Upper Dreammaker

Upper Dreammaker

After a 7 day hiatus, I was able to venture out onto the slopes of Killington this morning. And it was great to be back on skis again.

The temperatures warmed up slightly over night, hitting the mid teens early this morning. A fairly steady 20 mph wind with gusts to ??? was blowing most of the morning from the west. With that in mind, we spent the morning enjoying the trails on Bear Mountain and Sky Peak, leaving the other peaks of Killington for another day.

We started doing loops off the Skye Peak Quad. Bear Claw to Sky Burst, Sky Burst top to bottom, Sky Burst to lower Wild Fire, Wild Fire from top to bottom, Dream Maker....you get the drift. Everything was essentially soft packed powder with the exception of Upper Wildfire, which was firm bumps. We were working our way over to Outer Limits, but after the bumps on Upper Wildfire we decided to pass.

After about 2 hours at Bear, we moved on to Needles Eye. Needles Eye was perfect with a combination of little skier made bumps and soft snow. Just enough bumps to make you turn...snow soft enough you wanted to turn. A nice combination.

From Needles it was on to the Superstar pod. Bitter Sweet, Skylark and Superstar were all in great shape. Old Superstar was nice little soft bumps, as was Low Road. Ovation was being assaulted by snow guns. The boyz did middle Ovation. I took a pass in deference to my knee.

One thing is obvious since my last mountain excursion... Killington has gotten a lot of snow. Hopefully it keeps coming down.

Let it snow!