January 20th

Wednesday was cold and hard and fast. The first run was Terrible. The whole mountain was on hold because of the rain the day before, making surfaces rough. Our first run was Rime to East Fall, Rime was ice cubes, that rattled your bones, and East Fall was so icy and dicey I skidded my whole way down like a beginner!

Each run after that did get better. We found some good man made over on Snowdon, on lower Mouse Trap and the low angle trails like Lower Bunny and Chute were very edgeable. Next we went to Skyepeak and found a death defying Superstar headwall which later got skiied up enough not to scare you, and Skylark Bittersweet were halfway decent. I chased the boys around for 3+ hours and when the temps dropped to single digets, that was enough for me. Peter stayed out til closing bell and had fun on great gun skiing on Wildfire. High speed, fun and powdery. Man Made Velvet Gun Powder.

January 16th

I have a Nordic Ski Report this week.  Too darn cold to ski the mountain! PK & I skiied out around Leffert's Pond, behind Chittenden on Sunday. It was Zero degrees. The snow was about 4 inches of soft white fluff on a groomed snowmobile surface. We had a awesome time nordic...ing around the forest. It was definitely the place to be on that day of temps in the sub zero teens with wind chill.  We got warmed right up and were shedding layers within the hour. It was Quiet! and peaceful...with views of Mt Carmel and the Green Mtn Range north that was absolutely beautiful! Loved it!

My last couple of days on the Mountain have been good, but what a HARD surface! Rattles the old bad knee to painful after 3-4 hours! Bear was good until they started blockking it all off for this weekends Big Show! The Dew Tour is on Dream Maker this weekend. Flips and Snowboard delights galore. I think I'll skip that one!

Otherwise, Skyepeak has been hard and fast on Skylark/Bittersweet and Superstar. You need edges though!

And Cascade was okay, a little scrapey. East Fall had some fresh snowmaking guns, but I hear it got bumped up pretty fast.

Pico last week was fun too, they opened KA, which was an 'interesting' challange. A little rough, but not as firm as one might think. 49'er did ski better. Low angle seems to be a better choice with these rock hard surfaces. It's all fun...a bad day of skiing always beats a good day at work. It's always great to get out and get the fresh air and exercise. It's always worth going... but we still need snow! 

Nov 26th, Thanksgiving Day, Peter and Mike give thanks... a gnarley day at Pico.

12" dense powder skinned and skied really well. Giant Killer had 2' drifts and Mike nailed it

once again. Another "You don't know 'til you go, it's always better than you think" day!

Nov 12th    I finally got my first day in on Wednesday and am happy to report skiing was fantastic! We took the gondola up and skiied The Glades. (North Ridge) Rime and Upper East Fall were open and snow conditions were firm but nicely edgeable. Not a single bare spot or rock in sight. Great cover. It was a bluebird day and so great to be out and get that 'Big Mountain Feeling'! Luckily we got right on them and skiied like we'd been out all week. 'Just like riding a bike!' yea! loved it! Friends were out and the 'comraderie' only we skiiers have made it more fun than most adults get to enjoy. yea us!

Peter and friends got some geat early turns in in October at Pico. A couple of nice days of skinning up and skiing some 'fast grass.' Not too good for the skis, but great for the soul. the season has begun!

Pico 1st Snow and 1st tracks!

Oct 28, 2011    (4")

SNOW! We got 4 inches here in town, and the mountain got 6 inches plus! Peter and friends are hiking Pico this morning to ski some 'fast grass'. Another 7 inches is predicted for Saturday night! yea! I'll post some picture as soon as I can of the first tracks!

Sunday 0ct 2, 

We have some great 'glades' skiing to look forward to this winter!

Below is the trail from Pico's Lower Giant Killer to the new Glade.

It runs down the old 'Barrrow's Narrow's snowmobile trail to the top of the Golden Express.

(We don't know the new name yet!)

Below are a couple of shots of the wooded glades we will be anxious to get into as soon as the snow flies!

Looks really tempting! doesn't it.  can't wait !

 Photos of Hurricane Irene Damage to Our Road, Route 4 East in Mendon and Killington!

