Covered Carriageway draped in new snow.

Covered Carriageway draped in new snow.

Mother Nature can be a pretty fickle lady. But for the 3rd day in a row the ground is covered in white at the Birch Ridge Inn at Killington. Does that make it a trend?

Wintry mix has blanketed Killington the few days covering the country side in a sugar white coating. For the 36 hours prior to last night, light snow fell across the region. Over 3 inches were recorded at the snowstake at the inn on Monday morning. Last night, with a forecast that was awful at best, I went to bed thinking we would be back to a lush green around the inn. But at 2AM when I retired for the evening, the precipitation falling from the sky was a mix of little white styrofoam ball style snow capsules to a light freezing r@!n.

Cleaning up the mess this morning was, of course, a blessed event. While the moisture content was very high, the ground was still nicely covered in snow. The measurement at the snow stake only fell a 3rd of an inch to 3 inches. And, assuming it gets cold behind the storm, with any luck a good base has been laid to build a foundation for future storms. The resort, while it has been working valiantly to remake snow over existing trails, has to love the mix that has fallen from the sky because it will form a perfect base to allow terrain expansion for the holidays, once the humidity goes down and the wet bulb measurements allow for snow making operations to resume.

Birch Ridge Inn dressed up for the holidays in snow.

With any luck, twig season is now a thing of the past. And with more white precipitation forecasted for this weekend, it looks like good ski conditions will prevail for next weeks Christmas Holidays.

Let it snow!