Perfect Early Winter at Killington

Last Friday, I enjoyed a splendid early season day at Killington. Conditions were good, terrain was abundant for the date (open trails from Skylark to Rams Head) and the weather was perfect – one of those days I like to call no weather – due to the comfortable conditions. I met up with Vinny, Dennis and Mark to celebrate Mark’s birthday on the slopes.

Killington gondola
Killington gondola approaches the summit

We rode the K1 Gondola to the summit and skied down Great Northern towards North Ridge. The guns blasting along upper Great Northern were putting out sticky snow, and the passengers in the first few gondolas of the day wound up in a multi-skier pile up at the start of their first runs.

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Killington World Cup 2023

One hundred athletes from sixty countries around the globe took on Killington for the 7th year in an incredible weekend at the annual Women’s Audi Ski World Cup. Mother nature complied and the course on Superstar was an icy vertical sheet, just how the athletes like it.

Lara Gut-Behrami
Lara

Dropping at 1,200 vertical feet, 4,800 in length with a pitch from 30 to 50 degrees for the Giant Slalom, the course is steep. On the final headwall section, also known as Preston’s Pitch, it’s a steep, slick drop off onto some Northeast ice that’s been manicured and designed for maximal speed to the finish line. Throw in more cowbell and you get a course worthy of the finest female racers on the planet.

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Indy Pass adds 50+ Partners, Pass Sales Resume

Grand County, CO. (October 10, 2023) – The Indy Pass announced today that 54 new partners have signed on for the ’23/24 season, including some big resorts in Europe, Japan, and Western Canada, and dozens of independent Alpine and Nordic resorts across North America.

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Montana Snowbowl

With a vast network of trails linked by more than 80 modern lifts, the Skiwelt is one of Austria’s largest and most popular interconnected circuits. Featuring dozens of on-mountain F&B huts and nine authentic villages offering a wide variety of accommodations, it’s a setting well-suited for a classic Austrian ski vacation.

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