<I>(Note from the Administrator: This report was originally posted on 4/8/00. Due to our move to new servers, the date and time attributed to this post is incorrect.)</I> <BR> <BR>Ho, hum. Another April powder day. It will all be mush by the time you read this. Meant to send something from the Octogon, but was too tired to walk downstairs. <BR> <BR>Rusty, Crusty, and I certainly enjoyed it. As always, the nooks and crannies between the Goat and Perry Merrill held oodles of snow, much of it dry, some of it light, and most of it untracked. Boot-top depths and more. Barely enough customers to warrant running the lifts, but we sure were glad they did, as we used them about nine times. Once again we wondered why so many people waste time and money crowding two or three scratchy, monotonous trails in November when they can have 1000 acres of deep snow (okay, we scraped bottom a few times below 2000 feet) to themselves in April. <BR> <BR>Introduced Crusty to Stephanie's Chute and the Kitchen Wall neighborhood. Enjoyed some quiet times by a big ice cave under the cliffs, which featured some bottomless fissures in the frozen water. A slice of High Alpine, and just minutes from home. It is a good life. <BR> <BR>The snowpack around us seemed equally bottomless. These last two Fridays have decreased my end of season anxiety, and I have stopped the songs of doom that I had begun to sing a couple of weeks ago. Rain has no effect on the mountain, and more spring snows are scheduled for my return visit tomorrow. We will ski to May, one way or another. <BR> <BR>Your garden can wait. The boat will go in the water just as easy in July as in May. Go ski now.
Stowe, VT 4/7/00
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