Martini's with Merisa at Birch Ridge

Martini's with Merisa at Birch Ridge

After a couple of week hiatus to give staff time to recuperate from working non stop during fall foliage, the restaurant at the Birch Ridge Inn will reopen tonight for the winter season.

Chef Frizzie will be back in the kitchen working his magic. This weekend we are keeping things casual and fun with a menu of tasty appetizers served at the bar in the Great Room. Over the next couple of weeks, as the ski season kicks into high gear, we will be back in the dining room with our regular dinner service.

Speaking about the ski season, while most blog readers along the east coast got r@!n with the storm that came up the coast this week, Killington got a "Wintery Mix"... And I mean all mixed up.

K1 Base Lodge at Killington. Notice the snow all over the trails behind the lodge and on Superstar... Click to enlarge..

At the inn we had a combination of snow, sleet and r@!n. As I write this, at about 1:45pm... the sun has just made an appearance from behind the clouds. Reports from friends who went to the mountain, indicate that the peak got many inches of snow. Even the K1 Base Lodge, which is just 300 feet in elevation higher than the inn, saw enough snow out of this storm to completely cover the ground (the snow/wintery mix line was that close).

If the weather forecast pans out as predicted (hard to tell...this is New England), then we should see more sunshine and seasonable temperatures on Saturday and Sunday. And with the mountain open for skiing and riding, it just might be the right time to come to Killington and take a few early season runs...followed of course with an apres ski stop at Birch Ridge. (Sorry for the shameless plug...)

It's time....Let It SNOW!!!!!!