My recent visit to Killington proved that great days can be built on low expectations. Sometimes high expectations deliver. But not often enough to warrant the build up of excitement. If only I could contain said excitement when 4-6″ is forecast for Cannon on top of 8″ since Friday. But by now I should understand that southerly storm flows do not deliver for Franconia Notch. And yesterday’s snow rarely holds on before being blown across the mountain.

But you can’t blame a mislead guy for being excited. The first warning sign was Lower Gremlin under the Peabody Quad was blown down to the frozen grass. The second warning sign was that there was no snow making on Profile despite the trail report. That snow making was actually on Tramway (reported to be natural only without snow making) which was a whaled low visibility mess and no longer on the table. The actual two inches of fluff barely made Rocket’s boiler plate tolerable.

Ten inches in four days doesn’t just disappear. It gets blown somewhere. You just have to snuff it out and hammer it. And it was good. But lapping it was miserable. It is hard to believe I had a better day at Killington on Saturday than a borderline powder day at Cannon today. But that is the difference between expectations and results which can color reality various shades.