Is this the 2012 Christmas Tree?

Is this the 2012 Christmas Tree?

It's beginning to look a lot like.... Winter!

In a late Thanksgiving Weekend gift to skiers and riders alike, Mother Nature blanketed Killington last night with a couple of inches of bright, white, snow. Where skiing the last few days were on white ribbons laid down by Killington's snowmaking team through a bare forest, todays matinee featured greatly improved vistas of snow capped mountain peaks. Winter is on the way (we all hope!).

Today is the last day of regular deer hunting in Vermont. But Mary has been out hunting for different big game to bag and bring back to the inn. Tomorrow is "Christmas Tree Monday" at the inn, so in our spare time the last few days we have been out "hunting" some of our favorite tree haunts looking for the perfect Christmas tree to grace the inn this season. We have a few candidates which will undergo closer examination. But for today, it is a day of preparation before the big hunt tomorrow.

Christmas Tree Monday is a tradition Mary and I started 15 years ago when we opened the Birch Ridge Inn. Each year we trim a 12 to 16 foot Christmas Tree in our Great Room for inn guests to enjoy. While many in the retail sector call the Monday after Thanksgiving "Cyber Monday", we have always dedicated that day to finding and raising the inn's Christmas Tree to prepare for the upcoming holiday season.

All week long we will be decorating the tree in the Inn's Great Room as we get ready for the holidays.

Where ever you may be, thank you for starting your snow dances and thinking of Killington. Keep up the good work.

Let it snow!