The Massive Power of Nature turned our small mountain stream into a raging river ! Unbelieveable damage in multiple locations!

And we're talking Route 4 , our major, and only road East over the mountain.

Rte 4 East of us. 2 miles up the road in Mendon, just above Sugar & Spice Restaurant, there were 3 washouts like this from Wheelervile Rd down to Meadow Lake Drive. All reraired perfect in 21 days!

Rte 4 East in Killington, just below Aspen East Ski Shop, above River Road , the white house on the right is gone! This section is also back to normal.

 

We are counting our Lucky Stars

Route 4 East is OPEN!  and paved all the way to Woodstock and beyond. Route 100 is also open.

Route 107 to Bethel is the only one still closed.

A 'taste' of last season...

March 10, 2011   Ho Hum ... another foot of snow on Monday, Jay and Stowe got 2 feet! It was dense, cakey and heavy to shovel! But what a great addition to the already 4 foot base! Especially after the last big rain on Sunday. People say Monday's bluebird skies made it one of the best days of the season. Wednesday's skiing on Killington was excellent all over, Northstar and Great Bear were a little stiff in the morning, but everthing softened up nicely by noon.

March 1, 2011  Last Wednesday Peter got in multiple 'side country' trips of fresh 6-8 inches and had another 'best day ever'. Lots of skinning and fun with friends. The 'on piste' was hard and fast after a thaw and refreeze. Sunday we skiied the fresh 4-6 inches at Pico, with some epic woods runs that ended February on a great note. Glad we got the powder day in before the melt down. Mondays rain, sleet and mixed precip will solidify the base, bringing us another frozen surface until we get another few inches of fresh on top. The SUN is shining a lot more lately! Have you noticed we get 2-3 days of sun every 10 days now instead of 1 !  Springs Coming! Looking forward to some golden corn conditions!

Feb 9, 2011   We can't say enough about what a great season this has been. Everyone is so psyched to be getting in the best skiing in as long as we can remember. We have been so lucky to have powder every wednesday! (our day off to ski!) Today we even had sunshine and 8 inches of fresh snow. We had the backcountry ruined by a thunder and lightning and rain storm last saturday night, but tuesdays 6-8 inches of snow brought the conditions back to beautiful, soft, fluffy powder. Peter and friends did a bunch of backcountry today and I went out and did a couple of hours out to Chittenden Reservoir. It was deserted out there, beautiful, scenic and wild.

January 24, 2011

What a season! We have been blessed by the snow Gods this year with the lightest, driest powder snow we can remember. We are finally getting a great base, and the fluff on top these past two weeks have been to die for! yea us!  Peter did just 3 runs on Pico Saturday morning, @ 5 degrees, and all he could say was WOW! WOW! WOW! for all 3 Runs! He did the Pike, Sunset and Lower Giant Killer, and said it dosn't get any better than this! The Wednesday before we skied woods all day and got 6-8 inches of powder over a dense lightly crusted base, and a foot of powder the Wednesday before!

1/24/11, we skiied a favorite skinning trail off of Wheelerville Road. It was only 5 degrees, we got 6 inches of the lightest fluffy powder....and got a fabulous downhill run in. it was awesome!

JK Nordic skiing on Bonna Woodies last Sunday 1/16/11... Leffert's Pond

This is the Best! Gotta LOVE this! This is our new Canadian friend, Pierre, who traveled 6 hours from an hour north of Montreal to come buy skis from us. As you can see he loves his new skis! This was taken at the hotel the night he was here. We have heard from him twice, since, exclaiming about the fun he is having on them! We love to hear from happy customers! Bonjour Pierre!

Mike & Teddy Earnin' turns Christmas Day

Owen Early season skiing above the Grand Hotel   Nov 2010

Take a left at the big birch, and a right at the 3 pines... and it's UPHILL from there! Skinnin' that is... no lifts here... Mark B.  

Family fun... The White Trail, backside of somewhere

Peter took this from the top of Catwalk    great shot! of a favorite spot!

Dave gettin' the goods we all dream about

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