Fall colors light up Snowdon, Rams Head, and Pico Peak as seen from Upper Ovation at Killington

Fall colors light up Snowdon, Rams Head, and Pico Peak as seen from Upper Ovation at Killington

The last couple of days at Killington have been beautiful. Nearly 100% sunshine with mild temps in the low to mid 60's followed by progressively cooler nights. Tonight we are expecting temperatures in the low 20's for the first hard freeze since last winter.

Mary and I hiked up Killington this afternoon. We followed the Snowshed Crossover to get a look at all of the construction taking place on the mountain. (I was really torn between posting a picture of muddy, torn up real estate, versus the beautiful picture of fall foliage around the mountain. I will save the muddy work related pictures for another day.)

Skiers and Riders will be happy to know that there was a huge amount of work going on all around the mountain. Earlier in the day a helicopter was positioning lift pulley assemblies on the tops of lift towers at Sky Peak. Excavation work was going on in earnest at the top of Sky Peak to prepare for the new lift terminal. Blasting was taking place to cut a new green trail around the top of Sky Peak as part of the process to eliminate the Snowshed Crossover. Workers were doing excavation in the new "Stash" terrain park. Preparations also were underway to do blasting on Great Eastern to widen and smooth out some of the trail.

Of course, all of this was taking place on the Sky Peak/Bear Mountain side of the resort. On the Killington side of the resort, it was just a beautiful fall day. The trees are really starting to pop their colors. The next couple of weeks at Killington will be beautiful.

On a side note, following up on the saga of the Covered Carriageway at the inn, yesterday, our chef Steve and I got the fallen tree off of the carriage way roof and disposed of it. An insurance estimator and contractor have looked at the damage and done their thing. Hopefully, after completing some paperwork, we can get reconstruction started sometime next week.So it goes.....