Ruts and Suzy...wheres the Bagel?

Ruts and Suzy...wheres the Bagel?

It may have been a wet storm down south, but it was a powder day at Killington! Depending upon the location anywhere from 3 to 8 inches of light to medium weight fluff greeted skiers and riders this morning as they trekked out on the mountain. And it was Glorious!

I was on Ruts duty today, as the Bagel is still recovering from his trip out west. A bunch of us have been chaperoning Ruts while he has been out of view of the Bagel. I turned my back on him for a minute this morning and he found our friend Suzy on Bear Mountain. Suzy is a great skier, so she stayed with Ruts and I this morning on our excursion around the powder covered mountains of the Killington Resort.

Most of the primary trails today had been groomed flat prior to the snow storm. This week was a Canadian School Break week, so the resort has been keeping most of the terrain flat to accommodate our guests from up north. The flat terrain set the mountain up nicely for it's powder coat, yielding run after satisfying run ranging from freshies to soft powda bumps.

The Stash, Bear Claw, Skye Burst, Dream Maker, Cruise Control, Needles Eye, Bitter Sweet, Sky Lark, and Superstar were all soft and sweet. Early runs were on 3 to 6 inches of fresh powder. By 10:30, the freshies had transitioned to soft powder bumps. Bumps on steeper terrain self organized with a little more regularity. Shallower terrain had more random bumps, but they had an ephemeral quality if you hit them head on, given the softness of the snow.

On the Killington Peak side of the resort, the Canyons was superb. East Falls, Down Draft, and Cascades were covered in soft bumps. I did catch a small bush on the side of the trail on Down Draft (I was skiing way left on the tree line in untracked powder at 11:45) which gave me a toss. But other than that, we did not discover any other snow snakes hiding in the pow all day.

With pairs of shot legs, we retired to K1 just after noon. Ruts was heading back to his house, unaccompanied and unchaperoned, for his afternoon nap. The bagel missed a good one today.

Let it snow!