Killington 12-4-16

[Ride Delaware ?]

After a great day on Saturday, my buddy decided to delay his flight home so he could ride with me on Sunday and Monday. We had to help clean the house and pack, so we didn't get to the mountain until around 10 on Sunday. Everyone else headed home.

 

We were once again directed to park in the Vale parking lot and snag a shuttle. Despite being nearly 45 minutes later than the day before, the amount of cars in the lot indicated that it would be a much slower day today. We snagged our lift tickets using another 2 for 1 (my fifth so far this season), and headed to the lifts. Unlike yesterday, all the base area lifts were running when we arrived. Even though the gondola line was only about 5 minutes long, we decided to walk by it to get to the Snowdon Triple where there was no line.

 

It was obvious on the way up that there were less people, but with the bottleneck on Snowdon, the Mouse Trap intersection was still really crowded. We did some laps on the Snowdon Quad before heading to the NRT for a couple runs. The snow was mostly the same across the mountain. Light natural snow on the edges with hard pack and ice in the middle. It wasn't as good as Saturday, but it was still quite fun.

 

After the runs we made off the NRT, we decided to head over to the Superstar lift and see what it looked like over there. Since Superstar and Skylark were blown just for the women's World Cup, it is still an Island from the rest of the mountain. It was obvious going up, that Superstar, while groomed and resurfaced, was still not in the best shape for the public. It's going to take a lot of snow to be enjoyable. We decided to head down Skylark for some long and uncrowded cruising runs. Skylark was firm, but still quite enjoyable. There were still pockets of fresh on the side.

 

After a quick bathroom break at the KBL while walking back to the K-1 gondi, we loaded the gondola for our last run. We cruised down Great Northern back to the Vale lot. We probably got 11-12 runs in about 3.5 hours. While we would have liked to have gone longer, we were tired from 5.5 straight hours the day before and limited sleep. We still had another hour to drive to the Bush as well. Overall, it was another enjoyable day. It's nice to get to Killington before the real crowds descend.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Way to get after it.

[Ride Delaware ?]

It wasn't hard. Even better today. Trip report later tonight.

[tnt]

Wow - looks nice.  Snow looks soft in the pics...

 

Northern VT looks insane right now.  Kind of scrambling trying to figure out if I can get up there this weekend - doesn't look good.  Life interfering with skiing once again.

[Johnny Law]

Looks really nice