Day 90 - Killington

Welcome home! 4" blower pow overnight - 2" or 3" more this morning; 20° with 20 mph breeze; parked in the Vale and started right at 8:00; made 11 runs; skied the Volkl Katana's; all the trees were pretty sweet - The Cathedral, Patsy's, Low Rider; Super Star Woods - Upper and Lower, Julio (run of the day), and Chop Chop (a little less than stellar).

Day 80 - Killington

On the hill from 9:00 until 1:30 with a quick coffee break in KBL; 4" of new snow overnight; 24° and still snowing at 8:30 when I pulled in at Snowdon; 34° with the sun starting to peak out when I left; skied the Volkl Katana's; did a few things I hadn't done yet this year - Pipedream, Roundabout, Devil's Fiddle, and Sunrise liftline; So I had to duck the rope to get the top of Sunrise Liftline, but I even went back and jumped off the chair to get the bottom pitch as well. I'll bet I'm the only person who has skied that lower pitch in years; Patsy's and Low Rider were excellent - Low Rider was so good I did it 3 times.

Day 67 - Killington

On the hill from 8:00 until 12:15 with a quick coffee break in KBL; Epic morning - 5" of fluff overnight with very little wind so there was a good consistent layer of pow to enjoy; Started at Superstar and moved on to the Canyon before coffee, then on to Snowdon and Ramshead before calling it a day; K-1 had mechanical problems and didn't start running until around 10:30, so from 9:00 to 10:00 I was basically all by myself in the Canyon riding the Quad; Skied the Volkl Katana's; Tons of freshies this morning - 1st and 3rd shots at Lower Skylark, 5th or 6th shot at Lower East Fall, 1st shot at Upper Double Dipper, 1st and 3rd shots at Escapade, and 1st shot at The Light; Skied lots of stuff for the first time this year including, The Cathedral, Patsy's, Low Rider, The Throne, and The Light; After coffee the wind started to pick up and it started to snow again.

Day 42 - Killington

Tons more snow yesterday and overnight - 18" in total; On the hill right at 8:00 for another Powder Day; Skied the Volkl Katana's; Parked at Snowdon; After trudging up to the K-1 through Bay 1, I bailed the liftline at 7:55 when it was apparent they weren't loading anytime soon - got to the Snowdon Quad with 7 or 8 folks in front of me and was rewarded when they opened at 8:05; Great Bear/Caper Woods - Great Bear/Caper Woods - Upper Double Dipper/Upper East Fall - Escapade/Flume - Ovation/Superstar - Downdraft Headwall/Double Dipper Glade - KBL coffee - HUGH lines when I came back out, so I got on the Snowdon Triple and finished with a great poach of the snow between the actual Snowdon Poma track and the rope - best snow of the past two days - deep and untracked; I took my first fall of the season today on Upper Double Dipper - I hit a half submerged bump and went over the handlebars; The mountain has to making some serious cash - when I left at 10:45 today, all the parking lots in the Basin area were full and they had people parked on the Access Road all the way down to the Santa Fe.

Day 41 - Killington/Pico

First real Pow Day of the year; 6" of new snow overnight; skied the Volkl Katana's; started at Killington at 8:00; parked at Snowdon; very windy, so the Snowdon Quad was the only lift running; first chair did Great Bear, then Highline; BIG line after my second run, so I got in the car and headed to Pico; on the way down the Access Road, the traffic coming up was bumper to bumper the whole way without a single break! Pico was way less crowded; the Summit Quad was closed due to wind, so I did Expressway twice, then hiked and did Wrangler, then went in for coffee; came back out and did a couple more and went home; nice day.