Stowe 1/5

[RootDKJ]

Date(s) Skied: Jan 5, 2010

Resort or Ski Area: Stowe

Conditions: Cold, powdery, mostly groomed, glazed doughnut

Trip Report: Ok, so I'm a few days late with the TR. I was having such a good time in Stowe, sitting in front of the laptop posting TR's was not high on my priority list.

Good skiing today. Mostly a nice packed powder with some scratchiness in spots. Started the day off at the Forerunner Quad a little late and the Gondola wasn't running yet. They were making snow overnight on Liftline, and had 3-4 guns pointed directly at the chairlift. So by the time you got to the top, you looked like a glazed doughnut and your bases got a nice blasting with ice. Lifties were handing out scrapers at the top to clean your bases off. I just used my Blue season pass and that worked pretty good.

After 3 trips up the Quad, I had enough of this and decided I was going to go over to the Midway lodge until the gondi started spinning. Well, just as I got there, they started letting people up. So I skied off the Gondola until around noon.

I then went over to explore the Spruce area a bit. Took the Sunny Quad up 3 times and enjoyed the trails over there a lot. I made my way over to the Sensation Quad, but there was a huge headwind that blasted you the whole ride up, so I only did one run off that lift.

Lunch in The Great Room was fun. Using real silverware and plates in the lodge is a novel concept. After lunch, I did a few more runs off the Sunny Quad, then went back over to the Gondola to get out of the wind. I like the area over at Spruce and will go back there later in my trip.

Snowmaking on Liftline

Here's where I go get glazed

Me on my solo gondola ride

Mansfield Gondola Area

Lunch (Chili, Onion Rings & Coffee)

(Yes, the chili and rings are as good as they look ;-) )

Spruce Area

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[billski]

Thanks! I'll be up there on Saturday.

Now I understand another's comment that gogs were getting iced up. I'm sure they didn't do that on purpose. Winds must have shifted. You're lucky they didn't lifthold the quad.
Where was the best snow?

 

[RootDKJ]

Thanks! I'll be up there on Saturday.

Now I understand another's comment that gogs were getting iced up. I'm sure they didn't do that on purpose. Winds must have shifted. You're lucky they didn't lifthold the quad.
Where was the best snow?

Honestly, Spruce, but there's a heavy gaper factor over there.. I didn't make it over to the Forerunner Quad on my last day (Nose Dive was closed for snowmaking), but Main Street was simply awesome.