Stacking wood for the winter.

Stacking wood for the winter.

With fall foliage gone now for a few days, attention around the inn has switched to preparing big time for winter.

In the virtual world, all of our web advertising has been redirected towards the upcoming ski season. Our main website, birchridge.com has been changed over from a summer golf theme to a winter ski theme. All of the pricing details concerning creating ski packages for visitors to our inn have been resolved and programed into a ski package calculator to allow guests to create ski packages while staying at our inn.

In the physical world around the inn, cleanup from the fall is in full swing. The staff is coming in every day this week for a few hours to rake leaves from around the inn. The first load of wood for the fireplace in the great room has been delivered and stacked. The list seems endless when we look at it each year, but it is all quite predictable just as summer turns to fall.

My morning ride up to the mountain did not reveal much. Killington Peak was solidly blocked in by the Killington Cloud. From KBL it was impossible to tell if any additional snowmaking was done last night, although I doubt it as it appears a temperature inversion developed overnight. There was still a lot of activity on the mountain, just the same. I saw lift technicians running the Superstar Chair this morning. People were continuing to paint in the base lodge area. And a Sysco truck was making deliveries to KBL in obvious preparation to open the lodge to the public.

Ski season will be here soon. Oh well...back to my chores. I need to get a few more things done before my ski season can begin.

Let it snow!