Poll: What changes would you like to see at your home mountain?

[NYSkiBlog]

This poll isn't fully logical, but we think it could be interesting to see responses.

Define home mountain as where you currently ski the most, or have a dedicated pass, or maybe the mountain you care about most.

In your comments below, let us know your home mountain or mountains.

It's understood that some choices are not realistic. Nobody is going to remove slopeside lodging or an existing high speed lift, but you still might wish it wasn't there.

Select as many answers as you like, but please don't select contradictory answers. (There is no way to prevent that in poll setup).

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Pic is for stoke.

 

[Brownski]

Tough cause I know the accepted definition of “home mountain” is wherever you ski the most currently. I think of it as the place where you learned/developed as a skier. By my definition it would be Jiminy and there are lots of changes I would make. Not sure I would change anything at Plattekill since there aren’t options for more snowmaking or a bigger parking lot.
At Jiminy I would rip out the six pack to start.

 

[tirolski]

Lab-Song
More cold snap weather and snow. Enough to run Ptarmigan again and/or Diamond Cutter.
Where’d they put that dang lake effect too? Just need some cold moderate NW winds.
I ain’t asking for too much & am not worried about EPIC or IKON taking over "the monopoly" any time soon.
How about a bone from NYS for energy&cost efficient $nowmaking too?
Letitsnow .

 

[Zykamps]

Tough cause I know the accepted definition of “home mountain” is wherever you ski the most currently. I think of it as the place where you learned/developed as a skier. By my definition it would be Jiminy and there are lots of changes I would make. Not sure I would change anything at Plattekill since there aren’t options for more snowmaking or a bigger parking lot.
At Jiminy I would rip out the six pack to start.

Jiminy... Grew up there as well. Patriot program and all that. Fast riblet doubles, limited snowmaking, and Jericho was a glade but was never open and none of us kids could really find it anyway.

Now I'm between home mountains. If anything I wish one would move in across the street.

 

[snoloco]

I'll explain my choices for Killington:

I want to see more skier visits. The mountain can comfortably handle more people than it currently does.

I think day ticket prices should fall. Killington rarely sells cheap tickets. The only ways to visit affordably are to get an Ikon Pass, or visit with a friend who is a Beast 365 Passholder. They don't have capacity issues on the vast majority of days. They could sell some cheaper tickets.

I want slopeside lodging to expand. Killington does not currently have much of it. It's probably the biggest limiting factor preventing skier visits from increasing.

I think they should maintain the current inclusive pricing model, as in they have free parking and bag check, and long operating hours where they are open to everyone. If day ticket prices are lowered like I indicated earlier, then they should only be lowered to the extent that this can be maintained.

One other major category left out entirely is snowmaking. Killington needs to make significant investments to achieve higher capacity, more efficient, and more reliable water distribution. They also need to make more efficiency upgrades like more low E guns, and automation in select areas.

 

[Harvey]

Good answer.

I couldn't figure out how to frame a snowmaking question, unless you frame it with cost, I guess.

Do you want more snowmaking? Yes
Do you want more efficient snowmaking?
Are you willing to pay 20% more for lift tickets for 30% more snowmaking?

How would you have done it? Sincere question.

 

[Campgottagopee]

I'd like for the bar to open at 10

 

[Zykamps]

I'd like for the bar to open at 10

The car bar opens at 9 or so.

 

[snoloco]

Good answer.

I couldn't figure out how to frame a snowmaking question, unless you frame it with cost, I guess.

Do you want more snowmaking? Yes
Do you want more efficient snowmaking?
Are you willing to pay 20% more for lift tickets for 30% more snowmaking?

How would you have done it? Sincere question.

I would put it like this:

1. Expand the snowmaking footprint (add snowmaking to trails that don't already have it) and capacity.

2. Expand capacity only, but not footprint.

3. Maintain existing footprint and capacity. Efficiency upgrades only.

For Killington its option 1 with a catch. They have several trails with snowmaking pipe that is never used. They should upgrade capacity sufficiently to make snow on all of them. There are a couple connector trails that lack snowmaking, namely Frolic and Launch Pad. If it's added there but not elsewhere, then that would be fine with me.

 

[Harvey]

I think snowmaking is more cut and dried than the other issues.

I believe a vast majority wants more snowmaking, while many would agree/disagree on "do I want my mountain to be Ikon?"