<I>(Note from the Administrator: This report was originally posted on 3/1/00. Due to our move to new servers, the date and time attributed to this post is incorrect.)</I> <BR> <BR>Another day, another set of fresh tracks. Then two, then three, then four, then I lost count. <BR> <BR>The Year of the Spoiled Brat continued with another powder day on Mount Mansfield. We arrived expecting a day of groomed granular and dust on crust moguls. To make expectations worse, when we pulled in the parking lot, only the triple chair was turning. <BR> <BR>What we didn't know was that early morning high winds (75 MPH, they say) rearranged powder all across the mountain, yielding drifts of snow and windpack in all the likely places. By the time we booted up and had waded through the line of grumbling customers for tickets (or attempts at ticket refunds), the Forerunner Quad had just fired up. We cut third and fourth tracks behind the patrollers when they dropped the rope on Goat. We poked through powder in this and That Glades. We plowed fresh lines through dense smoke near Nosedive. We visited secret nooks and crannies long left vacant since the days Jerm used to steal all the good lines (I swear, Jeremy, since you left town many of my favorite haunts have been mostly untouched). We even found a long uninterrupted stash of kneedeep powpow in the form of a football field long snowdrift. <BR> <BR>We finally relaxed on some well deserved cruisers under the Gondola. We avoided icy death every step of the way. <BR> <BR>Thaw? What thaw?
Stowe, VT 2/29/00
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