Red looks like the color.

Red looks like the color.

Yesterdays wind blown, with the help of a grooming machine, turned into today's packed powder. And it was marvelous!

With the exception of Superstar, soft snow was all we found on our trip around the Killington resort this morning. Mary and I joined six of our friends for our morning runs. All were long time Killington skiers, so we were able to get on the hill and ski!

The day was punctuated by overcast skies and constantly falling snow. Surfaces started the morning as soft groomed corduroy. After a little skier traffic, the surfaces quickly developed small powder bumps. There were great to ski in...would have been even better with a little sunshine....but so it goes.

Once again the Killington Peak was encased in a thick cloud, so we spent most of our day over a Bear Mountain. With the exception of upper Wildfire and Outer Limits (and probably Devils Fiddle), everything at Bear was groomed out flat. The first run, across the peak and down Bear Claw, was filled with big, sweeping turns on the freshly groomed trails. As the day wore on, turns became tighter as the snow started to bunch up. But it was all soft and glorious!

The only run that was really sketchy was Superstar. When we arrived at the mountain, we were greeted with a very odd sight. A lone Snow Cat was grooming Superstar. Not a really unusual sight, except the resort also had every snow gun available blasting the slope at the same time. We did not get the connection until we skied it about 2 hours later. It seems that the lower headwall of Superstar got scoured and polished clean by the wind. The snow cat was trying to break up the crust so that the snow made by the guns would have something to bond with. Upper Superstar, in the guns, was velvety smooth. But Lower Superstar was ugly. Needless to say with all the soft snow around the resort, Superstar was not a do over today.

One thing is certain from our morning on the slopes...The base depths of snow at the resort will make this a great weekend to ski or ride Killington........let it snow!