Snow in Vermont

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Insane

I live in Killington. At 2,400 feet not 3,000 your right. I am absolutely a moron. I havnt spent 16 winter seasons at killington. My 20th birthday was 2 months ago. A little late but thats still cool. Im not the one who didnt look at the WEATHER link I posted. Trying to beat sense into you flatlanders in like talking to a brick wall.

Oct 15 2010 9:42PM

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All power to him. Trying to be a friend and save someone some money.

Oct 15 2010 9:46PM

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I dont know man you tell me. Judging by the MOUNTAIN cam it looks like its really dumping out there. Is that rain melted on the lense??? I think so.
http://www.killington.com/winter/multimedia/webcam/mountainview.html
But seriously come on up! Make sure to spend lots of money its down season here and we really need some more tourists. We appreciate anything you spend!

Oct 15 2010 9:58PM

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August 24, 1990. Whats that have to do with anything?

Oct 15 2010 10:04PM

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gnartogue

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i dont thinks hes going to have to pay very much to hike killington regardless of if theres snow or not..

Oct 15 2010 10:10PM

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I am in town, at 2500' and it's snowing pretty hard out. A lot colder than it was earlier as well.

Honestly, it's not going to be mid-January blower pow, but it will be pretty decent and it's a massive storm in mid-October.

There's photo evidence from around 3:30pm of snow on the Northridge Triple that is as high as the seatbacks of the chair. Easily over a foot.

I'm not going to get in a flame-war, but if you have no plans, and are jonesin' to ski, you will certainly be able to make some turns at Killington tomorrow.

Oct 15 2010 10:10PM

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So it did start snowing again?

I was there a couple hours ago and it had just stopped snowing. It's supposed to only get colder tomorrow, and it should keep snowing tonight; at least for a little while.

Oct 15 2010 10:12PM

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3 hours of driving each way aint cheap. I dont care if he comes up or not. I was just trying to save the kid some money. Its all gonna be gone tomorrow. Mark my words. Or just look at the links I've posted and that will tell you too.

Oct 15 2010 10:16PM

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There was a big dry slot that pushed through. What's been coming down recently is not showing on the radar at all. Likely orographic-lift driven snow showers being driven by higher terrain.

Very likely that away from the immediate higher sections of the mountains that precipitation may be stopped altogether.

The core of the storm is over, now we are looking at winds and wrap around moisture that will affect mainly the higher elevations. Still likely to pick up some accumulations going forward, but not nearly the same heavy snowfall rates we saw earlier today.

Oct 15 2010 10:25PM

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I was just up there today and you are gonna be extremely dissapointed if you think you're gonna be skiing 18 inches.

Oct 15 2010 10:31PM

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i think he just wants snow over 6" lol

Oct 15 2010 10:43PM

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Randy_Quench

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alright, so after reading all these comments, whats the truth about the summit of killy?
im planning on hiking and skiing anything possible (backcountry jump, rail, anything) on sunday and wanna know how likely it will happen.

also, anyone check stowe area? i thought they got more than killy.

Oct 15 2010 11:03PM

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Not sure how it's going to be on Sunday man. I can take some pictures tomorrow, when I'm up there and let you know though.

Oct 15 2010 11:07PM

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Killy as of earlier this afternoon, they got alot of snow.

Oct 15 2010 11:08PM

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Bob_Gnarley

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someone posted this pic earlier on tgr.. I'm guessing this is somewhere around Killy.

Oct 15 2010 11:14PM

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Looks like Royal Flush from Racers Edge crossover on the first pic.

Second pic is the App Gap a bit further north by the Mad River Valley.

Anyone who gets out there tomorrow, take photos at minimum, and video if possible.

Oct 16 2010 12:06AM

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They just interveiwed a skier on the weather channel, he says 12+inches on top of stowe!

Oct 16 2010 8:40AM

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http://www.killington.com/winter/mountain/conditions
Really? Even Killingtons weather report is saying 14" and thats the killington inch. I hope you were one of the beaters I saw destroying there equipment trying to go down highline which had maybe 4 inches on it.

Oct 16 2010 6:39PM

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Insane

Im not the one denying. Im the only one who is posting facts. Its on there fucking website dude. I snow skated there today. I know and you know what was there and it was NOT 2 feet. But I hope you had a great day and stocked up on some p-tex.

Oct 16 2010 6:52PM

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I saw Chris today. nbd

Oct 16 2010 9:12PM

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.jersey

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im in killy now. theres a good amount of snow up on bear and killington peak. but it rained like crazy the last couple of days so some probably got washed off

Oct 17 2010 9:48AM

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WikiWiki

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im starting to actually like you a little bit

Oct 17 2010 2:23PM

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T-Holt

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You're getting out and skiing. That's awesome. Fuck all the haters, just because they're not as dedicated to skiing as you are doesn't mean they have to be little bitches. When I ski early season in Vermont I bring out my super beater skis. It's not the best skiing, but it's still fun as fuck.

Let's hope for a good winter.

