Beautiful snow on Upper Chute as seen from Snowdon Quad.

Beautiful snow on Upper Chute as seen from Snowdon Quad.

Not bad... Not bad at all....

As far as ski days go, today was ok. Not a bluebird powder day... not the day after the mountain has been slimed by freezing r@!n. Today was more of a testament to the people who work at the resort. To the snow makers who have worked many long hours to make snow, and remake snow, and remake snow during this early season. Today was a working mans ski day. You had to make your turns, you had to skid a little, you had to put up with "la poussi�re sur la crožte"..."Staub auf Kruste"....and you also got to play in some nice soft snow. And it was many places to be found....

We started off the K1 Gondola for a few runs through Rime and Reason. Great Northern to Upper East Fall was well covered. There were a couple of skid patches where there were significant pitch changes, probably the result of people checking their speed on the terrain. But other than those few places, the early runs were nice cruises.

Great Northern back to Lower Bunny Buster was in excellent shape. There was a little "Dodgem Car" feeling in a few places, as there were many representatives of PSIA on the mountain doing their ski training at Killington this week. But, even then, the crowd was no more so than on a normal early season weekend.

We did the traverse over to Superstar off of Killington Peak down Launch Pad. It is nice to see the resort opening up the interconnect trails between Killington Peak and Sky Peak, as this makes it really easy to move around the mountain without getting on a lift.

From Launch Pad with picked up Upper Sky Lark to Lower Bittersweet. Upper Skylark was covered with relatively soft snow and small bumps, making one pay attention and make turns. Lower Bittersweet was more "dust on crust" with significant loose granular "beach sand" accumulating at the bottom; the result of many hard grooming sessions breaking up Mother Natures handiwork.

Superstar was "interesting" I went down the upper headwall and made a turn right into an ice trough. It was like riding in a r@!n gutter...not turning.. just along for the ride. I literally traversed from the Top Right to the Mid Right, before coming to rest, still standing, by the rope underneath the Superstar Quad. Such a nube... The end of the trough was a nice hump of loose granular.. A simple hop turn and I was on my way.

Once off the headwall, Middle Superstar was quite nice. Lower Superstar, as observed from the lift, was rock solid bumps, so I bailed at High Road to Lower Sky Lark, which was also quite nice.

All in all, a nice day to ski, on Killington's magnificent peaks.

Let it snow!