Mary making here season debut on the snow.

Mary making here season debut on the snow.

The Nile is a river in Egypt, but there is no denial possible in Killington. Winter is here!

Around the inn, the ground is now solidly covered white. While we are not talking snow that needs to be plowed quite yet, it was necessary to break out the snow shovel to clean up the walkways around the inn when we returned from skiing this morning.

On the mountain, there were other signs of winter. Mary made her first outing of the season. Chuckles, Howie, and a whole host of characters also journeyed out into the snow. Only the Bagel and Ruts were missing from the normal Friday ski group. But they will be skiing soon enough.

At the resort, conditions ranged from soft moguls to 3 inches of natural powder over a man-made base. The resort was skiing top to bottom today. From Killington Peak you could go play in the North Ridge Area, take East Falls back to the K1 Base Lodge, or play on Snowden. Elsewhere at the resort, it looks like ropes will be dropping this weekend(?) on Sky Lark and Bittersweet off Superstar, down Lower Chute to the Snowden Quad, on Rams Head from Rams Head Base and on the learning trail at Snowshed. The combination of cold weather over the last week, combined with some natural provided by Mother Nature is setting the resort up nicely for a great November ski weekend.

At the inn, we reopen our restaurant for the Winter Season this weekend with dinner on Friday and Saturday evening. We will have the same schedule next weekend over the Thanksgiving holidays, before we expand our dinner schedule as we head into December.

Where ever you may be this weekend .. dig our your ski clothes and come on up to Killington for some great early season skiing and riding.

Let it snow!