Date(s) Skied: Saturday, 2/11/06 - Sunday, 2/12/06
Resort or Ski Area: Killington, VT
Conditions: Very different depending on the trail, ranging from HP/FG to man-made PP with some man-made powery bumps
Trip Report:
Far better than when I was here two weeks ago, but unfortunately natural snow trails were basically closed.
Conditions varied greatly. Trails that probably did not get much snowmaking treatment were hard-packed/frozen granular. Better than a couple weeks back, but still difficult to edge on many trails.
Other trails (those that I assume had some snow-making in the last week or so) which better, include Cruise Control for cruising, Lower Bittersweet for bumps (on Saturday), and some of the trails in the Canyon. Cascade was great both days, with large man-made bumps, though they were awkwardly arranged. While I'm generally a huge fan of natural snow and not into the manmade stuff, I was again impressed by the quality of man-made snow. They had the guns going on Double Dipper an Downdraft all day Saturday. Downdraft snowmaking continued all day Sunday, while snowmaking on Dipper stopped during the day, so I took a couple runs on that, which also had some nice man-made bumps.
During the day Sunday they opened up Big Dipper, so I took that for a run in the afternoon. I stayed toward skier's left in the glades. Coverage was actually pretty good. I had to avoid some rocks, and at one point a little stream or some sort of gap, but I think I managed not to hit anything. Definitely was fun.
I finally rode the South Ridge Triple which was an adventure ... if it weren't brutally cold at the time I did it on Sunday morning, I would've been tempted to take another ride
Resort or Ski Area: Killington, VT
Conditions: Very different depending on the trail, ranging from HP/FG to man-made PP with some man-made powery bumps
Trip Report:
Far better than when I was here two weeks ago, but unfortunately natural snow trails were basically closed.
Conditions varied greatly. Trails that probably did not get much snowmaking treatment were hard-packed/frozen granular. Better than a couple weeks back, but still difficult to edge on many trails.
Other trails (those that I assume had some snow-making in the last week or so) which better, include Cruise Control for cruising, Lower Bittersweet for bumps (on Saturday), and some of the trails in the Canyon. Cascade was great both days, with large man-made bumps, though they were awkwardly arranged. While I'm generally a huge fan of natural snow and not into the manmade stuff, I was again impressed by the quality of man-made snow. They had the guns going on Double Dipper an Downdraft all day Saturday. Downdraft snowmaking continued all day Sunday, while snowmaking on Dipper stopped during the day, so I took a couple runs on that, which also had some nice man-made bumps.
During the day Sunday they opened up Big Dipper, so I took that for a run in the afternoon. I stayed toward skier's left in the glades. Coverage was actually pretty good. I had to avoid some rocks, and at one point a little stream or some sort of gap, but I think I managed not to hit anything. Definitely was fun.
I finally rode the South Ridge Triple which was an adventure ... if it weren't brutally cold at the time I did it on Sunday morning, I would've been tempted to take another ride
