Stowe Thread

[Kingslug20]

 

[Tonyr]

We checked out of our hotel at 7 am this morning drove about 10 minutes down the access road stopped, turned around, then drove back to check back into our room by 7.30. The roads are really bad, I'm not driving over 5 hours in this weather. I guess we ski instead today!

 

[KustyTheKlown]

does stowe still run the quad at 730? if so, id be there at 650 to boot and coffee up.

i too tend to be one of the first cars in the lot on any ski day. i'm an early riser. i hate being forced into any type of secondary lot with a long walk or even worse a shuttle. and i prefer to start my ski day early and end it fairly early so that on a saturdays i have plenty of day left to hit a brewery or chill and eat or whatever, or on sundays to drive home at a decent hour, while still always getting my 20k vertical. i tend to bag more vertical by 9:30 am than most people get all day

 

[KustyTheKlown]

We checked out of our hotel at 7 am this morning drove about 10 minutes down the access road stopped, turned around, then drove back to check back into our room. The roads are really bad, I'm not driving over 5 hours in this weather. I guess we ski instead today!

this was my fear today. any hotel room i would be in would not be adjacent to any ski area that i have access to, so driving to the mountain in the morning and home this evening both sounded terrible, and i just didnt want to ask for tuesday off considering a lot of upcoming work time away skiing

 

[Tonyr]

this was my fear today. any hotel room i would be in would not be adjacent to any ski area that i have access to, so driving to the mountain in the morning and home this evening both sounded terrible, and i just didnt want to ask for tuesday off considering a lot of upcoming work time away skiing

Well I can work remotely so that's ok for me but we wanted to get home today so my son didn't miss school tomorrow but I'm not going to risk driving in this weather over a missed day of school.

 

[KustyTheKlown]

i mostly work remotely too, and aside from not having my laptop with me and my remote access token (dumb to not have that with me on all trips really), there was no scenario where i was waking up in vt on tuesday after the snow and wind finally settles and not skiing. i'd end up not working til wednesday.

i drove up saturday evening, got a hotel, skied jay yesterday, then drove home. that seemed safest x best skiing for me this weekend considering all options

enjoy stowe today. hopefully the ill timed storm keeps the crowds away and the wind doesnt fuck your access up too much.

 

[Kingslug20]

does stowe still run the quad at 730? if so, id be there at 650 to boot and coffee up.

i too tend to be one of the first cars in the lot on any ski day. i'm an early riser. i hate being forced into any type of secondary lot with a long walk or even worse a shuttle. and i prefer to start my ski day early and end it fairly early so that on a saturdays i have plenty of day left to hit a brewery or chill and eat or whatever, or on sundays to drive home at a decent hour, while still always getting my 20k vertical. i tend to bag more vertical by 9:30 am than most people get all day

Nope. .both quad and gondi now at 8..lodge opens 730

 

[Kingslug20]

Crowds arent bad..

 

[Kingslug20]

 

[Edd]

Nope. .both quad and gondi now at 8..lodge opens 730

I take it that’s just weekends and holidays?

 

[Kingslug20]

All the time ibelieve..have to check..stowe always is first to open

 

[snoseek]

I'm heading up there first thing tomorrow

 

[SnowRock]

It’s 8 AM daily now but as noted they moved up the Gondi open to 8 as well. To be honest it’s not that bad… I loved the 7:30 start a few years ago but the last few years I felt like the local/in the know crowd hit that so hard you’d take a lap and the line would be enormous. Now with the Gondi open at least you have two options

 

[Edd]

8am on weekdays is great. Surprised Vail didn’t kill that.

 

[Tonyr]

What an absolutely amazing day out there, my best of the season and we were going to leave today! Skied 5 hours, I'd say around a foot of snow came down while we were out there. The trees were outstanding, we spent almost the entire day in the sidecountry. Tomorrow should be fantastic as well for whoever makes the trip up, the lines were not bad at all.

 

[kendo]

Awesome pics. I've been trying to get out of a customer meeting tomorrow, but it's not happening. I'll come up tomorrow night and get out Weds.

 

[Kingslug20]

Friggin awesome day..spent a lot of time on starr...git wirn iut at 130 and figured the mass crowd exit woukd soon be coming..even the shuttle bus got stuck..still pounding when i left...
This side country you speak of??

 

[Tonyr]

Friggin awesome day..spent a lot of time on starr...git wirn iut at 130 and figured the mass crowd exit woukd soon be coming..even the shuttle bus got stuck..still pounding when i left...
This side country you speak of??

All of the terrain on Mt Mansfield not on the trail map is sidecountry!

 

[Kingslug20]

Things i havent explored enough

 

[Tonyr]

Things i havent explored enough

I'm at the point now where I rarely ski the marked trails when I'm at Stowe. Their sidecountry is beyond amazing, it's really some of the best tree skiing in the entire country when there is snow.