Mary on Cruise Control

Mary on Cruise Control

Snow...cold...cold...snow...repeat...

With only a few more days in February, the Killington resort is set up for a great period of spring skiing and riding.

Total snowfall this year so far is being reported at 171 inches; well on the way to make this an average (250 inches) or better snow year. And March is usually the snowiest month of the year. After normal snow compresion, Killington is reporting average base depths around 30 inches, which coincides nicely with the base depth at the snow stake at the inn, standing today at 29 inches. And more is in the forecast.

Conditions on the mountain the last couple of days were slightly firmer than they were last week. The bitter cold of this past weekend and early week have locked up groomed surfaces a little tighter than all of the powder that has fallen from the sky would indicate. But while the groomed surfaces have gotten firm due to the compression of the snow by skiers, riders, and grooming machines, naked snow in the woods is till full of lightness. I know from working outside the inn that snow is powdery and at the mid-chest level (having fallen out of a pair of snow shoes while pulling snow off a roof).

Now is the time to finish your prep work for some warm days of spring skiing and riding. Any turn you make now will help strenghten your legs and your core to be ready for the creamy goodness that is spring skiing at Killington. With a few more weeks of winter left, you still have time to get ready. So get out on the mountain and enjoy the snow.

Wherever life has you at this moment, stay warm and....

Let it snow!