Skiers and Riders on Lower Bunny Buster at Killington, November 19, 2005

Skiers and Riders on Lower Bunny Buster at Killington, November 19, 2005

The 2005/2006 winter reason returned to Vermont today with the re-opening of the Killington Resort. 3 lifts were turning providing top to bottom skiing and riding on 12 trails. When I was on the mountain this morning, temperatures were in the low 20's with hazy sunshine. While Killington does not usually release their skier totals, there were clearly several thousand people who were skiing and riding the mountain while I was there. In the picture I chose for today, I show Lower Bunny Buster at the base of Mouse Trap. In this picture, I counted 37 people. For those of you who know Killington, the KBL and Vale parking lots were full. Cars were also being parked along the access road between KBL and the Snowshed base lodge, about 3/4's of the way down the road.

Killington was continuing to blow snow all over the mountain. Snow guns in operation were visible from the Killington peak all the way down to the K1 base lodge. Snow was being blown on the interconnects between K1 and Snowshed. Snowshed itself was a total white out. And snowmaking also underway at Rams Head in the childrens area by the magic carpet. The information we are receiving from the Resort indicated that they intend to run snowmaking non-stop while favorable conditions persist.