In two weeks I'll be in a group of instructors skiing Killington Mon-Fri.
This week is ProJam, the largest PSIA annual event for instructors in the country. It's a week of training and fun with high level PSIA instructors teaching groups of lower level instructors.
My group will ski Superstar multiple times daily. The trail will be covered with blown snow on top of the race course's injected ice, but it's never very deep. Superstar is notably steep at the top, then there's a mountain road which crosses it that is totally flat. The shift from skiing down that steep drop to skiing across the flat mountain road can catch one off guard and cause a face-plant if you don't prepare for it. Then Superstar turns into a gentle low pitch trail for a bit. That's when the teaching/training happens. Then, half way down, Superstar steepens back up for the rest of its length until it abruptly ends near the flats in front of the new lodge and the lift. By that time you're warmed up and ready for the icy steepness. Hopefully.
My group will also ski Skylark, next to Superstar, multiple times all week long. It's not as challenging as Superstar, but it has a steep, usually very icy, section at its bottom. Both these groomed trails tend to be hard, firm, icy New England blown snow when we get on them in early December.
Superstar's steep headwall can be quite the challenge for those not used to real steeps (me). And so much snow will have been blown on that trail to get it ready for the WC races that just happened this weekend that when you get off the lift you have to side-step or herringbone up a notable distance to get to the top of the run. I tend to get out of breath getting up there (age). Then you get to stand there and look down that headwall, thinking about how you're going to handle it. Or if you're going to bail and go ski Skylark. That is frowned upon in my group.