<!-NOTE: Message edited by 'admin'-!>Oh, the difference a day makes. <BR> <BR>I decided to pilot myself to Stowe Saturday -- partly buoyed by the Good <BR>Friday skiing, but mostly because I could I could pilot myself to <BR>Stowe Saturday. <BR> <BR>What was Friday's "powder" was Saturday's wet cement. It started off <BR>OK, and slowly turned to bad and then worse. Mind you, the groomed <BR>terrain was still pretty fun, but anything left to it's natural state <BR>started off as heavy skiable glob, and later turned to icy death <BR>crust. Best trees were lower down, where the temperature was warm <BR>enough to avoid crusting -- until the snow falling from the sky <BR>turned into earnest rain. <BR> <BR>Still, I had a lot of fun. Nosedive was closed, partly because the ski <BR>patrol was dismantling all their warning signs and orange disk <BR>things, partly because they were having their end of year party on <BR>the runout. Just as well -- by the time I was ready to ski it, it was <BR>probabyl unskiable. I got the last good gloppy turns on an untracked <BR>(for good reason) upper National. Had the only tracks on Toll Road as <BR>I bid goodbye to Mansfield for anothe ryear -- of lift service, at <BR>least. <BR> <BR>I've lost count of days -- I think this was 59. Gotta find one more <BR>before I hang up the boards... <BR> <BR>I should mention that coverage at Stowe was wall to wall and top to <BR>bottom. I remember many an April closing with far, far less snow <BR>cover, significant walking or grass skiing between patches of white <BR>down the lower mountain. <BR> <BR>I DEMAND that they run the lifts one more week! <BR> <BR>But nobody ever listens to me.
Stowe, VT 4/22/00
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