Destruction at Killington, VT

[Afeld]

Damn you Irene

The base Lodge

Pico

 

[Relish_man]

holy fucking shit

 

[No_Dub]

woah

 

[Mike-O]

Damn. Was the deck rail from Forward slid by Downey from that lodge or was it another resort?

 

[hey-dude-its-me]

that sucks since Killington is much more legit, but this is what my home 'mountain' has looked like since June

^not very mountainous, I know

 

[moms_favorite]

what the dick?!?!?

 

[J-Evs]

damnnnn that sucks

 

[james6345789]

that looks completely flat. how can you ski that?

 

[hey-dude-its-me]

yea its not very high at all but I actually get to hit more rails per visit than I did when I skied at Mountain Creek in NJ, thats about the only good thing tho. and I've never skied a real mountain so maybe ignorance is bliss

 

[Mike-O]

Ha, that's double the elevation of my local hill. Beggars, choosers etc.

 

[Big5hifty]

holy shit. best of luck to the people of killington rebuilding that before their season starts

 

[smuggs]

vibes to vt. one 100 year flood a few months ago, now another 100 year flood 3 months later.

 

[RubberSoul]

i havent watched forward in forever but i bet youre talking about the mt snow carinthia rail

 

[skiingblowsme]

how did you find those pictures?

 

[SkierX]

They've been trickling in from the local news outlets. The entire town of Killington is cut-off and isolated from the rest of the state. All roads in and out are destroyed. Power is largely limited and will take a long time to restore.

Expect more updates as time goes on.

 

[skiingblowsme]

oooooh that absolutley sucks wonder if they are gonna have time to fix everything for ski season.

 

[SkierX]

Additionally, the base lodge at Killington does not appear to be a total loss. Latest word from K is that just the one part is damaged. There are two seperate foundations, and only the one part was damaged severely.

Road repairs are going to take some time though.

Anyone familiar with going to Killington by way of passing through Rutland may recognize this area...

That is Route 4 just after Sugar & Spice as the road widens to three lanes and the speed limit changes to 50mph.

 

[SkierX]

Route 4/Route 100 in the other direction through the flats of Killington not far from Skyeship base lodge.

 

[Gknow]

Holy lord, hope it doesn't hurt them too much for winter.

 

[White_raven]

fuck you irene!

 

[Afeld]

Holy shit. I hope this is cleared up before November

 

[SkierX]

It will be.

It has to be cleaned up immediately to restore east/west flow within the state. Route 7 south of Rutland is out of commission as well. A four-lane bridge got wiped out.

 

[AWALLRUS.]

HOLY CRAP. ITS TIMES LIKE THIS IM GLAD I SKI FLAT HILLS IN ONTARIO.

BUT NOT REALLY

 

[rooftop]

Holy shit, need any construction managers up there??

 

[Lemuel]

Holy shit. The farm stand that I work at was under 8 feet of water today, well the main farm stand, I work at one 10 minutes away that just lost a few peach trees. This storm really made things go smash.

 

[monkatizer]

holy fuck!!

thats gotta blow having that shit happen. hopefully repairing that doesnt take a toll on the snowmaking or park budget!!

vibes to VT

 

[Mike-O]

Ah, yeah, I guess that was it.

 

[PON3]

damn dude, i didnt know the Missouri flooded that far into weston. hope it doesnt do any damage to the "hill" lol so it will be shredable by december.

 

[racerJRP]

Wow! that is unreal. Hope that All of those in Killington can put the pieces back together in short(ish) order. My friend's family has a house about 20 minutes up the road from the skyship lifts in Woodstock, VT. And Sugar and Spice has the greatest breakfast EVER! hope the building was not damaged as bad as the road looks to be?

 

[vzdz]

east coast looks pretty in the summer

 

[RMM]

This is another angle.

 

[GreenStezz]

Bummer..................

 

[rareison]

Shit, that's terrible. Hope everything is good by Winter, or sooner.

 

[skiRay]

jesus...

 

[BROBRO]

that sucks hopefully everyone is alright and is able to repair before ski season

 

[Afeld]

More pictures:

Killington

Route 4

This is going to be a lot of clean up at Killington and the surround area

 

[rorywalsh]

get fucked KMS

 

[A.Eberhard]

Well they still have lots of time to fix it up, hopefully it doesn't affect access to the resort this season.

 

[special-J]

wow, I was just there 2 weeks ago for a downhill race... gnarly.

 

[dopen993]

I know its not Killi, but I didnt think another threrad was needed.

Damage to Loon's main entrance bridge:

 

[PhaedeD]

dats fucked i wonder if they gonna be in full operation this year.

 

[EmperorKuzco]

RIP Quechee Covered Bridge.

 

[drumbumocdp]

That is ridiculous. I hope K doesnt make shit even more expensive now

 

[smuggs]

make ya wonder, if they got the 12 of rain inches they were initally calling for instead of 6 -7....... the world really could end.

 

[skiEER]

Vermont got hit pretty damn hard

 

[Karkoskier]

]: I hope they can still open as early as they did last year... And they're rebuilding the lodge so hopefully that will get up quickly too... Pretty crazy that so much more damage happened there, and it's only an hour away from me...

 

[SkierX]

I don't even want to imagine what would have happened had we gotten that much rain.

 

[snomaster]

time to cash in on insurance. I wonder how my old summer camp, sangamon, fared in Irene

 

[Pee_and_Ski]

so thats where irenes balls went, it was one weak storm on the coast. shitty about killy

 

[GayWolf420]

Vibes to you EC'ers. Sucks about killy's lodge.

 

[Algebra]

what the fuck. is there something wrong with any of the other mountains? like mount snow or stratton?