Snow covers the Birch Ridge Inn

Snow covers the Birch Ridge Inn

Sometimes Mother Nature giveth!

Last night and early this morning, in the first significant storm of the 2010/2011 winter season, the Killington area was blanked with 10 plus inches of snow. Driven by 30 MPH wind gusts, the snow drifted in places to 3 feet deep.

Guests returning from the mountain late this afternoon are all smiles, as they caught a nice day of freshies on the mountain. Being the Christmas Holidays, Mary and I spent the day at the inn tending to guests. As luck would have it, my snow blower worked mostly in cleaning up the area. It died with about 20% of the job left to finish. Of course we take it in stride.... things can not break if they are not being used. And using a snow blower in a ski resort is a GREAT thing. I only wish we could have used it seriously about 45 days ago.....

The new snow should put a nice cap on all of the efforts the resort completed to get the mountain ready for the holidays. It should be a great week of skiing and riding at Killington..... Let it snow!