Skyehawk is open fairly often. As GIS pointed out, it gets a lot of blow-over for a base on skier's left, and the slope is fairly grassy, and where it isn't grassy the rocks are smooth. This may sound like a joke, which it sort of is, but compared to the sharks teeth on Vertigo they are benign. You can push some thin cover on Skyehawk if you're on your I don't care powder skis, of which every Killington skier should have a pair. The rope lives there almost the whole season. What changes is a narrow gate will open on the Superstar side. If you just see the rope, and don't see the little gate, you won't know it's open. If it snowed over a foot in the last 3 weeks, more than likely it's been open. A lot. It was open essentially the entire month of March, plus the 2nd half of December. This year the blow-over was especially, um, shapely.
That said, for the unfamiliar discretion counts in deciding if it's a good idea to try it. Watch someone go down if its open, and see how it skis. Once the temp is 50 or higher, it's game on in the Spring. Those bumps can be the cliff-iest on the mountain, and the first 5 are.... steep. Graduation day.
Only twice on May 1st I've skied Killington's "Front 4" from the top: Vertigo, Skyehawk, Superstar and Ovation. That doesn't happen very often, we'll see about this year.
. Oh, I may or may not have a black mask on, depending on "precipitation"
That's how we roll.....
