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Anonymous
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Friday was the first day in about a week and a half that the summit temperatures have crawled above freezing. If you had to pick a day to go spring skiing, this was it. Everything that you needed for a perfect spring day: brilliant sunshine, gobs of soft snow, and not one but two big honking lifts to get you to the goods. <BR> <BR>Ah, Stowe. Glorious Stowe. I've been itching for a big spring day there for a couple of weeks now. After four straight visits to the neighborhood hill (MRG on Sat, Sun, Mon, and Wed) it felt good to be back on "home" turf. It was a special treat to find the gondola still running -- a rarity this late in the season. But why not? There is SO <BR>much snow! <BR> <BR>Coverage was absolutely wall to wall and top to bottom. Nary a rock to be found, unless you went looking for them. The woods were spectacular. The trails were covered with big soft bumps. <BR> <BR>I diddled here and there, with several forays out beyond Chin Clip, down into Tres Amigos via Oh Shoot, an honest top to bottom National (from the old tippy top, too!), and who knows what else. Thirteen runs from 10AM to 4:30 PM, for a total of some 28,000 vertical feet. Ended the day with a slow saunter up to the WCAX station pushing off for meandering run down the shadowy and no longer soft and mushy Booger snowfield at the late hour of 4:20 in the afternoon. <BR> <BR>Hurry up and ski now: there is only 9 feet of snow left at the stake. It won't last forever!