Geoff
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That guy was parked 2 cars from me. I did a double-take. You don't see carpenter overalls on the hill very often in the east. I've skied at places like Monarch on Texas spring break. Carhartt seemed to be high fashion there. Everybody looked like Sean Penn's brother in Footloose. Of course, my Gore Tex shell pants have a big hole in the shin where I must have hit a branch the wrong way.
I'm useless in this thread. I haven't had intact ACLs in decades so I don't ski the zipper line. My idea of earned turns is walking up Killink to ski Northstar and Great Bear at Killington after they stop running the Snowdon lifts. That's less than 5 minutes up a novice trail if you have any kind of fitness level at all. I walked up to ski Rime the first Saturday in November before Killington started spinning the lifts. I'd been walking up the mountain every weekend as a conditioning activity so putting skis and boots in a pack wasn't much different. That's an hour up a graded gravel road that a passenger car could handle if driven appropriately. I really don't have any desire to do anything much more rigerous than that.
