Killington Peak for Green Side
Hole 2, Killington Resort Golf Course
February 4, 2006, 12:30PM

Killington Peak for Green Side
Hole 2, Killington Resort Golf Course
February 4, 2006, 12:30PM

Some winters can be long in Killington, some can be quite short. But one thing is certain....The weathermen rarely get it right!.

Today was supposed to start out sunny with NCP (non-crystaline precipitation) moving into the area around noon. We spoke with all our inn guests last night at dinner to tell them to go out early, ski the morning, and if liquid started falling to come back to the inn for a mid-afternoon nap. Well it is currently 2:00 PM while I write this, partly sunny outside, with the nearest precipitation according to the weather radars somewhere over Pennsylvania...still hours away. If skiing were like a soccer game, the announcer would be yelling SCOOOOORE!!!!, because anyone who came to Killington this weekend has gotten a great day to ski.

Saturday is not a ski day for me, but with the beautiful weather I needed to get out. Warm days get me thinking about the other sport I enjoy, so I walked over to the Killington Resort Golf Course. I did not get a lot of exercise, mind you, because the course is basically across the road from the inn. But I did take todays picture, which shows Killington Peak from green-side of Hole 2.

For all the non-winter we are having, the golf course was still quite snow covered. Not knee deep by any stretch of the imagination, but a solid 2 to 4 inches in most places. If you believe the Weather Channel, with any luck, over the next couple of weeks local golf courses will get covered by several feet of snow. Of course, I have no knowledge that this will occur. But, being trained in math and science as an engineer, I know that by just taking simple probability theory, that sooner or later the weatherman have to guess right.