andyzee
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Date(s) Skied: February 18, 2006
Resort or Ski Area: Killington
Conditions: PP/MG/Boilerplate/COLD
Trip Report:
Yesterday had to be one of the coldest days yet this season. Wasn't coldest with regards to temps, but with the wind blowing it was COLD. Day started out with a report of 10 degrees at the base, but it got colder throughout the day. Last week we did Cannon where the temp was -10 at the peak most of the day and it didn't feel this bad.
Anyway enough about the cold. Conditions were mixed, but better then I expected taking into conideration the previous days winds, snow was blown off some trails. We started out doing Caper from Ramshead over to KBL, not bad some ice, but for the most part pretty good. Next was North Ridge(Glades area) few runs on Rime which was nicely groomed packed powder. Then down Lower East fall, this was a bit scraped off already but edgeable. After this we went over to Bear where we did a few runs on Outer Limits, run of the day. Nice mounds of freshly blown snow. Guess the temps are perfect for making snow, because this wasn't your heavy wet variety of blown snow, it was nice hard granular snow, real pleasure. Then we tried Wildfire, very disappointing, no bumps and icy. Went over to Superstar, bit icey but doable.
Did lunch, came back out found it got colder, did two runs and called it a day by 1:30. Taking the Snowdon Triple up we saw that the Chute was nothing but ice on skiers right. Anyway it was one day at Killington, normally we stay for the weekend. But this week was a blackout on my silver All for One pass and I couldn't see paying to ski these conditions on Sunday. So left last night, this morning I'm home at my PC typing this report. A week and a half to Utah woot woot!! Oh, did I say how COLD it was!
Resort or Ski Area: Killington
Conditions: PP/MG/Boilerplate/COLD
Trip Report:
Yesterday had to be one of the coldest days yet this season. Wasn't coldest with regards to temps, but with the wind blowing it was COLD. Day started out with a report of 10 degrees at the base, but it got colder throughout the day. Last week we did Cannon where the temp was -10 at the peak most of the day and it didn't feel this bad.
Anyway enough about the cold. Conditions were mixed, but better then I expected taking into conideration the previous days winds, snow was blown off some trails. We started out doing Caper from Ramshead over to KBL, not bad some ice, but for the most part pretty good. Next was North Ridge(Glades area) few runs on Rime which was nicely groomed packed powder. Then down Lower East fall, this was a bit scraped off already but edgeable. After this we went over to Bear where we did a few runs on Outer Limits, run of the day. Nice mounds of freshly blown snow. Guess the temps are perfect for making snow, because this wasn't your heavy wet variety of blown snow, it was nice hard granular snow, real pleasure. Then we tried Wildfire, very disappointing, no bumps and icy. Went over to Superstar, bit icey but doable.
Did lunch, came back out found it got colder, did two runs and called it a day by 1:30. Taking the Snowdon Triple up we saw that the Chute was nothing but ice on skiers right. Anyway it was one day at Killington, normally we stay for the weekend. But this week was a blackout on my silver All for One pass and I couldn't see paying to ski these conditions on Sunday. So left last night, this morning I'm home at my PC typing this report. A week and a half to Utah woot woot!! Oh, did I say how COLD it was!
