Fresh Snow In The VTBC

So this weekend a few of my friends, Adrian (not to be confused with myself), Laryssa and Paul, from NYC came up north with the intent of doing to backcountry skiing.  Things had been looking pretty grim for the VTBC for a little while, but as their trip approached conditions only got better and better.  By the time they showed up, all of NoVT had been skiing spectacularly.  On friday they hit MRG, where I met them for the afternoon.  We had a good time skiing (and riding with the Point, for half off!) around there that day, and clearly ended the day up at the Alchemist (as most days should end).

We all awoke refreshed on saturday and after getting ourselves together, headed out to one of my favorite BC spots.  It was cold, but not too bad, and the snow out there was great.  We found conditions to be very surfy.  There was maybe 5″ of ultra light snow on top of a more firm, but still very agreeable base.  We took one mellow lap and then the real adventuring began.

[2/4 edit]: If you would like to watch the video from the entire weekend that Paul put together, check it out on the next post.

Yup, we were adventure skinning.  Remember, this is how you know it’s New England at its best.

After a surprising amount of time spent adventure skinning, we finally found something worth skiing.  Adrian (again, not me) was stoked.

It was awesome.

Paul couldn’t help but to agree.

Adrian hitting a little drop.

Laryssa enjoying the snow.

Adrian was stoked.  VTBC really is what it’s all about

After this lap, our time was running out so we went in to one last area to check it out.  I’d spent some time in here poking around during the summer, so I was really pleased to finally get in here during the winter.

Yea, this is a cool zone with lots of mini-golfing potential.

What a great day touring about the VTBC.  I’m glad that we’re going to be doing it all over again tomorrow!