Best Moguls In The East Killington

[powhunter]

Yea they could have stayed open later last year..IMO superstar is kind of a funky bump run...Double fault line..ect... ect.. Every visit last year I found awesome bumps...Seeded Vertigo...Highline.....Bittersweet..Highline..Concussion..Natural bump runs were great too OL...Wildfire...Northstar...West Glade...Top Ovation...Cascade...Did a great job last year!

Steveo

 

[Puck it]

I skied there early last year and never got back because Cannon stayed open late. I need to make it a point to get back there in the spring these year. The year before was awesome, too.

 

[4aprice]

Yea they could have stayed open later last year..IMO superstar is kind of a funky bump run...Double fault line..ect... ect.. Every visit last year I found awesome bumps...Seeded Vertigo...Highline.....Bittersweet..Highline..Concussion..Natural bump runs were great too OL...Wildfire...Northstar...West Glade...Top Ovation...Cascade...Did a great job last year!

Steveo

I don't know about the "best bumps" (I'm sure you'll get some arguement from some on here ) but late last season was awesome at K. Love the woods they've opened up.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

 

[mediamogul]

Yea they could have stayed open later last year..IMO superstar is kind of a funky bump run...Double fault line..ect... ect.. Every visit last year I found awesome bumps...Seeded Vertigo...Highline.....Bittersweet..Highline..Concussion..Natural bump runs were great too OL...Wildfire...Northstar...West Glade...Top Ovation...Cascade...Did a great job last year!

Steveo

If you liked those try royal flush, vagabond, and the needles eye liftline if you haven't already. Hands down best bump run this past spring was the fiddle. Deep base on a south facing slope under clear blue skies. Also OL was amazing after bear closed, cream cheese snow and no groomers!

 

[mister moose]

One of the things I like about Killington is the diversity of bumps. There are high traffic thoroughfares, steep pitches, intermediate pitches, natural snow trails, trails that don't get much board traffic because of a run out, and trails that don't get much traffic at all because they are out of the way. New bumps that get groomed regularly, and old bumps that aren't. As a result the shape, spacing and snow surface varies quite a bit. Lately some seeded bumps started showing up, so you can get that too.

 

[2knees]

Yea they could have stayed open later last year..IMO superstar is kind of a funky bump run...Double fault line..ect... ect.. Every visit last year I found awesome bumps...Seeded Vertigo...Highline.....Bittersweet..Highline..Concussion..Natural bump runs were great too OL...Wildfire...Northstar...West Glade...Top Ovation...Cascade...Did a great job last year!

Steveo

no complaints from any of my visits. Needles liftline is indeed one of the best runs. so much there plus the bumps.

Jug and jug handle were great also.

butt, i gotta wonder about cascade. I havent seen decent bumps on that run in years. granted, i'm at K as often as you or others.

 

[Rogman]

no complaints from any of my visits. Needles liftline is indeed one of the best runs. so much there plus the bumps.

Jug and jug handle were great also.

butt, i gotta wonder about cascade. I havent seen decent bumps on that run in years. granted, i'm at K as often as you or others.

They groom it flat pretty much every night. Probably meant the adjacent Downdraft which rarely sees a cat.

 

[steamboat1]

Yeah Killington has some good bumps sometimes. Sometimes it's hard to find a trail bumped up. They will groom just about everything on the mountain after a rain freeze cycle, nothing wrong with that. I've skied just about every trail on that mountain groomed, yes even Devils Fiddle, Royal Flush, Vertigo,Conclusion etc. which rarely see a groomer. Then there are other trails on the mountain that used to rarely see a groomer but now see one regularly, North Star, Downdraft, Escapade & Ovation come to mind but there are others. Trails like Highline & Bittersweet which were mentioned by the OP see a groomer almost every night so it makes me wonder. I never like to say anything or anywhere is best but K can be good at times.

 

[4aprice]

Yeah Killington has some good bumps sometimes. Sometimes it's hard to find a trail bumped up. They will groom just about everything on the mountain after a rain freeze cycle, nothing wrong with that. I've skied just about every trail on that mountain groomed, yes even Devils Fiddle, Royal Flush, Vertigo,Conclusion etc. which rarely see a groomer. Then there are other trails on the mountain that used to rarely see a groomer but now see one regularly, North Star, Downdraft, Escapade & Ovation come to mind but there are others. Trails like Highline & Bittersweet which were mentioned by the OP see a groomer almost every night so it makes me wonder. I never like to say anything or anywhere is best but K can be good at times.

It's all about the weather. Great years like last year and the crop of moguls grow well and everywhere, other times they have to groom and maintain. The trials of low altitude skiing. Just pray, dance, wish for snow.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

 

[deadheadskier]

It's all about the weather. Great years like last year and the crop of moguls grow well and everywhere, other times they have to groom and maintain. The trials of low altitude skiing. Just pray, dance, wish for snow.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

exactly

which is why seeded bumps have been a game changer for mogul skiing fans. It takes lots of snow and skier traffic to form them naturally. Most of the Northeast doesn't see lots of snow.

As they say, ain't nothing like the real thing baby, but I'm grateful and appreciative of seeded bumps. Without them, a greater percentage of the season for most skiers and riders would be spent on groomers.

 

[4aprice]

exactly

which is why seeded bumps have been a game changer for mogul skiing fans. It takes lots of snow and skier traffic to form them naturally. Most of the Northeast doesn't see lots of snow.

