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Since Killington was closed, went over to Pico and was glad I did. The conditions were very good although you were stuck on the lower part of the mountain. The highest lift was the Golden Express Quad chair and I rode that a few times and skied all the runs off of it. I also skied all the run off the Homes Knoll Triple Chair (no wind at all on this chair) and really enjoyed the short lift line run under it. The other trails off of it were skiing well too. I was planning on skiing the Little Pico triple chair but Skidork had come back from his errand in Rutland and was there to pick me up so I quit at that point. Glad Pico was open so I could ski today and enjoy that new snow that fell.

BTW, I ran into many Killington regulars over there.

Afternoon Report: At least we were able to ski somewhere [Pico]. No wind to speak of [for the most part] on the open portions of Pico.

ROTD: Bronco. Just starting to get skied in a bit later in the afternoon. Better on the lower / steeper section than the top.

Woods just to the right of Bronco [Stampede ?] were pretty good, but very challenging, with the wind packed snow on top of crust, etc. Again, better on the lower steeper pitch than the top. Had the snow been just a bit less wind packed it would have been phenomenal as it was mostly untracked.

A-Slope was also a challenge [especially for the warm up run] as the upper portion was not very much skied in.

All other trails were soft and quite good.

However, two major Killington screw ups in my mind:

- Why wasn't the Outpost chair running? There was no wind even at the top of it. Had this chair been running, it could have been a phenomenal day. As Ty mentioned, several K regulars were there; we would have skied that side of the mountain in nicely and would have had great bumps to play on. As it was, the Outpost trails did not see a lot of traffic due to the small 'hike' involved in getting there. This chair should have been running.

- No live music in the base lodge. This really surprised me as I figured there had to be several musicians that should have been available with K closed. We were going to have our Happy Hour upstairs in the lodge but left and went back to the K access road due to no music. Also, I heard that they didn't have any / sufficient wait staff for all of the peeps up there.

Odd on the lack of live music as there as live music there every Saturday. Usually a one or two people on guitar type of thing. I wonder what happened?

Was Pam tending the bar at Pico that day?

I did hear she was working there now.

RustyK wrote:Was Pam tending the bar at Pico that day?

I did hear she was working there now.

Yes she is over at Pico now.

RustyK wrote:Was Pam tending the bar at Pico that day?

I did hear she was working there now.

Although I also heard Pam was working there, Tommy was at the bar.