On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:15:00 -0400, Jim wrote:

> - Snowdon Triple Chairlift was constructed for the 1973-74 season. For that
> season and the next two, the Lower Snowdon Poma and the triple chair ran
> side-by-side. The Novice Poma at the bottom of the High Line Racing Trail still
> existed in 1973-74, but the name was changed to Killington Poma and then it was
> removed before the following year.

I think the lower snowdon poma was SBNO (Standing But Not Operating -
roller coaster history acronym) once the triple was installed?

> - Trails with snowmaking coverage (shown in yellow) first appeared on the maps
> in 1976-77 (map for 1975-76 is missing). Needles Eye Chairlift was built before
> 1976-77.

Original Needle's Eye chair was the relocated original K Peak
double....pretty sure the K Peak double was replaced in 76.

> - South Ridge was built before 1978-79 (map for 1977-78 is missing). Pipe Dream
> was a gladed trail from top to bottom, yet it still had snowmaking. Wanderer
> was not gladed, but it was much narrower than today. Royal Flush was cut before
> 1978-79.
> 
> - In 1979-80 the maps changed from being small and having simple colors to being
> large with Day-Glo colors (yeck!). One could argue this was the end of the Old
> Killington. Bear Mtn. was built for that season, with only OL and Wildfire.
> 
> - For 1980-81, snowmaking was added to Downdraft (and presumably it was no
> longer a gladed trail) and the Upper Bunny Buster was destroyed by widening the
> trail to the Poma and Middle Bunny was lost to the widening of Mouse Trap.
> 
> - NEP appeared on the 1982-83 map (map for 1981-82 is missing). Lower Pipe Dream
> was widened to it's current width. Ugly colors on the maps were replaced by
> better colors.
> 
> I don't have much interest in changes after that, so I'll stop there.

Somewhere in the above timeline the orignial Snowdon double was
replaced with today's quad....

Paul T.

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