Skiers and riders enjoying Superstar in the sunshine on Saturday of MLK weekend.

Skiers and riders enjoying Superstar in the sunshine on Saturday of MLK weekend.

It would be inappropriate to say that Martin Luther King weekend is living up to its' namesake. A google search of "Martin Luther King" and "Skiing" yields no linkage between the civil rights leader and the sport of skiing, other than the call of ski resorts all over the country beckoning skiers and riders to the slopes over the weekend. Similarly, a read of the biography of Martin Luther King Jr. on Wikipedia also does not connect him to downhill winter sports.

In our culture, however, it is easy to make the transition from a historical figure to time away from the daily grind. It is our good fortune that the struggle for equality in the United States has for the most part been settled due to the work of Dr. King and others. Because of that effort, many can take a break from their normal lives and celebrate with some time off.

Starting on Friday night, skiers and riders have flocked to resorts in the northeast. Long rides were reported coming out of both Boston and New York, as people headed to the mountains this weekend. The latest arrived at the Birch Ridge Inn on early Saturday morning about 1:00 AM after a trek out of Manhattan.

The resort itself is mum about attendance, as would be expected, but a quick tour around town the last couple of days indicates that it is a good weekend from a business perspective. Parking lots at the ski resort were generally full at mid day. Guests and friends who have been on the mountain were reporting that there are a fair amount of people on the ski trails at the resort. The good news is that Killington is built for busy weekends, with a huge amount of uphill lifting capacity. Guests are reporting that as long as you avoided typical resort choke points, like the K1 Gondola line, that there was little waiting in lift lines, allowing maximum time for skiing and riding Killington many miles of terrain.

And the great news for Killington when we woke up this morning is that we are expecting a small snow storm to pass thru the area tonight. Plus or minus 3 inches of light snow is forecasted by many weather services to fall in Killington overnight. The perfect ending to a winter weekend in Vermont.

........let it snow!