xlr8r
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My brother and I headed up first thing New Years morning. After some difficulty getting our online tickets processed at the Ramshead Lodge, we were on Ramshead Express by 10:00. This was my brother's first time out this year, and first time to Killington. He is an intermediate snowboarder so I spent most of the day showing him around the place and making sure he did not get lost. We moved from Ramshead to the Peak, Northridge, Snowdon, Needles, and Skye. We agreed that upper Bunny Buster to lower Chute was the best run, Timberline also skied well. He quit at around 2:15 to watch the end of the Pats game while I ventured to see if anything else was skiing good, but by late afternoon everything was pretty skied off except Skyeburst which had nice spring moguls. One other note, the view from the peak was spectacular around 11:30 as the top of the gondola poked just a hundred feet or so above the clouds that completely surrounded the mountain and most of Vermont. It really felt high up right then looking out and only seeing clouds below and blue sky above, nothing else not even another mountain peak.
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When I bought the tickets online I was really hoping that it would snow overnight into monday, but instead it rained. We got started from Snowshed Lodge just after 9:00 and headed straight for Superstar Express as I figured thoose trails would get skied off the quickest. Both Skyelark and Bittersweet had nice conditions for a few runs before we moved on to Needles where Cruisecontrol was a bit too firm. Next up was Skyeburst which I was expecting to be pretty good as they were blasting the guns on it. The top was nice, middle was a sheet of ice, and the bottom was a cement mess. I skied too fast into the snow guns, and my skis almost completely stopped. I thought I was going to eject head first, but somehow managed to spin 180 and stop backwards. I then watched the next three people experience similar results as they came in under the guns. That was enough of Skyeburst for me.
We toured other areas of the mountain but everything was pretty icy by 11:30 or so. I split from my brother after lunch, but the only decent trails by then were Snowshed (where they were blowing nice snow, and Ramshead (where the trails aren't steep enough to get scraped off). After finishing with a run off the poma, we met up before 3:00 at Snowshed to pack up and head home. Before we left though I did purchase one of their T-shirts. It is black with a white diamond in the center, "I'm Difficult" is written over the diamond. It was too funny to pass up.
Overall it was nice to get out with someone else for a change instead of skiing solo. We both had a good time, but I was hoping the conditions would be better. That we would of gotten just a little bit of new snow instead of rain. That's how this season is going I guess.
My brother and I headed up first thing New Years morning. After some difficulty getting our online tickets processed at the Ramshead Lodge, we were on Ramshead Express by 10:00. This was my brother's first time out this year, and first time to Killington. He is an intermediate snowboarder so I spent most of the day showing him around the place and making sure he did not get lost. We moved from Ramshead to the Peak, Northridge, Snowdon, Needles, and Skye. We agreed that upper Bunny Buster to lower Chute was the best run, Timberline also skied well. He quit at around 2:15 to watch the end of the Pats game while I ventured to see if anything else was skiing good, but by late afternoon everything was pretty skied off except Skyeburst which had nice spring moguls. One other note, the view from the peak was spectacular around 11:30 as the top of the gondola poked just a hundred feet or so above the clouds that completely surrounded the mountain and most of Vermont. It really felt high up right then looking out and only seeing clouds below and blue sky above, nothing else not even another mountain peak.
1/2
When I bought the tickets online I was really hoping that it would snow overnight into monday, but instead it rained. We got started from Snowshed Lodge just after 9:00 and headed straight for Superstar Express as I figured thoose trails would get skied off the quickest. Both Skyelark and Bittersweet had nice conditions for a few runs before we moved on to Needles where Cruisecontrol was a bit too firm. Next up was Skyeburst which I was expecting to be pretty good as they were blasting the guns on it. The top was nice, middle was a sheet of ice, and the bottom was a cement mess. I skied too fast into the snow guns, and my skis almost completely stopped. I thought I was going to eject head first, but somehow managed to spin 180 and stop backwards. I then watched the next three people experience similar results as they came in under the guns. That was enough of Skyeburst for me.
We toured other areas of the mountain but everything was pretty icy by 11:30 or so. I split from my brother after lunch, but the only decent trails by then were Snowshed (where they were blowing nice snow, and Ramshead (where the trails aren't steep enough to get scraped off). After finishing with a run off the poma, we met up before 3:00 at Snowshed to pack up and head home. Before we left though I did purchase one of their T-shirts. It is black with a white diamond in the center, "I'm Difficult" is written over the diamond. It was too funny to pass up.
Overall it was nice to get out with someone else for a change instead of skiing solo. We both had a good time, but I was hoping the conditions would be better. That we would of gotten just a little bit of new snow instead of rain. That's how this season is going I guess.
