chance of anything sooner or later because weather is good and the people are here, then Powdr sucks!

http://www.killington.com/summer/media/ ... index.html

skiingsnow wrote:Found them tonite right on the website.... not good.

KILLINGTON RESORT MOUNTAIN FACTS
Opening Date: November 16, 2007
Closing Date: April 13, 2008

If these dates are set in stone without a chance of anything sooner or later because weather is good and the people are here, then Powdr sucks!

http://www.killington.com/summer/media/ ... index.html

Surprisingly, they would be opening on a Friday. I thought they had planned on opening November 17 which is a Saturday. Lets pray that Mother Nature forces their hand and that they open earlier and close later.

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86 days to go then:D

who's up for hiking for turns Vets day weekend?


in all honesty I've always thought of Vets weekend as the potential start of lift serve operations on the East coast so really they're only a week behind that, and as we've seen the last few years the weather hasn't been conducive to early season skiing anyway.

April 13th sucks, but they'll be snow to ski after that, I promise

Will be interesting to see if anyone tries to extend their season in comparison to Killington. My guess is no

maybe that should be our opening day wine contest from now on, name the resort thats going to open before killington

did you also catch that powdr's put in a 3rd gondola? Apparently now its not good enough to have an upper, middle, and lower part of the trail counting as 3 separate trails. Skyeship stages 1 & 2 are actually 2 different gondi's and not just 1 line with midstation loading

Guess I should tell MRG that they can count the single as two chairlifts now

laseranimal wrote:did you also catch that powdr's put in a 3rd gondola? Apparently now its not good enough to have an upper, middle, and lower part of the trail counting as 3 separate trails. Skyeship stages 1 & 2 are actually 2 different gondi's and not just 1 line with midstation loading

Guess I should tell MRG that they can count the single as two chairlifts now

Actually they have always counted skyship as 2 gondola's! Someone had noticed that the middle of last winter that they counted it as 2 and complained to spin about it.

skiingsnow wrote:

laseranimal wrote:did you also catch that powdr's put in a 3rd gondola? Apparently now its not good enough to have an upper, middle, and lower part of the trail counting as 3 separate trails. Skyeship stages 1 & 2 are actually 2 different gondi's and not just 1 line with midstation loading

Guess I should tell MRG that they can count the single as two chairlifts now

Actually they have always counted skyship as 2 gondola's!

Technically, the upper and lower stages of the Skyeship are separate lifts with separate drive motors and haul cables. It's marketing BS to count them as separate lifts just like they pad their trail count with upper, middle, and lower parts of trails counted separately.

Geoff wrote:

skiingsnow wrote:

laseranimal wrote:did you also catch that powdr's put in a 3rd gondola? Apparently now its not good enough to have an upper, middle, and lower part of the trail counting as 3 separate trails. Skyeship stages 1 & 2 are actually 2 different gondi's and not just 1 line with midstation loading

Guess I should tell MRG that they can count the single as two chairlifts now

Actually they have always counted skyship as 2 gondola's!

Technically, the upper and lower stages of the Skyeship are separate lifts with separate drive motors and haul cables. It's marketing BS to count them as separate lifts just like they pad their trail count with upper, middle, and lower parts of trails counted separately.

I dont like that upper, middle, and lower are all counted, but most bigger mountains do it, and Killington also actually has over 220 trails when you count them all up when they used to be listed in the trail report properly under the "all" category, which never worked last year. So im fine with them counting that way, cus they also have a lot more trails then they say.

skiingsnow wrote:I dont like that upper, middle, and lower are all counted, but most bigger mountains do it,

Not any I know of ... care to share?

XtremeJibber2001 wrote:

skiingsnow wrote:I dont like that upper, middle, and lower are all counted, but most bigger mountains do it,

Not any I know of ... care to share?

Yep... I will share right here late tonite.... Im going to 6 flags right now, gotta run...

*I count that Sugarbush has 19 trails with the word upper or lower in it... and most of them are only "lower" and then that trail is listed again as just the regular name. This is adding at least 19 trails to their count for trails already listed

*I count that Mount Snow has at least 9 upper or lowers, and those trails are also listed regularly and then the upper or lower of that trail, adding at least 9 trails to their count.

*Okemo has a total of 15 upper and lowers, but the trails are divided into 2 parts, upper and lower, so if they were combined to be 1 trail, they would only lose 1 trail from the count for every 2 upper/lowers. So they have at least 8 trails added to their count. They also count some terrain parks, and the superpipe as a "trail" although they are already set up on an existing trail.

*Jay peak has 10 upper/lowers, same thing okemo does... only adds 5 trails to count and also has terrain park that is counted as another trail.

* Bretton Woods has 6 upper/lowers, but only adds 3 extra trails to their count.

* Sugarloaf has 47 upper/lowers and same as above every trail that has a upper has a lower, combine trails, then you cut the count in half... So Sugarloaf has at least 24 extra trails added to their count.

*Sunday River has 17 upper/lowers, but only adds at least 8 trails to their count.

*** I would add up Killingtons, but the winter site is not up, but would say it is higher then any of these, but due to the fact that Killington actually has over 20 more trails then they say they do, they should actually have fewer "extra" trails added to their count then most of these I just listed!

XtremeJibber2001 wrote:

skiingsnow wrote:I dont like that upper, middle, and lower are all counted, but most bigger mountains do it,

Not any I know of ... care to share?

okemo for one

Whiteface, I think Gore does it as well

Steamboat has a couple upper and lowers

laseranimal wrote:

XtremeJibber2001 wrote:

skiingsnow wrote:I dont like that upper, middle, and lower are all counted, but most bigger mountains do it,

Not any I know of ... care to share?

okemo for one

Whiteface, I think Gore does it as well

Steamboat has a couple upper and lowers

Hm, never new that. I know out West I haven't seen any ... specifically I can't recall any mountain that has a "middle".

are we having an opening day contest this year?

pcgrantham wrote:are we having an opening day contest this year?

YES, see Bubba's post on top, if he has not removed it.

skiingsnow wrote:Found them tonite right on the website.... not good.

KILLINGTON RESORT MOUNTAIN FACTS
Opening Date: November 16, 2007
Closing Date: April 13, 2008

If these dates are set in stone without a chance of anything sooner or later because weather is good and the people are here, then Powdr sucks!

http://www.killington.com/summer/media/ ... index.html

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