billski
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Fri 3/16 Smuggs - generally poor conditions, to be expected, 24 hours after rain ceased. Ice, fgr and brown everywhere. Many closed trails, for good reason. Stayed out of woods this day. Hoping for better on Sat..Got stuck on our access road to the house in Stowe at midnight returning from the bus station to pickup another powderhound. 3 hours of heavy snow make the road impossible without AWD... ..read on...
Sat 3/17 Bolton - Ullur blessed us, snowed all last night and all day. Very few people skiing, untracked pow everywhere. Low altitude woods were heavenly. Nobody ever told me the Bolton ticket was good from opening until closing (9PM)! WOW! Didn't stop till my group dragged me out of there. Light fluffy stuff.
Sun 3/18 Stowe, What can I say. Ecstacy in Heaven. Snowed steady until 3pm. Low altitude woods runs all day. Spent most of the time in the drops off of toll road. My daughters absolutely loved it. Pow between knee and hips in the woods. Groomed low alt. trails had snow about 6" to 14" deep light fluff if you knew where to look. My poor 55 lbs little tyke just kept getting hung up on the pow. She simply loved it. We had to find the steeps, which were a gas. Fresh tracks everywhere all day. Staying in the woods and open trais was the best move, with the winds whipping up high. One of the most memorable days ever. It was really, really hard to quit, even after I got "lost" and came out at the road.
Whoever gets out on Monday is gonna have some of the best East Coast skiing of the year.
On the trip back down, it looks like everything south of Concord NH is ice. Where was the snow/rain line? It definitely wasn't the northern greens!
Sat 3/17 Bolton - Ullur blessed us, snowed all last night and all day. Very few people skiing, untracked pow everywhere. Low altitude woods were heavenly. Nobody ever told me the Bolton ticket was good from opening until closing (9PM)! WOW! Didn't stop till my group dragged me out of there. Light fluffy stuff.
Sun 3/18 Stowe, What can I say. Ecstacy in Heaven. Snowed steady until 3pm. Low altitude woods runs all day. Spent most of the time in the drops off of toll road. My daughters absolutely loved it. Pow between knee and hips in the woods. Groomed low alt. trails had snow about 6" to 14" deep light fluff if you knew where to look. My poor 55 lbs little tyke just kept getting hung up on the pow. She simply loved it. We had to find the steeps, which were a gas. Fresh tracks everywhere all day. Staying in the woods and open trais was the best move, with the winds whipping up high. One of the most memorable days ever. It was really, really hard to quit, even after I got "lost" and came out at the road.
Whoever gets out on Monday is gonna have some of the best East Coast skiing of the year.
On the trip back down, it looks like everything south of Concord NH is ice. Where was the snow/rain line? It definitely wasn't the northern greens!
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