Oh my! This weekends storm dumped beautiful powder all over Killington. While it was not the fine "Champagne" powder you get with some storms, it was powder just the same. Ski conditions are just plain great all over the mountain.

This morning when I arrived just before 9, the K1 Gondola and the Superstar Chair were both on wind hold, so off I went on the Snowdon quad with hundreds of my closest friends. Not the ideal situation on a powder day. I hooked up with some old ski house friends and did a few laps. Everything at Snowdon had been groomed late in the night, so there was only an inch or 2 of new snow to push around. I was on my powder ski's and contemplated going back to the parking lot to get my all mountains, but as it turned out it was good that I did not. The first runs were down Highline and East Fall. Very nice coverage on both. By the time we got to the bottom of East Fall, the K1 was operating so we hopped into the Box and headed to the peak.

I convinced the group that we should forget about Cascade, Dipper, Escapade, and Downdraft and traverse across the mountain to Needles. The Superstar chair was not yet running, so I though we could hit something before most people figured out it existed. Oh boy. I would bet that no more than 5 people had done Panic Button and Needles Eye before we had arrived there. All 4 of us were able to ski pure, untouched, powder from the crest of Panic Button all the way down to the Northbrook Quad. I did not cross anyones prior track the whole way down. Easily the run of the month so far, in this month of excellent skiing.

The trip back was cumbersome as we needed to take the Northbrook Quad and traverse back to the Superstar quad, as the Needles Eye quad or Skyship Stage 2 were not running. We did Needles Eye again, at which point I got out my camera and shot the video. Even then we were still the only people on the trail.

Once more we did the traverse, this time heading towards Skye Burst and Cruse Control. Guns were blowing on Skye Burst as the resort prepares to open Bear Mountain. Cruise Control was just beautiful, although because it is not quite as steep as Needles Eye we all noticed our legs were burning a little more. Probably too many turns as there were some whales on Cruise control, while Needles Eye was flat with pure powder on top.

We did a few more laps, but by this time people were starting to discover what we had found, and the Northbrook Quad was making some weird noises. To finish the morning, we took a run down Middle Ovation to lower Superstar. Both were nicely covered. But by now we had been thoroughly spoiled by Needles Eye...Oh Well... Tomorrow everything will be groomed and we will be back to cruising....

Let it Snow!