Stowe Feb 14

It doesn't get much better than this. Fresh snow, bluebird skies, and little wind combined with temps near 20 created a brochure day.

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Here's the summary in pictures:

Awesome views dominated the ridgeline...stuff is really starting to fill in now. Rock Garden was getting hit hard, which was fun to watch.
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We hit Riverbed, which was basically a natural terrain park. There's a ton of snow on the mountain (many feet) and its about as filled in as it gets.
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High entrance of Chapel Woods was a nice variation to the same ol' Chapel traverse. The woods below were packed out, but oh so soft.
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Then I found some low angle, low elevation line that dumped me into the parking lot...but it was more interesting than the usual run-out.
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Clouds moved in and stuck around the ridgeline from mid-afternoon on...
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Bruce was last. We left a car at the itdoesn'tMatterhorn...
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...and headed down as the shadows grew.
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It was a very nice, enjoyable run of cruising through some buried New England hardwoods. The air was calm and areas of late afternoon sun almost gave a hint of spring...the snowpack is definitely getting up there with hopefully two full months of additional accumulations.
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And finally, to give an example of the snow depth at around 1,000ft or a little above...down by the Matterhorn. This is a standard wood fence...where you can see the fence is under some thick canopy while out in the open, the fence is buried.
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A solid 3 feet of snow pack here...the fence only looks like a berm.
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I got back to my car at 4:40 to an empty resort...we hung out with the dogs in the parking lot for a little then headed home. We're gaining a little bit of afternoon daylight now which is nice. It's been a pretty good stretch of days here lately and I can't wait for Friday ski club tomorrow. Here's an out-the-window shot on the drive home...
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-Scott

dammit Scott, I don't think I'm gonna be able to sleep tonight. Can't wait.

bill

Have fun, man.

billski said:

dammit Scott, I don't think I'm gonna be able to sleep tonight. Can't wait.

bill

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How long will you be up there, Bill?

Great pics as usual, Scott.

BeanoNYC said:

How long will you be up there, Bill?

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Just Friday. I may hit Cochrans on Sat. AM, but I have to be back home for a commitment Saturday afternoon. Leaving now...

Iceman and Ty will be there on 2/22 and 2/23 for a comp.

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I'd imagine another 20 inches of snow will create some pretty large snow fields under the chin area that are going to have some avy danger.

We can only hope. Lot's of tree in that snowpack. Like rebar.

Love the pictures. Keep them coming. I'm a jealous asshole.

where exactly in that pic is the chin?

Awesome shots and commentary....Thanks.

The entire massive hummock looker's right of the gondi house is the chin. The profile of mansfield is a face, laying on it's back. The forehead is just beyond where the quad lets off, the nose is above the toll road above nosedive, and the Adam's apple is right where it should be in relation to the chin.