Monthly Archives: January 2011

Stowe, VT 30JAN2011

E and Claire canceled Sunday Stowe program on the 23rd due to the cold, but today we were back at it.  After a fairly dry week, we’d received some nice new accumulation up at Bolton to freshen up the slopes … Continue reading

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Bolton Valley, VT 29JAN2011

  It was a little tough to motivate the boys for skiing last Saturday, since there hadn’t been any significant storms reaching Northern Vermont.  At the house we’d picked up just a couple inches of snow in the preceding week, … Continue reading

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Bolton Valley Nordic & Backcountry Network, Vermont 22JAN2011

After a great powdery outing with Dave up on Bolton’s Nordic/backcountry network on MLK Monday, our next snow event began the following day.  It was one of those low pressure systems in the Great Lakes that redevelops as a coastal, … Continue reading

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Bolton Valley Nordic & Backcountry, VT 17JAN2011

Dave stayed over through today, and the plan was to get in another day of skiing.  With the amazing powder conditions I’d encountered on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, combined with additional snowfall, it was a no brainer to try and … Continue reading

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Bolton Valley, VT 16JAN2011

Dave had heeded my late week alert about the good skiing, so yesterday evening we worked out a Sunday morning Timberline meeting.  The clipper system that had started up midday yesterday dropped roughly 4 inches of new snow at the … Continue reading

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Bolton Valley, VT 15JAN2011

Last week’s midweek system had continued the excellent stretch of snow, yielding a great dose of dry Champlain Powder™ up at Bolton for Thursday, and then snowfall from that system continued at a slower pace right into the holiday weekend … Continue reading

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Bolton Valley, VT 13JAN2011

I was too busy to get out on Monday for the bounty of upslope snow that followed the weekend’s inverted trough system, but overall it was quite a nice event.  By the time it finished up on Tuesday we’d reeled … Continue reading

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Stowe, VT 09JAN2011

Today was our first school program session of the season, so we were off at Stowe for the afternoon.  With the level of skier traffic, especially weekend skier traffic that Stowe sees, Sunday afternoons don’t typically offer optimal snow surfaces.  … Continue reading

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Bolton Valley Nordic & Backcountry, VT 08JAN2011

I checked out Bolton’s snow situation and alpine trail offerings in the middle of the day today, and after heading home, I filled E and the boys in on what I’d found.  Since there was plenty of powder, but not a ton of … Continue reading

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Bolton Valley, VT 08JAN2011

Northern Vermont wasn’t the focus of the weekend’s inverted trough system, but Bolton had reported a couple inches of new snow.  We’d seen generally small flakes from the system at the house, but in the late morning when they started … Continue reading

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