Powder day at the big K today. The Big K has the goods. Tons of powder and lots of natural trails open. I was on the lift at 8:00 to catch the 9-11" of freshies they got overnight and it was still snowing most of the day. Light and fluffy powder. First I got fresh tracks down Upper Royal Flush to Highline. Phloating down on the phats was phine. Next was Escapade to Flume. Sure it was all cut up by nine but it's December 1st and it was better than any day last season. Next up Skyburst. Mounds and mounds of beautiful dry powder for the Phats to phly through. Back over to Snowden for an Upper and Lower Royal Flush. A few rocks pocking through but there always is no matter how much snow they get.Next was Conclusion. Even the skiers left on the headwall was covered enough. Northstar and Vagabond had tons of powder on top of hard moguls. Lots of fun. At the bottom of Great Bear there is an open stream across the entire trail. I pulled a bonehead move and walked through the stream with my skies. A thin layer of ice formed on the bottoms of my skies making them useless. It took me a half an hour to break the ice off with my pole. But I was not alone. Several other people around me were in the same predicament. I ended up teaching everyone the best was to get it off. Back over to Needles Eye, Thimble, Old Star, Ovation, powder, powder, powder. I didn't try the trees but they are choked full of pow. Killington is wide open except for Bear and Lower Southridge. The only lift lines were on the two Gondolas. All chairs were ski on. A powder day on Thanksgiving weekend?
Killington VT. 12/01/02
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