Cutting ground cover at front of inn on Killington Road

Cutting ground cover at front of inn on Killington Road

If you have not noticed, the National Weather Service is predicting that there may be snow on top of Killington this evening. If it occurs, and it is just an outside chance, it is just one more reminder that the winter season at Killington is fast approaching.

Around the inn, in addition to helping our Fall Foliage guests get the most out of their visit to Vermont, preparations are well underway for the winter season. Mary has her work schedule in place to tear apart every room in the inn to make sure they are in great shape. My list of marketing tasks has kicked into high gear. Yesterday I finished all of the software changes to quote Ski and Stay packages to Killington on our website. If you are inclined, you can visit our Ski Package Calculator on birchridge.com and price out a ski vacation at the Birch Ridge Inn for this winters season. Killington has not yet released the price of a single day lift ticket, but they have provided us with information on all of their multiday products, which is coded into the calculator.

birchridge.com is still flying its summer colors. Once we get past Columbus day, the site will change to more winter oriented. But we don't need to push the season that much.

Outside the inn, we also have a number of projects started to get the grounds ready for winter. The snow stake is in place to catch the first snow. Mary has started to cut back all of her gardens. Most of the gardens we try to bring down to ground, so that the first snow covers the beds evenly for the long winter nap. I have been working, with the help of our chef, to cut down all of the other ground cover around the inn. Being in a wet environment in the Green Mountain National Forest, the property around the inn would be quickly over grown if we did not trim it back each year.

If you see me on the Killington Road with brush cutter in hand, just give a beep. I might not hear you above the noise of the cutters engine, but I appreciate the thought.

Dare I write...let it s... no it's too early.