loafer89
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Area skied: Killington, Vermont
Date skied: May 12th, 2007 from 12:30pm - 2:30pm.
Surface conditions: spring corn snow.
We got a late start to sleep in and did not leave home until 9am, arriving at Killington Basin at 11:30am. We where suprised how much snow had melted with Superstar broken into segments:
Killington Peak featured good snowcover on Cascade to the former location of the mid-station, Double Dipper is broken up and has 50% less snow than one week ago:
Warren and I spent about 1/2 of an hour debating on weather or not to hike to the peak to ski Cascade, but it looked like more hiking than skiing especially with Double Dipper being thin and Superstar burnt away in spots. In the end we decided to go back to Bear Mountain where we had stopped on the way up.
We made our way to the Bear Mountain Lodge and had lunch, being attacked at once by blackfly's. I know how much these pests hate cold, so we finished lunch at the edge of the snowpack on Outer Limits in relative peace, and then skied the lower 1/3 of the trail which had nice deep corn snow and continuous cover nearly edge to edge:
Warren took his time hiking up the slope holding our poles for balance in the snow:
Warren eventually made it to the top of the patch and he enjoyed the soft, small ghosts of moguls from the past:
The end of the season on Bear Mountain (literally):
We did this run once and then went back to Skye Peak and I hiked up Superstar about 50% of the way reaching just above the top of the steeper lower section before I ran out of steam, slapped on my ski's and had fun skiing the moguls, although it is thin in spots with undermined snow. The climb in ski boot's was tough, but thankfully the snow had boot steps in it already, making the climb a bit easier.
I did not take my camera for Supertstar, so no pictures. Warren played around in the snow and skied the lower 100' of the trail, before we called it a day and went home. So long to the 2006-2007 season.
Date skied: May 12th, 2007 from 12:30pm - 2:30pm.
Surface conditions: spring corn snow.
We got a late start to sleep in and did not leave home until 9am, arriving at Killington Basin at 11:30am. We where suprised how much snow had melted with Superstar broken into segments:
Killington Peak featured good snowcover on Cascade to the former location of the mid-station, Double Dipper is broken up and has 50% less snow than one week ago:
Warren and I spent about 1/2 of an hour debating on weather or not to hike to the peak to ski Cascade, but it looked like more hiking than skiing especially with Double Dipper being thin and Superstar burnt away in spots. In the end we decided to go back to Bear Mountain where we had stopped on the way up.
We made our way to the Bear Mountain Lodge and had lunch, being attacked at once by blackfly's. I know how much these pests hate cold, so we finished lunch at the edge of the snowpack on Outer Limits in relative peace, and then skied the lower 1/3 of the trail which had nice deep corn snow and continuous cover nearly edge to edge:
Warren took his time hiking up the slope holding our poles for balance in the snow:
Warren eventually made it to the top of the patch and he enjoyed the soft, small ghosts of moguls from the past:
The end of the season on Bear Mountain (literally):
We did this run once and then went back to Skye Peak and I hiked up Superstar about 50% of the way reaching just above the top of the steeper lower section before I ran out of steam, slapped on my ski's and had fun skiing the moguls, although it is thin in spots with undermined snow. The climb in ski boot's was tough, but thankfully the snow had boot steps in it already, making the climb a bit easier.
I did not take my camera for Supertstar, so no pictures. Warren played around in the snow and skied the lower 100' of the trail, before we called it a day and went home. So long to the 2006-2007 season.
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