Bill B. and Ray in near white-out
at top of Snowdon Triple

Bill B. and Ray in near white-out
at top of Snowdon Triple

Let's see... where to begin...

Should I mention 50 MPH winds... Blinding, white out conditions... a foot of fresh snow with your tracks getting covered each run... 2 lifts open, one being the Poma.. It's a tough call on where to start... but it was Glorious!

When I got to the mountain at 8:45, the snow was coming down hard. 2 ominous signs portended the morning to come. One was the K1 parking lot. Bay 2 was fairly organized, but I did not want to walk that far through the snow. Bay 3 looked like it was a picture taken from that highway from Kuwait to Bagdad in the first Gulf War. While there were no bombed out hulks, there was carnage everywhere. Cars and trucks parked at odd angles. So it was down to Bay 4 right by the road. A short walk to the K1 Base Lodge.

The other ominous item was that the lift attendants were taking the cars off the cable on the K1 Gondola and moving them to the garage. Oops.. No K1 today.... No Killington peak.

We got our skis on, I had my wide powder skis today, and trekked down to the Snowdon Quad. The first ride up was uneventful. Heavy snow but the wind was not too bad. We cruised over to Highline which had great coverage. Easily over a foot in places. A nice run, but definitely a work out as the first run on a heavy powder day.

When we got back down to the lift, we heard that only the Snowdon Quad was and the Poma on Bunny Buster was running. Wind was given as the reason, which was curious because the first lift ride was not that windy. Well the second lift up was another story. Very strong wind gusts at our back. Probably sustained winds in the 20's with gusts at who knows how much. The gusts were so strong that they would actually push the car forward causing us to rotate up on the cable. Very interesting.

A few more runs down off the Snowdon quad, and we were done by around 11:30. The last ride up on the quad was really interesting. The winds had really picked up. It was a very bumpy ride. But we had fun! Let it snow!