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Ms. Shwilly and I dropped off our older sweetie for an all day lesson and set out for our first day out together at the Loaf, or at all, in 5 years. Conditions all over were nice and snowy with snow falling throughout the day. It was cold and windy on the lifts, but wind wasn't an issue in the...

Date(s) Hiked: 7/6/08 Trails(s) Hiked: Greeley Ponds, Osceola Total Distance: 8.2 mi Difficulty: moderate to strenuous: ascent of E. Osceola was unrelenting and rocky. Conditions: Warm, partly cloudy, slightly buggy Special Required Equipment: none Trip Report: We hiked Osceola from the...

Date(s) Hiked: 6/29-7/3/08 Trails(s) Hiked: Loch Vale, Old Ute, Flattop Mtn., Estes Cone, Chasm Lake Total Distance: ? 35 or so over 5 day hikes Difficulty: variable Conditions: Trails: mostly well graded and dusty Weather: Good weather w/occasional showers, dry trails, occasional slush...

Date(s) Skied: 4/26, 27/08 Resort or Ski Area: Sugarloaf Conditions: 4/26: corn, expanding patches and rivulets, sunny, cool 4/27: rain on slush, midmountain in a cloud Trip Report: Last trip to Sugarloaf this season, for real this time. Saturday was one more nice spring day with a lot of...

Date(s) Skied: April 19 & 20, 2008 Resort or Ski Area: Sugarloaf Conditions: Spring slush and bumps, sunny and mild. Trip Report: We went to the Loaf for perhaps the last time this season and had a weekend of great spring skiing. Everything was open and we did many of our favorite runs a...

Date(s) Skied: 3/19, 20/08 Resort or Ski Area: Crystal Mountain, WA Conditions: 3/19: an inch or so new on top of spring crud, 30ish, started snowing late 3/20: around 6" new, boot deep pow all day with deeper spots, mostly sunny Trip Report: We visited friends in Seattle and tacked on...

Date(s) Skied: 3/8/2008 Resort or Ski Area: Saddleback Conditions: Wet heavy mashed potato snow, rain, 30s Trip Report: We went to Saddleback for our first day ticket purchase in almost two years. It would have been a decent spring slush day if not for the rain that became constant by...

Date(s) Skied: 3/1/08, 3/2/08 Resort or Ski Area: Sugarloaf Conditions: 3/1: P, snowing, windy, 20s 3/2: P, sunny, windy, a bit colder Trip Report: This was the best weekend of the year so far and one of the best times I've had at the Loaf. Various lifts were closed due to wind and it was...

Ms. Shwilly and I went sledding with several friends on the hill in Arnold Arboretum. We did some long runs down most of the hill, mostly headfirst, but sometimes sitting. Sledders found themselves targets of snowballs. We did some tandem runs and found that the extra momentum carried us farther...

Date(s) Skied: 2/16-17/08 Resort or Ski Area: Sugarloaf Conditions: 2/16: PP, light crust most places, 0ish, clear 2/17: PP, light crust, 20s, clear Trip Report: 2/16: President's Day weekend dawned frigid. Fortunately, the single digit temps kept the crowds down on Saturday. The surface...

Date(s) Skied: 2/9/08, 2/10/08 Resort or Ski Area: Sugarloaf Conditions: PP, P, approximately 4" new overnight Saturday, temps in 20s, alternating sun and clouds. Trip Report: Another fun weekend at the Loaf, this time with warmer temps than we've seen so far. Yesterday we did mainly King...

Date(s) Skied: 1/26/08, 1/27/08 Resort or Ski Area: Sugarloaf Conditions: 1/26: PP / hardpack / occasional powder, around 0 F, partly cloudy 1/27: PP / powder, chop, dust on crust, snowing, 2-3" of very light fluffy new snow in all, single digit temps Trip Report: Another nice weekend at...

Date(s) Skied: 1/19-20/08 Resort or Ski Area: Sugarloaf Conditions: PP, groomed, powder Trip Report: We had another nice weekend at Sugarloaf, unfortunately cut short because of wind today. Saturday we started around 9:30. The best runs of the day were tree runs on the upper west side...

Date(s) Skied: 12/29/07, 12/31/07 Resort or Ski Area: Sugarloaf Conditions: 12/29: PP, P, ~5" of new heavy snow turning into huge sticky bumps, snowing 12/31: PP, P, 6"+ of new light powder, snowing Trip Report: We had two great days at the Loaf to end an incredible month. Saturday we got to...

Date(s) Skied: 12/15, 16/07 Resort or Ski Area: Sunday River Conditions: 12/15: PP, groomed, powder 12/16: PP/chop, powder, snowing all day Trip Report: These were the best conditions I've seen at SR. Sides of obvious, popular trails had pockets of ankle-to-boot deep untracked all...

Date(s) Skied: 12/8/07, 12/9/07 Resort or Ski Area: Sugarloaf Conditions: PP/chop, groomed, powder Trip Report: This was Ms. Shwilly's and my first trip of the season. A weekend in the mountains was just what the doctor ordered, as we have been pretty frazzled from intense work schedules...

Area skied: Sugarloaf Dates skied: April 13th, 14th, and 15th, 2007 Surface conditions: powder, loose snow, mank Weather: cloudy, windy at times, 20s-30s. A foot+ of heavy snow fell overnight Thursday. Friday morning we started by taking DR to Spillway and joining the crowd of powder hounds...

Shrewsbury Peak, VT Date Hiked: 10/7/06 Trails(s) Hiked: Shrewsbury Peak trail to ? XC ski trail to dirt road to CCC road to Stone House trail to ? wagon road to some other wagon road to Shrewsbury Peak Trail Total Distance: 6+ miles? Difficulty: Moderate Conditions: Sunny, trails muddy in...