Skiing Killington, VT - Glades, Bumps, Double Diamonds
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- Опубліковано 10 жов 2024
- Compilation from a week at Killington spanning 2/3/2017 - 2/9/2017. We had fantastic conditions; some snow every day and two larger snowfalls of 6-8". Timestamps for each trail are below, along with attributions for the music.
0:00 - 1:10 Intro and ◊ Bittersweet - ♫ Red Light Runner
1:10 - 2:45 ◊◊ Growler - ♫ South
2:45 - 4:26 ◊ Somewhere and ◊ Nowhere - ♫ East
4:26 - 6:00 ◊◊ Outer Limits - ♫ Give
6:00 - 6:47 □ Timberline (Neffland park) - ♫ Cockpit
6:47 - 8:15 ◊◊ Skye Peak Liftline - ♫ Once
8:15 - 9:08 ◊◊ Anarchy - ♫ Open Wide
9:08 - 9:45 ◊ Lower Vertigo - ♫ The Contractor General
9:45 - 11:22 ◊◊ Big Dipper (skier's right) - ♫ Time Piece
11:22 - 13:25 ◊◊ Big Dipper (skier's left) - ♫ Cut It
13:25 - 15:05 ○ Bunny Slope - ♫ Smiles for Miles
15:05 - 17:15 ◊ The Throne - ♫ Hang for Days
17:15 - 18:00 ◊ The Throne, sans visibility - ♫ Just in Case
18:00 - 19:16 ◊◊ Devil's Fiddle - ♫ Mob Battle
19:16 - 21:04 ◊ The Stairs - ♫ Unusual Habitat
21:04 - 23:40 ◊◊ Devil's Fiddle and chute - ♫ Eviction
23:40 - 34:00 ◊◊ Outer Limits, Devil's Fiddle and Devil's Den - ♫ Stomp, Tidal Wave, Armadillo, No Culture, Propeller
34:00 - 34:21 Outro - ♫ The Woods
MUSIC ATTRIBUTION
All music by Silent Partner (goo.gl/fbl4CG) - thanks for putting out awesome royalty free music!
Shot with Sony's FDR-X3000 camera which has a KILLER optical image stabilization feature. It really makes these ski vids much more watchable. See how shaky the Hero 5 black looks in comparison: • Sony FDR X3000V vs Gop...
Love the use of trail maps to show us where you are skiing. Killington, my home away from home! :)
If its on the map it aint the real deal
This. This, is a perfect ski video! Great work with editing and adding the trail map.
Thanks, Will! I appreciate the kind words 🙂
That is great that you didn't take the easy way on Skye Peak lift line and went off that huge rock!
Awesome, nice work. It’s really nice Killington has opened up so much new glades stuff the last few years. Headed there this week, keep it snowing!!!!
Seriously videos never do Devils Fiddle any justice with how steep it is and how much rocks and cliffs to navigate. Great great great video and skiing!
I've done three winters in Breckenridge and two in north Tahoe and I've been toying with the idea of staying closer to home on the east coast. I think you just sold me on Killington. I could make my daily rounds on that terrain!
Nice video, Killington is my home hill, my little ripper is 14 now and kicking my ass. Enjoy. Thanks for the upload. I love Killington and your trails you covered.
I am looking forward to tearing up the slopes with the young'uns :-) Killington is my favorite Eastern resort of the ones I've visited (Sugarbush, Okemo, Stowe). They're all good, some more family friendly but Killington offers the most difficulty and variety for skiiers craving steeps, bumps and glades. With the large area and multiple gondolas it has a pretty Western feel for an East coast resort. I've heard good things about Maine resorts but they're just too far away; I'd rather fly out West at that point.
You hit most of my favorite woods runs, and one I've never done (The Stairs). Cover looks a little thin, but you're lucky you got some freshies during the week. Sounds like surf music
Great video! Was looking for something like this for my trip in December.
Awesome job. Love the map previews!!👏👏👏
Thanks for watching! I am glad you like the trail map. The resort is big enough that I thought it would be helpful to show viewers where each trail is.
@@BenCarterWM
Nostalgia for me. Lived there from 92-2001. Those were the days! 👏🙏🤘
Great video!
Now I see why Warren liked the K.
Never skied back east , but maybe I'll have to this season.
How dry the west is , it maybe the only skiing around.
I've only been told stories of landfill slopes out your way.
Im going this week! I always watch this video to remind me! they got 16 inch 2 days ago! Also Skiiers left in big dipper seems crazy! so speedy haha
I'm so glad they got some fresh snow for your visit! Big Dipper skier's left may be totally different, now, as this was five years ago and some vegetation has probably grown up. I also have no idea if the left path I went down is even part of the trail or what! I just remember that cat track I got on was progressively narrow and fast; I was feeling a bit out of control so I purposefully washed out on my side before I ran into something :-D Enjoy your trip!
