Squeeze Play at Killington

[oakapple]

I’ll be visiting Killington over the weekend of 27–28 February. I am curious about Squeeze Play, the only tree run at Killington coded blue. It is pretty rare to see a glade at any mountain deemed safe for intermediate skiers. What’s it like? It is not the first thing I would try, but compared with other blue runs at Killington, how difficult is it?

 

[Beetlenut]

As a glade it is rather tame pitch wise, but the trees are hard woods and tight in places. It gets wider as you ski down it, and if you keep heading skiers right, you get into some steeper stuff that may or may not be part of the offical glade. But it almost doubles your run, and comes out on a runout that takes you back to the RamsHead lift.

 

[Talisman]

Squeeze play is a tame glade that like any glade is tamer with good snow and tougher when skied out exposing rocks or icy.

 

[Geoff]

I’ll be visiting Killington over the weekend of 27–28 February. I am curious about Squeeze Play, the only tree run at Killington coded blue. It is pretty rare to see a glade at any mountain deemed safe for intermediate skiers. What’s it like? It is not the first thing I would try, but compared with other blue runs at Killington, how difficult is it?

I love skiing Squeeze Play at speed. It's like riding an Imperial Speeder on Endor. There's nowhere else at Killington where I can let my skis run in the trees.

There's been so little snow that you have to know where the foot bridge is over the brook is or you risk getting frozen sludge on the bottoms of your skis that you have to scrape off.

 

[millerm277]

If you can ski Skyeburst (Header is NOT a blue in my opinion), you'll be fine in Squeeze Play. It's a great area to learn to ski glades, low angle, but enough pitch to keep moving nicely. Trees are pretty widely spaced, watch out for the brook that runs along it if there hasn't been snow in a while. Also, do not keep skiing much past the runout (there's a flat horizontal cut, very obvious that's where you're supposed to stop), you'll wind up too low and have to hike out.

 

[SkiDork]

plus don't stray too far right.