Not surprising. Kton is committed to making snow this year. And sb rarely makes snow after presidents week. That's a mgmt decision.
Were they making snow this weekend??? Seemed a little warm for that.
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If you go back and read my post the first thing I said was I do understand ice events. I was wondering why other mountains weren't reporting the same problems. When I looked on the snow report for Stowe and Killington I didn't see the same issue being reported. After someone else pointed out that Killington and other mountains had the same issue I didn't say anything else about it. I wasn't attacking the mountain I was wondering if the ice event was only happening there as it didn't make sense to me. So to say I don't know what I am talking about, is you making this personal.
Even though I have issues with how the mountain has been run the past few years I have acknowledged that improvements have been made just not enough to be competitive compared to their competition. Thats an opinion just like your opinion, it has nothing to do with either one of us not knowing what we are talking about.
Nothing personal about the ice on the lifts at Killington. Looks to me like it was, as it usually is , a PIA for all mountains.
http://www.killingtonzone.com/forums...=38467#p523461
Absolutely. Everyone wants to talk about ideas to keep the lifts ice free by taking the chairs off the haul line and storing them etc, but your still going to have an icy haul rope and spacing issues. Short of having the haul rope heated and taking the chairs off, both of which would likely be cost and time prohibitive, we are just going to have to settle for delays/closures on icy days.
Pretty funny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6qTOcGTJd0#t=13
Likewise! Just watched that video again, while in UT, shortly after having a Double-double, animal style, after skiing Solitude.
FYI, for anyone who is interested, UT appears to be in a snow deficit for this time of the year.
Favorite run at Alta (West Rustler, off the High Traverse) is partially brown due to lack of snow-- very disappointing.
NE has all the snow thus far this season, so we should count our blessings.
I can vouch for JH. Still snowing