Ski Killington in the cloud
or Johnny Boy's Pancake House?

Ski Killington in the cloud
or Johnny Boy's Pancake House?

Thursday night and Friday morning at Killington saw a small snow storm blanket the area with 3 to 6 inches of snow, depending upon your elevation. The snow was fairly "heavy" in consistency. Not sleet, but not champagne either. It created some interesting early morning conditions on the mountain.

Today was probably one of those days were skiing later was better. At 9:00 this morning a light snow was in the air. Killington Peak and surrounding mountain tops were firmly in the embrace of storm clouds. Because there was no real sunshine at that hour, we decided to stay on the Killington Peak side of the resort for the morning, as abbreviated as it was.

From the peak, after a warm up run on North Ridge, we went immediately over to Highline. Highline was very good, with a nice 2 to 3 inch coating of new snow over a flat and fast base. From the K1 box, we did a couple of loops down it, each one etching our mark on the trail face. By the third time around, other than far skiers right, we had cut the trail up pretty good. It was time to move on.

We went down to the Snowdon Quad. Mouse Run was interesting, so we looped back up the Poma Lift. As Chute looked scratched off, we decided to take one more run down Highline and call it quits on this side of the mountain.

We headed over to Superstar for a run down Skyelark to High Road to Skyeship stage 2 in Needles Eye. Oops... Middle Skyelark saw snowmaking operations Thursday night and had not been groomed out. The trail was a mix of heavy crust, new snow, and stizmarks from previous skiers auguring into the mess. Without a doubt it was not fun...but so it goes.

After reaching High Road, we found that the Needles Eye Quad was running so we hopped on that for a few loops. Needles Eye looked suspiciously like Skyelark so we headed to Bitter Sweet. Upper Bitter had nice soft bumps on skiers left with a flat surface for cruising down skiers right.

We did a couple of loops between Bittersweet and High Road, but the group had had enough. Some one signaled "Oh Johnny Boy" and it was over. A run down lower Bittersweet, which was ungroomed semi glue, a quick change in the K1 base lodge, and a late breakfast (2 eggs over easy, home fries, bacon and whole wheat toast) and our morning was done. Not bad...not the sunshine of Wednesday and Thursday, but it was a nice breakfast...

Let it snow!