Trip report - Huntington, Vermont - 24 Jan 2004

I skied today at the Sleepy Hollow cross-country center in Huntington,
Vermont. Conditions were good to very good. No ice, and just a little
bit of powder on a hard surface. About half the trails were tracked.
They issued a caution advisory for the trail Trois Montagnes because
there were a few bumps, but this was no worse than what you find
regularly at the Stowe Mountain Resort on such trails as Bear Run and
Houston.

Stopped at their cabin for a lunch snack, and skimmed through an old
paperback called "Ski Touring in New England and New York" by Lance
Tapley. The author says that he and a couple of friends had the idea
for a skiers' Long Trail in the 1960s and skied across the state in
1969, which would be some 15 years before the Catamount Trail founders
did their inaugural traverse of the state. Probably there was a lot
more open land in 1969, though.

Lew Lasher
Stowe, Vermont and Cambridge, Massachusetts