Whitey
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Continued the Burlington area trip - Went to Stowe on Tuesday 2/17. My 1[SUP]st[/SUP] time back there in many years.
Great day, cold but not too bad. Crowd were minimal, surprising given that it was school vacation week. Skied onto lifts & gondis all day. Started out skiing off of the forerunner quad. Hayride was a good mix of cruise & some bumps. All skied pretty well, but the wind had scoured some of the loose snow off of the trails. We decided a challenge was in order and tackled Goat. The mid & bottom were fun but the upper headwall was an icy/rocky patch that was more endured than skied. Skied Chin Clip off of the gondi, it was good but again a little icier than I expected. Some shots in the woods off of that too.
After lunch we took the gondi over to Spruce. I hadn’t skied there since they put in the new lifts & developed the area more. We had to search to find the “Sensation” lift & no one was on it. Middle of that part of Spruce was for racers but the runs to the right & left were really good. Whirlaway is an under-used run that’s got some good bumps & fun stuff. The real treat was Upper & Lower Smugglers. A great, long run that follows the contours of the mountain & mixes bumps & blues. It’s obvious what Stowe is doing with Spruce – give the beginners & intermediate skiers a place to be comfortable. But mixed in there are some interesting runs that not many ski.
Many were in the woods. We did some shots in the woods & would have done more but had a bit of a mixed group of skiers & had to dial it down a bit.
1st run - longest line all day:
Hayride:
Top of Goat:
Goat headwall:
Lower Goat:
Great day, cold but not too bad. Crowd were minimal, surprising given that it was school vacation week. Skied onto lifts & gondis all day. Started out skiing off of the forerunner quad. Hayride was a good mix of cruise & some bumps. All skied pretty well, but the wind had scoured some of the loose snow off of the trails. We decided a challenge was in order and tackled Goat. The mid & bottom were fun but the upper headwall was an icy/rocky patch that was more endured than skied. Skied Chin Clip off of the gondi, it was good but again a little icier than I expected. Some shots in the woods off of that too.
After lunch we took the gondi over to Spruce. I hadn’t skied there since they put in the new lifts & developed the area more. We had to search to find the “Sensation” lift & no one was on it. Middle of that part of Spruce was for racers but the runs to the right & left were really good. Whirlaway is an under-used run that’s got some good bumps & fun stuff. The real treat was Upper & Lower Smugglers. A great, long run that follows the contours of the mountain & mixes bumps & blues. It’s obvious what Stowe is doing with Spruce – give the beginners & intermediate skiers a place to be comfortable. But mixed in there are some interesting runs that not many ski.
Many were in the woods. We did some shots in the woods & would have done more but had a bit of a mixed group of skiers & had to dial it down a bit.
1st run - longest line all day:
Hayride:
Top of Goat:
Goat headwall:
Lower Goat:
