Lunch at Wintergreen’s Edge Restaurant near the Fenton Inn.

The bridge into the Edge.  Below is the ski rental room, ski lessons, ski ticket sales and ski patrol safety offices.

A family style restaurant with a full service bar and two glass walls looking out over the slopes.

Duck tacos, a little twist on a traditional taco.

The chili bowl was on the starter menu, but good luck to anyone wanting an entrée after finishing this bowl.  I am going to put it as my top pick of this year’s menu.

Kid’s menu had the standard chicken fingers and fries, but it was well prepared and about twice what our son could finish without my help.

Grilled cheese, also off the kid’s menu.  I never got offered any left overs from this plate, so I guess it was good.

The real reason we stopped in, the Black Rock Sunday with four spoons.  It disappears rather fast with so many spoons, but clearly large enough for two people to share at a less hurried pace.

Snow making at Wintergreen ski slopes

The ski slopes are set to open on December 16^th this year and it is already a winter wonderland for the holidays.   A snow fort fashioned from the cleared snow show just how much they put down the night before.  With the new water tank and upgrades to the snow making, they can make round the clock snow on all the slopes.

The new turbine style snow guns create a blizzard on the slopes.

The base of snow even off the slopes is about a foot or more.  A thick base should give a longer ski season in spring.

A man made snow storm on Eagle’s Swoop covers a few of the houses near the top.  This is the North side of the mountain and the Fenton Inn is on the south side.  While not that far away, it is a much warmer day on the sunny side of the mountain.  In winter, the temperatures can be 10-20 degrees colder on the Northern slopes up on the mountain.