killington news ???????

[Patrick]

Tony Crocker wrote:
Long Island to Killington on a Friday night has to be a tough drive, wrong side of the city like Orange County to Mammoth. I'll bet they could get to SLC or Denver in similar time.

Maybe...maybe not. Once you're in Denver you still some driving to get to the ski areas. Plus you have to get at the airport ahead of time, maybe there are some delays, lost luggage, longline up in Denver to get the car rental (oh wait...there are no World Series games played in Denver during the ski season :shock: ).

Let take my example - left home at 4am, flight left at 6am, 1:30 wait in Toronto, landed in Denver at 10:15am (12:15am ETZ). 30 minutes for car rental, leave with car at 11:00am, drove past Loveland at maybe 12:30pm. (2:30pm ETZ). If I remove the 1:30 wait in Toronto (for this argument), the trip from home to ski area would have been 7 hours. Ottawa-Killington is 5-6 hours depending on how bad the traffic is in Montreal. Pretty close if you remove the 30-40 minutes wait for the car rental.

 

[sven]

I dont know, from parts of Long Island it's probably shorter than from NYC proper, since you can bypass manhattan at least via the throgs neck / whitestone... & I generally take the hutchinson -> 684 -> 84 via Brewster/Danbury and then switch to 91 at Hartford - I think taking 684/84 instead of 95 saves a bunch of time, 95 is a nightmare. Although 84 has all kinds of screwy speed limits, especially around the towns. And I wouldn't recommend driving more than 74 or 75 on I-87, I've gotten 3 speeding tickets on there, 81, 81, and 82 - I've noticed just south of Albany in the area around the Mass Tpke exit and Essex County up north around exits 28-34 are the most strictly patrolled. I heard from a guy (purportedly a state trooper) that the state police don't set their radars to go off below 75 - and having done the entire length of 87 a bunch of times with cruise control at 74, sitting in the left lane sometimes even without traffic on the road, I've blown right by tons of troopers who never pulled me over.

But thats not really the point of this thread... at any rate generally I'd say Killington takes me 4 1/2 - 5 hours with low/moderate traffic and I'm coming from the very southern end of Brooklyn, so I basically do have to cross a good part of the city - and I seem to think that my time is usually better when I drive up via 91 instead of 87...

 

[Geoff]

I dont know, from parts of Long Island it's probably shorter than from NYC proper, since you can bypass manhattan at least via the throgs neck / whitestone... & I generally take the hutchinson -> 684 -> 84 via Brewster/Danbury and then switch to 91 at Hartford - I think taking 684/84 instead of 95 saves a bunch of time, 95 is a nightmare. Although 84 has all kinds of screwy speed limits, especially around the towns. And I wouldn't recommend driving more than 74 or 75 on I-87, I've gotten 3 speeding tickets on there, 81, 81, and 82 - I've noticed just south of Albany in the area around the Mass Tpke exit and Essex County up north around exits 28-34 are the most strictly patrolled. I heard from a guy (purportedly a state trooper) that the state police don't set their radars to go off below 75 - and having done the entire length of 87 a bunch of times with cruise control at 74, sitting in the left lane sometimes even without traffic on the road, I've blown right by tons of troopers who never pulled me over.

But thats not really the point of this thread... at any rate generally I'd say Killington takes me 4 1/2 - 5 hours with low/moderate traffic and I'm coming from the very southern end of Brooklyn, so I basically do have to cross a good part of the city - and I seem to think that my time is usually better when I drive up via 91 instead of 87...

I was talking to somebody in the Kmart parking lot yesterday who drives up from Huntington Village every-other weekend for 3 days. Huntington Village must be 25 miles from the bridge. He said he leaves around 7:30 PM on a Thursday evening after the traffic clears and takes that Hutch -> 684 -> 84 -> 91 route. He said it takes him 5 1/2 at the speed limit with a couple of pit stops and he usually rolls in around 1AM. Most of us would have a good radar detector and cut an hour off that time. If you leave at 5 PM on a Friday, there's no telling how long it would take to clear the traffic jam.