Where's Killington?

Where's Killington?

It is not a very pretty day here on the mountain. A light warm r@!n is falling. Any natural snow that has been clinging to the ground around the inn has either washed away into the Roaring Brook, or vanished into an ephemeral fog casting a pall at the base of the mountain.

Kudo's to the Killington management team for reading the tea leaves we call a weather forecast in New England. Last weekend, they took some abuse for not blowing snow all the way from the top of the mountain down to the K1 base lodge. At the time they said that we would be getting very unfavorable weather mid week... and yes I would classify today unfavorable weather if you were trying to open a ski resort. If you look closely at todays picture, you will not see snow on any of the lower elevation trails. You will also notice a cloud bank at approximately the 3000 foot level. Much of this cloud bank is "man-made", the result of piles of snow made last week on the upper reaches of the mountain sublimating into fog.

But there is some good news on the horizon. The same people who said that todays unfavorable weather would happen now say that the weather over the next week or so should turn quite favorable for snow making again (once we get past the next 36 hours or so). If that happens, sometime between the 13th and the 18th, Killington should be able to get open for the season. I hope they are right. I want to go skiing!