Killington 04-30-09

[loafer89]

Area skied: Killington Vermont

Date skied: April 30th, 2009 from 9:15am - 2:30pm

Surface conditions: Machine groomed corn, moguls, thin and bare spots.

Weather: Sunny and 51F at 9:00am

Warren and I decided to end our season today with some good spring weather and snow conditions at Killington. We made short work of a groomed High Road/Bittersweet as a first run, followed by Skylark/Bittersweet and then a run down Superstar which was mostly cut up groomed corn by then.

We decided to hike up to Killington Peak around 11:00am and made the treck up a mostly snow covered Nevis Walk/ Launch Pad:

Snow was found to be mostly continuous by the time we reached Home Run, which is where we put on our skis:

There is a short gap in the snow at the interesection of Rime/Great Northern:

East Fall was sweet with silky soft corn snow and large well rounded moguls:

The snow ended shorly after passing by the Canyon Quad and we had to hoof it back to the base lodge.

After a break for a drink we skied Skylark 4 times in a row and the moguls where suprisingly stiff, but with a soft outer coating of corn snow. The gap in the trail near the bottom was a pain, but we soon mastered the art of grass skiing which made the 25' gap quicker to get across.

We ended our season on that mogul skiing note.

Skye Peak:

 

[RichH]

Excellent. Sounds like a great way to end the winter.

Thanks for all of the reports this season - I've enjoyed reading them.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

nice report!!

 

[loafer89]

My report is updated with pictures as I was too tired to add them last night.

 

[RootDKJ]

There is a short gap in the snow at the interesection of Rime/Great Northern:

That's funny.

 

[andyzee]

Damn, how your son has grown!

 

[loafer89]

A slight damper on yesterdays hike was a run in with a snow cat driver who verbally abused me for hiking and skiing closed trails. I deserved a talking to, but not to be called dumb, stupid and reckless.

Anyway we had fun and Warren liked East Fall.

 

[thetrailboss]

Nice report!

A slight damper on yesterdays hike was a run in with a snow cat driver who verbally abused me for hiking and skiing closed trails. I deserved a talking to, but not to be called dumb, stupid and reckless.

Anyway we had fun and Warren liked East Fall.

I was going to ask if you got scolded for getting the goods, but I had no idea that it would be like this. They really know how to make friends and influence people I guess. :roll:

 

[gmcunni]

A slight damper on yesterdays hike was a run in with a snow cat driver who verbally abused me for hiking and skiing closed trails. I deserved a talking to, but not to be called dumb, stupid and reckless.

Anyway we had fun and Warren liked East Fall.

odd, in another thread someone indicated that K was OK with people hiking to ski.

 

[loafer89]

Nice report!




I was going to ask if you got scolded for getting the goods, but I had no idea that it would be like this. They really know how to make friends and influence people I guess. :roll:

Yes considering the old days of skiing at Killington that stretched the meaning of the word "opened" for trail conditions. The crap I skied on years ago could hardly be called skiing at times.

I could hardly hear what the driver was saying to us above the noise of the snowcat engine and we continued on our way after a few moments.

 

[skibumette]

Yeah, killington was great yesterday. Skied from 9 to almost 3 with few breaks. what a way to end., 2 more days to go then depression sets in. got over 150 days. thinking of next year already. ski life to the fullest. skibumette

 

[skiadikt]

A slight damper on yesterdays hike was a run in with a snow cat driver who verbally abused me for hiking and skiing closed trails. I deserved a talking to, but not to be called dumb, stupid and reckless.

Anyway we had fun and Warren liked East Fall.

great report and way to get some. sucks that they bothered you.