Stowe Golden Days 2/29

[powderfreak]

These bluebird days with great snow are the days I want to remember in July
when its 96 degrees. After meeting up with Jim and Wulf, we decided on some
runs over at Spruce. The bright blue skies, great snow, perfect temperature
in the upper teens, and no wind made it seem almost unreal.

Here's Wulfie on top of Spruce...
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...before slaying some powder.
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Then it was JJ's turn.
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After a few runs between the trails at Spruce, sessioning a bunch of short
but sweet shots, we headed off for some steep tree skiing down a new-found shot.
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The terrain around Mansfield still boggles my mind...everyday brings a new
shot, a great ski run. Today brought us to fields of white magic under
glacial-blue frozen falls.
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And for the odd picture of the day...JJ's ski got away from him.
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We parted ways with Wulf (who'd already done several runs, including a trek
to HB) and headed up the Gondi. Jim and I did a run under the Kitchen Wall
and noted the very deep snowpack in there. Later, we ran into Allen who was
doing some snow depth testing for a watershed project...he noted 110" of
snow depth in that area. Of course some of that is blown in but however it
got there, its a lot of snow when your skiing nearly 10 feet off the deck.

Up at the top of the quad, it was getting late but I can tell the days are
getting longer...sun's staying on the gondi side till just about the end of
the day. This felt so peaceful and calm compared to yesterday.
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Jim and I planned our last run of the day to be Bruce. JJ wanted to show me
the Waterfall line and there's nothing better than a late-day run down to
the Matterhorn in the afternoon sunshine-turning-alpenglow. Well, part of
the Waterfall line was spent doing the thickest bushwhack I've done all
season, but other than that the run down to the Mountain Road was pretty sweet.

At the road, we caught the shuttle back up the cars. Now its after 5pm and
we were the only cars left in the Midway lots. Someone's gotta close the
place down...its always an adventure on Mansfield.

-Scott

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Excellent report..tell Jumping Jimmy Doug said hi..I skied a great powder run with him and Scott D last April..

[JD]

John Wolff on a snowboard, I though he switched to AT.

[SKIQUATTRO]

another unreal trip report....

[billski]

And for the odd picture of the day...JJ's ski got away from him.

I had to look at the pic a second time before I actually saw the ski. Where's waldo???