loafer89
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We started out the day again today very early taking our first run at 8:30am down Header. Some snow had been made on it overnight and it was left ungroomed and skied like glue in spots.
I put my son in a private lesson and then proceeded to ski with my friend who came up for the weekend. The snow today was not in as good a condition as yesterday and this was obvious from the start with a quick run down Caper to the K-1 gondola. Caper was a icy, chunky unpleasant experience unlike the last two days.
Our first run on the peak was down Escapade which had good cover except for the headwall which I did not ski to save my bases. We found ourselves on the lower part of Cascade that had large man-made wet cement moguls that made for easy turns.
We skied Rime which was okay, but icy in spots to East Fall which was gromed flat and had nearly unedgable ice and was more of a controlled sliding sideways than skiing.
West Glade/Ridge Run was nice but had very thin cover. Reason was slick with only a little loose powder snow in spots. Highline was icy down the middle, but had nice powder bumps on skiers right.
Vagabond had decent cover and small bumps, but there was a semi-frozen stream at the bottom junction with North Star.
Today was a much warmer day and I was actually warm at the end of the day at 1:30 with the base temperature of 30F. Killington has thin cover on a vast majority of it's open trails and rain and warm weather will really hurt them
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Killington seemed to put less effort into preparing/grooming alot of the trails today, perhaps they know they will lose some of the snow????
The drive home was good until exit 28 on I-91 in Mass, there was a 6 mile (1 hour) delay to merge into one lane through some road construction :angry: :angry: :angry:
I am now tired and sore after three days of hard skiing, but I had a great time.
I put my son in a private lesson and then proceeded to ski with my friend who came up for the weekend. The snow today was not in as good a condition as yesterday and this was obvious from the start with a quick run down Caper to the K-1 gondola. Caper was a icy, chunky unpleasant experience unlike the last two days.
Our first run on the peak was down Escapade which had good cover except for the headwall which I did not ski to save my bases. We found ourselves on the lower part of Cascade that had large man-made wet cement moguls that made for easy turns.
We skied Rime which was okay, but icy in spots to East Fall which was gromed flat and had nearly unedgable ice and was more of a controlled sliding sideways than skiing.
West Glade/Ridge Run was nice but had very thin cover. Reason was slick with only a little loose powder snow in spots. Highline was icy down the middle, but had nice powder bumps on skiers right.
Vagabond had decent cover and small bumps, but there was a semi-frozen stream at the bottom junction with North Star.
Today was a much warmer day and I was actually warm at the end of the day at 1:30 with the base temperature of 30F. Killington has thin cover on a vast majority of it's open trails and rain and warm weather will really hurt them
.Killington seemed to put less effort into preparing/grooming alot of the trails today, perhaps they know they will lose some of the snow????
The drive home was good until exit 28 on I-91 in Mass, there was a 6 mile (1 hour) delay to merge into one lane through some road construction :angry: :angry: :angry:
I am now tired and sore after three days of hard skiing, but I had a great time.
