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Trip report - Stowe, Vermont - 31 Jan 2004
I skied today at the Stowe Mountain Resort cross-country center (still
popularly known as the "Mt. Mansfield" cross-country area). Conditions were very good on the groomed trails, and suprisingly good on the two backcountry trails we skied on: John's Road and South Road. Although there hasn't been a major snowstorm here for about a month, it has been below freezing - well below freezing, in fact - for the whole month - no "January thaw" this year! (none last year, either). Little bits of snow over the month have been packed down into a very pleasant base on the groomed trails. On the backcountry trails, the snow had been blown around somewhat, so that in places there was a crusty (not icy) surface but in other places there was perhaps a half a foot of snow for us to break trail through. This was our first time skiing John's Road, a fairly new trail named in honor of the late John Higgins, who ran the cross-country center during the 1990s before his untimely death from cancer. I hiked (and GPS-mapped) the trail this past November, so I knew generally what the trail would be like, but you never really know just from hiking a trail what it would be like to ski on. John's Road seemed to be a little steeper than South Road (but not as steep as the Bruce Trail), so we skied up John's Road and down on South Road, forming a loop off of the groomed trail Bear Run. People with better downhill skills would enjoy skiing down on John's Road. There were a couple of water features on both backcountry trails that I would expect to have been filled in if there had been more snow. Lew Lasher Stowe, Vermont and Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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