GrilledSteezeSandwich
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Hey All,
I'm back from a fun day skiing at Killington. The road-trip began yesterday at 12:30PM when I picked up Atomic Jeff in Bethlehem. We got on the road and made great time to Rutland despite the fact that I drive like a grandma. Phillycore took his own car up from Philly and he passed us while we were at a rest stop but then we caught him right before the final 48 miles from I-87 to Rutland. We got a suite at the Best Western 3 miles east of Rutland for $108 including tax so only $36 each. After settling into our accomadations we hit up the Sirloin saloon and then went back to the suite to drink some beer. I freaking love Long Trail Blackberry Wheat. I should have brought some home with me. At one point I got into all my gear and jumped off the couch and there is a youtube worthy video that A-Jeff will put together.
After a clear cool night with tons of stars..the morning was very sunny with thick frost on our cars..we took advantage of the free breakfast and then drove to the mountain. There were a decent amount of cars at 9:25AM but nothing crazy..they were already letting people on the gondola ahead of their 10AM opening. We booted up and got our tickets for $65 each. I saw PASRs own Skidude scanning passes at the base of the K1 gondola. At the top we took the only route down from the peak..Great northern which had nice chalky manmade but lots of snowguns blasting..that led to lower great northern, Rime and a section of East falls..from the top of the Northridge triple was also Reason. Only the lower mountain bunny buster was open with snowguns blasting. Early in our session we mainly skied off the triple to stay out of the snow guns. At 11:00AM I saw Roark, Bostonian, Treeskier, and Mondeo at the top but I didn't ski with them until a little later..Of the AZers..we saw and skied with Mondeo the most..it's the first time I saw the Cabcrawler bump skeeze..and they're cool. My favorites of the day was the left side of Rime and the wide section of great northern to the right of Rime because it was a good place to open it up a bit. I took it really easy and skied at about 60% speed..there were far to many people and ski condition types to push it..plus it's only November 2nd. In total we skied for 4 hours from 9:40AM until 1:40PM with no breaks except when the gondola stopped for about 10 minutes..a total of 12 rides up the triple and 4 rides up the Gondola..The bottom with all the snowguns blasting was a bit of a clusterf8ck but the runs off the top were quite pleasent. I feel really good and I'm sure there will be pictures soon..What a great first day of lift served..woo hoo..well worth the 5+ hour drive and $65 lift ticket..I'm guessing there were several hundred Killington passholders and several hundred people bought tickets..they blew snow right until I left and I'm sure the guns are blasting tonight. The people who get to ski there the next few days can expect nice coverage, snow quality and light crowds..
Killington is Back!!!!
I'm back from a fun day skiing at Killington. The road-trip began yesterday at 12:30PM when I picked up Atomic Jeff in Bethlehem. We got on the road and made great time to Rutland despite the fact that I drive like a grandma. Phillycore took his own car up from Philly and he passed us while we were at a rest stop but then we caught him right before the final 48 miles from I-87 to Rutland. We got a suite at the Best Western 3 miles east of Rutland for $108 including tax so only $36 each. After settling into our accomadations we hit up the Sirloin saloon and then went back to the suite to drink some beer. I freaking love Long Trail Blackberry Wheat. I should have brought some home with me. At one point I got into all my gear and jumped off the couch and there is a youtube worthy video that A-Jeff will put together.
After a clear cool night with tons of stars..the morning was very sunny with thick frost on our cars..we took advantage of the free breakfast and then drove to the mountain. There were a decent amount of cars at 9:25AM but nothing crazy..they were already letting people on the gondola ahead of their 10AM opening. We booted up and got our tickets for $65 each. I saw PASRs own Skidude scanning passes at the base of the K1 gondola. At the top we took the only route down from the peak..Great northern which had nice chalky manmade but lots of snowguns blasting..that led to lower great northern, Rime and a section of East falls..from the top of the Northridge triple was also Reason. Only the lower mountain bunny buster was open with snowguns blasting. Early in our session we mainly skied off the triple to stay out of the snow guns. At 11:00AM I saw Roark, Bostonian, Treeskier, and Mondeo at the top but I didn't ski with them until a little later..Of the AZers..we saw and skied with Mondeo the most..it's the first time I saw the Cabcrawler bump skeeze..and they're cool. My favorites of the day was the left side of Rime and the wide section of great northern to the right of Rime because it was a good place to open it up a bit. I took it really easy and skied at about 60% speed..there were far to many people and ski condition types to push it..plus it's only November 2nd. In total we skied for 4 hours from 9:40AM until 1:40PM with no breaks except when the gondola stopped for about 10 minutes..a total of 12 rides up the triple and 4 rides up the Gondola..The bottom with all the snowguns blasting was a bit of a clusterf8ck but the runs off the top were quite pleasent. I feel really good and I'm sure there will be pictures soon..What a great first day of lift served..woo hoo..well worth the 5+ hour drive and $65 lift ticket..I'm guessing there were several hundred Killington passholders and several hundred people bought tickets..they blew snow right until I left and I'm sure the guns are blasting tonight. The people who get to ski there the next few days can expect nice coverage, snow quality and light crowds..
Killington is Back!!!!