Oct 17 2010 2:30PM

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Just because I dont want to rip every ligament in my leg and bash my face off rocks after I slam into one of the thousands of rocks protruding up out of 6 inches of snow doesnt mean I'm less dedicated. I would say it means I'm smart and dont want to take the chance of ruining my season for 1 shitty run in sub par snow. HATE HATE HATE. Now excuse me Im gonna go put some water in Bucknastys mamas bowl.

Oct 17 2010 2:41PM

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T-Holt

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That's never happened to me or the people I've hiked with to ski on less. Stop trying to bring other people's stoke down. You're cynical and bitter; it's annoying.

Oct 17 2010 3:08PM

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LUCKY

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HATE!

Oct 17 2010 5:34PM

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adamlukowski

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Dude you don't know when to stop

Oct 17 2010 6:13PM

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No I just dont care. Everyone gets there panties in a bunch on this site and it is nothing more then humorous to me.

Oct 17 2010 7:29PM

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Insane

Im also noticing everyone that is posting against me seems to be from Ct. Do you guys have a cult?

Oct 17 2010 7:32PM

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Post Whore

Haha.

He's trying to defend Chris!

Oct 17 2010 7:58PM

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Insane

Defend Vermont!

On another note. Anybody remember the Defend Vt movement?

Oct 17 2010 8:24PM

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Crazy Fool

Take back Vermont?

Oct 17 2010 8:33PM

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Insane

Yea same difference. Its spray painted on a 15 foot cross in a guys front lawn a half mile down my road. Pretty funny stuff.

Oct 17 2010 8:42PM

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Dude, you're just a bitch.

And did you really use the term flatlander? Does that mean you participate in insect?

Oct 18 2010 11:13AM

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Im a bitch or your just friends with Chris. This argument is long over and I no longer care. And yes I used the term flatlander. The definition is probably you.

Oct 18 2010 1:46PM

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Crazy Fool

hahahahaha that's awesome.

Oct 18 2010 1:47PM

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Lemuel

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Stowe this morning:

We spent the night on the mountain, it was cold as shit. First run of the season was down National on the crustiest snow ever haha, what a good first run after coming back from ACL surgery. I took a shit load of pictures last night but it was too dark.

Oct 19 2010 12:59PM

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PoleySkier

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16 inches at the top of Jay peak yeee yeeeeeee

Oct 19 2010 1:22PM

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Lemuel

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Are any mountains out west open yet? Lots of rumors about Killy this weekend floating around.

Oct 21 2010 5:39PM

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They're getting snow in colorado too- http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?site=gjt&zmx=1&zmy=1&map.x=211&map.y=208

Skiing on the East coast already, Damn!

Oct 21 2010 5:41PM

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University of Vermont on monday, guess ill bring my skis;)

Oct 21 2010 5:42PM

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Randy_Quench

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i emailed killy and they responded with this.

There has been a lot of excitement around the resort following the tremendous amount of snow that fell over the weekend and snowmaking production, which got underway for a few hours early this morning. Moving forward, our mountain operations team will take advantage of every available window for snowmaking production as we are excited to get skiers and riders out on the mountain as soon as conditions permit.

However, at this time we have not set a specific opening date!

We are committed to providing an outstanding early-season experience as soon as weather and conditions permit.

thanks killy for feeding around the bush.

Oct 21 2010 10:18PM

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It's pretty much the truth. They won't know until it's time to go.

It all depends on weather, and forecasting outside of 3 days is fickle this time of year. Difference between 5 degrees overnight, an inversion with the cold sinking to the valley floors with warmer air on the mountain, or even higher humidity can all cause havoc on snowmaking.

I will say this though...

The weather forecast for the upcoming week took a turn for the worst with no snowmaking conditions present at any point after tomorrow night and even tonight and tomorrow night look marginal at best with mediocre snowmaking conditions.

I don't want to squash any dreams, but I wouldn't plan on skiing lift access anywhere next weekend.

Oct 21 2010 10:37PM

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Three pages and not one pic of anybody skiing? Weak sauce!

I FIX!

Hit Sugarbush Saturday afternoon. Two feet at the top. Heavy but really, really good. Sorry for the shitty cell phone pics... Traveling sorta light, we had a pig roast to get to and the ice luge was melting in the back of my truck. Hiked up in the rain, then everything at or above the clouds was nuking snow.

Climb that shit! Quick!

Do some work with Bando Lucci...

Yeah dude hiked for turns on center mounted ghetto blasters. Figured NSers would love that...

Skiing 2' of fresh in mid October does not suck. Winter is close, but not close enough...

Oct 21 2010 11:13PM

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Huck_Norris

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This was an ELEVATION DEPENDENT STORM dumbass!

I guess that's why in a storm like that there's always snow at the top for go-getters to rip, because there's always going to be people at the bottom all "It's raining at my house and I can see the hill from here"...

Just get up on FIS.com's weather. Fuck the weather channel in its ass.

When you were telling people NOT to go, my boy Andy was getting faceshots at the top of K1. Kmart got by far the best quality snow of this cycle. The Bush got more, but K had straight blower on Friday but everything <3kish was all rain.

Oct 21 2010 11:19PM

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Lemuel

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I posted pics of Stowe at the top of the page...

Oct 21 2010 11:31PM

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Huck_Norris

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My bad I didn't read the words underneath 'em. Nice work coming back from the ACL like that!

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