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Stowe for Christmas?
I'm thinking about booking a trip to Stowe for Christmas week 2005. I
know this is probably the busiest week of the year but it's the only week I can get the kids out of school during ski season. How is the snow coverage that week usually? Can I count on snow or is there a real possibility that I might be not be able to ski at all? The levels of the skiers in our party will vary and we'll need easy green through easy black terrain. Will we find this at Stowe? Also interested in XC. Does Stowe offer XC? -- To reply by email remove "_nospam" |
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Chuck wrote: I'm thinking about booking a trip to Stowe for Christmas week 2005. I know this is probably the busiest week of the year but it's the only week I can get the kids out of school during ski season. How is the snow coverage that week usually? Can I count on snow or is there a real possibility that I might be not be able to ski at all? The levels of the skiers in our party will vary and we'll need easy green through easy black terrain. Will we find this at Stowe? Also interested in XC. Does Stowe offer XC? -- To reply by email remove "_nospam" Stowe is a bit of a crapshoot at Christmas though it's highly unlikely you wouldn't be able to ski at all. Stowe makes snow on quite a few trails. And are increasing snowmaking capabilities. This year there were periods of rain that really hurt conditions. We were there the 2nd week in January and conditions were pretty good -- a week or so earlier they'd had a bunch of rain and conditions were not good. That's NE skiing. OTH, conditions could be fantastic. Most greens at Stowe are either located on Spruce Peak or on the far side of the mountain off the Toll House double. Spruce is a very nice learning area but the amount of terrain is somewhat limited for an adventurous novice. There's also Toll Road from the Mansfield summit -- a long winding, narrow green that's very scenic. Most of the blues at Stowe are a pretty big jump from the greens. Sections of North Slope and Lord have some pretty steep pitch that would likely be rated black at many NE resorts. Perry Merril off the Gondola is probably the most consistent true blue cruiser -- Gondolier is a bit steeper. Stowe village is fantastic with lots of excellent restaurants and interesting shops. |
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"SkiHound" wrote in
ups.com: Chuck wrote: I'm thinking about booking a trip to Stowe for Christmas week 2005. I know this is probably the busiest week of the year but it's the only week I can get the kids out of school during ski season. How is the snow coverage that week usually? Can I count on snow or is there a real possibility that I might be not be able to ski at all? The levels of the skiers in our party will vary and we'll need easy green through easy black terrain. Will we find this at Stowe? Also interested in XC. Does Stowe offer XC? -- To reply by email remove "_nospam" Stowe is a bit of a crapshoot at Christmas though it's highly unlikely you wouldn't be able to ski at all. Stowe makes snow on quite a few trails. And are increasing snowmaking capabilities. This year there were periods of rain that really hurt conditions. We were there the 2nd week in January and conditions were pretty good -- a week or so earlier they'd had a bunch of rain and conditions were not good. That's NE skiing. OTH, conditions could be fantastic. Most greens at Stowe are either located on Spruce Peak or on the far side of the mountain off the Toll House double. Spruce is a very nice learning area but the amount of terrain is somewhat limited for an adventurous novice. There's also Toll Road from the Mansfield summit -- a long winding, narrow green that's very scenic. Most of the blues at Stowe are a pretty big jump from the greens. Sections of North Slope and Lord have some pretty steep pitch that would likely be rated black at many NE resorts. Perry Merril off the Gondola is probably the most consistent true blue cruiser -- Gondolier is a bit steeper. Stowe village is fantastic with lots of excellent restaurants and interesting shops. Do they have much in the way of XC? I thought I heard somewhere that they shut down some of the roads in town at some point and convert them to XC. |
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Chuck wrote: "SkiHound" wrote in ups.com: Chuck wrote: I'm thinking about booking a trip to Stowe for Christmas week 2005. I know this is probably the busiest week of the year but it's the only week I can get the kids out of school during ski season. How is the snow coverage that week usually? Can I count on snow or is there a real possibility that I might be not be able to ski at all? The levels of the skiers in our party will vary and we'll need easy green through easy black terrain. Will we find this at Stowe? Also interested in XC. Does Stowe offer XC? -- To reply by email remove "_nospam" Stowe is a bit of a crapshoot at Christmas though it's highly unlikely you wouldn't be able to ski at all. Stowe makes snow on quite a few trails. And are increasing snowmaking capabilities. This year there were periods of rain that really hurt conditions. We were there the 2nd week in January and conditions were pretty good -- a week or so earlier they'd had a bunch of rain and conditions were not good. That's NE skiing. OTH, conditions could be fantastic. Most greens at Stowe are either located on Spruce Peak or on the far side of the mountain off the Toll House double. Spruce is a very nice learning area but the amount of terrain is somewhat limited for an adventurous novice. There's also Toll Road from the Mansfield summit -- a long winding, narrow green that's very scenic. Most of the blues at Stowe are a pretty big jump from the greens. Sections of North Slope and Lord have some pretty steep pitch that would likely be rated black at many NE resorts. Perry Merril off the Gondola is probably the most consistent true blue cruiser -- Gondolier is a bit steeper. Stowe village is fantastic with lots of excellent restaurants and interesting shops. Do they have much in the way of XC? I thought I heard somewhere that they shut down some of the roads in town at some point and convert them to XC. My XC experience is very limited but there are three cross-country centers. One at Stowe resort, one at the Trapp Family Lodge, and I don't recall the name of the third. I THINK (don't hold me to this) that the trail networks of all three somehow connect with one another, I think via the Stowe recreation path. Don't know of any other roads that are converted to XC trails, but there may be. In short, I think there's lots of opportunity for XC skiing but I don't have any first hand experience with it. BTW, every year they have what's called the Stowe Derby. My understanding is that it starts on top of Mansfield and skiers race down the toll road trail on XC skis. I've heard it's just a mass of humanity. |
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Chuck wrote:
I'm thinking about booking a trip to Stowe for Christmas week 2005. I know this is probably the busiest week of the year but it's the only week I can get the kids out of school during ski season. How is the snow coverage that week usually? Can I count on snow or is there a real possibility that I might be not be able to ski at all? Historical data for the last ten years is available at: http://members.aol.com/crockeraf/ My cursory reading indicates that it is highly unlikely that there will be *nothing* to ski. You might get a repeat of this year (spotty coverage, with limited terrain open), but you shouldn't get skunked. -- //-Walt // // There is no Völkl Conspiracy |
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