Stowe laps Tues. Nov. 27, 2001

[randywnh]

Stowe was skiing today sort of like SkyeLark at Killington on <BR>a cloudy day in the first week of April. A few wimpy patches <BR>of natural snow started to show up in the drift hollows near the <BR>top of LiftLine/National. Cloudbase was half way down North Slope at <BR>9 AM, rising to the N.S./Lord junction by 11:30 AM. Dry, no drizzle. <BR> <BR>They didn't groom last night. Okay with me. <BR>Well drained corn snow, various less than full-width areas, <BR>some where the trail necked down to 8 foot or so wide, some <BR>spots with a 3 or 4 foot wide strip on either side of the trail, <BR>and a 4 foot stretch of dirt a few covered with a few inches <BR>of slush located a hundred feet above the bottom. <BR>Negotiating these spots was a fraction of your skiing time. <BR> <BR>Unload the quad, do a right onto RidgeView, zip down a ways to <BR>exit onto Lord near the National entrance, bomb down to the <BR>left onto the S-turny section with nice bumps on the pitches, <BR>arc left onto North Slope, ski lightly over a skinny section near <BR>the top consisting of brown snow with dirt and gravel churned in. <BR>Bob along through the fun shin high bumps in the middle section of <BR>North Slope. <BR>Ski on and ski off the quad. <BR> <BR>Repeat times 10. <BR>I got my fix. <BR> <BR>- Randy <BR>-