Highline with ice covered trees

Highline with ice covered trees

if your other choice is a hot r@*n at a ski resort in Vermont in January.

Call me crazy, but with the weather that Killington has endured this week, the 1 inch coating of ice which we have outside the inn right now is at least frozen. The trees look pretty; although I have gone out a couple of times to knock the ice off of straining Birch trees around the inn. The inn looks nice, all bathed in an icy coating with icicles everywhere. The snow melt has stopped around the inn with a 5 inch base left. The candy coating of ice on the ground is catching the r@*n and preventing it from penetrating the surface.

The mountain today is dealing with a variety of problems. When I took the picture of Highline this morning, none of the detachable lifts (K1, Superstar, Snowshed Quad) were running. A few fixed grip chair lifts were turning to bring the handful of skiers and riders upslope for their runs. Yesterday the mountain fired up the worlds largest snow making system and started resurfacing terrain. I would presume that they would do the same later this evening, in addition to having their grooming fleet on the mountain chopping up the ice falling from the sky.

Ah... life at a ski resort in January. Sometimes you win, and sometimes you lose. (But breakfast late this morning at Johnny Boys with my ski buddies, while not the ski day we had planned, was still pretty good.)

Let it snow!