Looking towards Skyeship Midstation on Needles Eye at bottom of Panic Button.

Looking towards Skyeship Midstation on Needles Eye at bottom of Panic Button.

If you like 3 to 6 inches of fluff on the trail in front of you, poor visibility, driving snow, and pretty strong winds....this morning was your little piece of heaven.

Except for visibility issues, today was a very good ski day at Killington. Yesterdays hard pack was replaced with a near uniform coating of fluffy powder. And to top it all off, heavy snow continued all morning on the mountain, to the point that lightly travelled runs offered continuous freshies.

When we left the base lodge just before 9:00 the K1 did not appear to be operating, so we headed to Superstar. The first run down Superstar was definitely seeing eye skiing. Visibility was probably less than 10 feet in blowing and drifting snow. The surface was nice soft powder, but because of the visibility, the run seemed like it involved an inordinate amount of turns. Visibility improved and declined all morning as the clouds and snow squalls moved across the mountains.

In rapid succession we did a couple of loops on Superstar, Skyelark, Bittersweet, and a run across to Panic Button and Needles Eye. The all were in excellent shape. Skyelark was probably the best, as the gentle slope held the newly fallen snow consistently. It was set up perfectly for medium speed powder cruising.

After 8 or 9 loops on the Superstar chair, we headed over to the K1 Gondola. Excellent coverage on the Glades (AKA North Ridge), East Fall, Bunny Buster, High Line and Chute.

After yesterdays mess, I needed to take a run down Cascades, so around Noon I traversed from the Snowdon Quad to the North Ridge Triple to see if Cascade had recovered. Middle Cascade was soft and sweet. Lower Cascade was still interesting. The middle of the trail was scraped off pretty well. Several snow boarders were having a very difficult time of it when I was going down lower Cascade. I took skiers left, hugging the edge of the trail. Given the prevailing winds and the heavy snow fall, there seemed like there was a good 6 inches to a foot of new snow all the way down the left side. Really nice, as long as you kept your turns tight and did not stray out to the middle of the trail.

For my final run, I took the box and traversed down Blue Heaven to Great Eastern to Launch Pad to Superstar. Heavy snow was still falling on top of the mountain. It seemed like several feet had blown into Blue Heaven, but by this time my legs were getting quite heavy so I am probably overstating the snow depth. The final run down Superstar was as consistent as the first run of the day, except I could see the trail. After almost 3 1/2 hours of non-stop skiing, my legs were cooked. It was time to go home.

At the inn we received about 5 inches of new snow from this storm. Now we are getting ready for Sunday, with what ever new white stuff that pending storm will bring.

Let it snow!