100 miles of snow
Posted by Tom Horrocks on January 7, 2010
Imagine swath of snow 66 feet wide and stretching for 100 miles. Or enough snow to bury a football field more than 600 feet deep. That’s how much snow we produced here at Killington with the world’s Most Extensive Snowmaking System during the month of December.
At any given time during the month of December, we had more than 250 snow guns in operation pumping out more than 7,500 gallons of water per minute. In fact, we produced more snow in December than we have for the same month in the past five years. The efforts put forth by our snowmaking and mountain operations team allowed us to expand our open terrain significantly, to the point where we now have more than 70 miles of open trails.
But we’re not done yet! Snowmaking continues on Outer Limits and Double Dipper today and throughout our 71 mile trail network, including resurfacing on Skyelark. Plus, we’re making snow for the Superpipe at Bear Mountain. Snowmaking will also return to Dream Maker this weekend as we stockpile snow for the terrain park, which Rosey and his team hope to have opened for MLK weekend.
Hats off to our snowmaking team and the long hours that have pout forth so we can enjoy a vast amount of terrain!
Your Comments
posted by randy on January 10, 2010 8:40 PM EST
Finally for the first time this season the snowmaking was fantastic. The snowmaking on Outer limits was very good right through the weekend. The rest of the Mountain not so good but who cares Outer limits was great!Good job guys and thank all who were involved.
posted by randy on January 8, 2010 6:49 PM EST
The first good snowmaking snow of the season was Wednesday on Outer limits. Thursday they started to screw it up again but then fixed it. This was the first time all season that a real effort was made to make good snow. Was great on Wed and pretty good on Thursday. I hope this trend continues. The whole mountain is pretty much open because we got a good amount of natural snow. 250 guns at one time? No!
posted by Tom Horrocks on January 8, 2010 4:05 PM EST
Ryan - Vertigo has been sking really well on natural snow all week. In fact I skied it with Donna Weinbrecht on Wednesday and enjoyed some nice, soft bumps. I also skied it today under the guns and the bumps are coming in real nice.
posted by Susan Leiber on January 8, 2010 2:57 PM EST
Killington has out done themselves. The skiing is fabulous. Thanks for a great jo!
posted by Ryan on January 8, 2010 9:56 AM EST
I think it is bull that you spend so much time to open all the parks all over the mountain, except for the seeded moguls on Vertigo. You have dedicated 1 trail to the mogul skiers and it isn't open yet, but all the freestyle skiers and snowboarders have 5 parks to choose from. Time to get the course on vertigo finished!
posted by randy on January 13, 2010 8:43 PM EST
Amazing. What I experienced and saw today was amazing. Snowmaking on Devils Fiddle! And good snowmaking. It was awesome and such a posative thing for Killington to do. Hope it stays open in the spring so we can continue to enjoy it. Thaks to all involved with that great decision.