Bolton Valley, VT 09APR2021

An image of the Beech Seal trail with a couple of people ascending on a warm April dat at Bolton Valley Ski Resort in Vermont
Beech Seal still has pretty decent, continuous cover despite the very warm temperatures of the past several days.

The weather over the past several days has been great, and I guess we sort of lose perspective in how we can often be battling marginal temperatures and cloud cover to even get these nice warm spring days in April.  We’ll certainly take them when we can get them.

With this continued run of pleasant weather, I headed up to Bolton this afternoon to check out the spring snow and get in a few turns.  I wanted to take a run on Hard Luck since I knew the snow there was fairly deep and probably just about continuous to make for a nice steep run.  It’s funny, but Spillway, which is a usual the big spring holdout with snow in terms of steep terrain on the main mountain, isn’t really an option at this point.  Mother Nature covered it up enough on her own this season that I guess the resort decided to save the money and skip the snowmaking there.  Hard Luck did look good as I passed by on my way up Sherman’s Pass, but I was a little too tight on time to fit it in my tour, so I ended up skiing a moderate descent on Sherman’s and Bear Run.

It was a nice run, but I’ll have to see if I can get up for another trip to try out Hard Luck!