Lower Bitter Sweet
taken from Killington Golf Course Clubhouse
February 11, 2006, 1:30 PM

Lower Bitter Sweet
taken from Killington Golf Course Clubhouse
February 11, 2006, 1:30 PM

While the rest of the east coast prepares for the first major snow storm of this wacky winter, Killington is enjoying beautiful sunshine with crisp temperatures.

The ski resort is continuing to pound the mountain with snow making operations. Snowmaking was in progress from top to bottom on Super Star, and Cascade. Guns appeared to be going on Double Dipper as well. Snowmaking has stopped, at least for the moment, on Bitter Sweet and Skye Lark.

Today's picture is of the headwall on Bitter Sweet. Killington had been blowing snow in this area for the last 4 days. When I skied there on Thursday, the whales were around 20 feet tall down skiers left. In todays picture, taken from about 1 mile away at the club house of the Killington Golf Course, you can get a good idea of how big the bumps on Bitter Sweet really are. If you double click on the picture to blow the picture up, you can see people standing at the top of the Bitter Sweet headwall (on the right side of the picture), with a bump towering behind them. Truly an impressive display of the results of Killington's snow making system.