Snow still falling mid day on Killington

Snow still falling mid day on Killington

Light snow moved through the Killington region overnight. Roughly 3 inches accumulated at the inn. Judging from conditions on the mountain, I would guess that 5 to 8 inches accumulated on Killington Peak with lesser amounts at lower elevations.

Overall, today was a good day to be skiing and riding at Killington. The first hour of the day was nice, mid density, powder skiing. I took the K1 Gondola up to the peak and traversed via Launch Pad to Sky Lark. Nice boot deep powder down the middle of the trail for the first run. When I got to the bottom, the Superstar chair was running, so I looped on it for a run down Bittersweet. A few people had already been down it, but there was plenty of untracked on skiers right. The grooming on lower Bittersweet was a little suspect. There was an upslope wind on lower Bittersweet which made the powder thin, revealing golf ball sized chucks on frozen granular as a base. It was fine to ski on, but quite different from the powder of Upper Bittersweet.

I took a few more loops on the Superstar Chair. The upper headwall and middle Superstar were quite nice. I stayed away from the lower Superstar headwall based on my performance in last weeks powder pileup. Conditions were similar to last week with many wind blown cornices visible over a scratchy base. Many people were doing it, cutting up the snow. But I decided to pass.

By now most of the new snow was pretty tracked up. I took a couple of loops on the K1 Gondola before heading back to the inn for a little late morning snow blowing.

If we are lucky, and the weathermen are correct (like that happens often) then we will be in a nice snow pattern the next week at Killington. Todays event will go a long way to softening up the base, once it gets groomed in. And more snow on top will make things nice.....Let it snow!