As they say, ain't nothing like the real thing baby, but I'm grateful and appreciative of seeded bumps. Without them, a greater percentage of the season for most skiers and riders would be spent on groomers.

Agree DHS. Snowmaking and a good groomer (building the moguls) and you add a little jolt to conditions that otherwise wouldn't be "favorable" for bump skiing. I keep on trying to get that message through to the guys at my backyard ski area (CBK). Smaller hills are a lot more fun with pockets of moguls on them.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

 

[mondeo]

Yeah Killington has some good bumps sometimes. Sometimes it's hard to find a trail bumped up. They will groom just about everything on the mountain after a rain freeze cycle, nothing wrong with that. I've skied just about every trail on that mountain groomed, yes even Devils Fiddle, Royal Flush, Vertigo,Conclusion etc. which rarely see a groomer. Then there are other trails on the mountain that used to rarely see a groomer but now see one regularly, North Star, Downdraft, Escapade & Ovation come to mind but there are others. Trails like Highline & Bittersweet which were mentioned by the OP see a groomer almost every night so it makes me wonder. I never like to say anything or anywhere is best but K can be good at times.

Escapade was groomed once last year. North Star I think was once. Vertigo only got groomed to seed bumps. Hardly regularly groomed.

But they did groom more last year than the year before. Some trails (Escapade, Fiddle, North Star, Vagabond) just just be left 100% untouched. Rain? Rope 'em off until they're good again. That's what they used to do with Escapade, even in '09-'10. Once they're groomed, the bumps never come back as good as they were.

Outer Limits was groomed every weekend last year after the first week or two when they were blowing snow on it. Tragedy.

 

[deadheadskier]

I would put Outer Limits in with Devil's Fiddle as a trail that should never get groomed. It's the most famous expert run on the East Coast. It should never be tamed.

 

[2knees]

i dont think they have a choice in grooming outer limits at times, it cant get pretty unruly. I do think they over groom it but it was really really good the last few times i was there around bmmc. Again, i'm not there as often as some so maybe i just got lucky but it was nice down skiers right, top to bottom.

 

[mediamogul]

Escapade was groomed once last year. North Star I think was once. Vertigo only got groomed to seed bumps. Hardly regularly groomed.

But they did groom more last year than the year before. Some trails (Escapade, Fiddle, North Star, Vagabond) just just be left 100% untouched. Rain? Rope 'em off until they're good again. That's what they used to do with Escapade, even in '09-'10. Once they're groomed, the bumps never come back as good as they were.

Outer Limits was groomed every weekend last year after the first week or two when they were blowing snow on it. Tragedy.

The only trails I can think of that didn't see a groomer last year were on the south ridge. Even vagabond and roundabout were groomed once or twice last year. I personally don't understand the problem with leaving certain trails as designated ungroomed runs. Especially somewhere as big as K where the vast majority of trails are groomers. I like trails where it is physically impossible to get a groomer into. I thought roundabout was one but apparently they managed to squeeze a groomer in there somehow.

 

[Ski the Moguls]

Did they groom the sides of Outer Limits or just the center? I only noticed the center getting the groomer, but I was not there every week.

 

[Ski the Moguls]

The only trails I can think of that didn't see a groomer last year were on the south ridge. Even vagabond and roundabout were groomed once or twice last year. I personally don't understand the problem with leaving certain trails as designated ungroomed runs. Especially somewhere as big as K where the vast majority of trails are groomers. I like trails where it is physically impossible to get a groomer into. I thought roundabout was one but apparently they managed to squeeze a groomer in there somehow.

Never, ever grooming a trail is tough here in the East. Last President's week was a total wipeout of any trail that did not see a groomer. Should they really leave them closed for that long or groom them? After all, you always have all of the woods never groomed.

 

[steamboat1]

I forget exactly which week it was last year, maybe in March, where it had rained & then got cold & the mountain was hard as a rock ( wasn't Pres. week because I don't ski then at K). They had to close a good part of the mountain & their trail count was way down. Within a couple of days they had groomed just about every trail accessible with a groomer, even Vertigo after it had already been seeded. They left the seeded section untouched. North Star & Escapade saw a groomer more than once last year, heck they even groomed West Glade last year which I'd never seen before. I don't think they touched Royal Flush last year but the year before to my amazement they groomed it. Being that I'm in my mid 50's now I don't mind the grooming at all. I can't beat myself up all day in the bumps anymore (except at MRG). I still ski bumps & woods but only when conditions are reasonably good. Fortunately they were often good last year.

It was quite a few years ago when they groomed Devils Fiddle, probably still under ASC ownership, but yes I skied it groomed.

 

[mediamogul]

Never, ever grooming a trail is tough here in the East. Last President's week was a total wipeout of any trail that did not see a groomer. Should they really leave them closed for that long or groom them? After all, you always have all of the woods never groomed.

Im talking like five expert trails maybe one blue. It destroys the lines once a groomer has mowed them flat. A lot of other mountains in the east have trails that never see a groomer. Magic, sugarbush, jay, berkshire east, mrg, etc. Especially when K has endless trails that are groomers alone. Imho it takes more snow to open the woods and more cover for them to ski well than a non gladed trail.

 

[steamboat1]

butt, i gotta wonder about cascade. I havent seen decent bumps on that run in years.

I guess you weren't there just after they first opened it last year, VW bumps.