Howie, Billy B, and Dale with Mary on Cruise Control

Howie, Billy B, and Dale with Mary on Cruise Control

Todays adventure out on the slopes of Killington featured an overcast sky and lots of soft surfaces of machine groomed packed powder. The overcast is the next storm system moving into the area with more snow predicted. The soft surfaces were the product of the weekends snow storm, combined with the work of Killington's fleet of groomers covering and combing the mountain with a nice powdered sugar coating.

The overcast conditions and a shortened ski morning kept us on the Bear Mountain side of the resort. Bear Mountain was filled with black and double black trails this morning masquerading as graceful cruisers. All of the trails featured a nice soft surface which was a mix of machine groomed granular combined with soft powder. It gave the surfaces a nice soft feel which was compliant under foot without requiring razor sharp edges to hold ones turns.

Steeper terrain, like the upper headwall on Sky Burst, Outer Limits, the Viper Pit, and portions of Wild Fire were slightly firmer, but even there the requirement for hard edge turns was minimal. Outer Limits this morning skied relatively soft with only a couple of areas of exposed hardpack. And even then the hardpack areas were very small. Wild Fire, Bear Claw, Lower Dream Maker and Sky Burst were edge to edge soft corduroy, satisfying both the need for speed, and the desire to work the legs with sweeping turns.

Off of Sky Peak, more of the same was the rule of the day. Cruise Control, Needles Eye, Bitter Sweet, and Upper Sky Lark were groomed flat. Lower Sky Lark had some vestigial bumps left over from the weekend. The Upper Headwall and middle sections of Outer Limits were very soft. The lower headwall was narrow and firm, the result of bumps on skiers right and left intruding into the middle of the trail

The weekend snow really dressed up conditions at the resort. Light snow is in the forecast for tonight with a more serious snow storm predicted for Wednesday and Thursday. With luck, March will come in like a lion and blanket the area is more of the white stuff.

Let it snow!!!