Superstar in all it's Glory
bumped up for spring!
March 31, 2006,11:00 AM

Superstar in all it's Glory
bumped up for spring!
March 31, 2006,11:00 AM

Temperatures in the 60's! Brilliant blue sky! Bumps! It's spring time in Killington.

Conditions on the mountain this morning were very soft and wet. Virtually nothing had been groomed overnight (or so it seemed), but it did not matter because temperatures at 9:00 AM were knocking at 60. I had a meeting to go to this morning at 11:00 AM (Killington Wine Festival set for weekend of July 14,15, 16... more on that in later posts) so I bypassed the base lodge and parked in the Bay 1 parking lot, put the boots on in the car, and walked directly over to the K1 gondola.

4 runs in the Glades as a warm up had my legs rubbery enough to do East Falls. East Falls had been in direct sunlight for about 4 hours, resulting in very soft snow with the consistency of cream cheese. The only down side to doing East Falls was that the Canyon chair had not yet started to run, requiring a run out on Spillway. To quote Marlon Brando --- "The horror".. Spillway was a meat market of upside down snow boarders, face planted skiers, and walking telemarkers. All mixed with a nice brown slush. But it was the only way back to the box, so you make your turns and take your chances.

After a quick trip up the K1, I went down Cascade. Nice soft ice cream bumps. But again, I had to take Spillway. Oh boy.. it was nasty again.

One more trip up on the box, because I was not yet ready to call it a day. I thought I would take a run over on Snowdon, but when I got to Double Dipper, I saw that the chair was loading, so I needed to complete the trifecta. Dipper still had some firmness (if you can call it that) along the tree line on skiers right. But again, nice soft, little, bumps.

I finished the day by taking the Dipper chair and traversing over to Snowdon. The cross over to Snowdon, Great Northern, featured a few "pond skimming" events, but Snowdon itself was holding up pretty well. By 11:00 AM, I have finished a couple of loops from the Snowdon Quad, so I called it a day to go off to my meeting. As I am getting in the car, I have this funny feeling. I don't know if I have just skied my last day of the 2005/2006 season, or if the mountain will give some bonus days over the next week or two. We will see next week.