I made it out for Vermont day at Killington yesterday. Conditions were variable, with about 3-4" of fresh snow on top of a very hard base. <BR> <BR>I started at Bear, and yikes! was it ever crowded. The last Vermont day wasn't nearly this bad. I started off with a run down Wildfire and the bumps at the bottom were choked with dozens of skiers/boarders in various states of disarray. After one run down the groomed side of Outer Limits, I headed off for greener pastures and better snow at other locations. <BR> <BR>It was a curious search, ultimately not entirely successful, but sometimes the fun is in the search. I was trying to find a secluded corner to avoid the crowds, but when I did, either the trail was closed or the snow was nearly ice. I did find nice soft bumps of the man-made stuff on Skye Lark, but the crowds made it a bit dicey. (I heard of a serious collision on Superstar in the morning.) <BR> <BR>Ultimately I decided in favor of the bad-snow-with-solitude end of the spectrum, and found fun on Roundabout and icy hard bumps on Pipe Dream over by the (closed) South Ridge Triple chair, and scraped off semi-bumps on North Star and Great Bear over on Snowdon Mountain. It was my first time finding Roundabout. It's a beautiful, narrow (hiking-trail width) trail with two intersecting bump lines the whole way down. <BR> <BR>Using my conversations on the lift rides as a statistical sample, everyone at Killington yesterday was either from England, New Jersey, or a member of the Otter Ski Patrol.