Pushing knee deep snow off the roof at the Birch Ridge Inn at Killington

Pushing knee deep snow off the roof at the Birch Ridge Inn at Killington

I look at the snow stake at the inn almost every day. It is an interesting marker of the amount of natural snow on the ground around the inn. For the last week, we have had well over a foot on the ground. Now a foot seems like a small number, until you have to go out and work in it as I did yesterday afternoon.

With the forecast calling for r@*n showers today, I thought it would be wise to remove some of the snow from some of the inn's roofs. I have all of the tools including a 24 foot snow rake for the steep sections, and a wide pusher shovel for the flat sections. I did not think anything of it, after all, there was only 18 inches of snow on the ground. As you can see from the picture, that 18 inches translated into knee deep snow on the flat roof. In the back of the inn, I was wading around in waist deep snow drifts in places. There is a lot of snow on the ground in Killington. Even with some showers today, Killington is going to have a very white Christmas.

Let it snow!