Superstar getting top to bottom snow making.

Superstar getting top to bottom snow making.

Last night saw a lovely light blanket of snow fall across Killington; making today a beautiful day to ski!

Depending upon where you were in Killington last night, and your elevation, an inch or three of new snow fell across the landscape. With temperatures near the single digits, the snow was definitely prime powder. While enough of it fell to provide freshies on several early runs, it was not quite enough to declare a "Powder Day". But for November 30th, in an age of global warming, skiing today was quite nice!

We left the ski lodge well before 9 to get in line at the K1 gondola. Ruts from RI was up for his first day of the season on the mountain. We scored the 4th cabin of the day, all but assuring untracked powder for our first run off Killington Peak. At the peak, the sun was covered in a mottled sky. With the thermometer reading a crisp 9 degrees fahrenheit, as we started our first run we quickly realized that finding all of the zippers on the ski clothes that were opened at the end of last season was a priority. The icy pokes through what were supposed to be warm jackets was an interesting addition to the first run.

The first run was a lovely cruise down the top of Great Northern to Upper East Fall. 2 to 3 inches of light snow covered the trails kicking powder tails in every direction with each turn. Yet the man made surface underneath gave one a feeling of authority as turn after effortless turn carved into the freshly fallen snow. We quickly hopped onto the North Ridge Triple and enjoyed the same experience all over again with a run straight down Rime.

After several loops down Rime and Great Northern we headed off to the other side of the resort with a boost up the Superstar Quad. Superstar itself, while not open for skiing yet, was being blasted from top to bottom by snow guns. The resort was putting on an impressive display of the power of their snow making system with the number of snow guns operating on Superstar.

Skiing Killington on November 30, 2012 Click image to stop rotation. Click again to resume rotation.

From the top of Superstar, we traversed over to Bittersweet, While the fresh covering was well skied, the surface was generally soft and pliable. The constant light snow that Killington has received all week was really noticeable. Plus with the woods starting to turn white (not enough snow to poach yet so don't even think about it!) the resort just looks like winter, casting a nice feng shui across the ski slopes.

We did several loops from the Superstar Quad on Bittersweet from top to bottom, and Sky Lark from the top to Lower Bittersweet. Lower Sky Lark, while open, was covered in hard monster whales that looked like they were swallowing whole any skier of rider that tempted fate. We decided to save that for another day and struck out for the Snowdon Triple for a few more runs before calling it a day.

Overall, with the fresh snow, it was just a beautiful way to end the month of November on the slopes of Killington.

Let it snow!