Killington 4/3/2011

Weather: Perfect, bluebird skies, mid 20s to low 30s
Conditions: Nice soft groomed snow and soft bumps on select trails.

What a day, what a change from the previous day! Saturday it was a mixture of everything, fog, sun, snow, rain, sleet, warmth, cold, sometimes all at the same time. Overall Saturday was good until about 1PM when the snow got very grabby. At this point I figured Sunday would be far better, I was right. Typically on Sunday I like to leave early noon, perhaps 2 on a good day, as I have a 4.5 hour ride home. On this day conditions were so good that I didn't leave until 4PM, carpa diem type of day for sure.

As is usually the case we started on Ramshead so that my wife could get her usual warm up in. This usually bugs me as I think about all the good stuff getting skied off, no problem with this today. Ramshead was fun, all the other stuff didn't get skied off, almost everything was in great shape all day! Skied Snowdown, then across to Canyon area where we hit Lower East Fall and Cascade, both in great shape. On to Needles, real nice, one exception was Vertigo. It was fun, but a bit ticky, soft widely spaced bumps on a sheet of ice  . Hit Bear mountain, Outer Limits was in the best shape I've seen it all season. Across to Superstar, sweet and empty. Bottom line, we hit most of the mountain and had a blast. It was a day for skiing and definitely a day for taking pics. Just a shame they already closed Bear, Needles and have already announced a closing date of 5/1 for the rest of the mountain. I started a page on facebook to try and get some support (petition if you will) to keep things open longer.https://www.facebook.com/pages/Keep-Killington-Open/164020750322652

Sweet TR, and beautiful pics.  To me, that's Friday Fantasy stuff.

I do think you should bring in the pope, if you need some extra muscle on the outer limits thing.

Or maybe ... next Saturday you have a peaceful demonstration. Something that demonstrates demand.  

Get like 100 skiers to skin up to the top of OL, at opening.  

You could do a video, where you ask each skier, if he/she'd give $10 for each lift to the top. Tape their reactions.

Be cool if the conditions were hero corn like yesterday too.

Harvey44 wrote

Sweet TR, and beautiful pics.  To me, that's Friday Fantasy stuff.

I do think you should bring in the pope, if you need some extra muscle on the outer limits thing.

Or maybe ... next Saturday you have a peaceful demonstration. Something that demonstrates demand.  

Get like 100 skiers to skin up to the top of OL, at opening.  

You could do a video, where you ask each skier, if he/she'd give $10 for each lift to the top. Tape their reactions.

Be cool if the conditions were hero corn like yesterday too.

Once they close OL, people do still skiing. It's very common. They take the Superstar lift up, work their way across to OL and ski down. Take turns driving each other back and forth. Killington is aware of this. Folks coming down 4/15/2006

Another great pic. Wow.

I was thinkin our vid goes viral and we get like a million views.  

The pressure would be too much!  They could never resist?

As long as you can ski OL off a lift, it's technically open right?  

That's how we'd look at it at Gore.

Harvey44 wrote

Another great pic. Wow.

I was thinkin our vid goes viral and we get like a million views.  

The pressure would be too much!  They could never resist?

As long as you can ski OL off a lift, it's technically open right?  

That's how we'd look at it at Gore.

Never really closed as it's public land.