12/12/07
Stratton VT
Ice, hardpack, windblown, loose gran, frozen gran., just about everything
Mostly sunny, very windy 25+
This was my second trip to Stratton this year ( free tickets) before this year I hadn’t been to startton is 7 years. I couldn’t belive the difference between when we left CT and when we arrived at Stratton, it was quite cold, and very windy. The gondi was closed sue to the wind, and only the American express and the summit 6 person were running. The mtn was stripped of most of the snow and ice and hard pack were the primary conditions today. We took a few warm up runs down polar bear, black bear, grizzly bear, then went looking for some harder and more snow covered terrain, we gave upper Salome glade a shot, only to find that lower Salome glade was closed ( were the bumps were) we some how got detour and ended up on the trail, big bumps but plenty of powder.
The rest of the day we skied diamonds in the rough ( glade ) and cabin fever ( glade0 as there was some good snow in the trees, skied right till 3:40 p
d. in the rough glade ( needs more snow)
big bromley from top
Stratton VT
Ice, hardpack, windblown, loose gran, frozen gran., just about everything
Mostly sunny, very windy 25+
This was my second trip to Stratton this year ( free tickets) before this year I hadn’t been to startton is 7 years. I couldn’t belive the difference between when we left CT and when we arrived at Stratton, it was quite cold, and very windy. The gondi was closed sue to the wind, and only the American express and the summit 6 person were running. The mtn was stripped of most of the snow and ice and hard pack were the primary conditions today. We took a few warm up runs down polar bear, black bear, grizzly bear, then went looking for some harder and more snow covered terrain, we gave upper Salome glade a shot, only to find that lower Salome glade was closed ( were the bumps were) we some how got detour and ended up on the trail, big bumps but plenty of powder.
The rest of the day we skied diamonds in the rough ( glade ) and cabin fever ( glade0 as there was some good snow in the trees, skied right till 3:40 p
d. in the rough glade ( needs more snow)
big bromley from top
