Which line do I take?
Or should it be the untracked
down the right side?
Larry (Ruts) at tbe base of Highline

Which line do I take?
Or should it be the untracked
down the right side?
Larry (Ruts) at tbe base of Highline

The snow stake on yesterdays post should have been the give away. The last 2 days at Killington were "epic" to use a superlative. As good a two day stretch of fresh powder as we get here in Vermont.

Yesterday, skiing and riding was in a full white out with blowing and drifting snow on the mountain all morning long. Today, while there was still plenty of wind, the sun was blazing revealing all kinds of sweet lines through the snow.

The run of the day, for those not interested in trees, was probably Upper Royal Flush to Highline. Upper Royal Flush was knee to waist deep powder with plenty of fresh untracked lines. Highline was covered in some of the nicest, deepest, powder bumps you would ever want to ski. Easily waist high in places. And you had a choice... you could either bump off them or blast through them....there were nice, soft, and very forgiving.

Our day today started on the K1 for a run down Cascade. Cascade was ungroomed, powder, bumps with many places suffering from wind blown compaction. Turns were earned, in a fun way, as the Cascade was very soft.

At Bear Mountain, Wildfire was soft bumps from top to bottom. Upper Wildfire looked like there was one pass of grooming on skiers right. Skiers left was monster soft bumps. Some of the back side troughs were a little slick, but there was really no reason to be there other than bouncing bump to bump. Bear Trap to Bear Claw was basically groomed from top to bottom. It was very soft. On a Saturday, it would have significantly bumped up, but because skier traffic was light, the trail was staying fairly flat. Upper Dream Maker had sections of untracked powder on the edges with big soft bumps down the middle. Cruise Control was groomed out, although probably before it had stopped snowing as it still was well covered and untracked in spots. Needles Eye was ungroomed. We did not have a chance to ski it, but from the Skyship it looked like people were having fun cruising through the pow.

Back on the Killington side of the mountain the Superstar Quad was down due to wind (it was howling). So it was one run down Sky Lark and in. Upper Skye Lark was groomed, probably to capture the snow from the wind. Lower Skye Lark was huge bumps on skiers left, with smaller versions down the right side.

All in all, two great ski days...and we are not yet into March!....Let it snow!