Killington Open

A few years ago the lift needed extensive work.
A replacement double would have been cheaper, but the MRG coop owners instead paid add'l $ to keep it a single!

Well they did upgrade it to run at faster speeds! A great chairlift. Keeps the riff-raff from skiing off the powder too fast.

Love how these threads bring all the native Easterners out of the closet!

So all our natural snow is now gone, but Killington still has an officially posted 587' vertical, now reserved for earned turns.


Here's my partner carefully following my route as we attempt to smooth out the not-quite-softening snow that had refrozen overnight:


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Look at all the powder being kicked up by my skis!
(Or am I just scraping off a mm or so of frozen granular?)


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Shameless product placement on the final lap, taken all the way up to the top of the unloading ramp in an attempt to max out the vert:

Killington is still closed ... yet still skiable.
(Thanks to weather that is cold enough to make snow, but not enough to reopen.)

A couple pictures of my "touring" partner yesterday:


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Jonathan, that looks pretty soft, when it gets harder include the sound track...

... the death cookies don't seem to threatening in the pics.

Funny you should mention that issue!
We lucked out with the timing ... just as we finished the hike and arrived at the base of the snow, two one-and-done'ers were coming down -- we heard them before we saw them!
Our first lap was about 50/50, our second lap was much better, and then 3 through 8 were quite nice.
Ninth was already starting to lock up, and tenth was more for the sake of getting a tenth -- after that would have been good only for training, not fun.
That trail just gets very little direct sun at this time of year, even though we were sweating bullets, so the softening window is only ~3 hrs.