loafer89
New member
Date(s) skied: December 17th, 2005
Area Skied: Killington
Surface conditions: Packed powder, hard packed, loose granular.
I just returned from my first ever day trip to Killington. I started out the day leaving home at 3:25am and I arrived at the Rams Head lodge at 8:10am.
My first run was down Timberline which had skier groomed snow which was on the heavy side. I was skiing with my friend and we decided to ski through the tunnel over to the Snowshed Quad.
We took a quick run down High Road over to the Needles Eye chair which was not running at 9:30 due to high wind on Sky Peak. The Skyeship Stage II was running and we took several runs down Needles Eye and Cruise Control and both trails had a nice packed powder surface. The Needles Eye chair started running and we took one run down Needles to Lower Vertigo which had good cover, but really high weeds poking through the snow.
We skied Down Skyeburst which had a nasty mix of heavy new blown snow and chunks of ice mixed in, Lower Bear Claw was even worse and the ice chunks made for a rough ride.
Outer Limits was closed, but plenty of people were poaching the trail and skiing in deep powder, in fact there were alot of people skiing closed trails today, where is the ski patrol for this????
Wildfire had good snow, if somewhat hardpacked, while Upper Bear Claw had nice natural snow surfaces. Killington rushed to open Bear Mountain and the snow surfaces reflected this.
Superstar had good snow cover with pleasant carvable snow, Skyelark/Bittersweet was also fairly decent.
On K-peak, Escapade had good snow and small bumps, and we decided to ski Flume to the bottom of K-1 which was a fairly good choice, but with thin cover.
Bunny Buster and Chute had good snow, and Great Bear had plenty of cover with nice bumps and was good except for a large water bar that crossed the whole trail at the junction with Caper.
The weather was a mix of sun and clouds with a heavy snowshower between about 12:30pm - 1:30pm. The temperature was 24F at the base and 17F at the K-summit at 1:00pm.
All in all, Killington was OKAY, but not as good as the skiing was on Thanksgiving weekend. They did get the 12-14" of new snow, but it is very wet and heavy.
Area Skied: Killington
Surface conditions: Packed powder, hard packed, loose granular.
I just returned from my first ever day trip to Killington. I started out the day leaving home at 3:25am and I arrived at the Rams Head lodge at 8:10am.
My first run was down Timberline which had skier groomed snow which was on the heavy side. I was skiing with my friend and we decided to ski through the tunnel over to the Snowshed Quad.
We took a quick run down High Road over to the Needles Eye chair which was not running at 9:30 due to high wind on Sky Peak. The Skyeship Stage II was running and we took several runs down Needles Eye and Cruise Control and both trails had a nice packed powder surface. The Needles Eye chair started running and we took one run down Needles to Lower Vertigo which had good cover, but really high weeds poking through the snow.
We skied Down Skyeburst which had a nasty mix of heavy new blown snow and chunks of ice mixed in, Lower Bear Claw was even worse and the ice chunks made for a rough ride.
Outer Limits was closed, but plenty of people were poaching the trail and skiing in deep powder, in fact there were alot of people skiing closed trails today, where is the ski patrol for this????
Wildfire had good snow, if somewhat hardpacked, while Upper Bear Claw had nice natural snow surfaces. Killington rushed to open Bear Mountain and the snow surfaces reflected this.
Superstar had good snow cover with pleasant carvable snow, Skyelark/Bittersweet was also fairly decent.
On K-peak, Escapade had good snow and small bumps, and we decided to ski Flume to the bottom of K-1 which was a fairly good choice, but with thin cover.
Bunny Buster and Chute had good snow, and Great Bear had plenty of cover with nice bumps and was good except for a large water bar that crossed the whole trail at the junction with Caper.
The weather was a mix of sun and clouds with a heavy snowshower between about 12:30pm - 1:30pm. The temperature was 24F at the base and 17F at the K-summit at 1:00pm.
All in all, Killington was OKAY, but not as good as the skiing was on Thanksgiving weekend. They did get the 12-14" of new snow, but it is very wet and heavy.
