killington open/close rumour for next year ...

[Tony Crocker]

By reading posts here, it seems clear that Killington's open/close policy changed going into the 2003-04 season, remained the same this year, and from Tom Horrock's response will remain the same in the immediate future.

I will again defend the opening policy. Given current climate trends October openings are very likely to be wiped out by rain and then they have to start over. The top-to-bottom policy is going to result in early November openings, which coincides with "we'll blow snow when we can make it stick" policy that Snow Summit uses, and which is the correct policy IMHO.

I'm with joegm and the fanatics on the closing. It should be flexible depending on how much snow is left, and I would also be in favor of Killington Peak lift modifications that would allow the best-preserved terrain to stay open the latest.

 

[Patrick]

Personnaly I don't have a problem with K closing policy. The main issue for me (as stated elsewhere regarding MSS) is the Marketing of it. I can't stand the about making in to June, being open until this date or other very very optimistic prediction. The same as the snow report I guess. :roll:

I have to hand it to K this year, as a non-regular K skier, the BS seem to be at a minimum reading open/closing dates. This said, a bit of flexibility would've been nice. I mentioned this above, Killington have never seen this much snow on a closing weekend in the 20 years I have ski there.

PLUS, only one other time (1997) that I have seen some much snow in mid-May since the Spring operations was been moved to Superstar in 1987-88. So it would have nice to have skiing for this long Canadian weekend. 8)

Actually this quote seems to fit better into this discussion. I guess, that the MEGA Killington discussion has mulitpled in many smaller discussion this year.

I'm with joegm and the fanatics on the closing. It should be flexible depending on how much snow is left, and I would also be in favor of Killington Peak lift modifications that would allow the best-preserved terrain to stay open the latest.

As you can see above, that would be NICE. 8) As for the K peak, moving the late season skiing to Superstar might have been short-sighted for the real die-hard late skiers, however if K wanted a Spring Party atmosphere... the Peak was probably not the best choice.