slatham;c-47972 wroteDrJeff;c-47969 wroteslatham;c-47951 wroteFormer culprit that has been corrected is Magic. Once upon a time it was 1,700'. It is now correctly at 1,500'.
One pet peeve of mine is the vertical of the mountain is overly stressed, vs the vertical of key "pods". Some of this is relatively minor - Mt Snow is really 1,600' based on Bluebird lift whereas technically the vertical is 1,700'. But some like Killington are huge. The biggest vertical is 1,650' on K1 whereas the mountain is over 3,000'.
The only way that you get 1700 vertical feet at Mount Snow is if you ski/board to the bottom of the Grand Summit Express, take your skis/board off and walk across the pavement to the top of the tubing hill, put your skis/board back on, and then ski/board to the bottom of the tubing hill. Which unless one has a condo in the lower units of the Snow Mountain Village complex or happened to park in the lower lots down by Snow Lake, nobody ever does.....
Wasn't that actually a ski run at one point? There is no way they would decease their reported vertical if it went from buny hill to tubing hill.
Yup, prior to the Grand Summit hotel going in, there used to be continuous skiing from the Summit down to the base of what is now the tubing hill.
And as has already been mentioned, that last 100ish vertical feet that is now the tubing hill used to be one of their chain driven doubles with a catch basin/drip pan over the chair to allow for less grease droplets on your stretch pants back in the day!
My Mount Snow "career" is actually long enough that I got to ride that old relic of a lift in the early 80's before it was replaced with the Covered Bridge Magic Carpet that is there now, as when we get to the '22-'23 that will mark the start of my 5th decade of being a Mount Snow skier!!
