Larry after auguring in on his board chest deep on Dream Maker

Larry after auguring in on his board chest deep on Dream Maker

What a day. 6 runs in 3 hours.....and we skied right on to every lift with no lift lines, wind holds, or any other delays...

Only 6 runs you say!... Yup...6 of the craziest runs ever in some of the deepest snow I have ever experienced at Killington.

Snow depths across the mountain went from boot deep to neck deep, and everything in between. Of the 6 runs, none were on groomed trails, other than the first cruise down the Stash. Even that had very deep powder along skiers left. The six runs included "The Stash", Wildfire, Dream Maker, Needles Eye, North Star, and High Line. (The boys did High Line. I did the training run to Chute to lower Bunny Buster. A bum shoulder was acting up.)

Skiing and riding today were not for the feint of heart. I do not think that there was a run where all of us did not do a major tumble. Most of the falls were due to variations in snow depth caused by wind blown snow. A few were outright falls into crevasses. Lower Wild Fire and Dream Maker had some that were better than shoulder deep. And then there were the tumbles on the back side of bumps where the surface went from wind blown hard pack to over your head powder in less than 5 feet. Every tumble took major effort to haul yourself out of the deep snow to a place where you could right yourself and continue on. And none of us have anything to complain about...it was just a very crazy (good) day of skiing!

Of course, we could have skied nicely groomed trails. We probably would have gotten 20 runs in during 3 hours if we had gone that route. But why would we want to do that with all this powder around to play in?

.....Let it snow!