For someone who’s been skiing the Northeast for 25 years, I have an embarrassing admission – until this week, I’d never skied at Killington. The biggest ski area east of the Rockies, a place that looms large in every East Coaster’s mental map, had always been on my list, but somehow never happened.

I’d skied nearby at Pico, read countless trip reports, articles, and lively forum threads about Big K, but never experienced it firsthand. That finally changed last week, though not in the way I would’ve expected, as my family’s four-day road trip to Vermont was designed for my son, who hadn’t been on skis in nearly seven years.

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