Ho, hum, another powder day. <BR> <BR>What, you say? Were you near a radio, listening to flood reports? <BR>Were you sitting next to a window all day, watching it rain? <BR> <BR>Sorry, wrong window. Should have sat near one by Mount Mansfield. But <BR>then, you would have been skiing, not sitting. <BR> <BR>OK, truth be told, we're not talking big powder. It started out at <BR>about 1/4". But it grew from there, hitting maybe 3 or 4 inches by 4 <BR>PM. And sure, it was a wet snow, and we got plenty wet enjoying <BR>ourselves. But enjoy ourselves we did. <BR> <BR>It wasn't snowing when we started skiing, somewhere around 10:30. <BR>First two runs were rather dry, in fact. Snow was soft and corny, <BR>with just a trace of fresh at the summit. But by noon, snow was <BR>falling, and by noon thirty, it was falling in earnest. By 1, it was <BR>just plain dumping. And there was no more than 20 or so snow riders <BR>there to enjoy it. <BR> <BR>By 2 PM, the snow surface had transformed into a velvety smooth <BR>carpet of remarkable resiliency. Good turns were to be found <BR>everywhere, tracks were filling in behind us. Highlights included <BR>Nosedive, Bypass Chutes, Slalom Glades, Rim Rock, lower Perry Merrill <BR>and Gonadlier, bits of woods here and there. The high glades were <BR>truly wintery: the snow cover was still seemingly bottomless.
Stowe, VT 4/21/00
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