Nina at North Ridge

Nina at North Ridge

Today, Mary hooked up with some of her friends for a morning out on the mountain. I dutifully manned the inn while Mary enjoyed the slopes. Fear not, however, I have a group of buddies up on Friday. We will be there early to scope the mountain out for the weekend.

Mary reported that mountain conditions were continuing to improve. We have now gone through several grooming cycles since the weather problems earlier in the week. Compound the grooming with snow making by the resort, and a constant snow flurry coming out of the sky, and conditions are just getting better by the minute.

Mary did the usual loops through Bear Mountain and Skye Peak. All were similar if not better than Wednesday. Mary also spent some time on the Killington Peak side of the resort. She was quite pleased.

North Ridge was, of course, worked over nicely by the resorts groomers. Mary also reported that East Fall and Cascade were also quite nice. She said she was on Cascade around 11:15 this morning. Snow conditions were soft overall, with plenty of loose granular to perform sweeping turns.

This afternoon at Killington we have had a number of snow squalls go through the area. I took the snow stake picture at around 11:00 AM this morning, before they hit. Just before we started dinner service at the inn this evening, I shoveled between 3 and 4 inches of snow off the walks around the inn. There is a pretty good wind blowing outside, so how much of that snow will accumulate in an open field is uncertain. But it certainly will do a lot to replenish the snow cover in the woods around the resort.

.....let it snow!