Killington Peak on a Blue Bird day

Killington Peak on a Blue Bird day

Cool crisp temperatures, light winds, 100% blue skies... a great day on the trails of Killington.

After yesterdays chill, and Killington's town meeting, it was great to get back on the slopes this morning. Last night temperatures got down into the -10F region, so we were a tad slow this morning getting to the hill. We arrived at 9:30 AM to find prime parking spots in the first row still available. When we arrived at the K1 base lodge, the temperature in my car read -6F, which apparently scared some people off the hill today. But what a beautiful day.

Because the Canyon Chair was not running, we took the K1 gondola and traversed right over to Bear Mountain. Bear Claw, and Bear Trap were nicely groomed, although because there was not much traffic and the cold temperatures, the first few runs down were on the firm side. Wild Fire was excellent. Nice light creamy powder. The terrain park on Dream Maker was also a lot of fun. On all 4 trails it seemed like we were the only people skiing as we were able to do broad side to side traverses down each trail.

After a half dozen runs at Bear, we headed over to Needles Eye. Cruise Control was primed for just ripping downhill. The surface was powdery soft and very consistent; just right for high speed GS turns. Needles Eye itself was more of the same with an added bonus. A really nice soft low bump line was in place on skiers right. I went down the bump line on all 3 of our runs down Needles. 20 or so bumps on the upper side of the Snow Shed crossover and 20 or so pumps underneath. A lot of fun and I did not have to wait for Mary at the bottom as the bumps slowed me down just enough!

After Needles, we did a couple of runs down Skye Lark. Lower Skye Lark was a little firm, but by this time we were skiing so fast it was all carving turns right to the Superstar chair.

When Mary headed in, I did 4 loops on Superstar. The upper headwal was very nice, soft and pliable. Middle Superstar was set up for high speed cruising. Lower Superstar had a few skid plates on the middle and on skiers left. Skiers right on lower Superstar had some nice soft snow lines with a few low bumps. On a couple of the runs I went right down to the bottom on the chair line, cutting off to the left at the rope. Usually I prefer the compound fall line of skiers left on lower Superstar, but the snow on the right was just really nice. Overall, just a really nice day on the mountain.

Update on the sale of Killington by ASC to SP Land

If you are interested in additional information on the sale of Killington, the purchase agreement between American Skiing Company and SP Land Company for the transfer of ownership for the Killington and Pico Ski Resorts has been posted on the Securities and Exchange Commissions Edgar database. By definition, it is filled with legal mumbo jumbo, but it does list the specifics of the sale. Since SP Land is a privately held company, it will probably be one of the last public documents posted on the transaction as well. It is an interesting read. Let it snow!