Growing a crop of top peaks requires time, optimal conditions, and the finest mountain seeds. Take unlimited rides up the cream of New England's crags with today's deal: for $55, you get a one-day lift ticket at Killington Resort in Vermont. One-day lift tickets regularly cost up to $82, depending on the day of the week and skier age, but you can use this on any day for a skier of any age and redeem it at any ticket window. Each lift ticket is good any single day from February 17 until April 1, 2010, or the end of the ski season—whichever comes later. The resort is about three hours from the heart of Boston.
In all there are 141 different trails at Killington, serviced by 22 lifts and a legion of professional snow groomers. Be sure to check out the daily lift report before heading for the hills. Skiers of all experience levels will find challenging fun across the six mountains of varying terrains. Open runs, steeps, trees, small chamber orchestras, and moguls speckle the different trails, ensuring that no two downhill trips show up awkwardly wearing the same outfit. Everyone from families of snow bunnies to lone snow wolves will find thrills navigating the powder under the propulsion of so-called gravity.
In addition to the mass quantities of natural snowfall bestowed upon the slopes annually, one of the largest snowmaking networks in the country (run by a team of mad-scientist snowmen) ensures there will always be carvable snow on the mountainsides. Use this Groupon for a last-minute getaway before the harsh warmth of spring starts to dismantle the pristine winter wonderland. There is a limit of four per person, making this great for the average family, bobsled team, or neighborhood barbershop quartet.
This Groupon expires at the end of the 2009/2010 ski season due to weather dependability, call or visit website for changes.
Reviews
On The Snow reviewers give Killington Resort a solid 3.7-star rating, while TripAdvisors award it four owl eyes:
- The terrain at killington is great. the resort is big and will keep you exploring all day long. – zacm7, On The Snow
- On the main trails, the grooming was great, and the trails were well layed [sic] out. Overall, one of the best mountains i've [sic] visited. – snowbordr17, On The Snow
- the thing that impressed me most in killington was the size. theres [sic] a BAZILLION different routes you can do on this mountain. u can just go. gogogogo. its [sic] like water skiing, endless terrain. – purplebunyz, On The Snow
Groupon Says
Terror at 16 Feet
Jake Killington clung to the swinging ski lift with daring precariousness. Icy flakes of blizzard sliced into his cheeks like tiny, uniquely shaped throwing stars, and the night was as purple-black as the bruise from a snowball with a rock in it.
"Why did it have to be snow?" said the famously winterphobic treasure hunter. The ski lift was the fastest way to get to the top of Mount Treacherous, and the ancient castle situated at its peak—a fortified, icy death maze known only as Castle Frozenstein. He should've known that the fastest way would also be the one most likely to be booby-trapped by rival treasure hunter Mad Randall. Suddenly, he heard a baritone bark and the snap of jaws below his feet.
"Ice yetis," he knew before he looked down to see their leathery periwinkle faces, enveloped in gibbon-like manes of flocked white fur. There were six of them, pushing and shoving like preschoolers at a punk show, leaping and grasping as they swiped at his dangling boot. Jake needed a plan. He reached into his pocket for his half-eaten packet of trail mix.
Would the yetis see the colorful peanut-butter tablet candies and pounce upon them like hungry piñata hyenas? Would they then also eat the bland puffed rice puffs mixed in, and would those puffs then expand in their chaff-bladders, causing fatal ruptures? Could he make himself a yeti fur coat and ascend the mountain on foot?
He was Jake Killington, Adventurer, and he knew the answers to these questions before he even asked them.
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