Official use of Snow Blower!
First time this season!

Official use of Snow Blower!
First time this season!

I did not head to the mountain this morning. Over the last few days, we have had a fairly constant light snow. I have not though much of it, basically just pushing it off the front walk for our inn guests. But, with the weekend coming up, I though doing a little outside maintenance around the inn was in order. And I was a little surprised.

We have all heard on the news about western New York getting buried by lake effect snow. What most people do not realize is that the residual moisture that does not fall on New York winds up in the Green Mountains. And Killington, being the highest peak from here to Lake Ontario, acts as a big moisture trap, capturing anything that blows bye. In the summer, that means wet weather (They don't call them the Green Mountains for nothing!). In the winter, it means snow.

So today, I hauled out the roof rake and snow blower. I had used each once before this winter on trial runs to make sure that they were in good repair. But today was the real thing. On every flat surface around the inn where there was some kind of barrier, 2 to 4 inches of light snow had drifted in covering the surface. Now we have not gotten 2 real inches of snow overnight. The snow stake is only registering a minor increase, but what snow we have received has been blown into drifts where ever a break stops the wind, making life just a little more interesting. And it is still snowing, with the weather service predicting the potential for 4 to 6 inches overnight in some spots. (They really don't know where... it is the luck of the draw where the wind blows the lake effect moisture.)

Bottom line to all of this... If you are a property owner planning to come to Killington this weekend, you may need to do a little snow removal, depending upon how snow has drifted around your property. For everyone else, the mountain should be just getting better and better. I know I will find out tomorrow as it will be another ski day for me, so as I look out my office window, I can only think: "Let it snow!".