Conditions Report
Report from April 19 and 20, 2025
We pulled into the Ramshead lot at Killington on Saturday at 11 a.m. It was hot and humid, but not raining. People were skiing in the Ramshead park with T-shirts and Hawaiian shirts, with temperatures pushing over 60 degrees. We scooted on up to K1 and got to the gondola. This was the last weekend for much of Killington’s terrain. Most of the mountain was still open, with this being the last weekend for Bear Mountain, Needles Eye, Ramshead and Snowdon. The only terrain left open after this is North Ridge and Canyon.
We wanted to check out the Canyon terrain first. Cascade was good, though in one section required either walking or skiing a very thin zipper line on the side of the trail. Double Dipper is the main spring trail this year in the absence of Superstar, and had a deep base on it. Around noon, it started raining…
We ate lunch and got back out to ski some more gondola laps in the rain. The rain did eventually stop, which gave us the liberty to move on from the dry gondola and check out more of the mountain. We traversed over to Bear Mountain and went straight to Outer Limits. It skied well, but has some funky and huge bumps that can be clunky to navigate.
Every run off the Skye Peak Quad required walking at some point on the trail, including Outer Limits. The only person we actually saw in the entire Bear Mountain base area was the lifty. Killington is generous with terrain openings, and I can’t understate how grateful we all are for that. Spring skiing is a lot more fun with exploration.
After another lap on Bear, we headed over to Needles Eye. It was good! Panic Button to Needles Eye trail was soft and bumped, and had good coverage. Vertigo also skied well, but was trickier to access, and had grass spots. After several laps of alternating between these, we headed out.
We woke up earlier on Sunday morning, eager to get a few more turns in. Temperatures plummeted to about 35 degrees, but it was sunny, and that counts for a lot. We parked at Bear to get a good spot and decided to head over to K1. Bittersweet was abysmal. It clearly had frozen overnight and was fully reflective.
After that, we headed over to Snowdon. Highline and Mouse Trap were great! They both had soft slush bumps. Both involved tricky grass navigation, but I like what I skied. After a few of these, we hopped on K1 and began the long journey home.
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