Rewatching as a go next week go to video as always 😁
This video, although excellent doesn’t do you justice. You handled some of the toughest trails in the entire east coast, if not the USA like a pro. I wish there was a way to have a second person film you and do a split screen. By the way, this is how you get great. Start really young. That goes for everything. Well done sir. Subscribed.
Thank you! You are very kind. Killington certainly has some legitimate terrain and it's my favorite of the East coast resorts I've skied so far. Sadly I haven't been out skiing much in the past few years, but I'm hoping to get to Utah next year.
I may be going here soon what where the best trails in you opion that had fun rock drops and stuff like that
Skye peak liftline has a decent sized rock drop off midway through and Devil's -Den- (edit: Devil's Fiddle) has numerous smaller rocks as well as one larger area that you could jump off from different places. Both are in this video but I'm not sending big air or anything, so it looks pretty tame on the helmet cam.
@@BenCarterWM I really appreciate you telling me thanks alot!
bruh i miss killington i would do ANYTHING to go back
What would you say is the most challenging slope at killingrton.
It probably depends on the skier. I love moguls - you may have noticed the only two groomed slopes in this entire video are Neffland park and the bunny slope. Still, Outer Limits' steep pitch (30-35 degrees over basically the entire length) and more than 1100' of vertical tested my endurance for sure. Devil's Fiddle is even steeper near the very top, then matches the same 30-35* pitch for a while, but flattens out near the bottom. Devil's Fiddle also has rocks and boulders to jump off of, but they're optional and easily avoided. Growler, Anarchy, and some other tree runs aren't quite as steep as Outer Limits, but still steep and are more technical.
If someone doesn't ski moguls, I wouldn't say any of the groomed slopes are particularly challenging, though for being a single black I remember being surprised how steep Superstar got at a few points (near the bottom, maybe? I only skied it once). It's pretty universal that the hardest runs will be glades or mogul runs as there's a limit on how steep a run the snow cats can work on. Though, some runs at other resorts are groomed by winch cats which have an attachment at the top of the slope to help them up. I wouldn't want that grooming job :-)
@@BenCarterWM Ok, thanks for the info!
ovation?
anarchy is one of my favorites!
amazing snow at 19:45
This was cool.. what editing app do you use?
Thanks! It's a really old version of Vegas - I think v. 11 Platinum? I need to upgrade 😅
awesome video, love Killington! What would you say is the best gale run for a beginner to the trees?
Thank you for watching! Twister, near the top of Ramshead mountain, is a perfect beginner glade trail with a gentle slope and well spaced trees. I love that run - even for more advanced skiers, it's so much fun to just float through the trees and not have to worry about nailing your turns :-)
Actually, Squeeze Play on Ramshead mountain may be the trail I was thinking of. Regardless, those blue glades should be the right area to learn!
@@BenCarterWM Thanks so much! I couldn't find any glades that were not black, but I was looking at the wrong peaks! I see both that you mentioned and will give them a shot! Thanks again!
@@BenCarterWM PS - AWESOME VIDEO BY THE WAY! I absolutely love Killington, and I plan to go up there quite a few times this season!
@@anthonydiamond7687 Happy to help!
pretty tight trees
Couldn't have filmed on a sunny spring day?
Hmm, I find it difficult to control the weather during faraway ski trips planned months in advance. Don't I wish I lived so close as to pick my weather!
Shut up
hot dog into a pizza dont look at the trees just look for the landing i woke up in coat check can i get a ride back to mass
What resort is the one that you went to at the beginning?
Bear mountain base lodge. The gondola shown next is Skyeship stage 2 (which operates from a different base area). Thanks for watching!
It’s all at KILLINGTON, VT. ;-)
my favorite trail isnt on here :(
Sorry to disappoint! What trail is it?
Ben Carter scarecrow
Ben Carter at least you had anarchy that’s one of my favorite
Nice turns
Thanks! 🙂
Is Big Dipper hard?
It's no pushover, that's for sure. It's not sustained steepness from top to bottom, but parts of it are fairly steep. It also depends if you head to the right or to the left. I only skied it twice (both runs shown). The right path is far more open, and I would say it's easier. The left path is narrow and gets quite steep before rejoining a trail below. This was also three years ago, so what was cleared out through the trees then may be totally different from now.
omg when you took your kid out skiing
@7:55 I give it a 3.8! LOL
Lenient judging 😋
Holy crap those are the worst built jumps I’ve ever seen. Brave for trying them. Rest of the skiing is cool though!