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SNOWsat using LIDAR has been around for a decade. I remember reading about it when Diamond Peak started using SNOWsat in 2014. The trails are a lot longer in the European Alps so the grooming staff can't simply remember enough about where they are working to do a great job when snow depths are thin.

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Podcast #143: Killington & Pico President & General Manager Mike Solimano

“To be a successful village, it can’t just be a bunch of condos.”
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Great interview with Mike Solimano. The guy clearly has deep knowledge of the operation. Talks knowledgeably about lifts, snowmaking, infrastructure, future planning and more.

While I've only taken 3 trips to Killington-- one ski trip and 2 mountain biking/golf trips, the thing that always seemed missing is a social element because the lack of a village. Nice to see some planning for that.

Pretty cool he agreed to do Stuart's first podcast years ago when no one knew who Stuart was.

Most importantly Mike uttered absolutely no nonsensical, elitist corporate or woke double talk like the gang at Vail😊
 
Killington is my home mountain, and I always enjoy hearing from Mike. I'm also on the Kzone forum, and it's well know that management, including Mike, reads the forum. The funniest part is when he chimes in on a topic and embarrasses the armchair GM's, and I'd be lying if said I wasn't the one who got embarrassed at times.

I think they have a great plan going forward, but I would like to see parts of it put into action now. Pico is getting a snowmaking modernization, but Killington hasn't started a new major project since the pandemic, as the K1 lodge was started in 2019. It's getting old seeing ORDA and Boyne upgrading snowmaking and building lifts every year, while Killington gets nothing. It's long past time to end that drought. Projects like the new Ramshead and Snowshed lifts and lodges need to wait until plans are finalized for the village, but other projects, like replacing the Superstar lift, and snowmaking upgrades, based on all information that I currently have, do not.
 
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Did anyone listen to this whole thing? Condos at Ramshead and Snowshed, Condos in what is currently the Vail lot. Underground garages and remote parking lots. I'm not necessarily saying this is a bad vision, a walkable village sounds fantastic, but Killington will be a very different place when this is all done.

Mike is a great guy, I've met him in the lift line shaking hands with the customers a few times, but is he really all that different then say Rob Katz? He's a finance guy who grew up in NJ, and didn't really do much skiing until he entered the industry, and his vision is to drive revenue by developing off mountain amenities.

Again not saying he's wrong, but if he were doing this to Gore or Platty I feel like this would be a more heated discussion.
 
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Again not saying he's wrong, but if he were doing this to Gore or Platty I feel like this would be a more heated discussion.
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I feel like Killington is what it is at this point. What's a few (thousand) more condos? They call it Kmart for a reason. On the other hand, there are so many reasons that nothing like this would ever happen at Gore or Plattekill, etc.
 
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