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Written on: Mon Jan 26, '09 7:40 pm
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Lynn Fisher
registered since: 14.11.2007
Posts: 67
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Sunday 2/25: I skied this with trail chief Dave Scott, plus Paul Demers and Dean Bloch. We've agreed that it's a shoo-in for the Most Improved Trail award. The most recent reroute, "Dave's Glades" is about 2 miles long and cuts a significant amount of road skiing and sno-mo trial skiing. With the other two older re-routes this trail has only a fraction of the VAST trail skiing it used to have, and a very small road walk up .1 mile on French Hollow Road.
Conditions are good. Base is deep enough. There's a thin crust under 6" of fluff and the crust is just strong enough to catch your ankles when trying to turn off-piste. It'd be nice to get enough new snow to make that a non-issue.
Skiing in the broken track is real pleasant. We tagged Lincoln Gap then skied back down to cars, a total of 5 hours of fairly easy skiing.
If you're planning on skiing this section:
1. Bring a camera. Great views of Mt. Abe, Breadloaf, and Grant at various points.
2. If the snow is deep: skins (especially 1/2 skins since the trail rolls a bit) would save a huge amount of energy on the climb up from the New Haven River. I've done it before in 12" of new snow and it's pretty exhausting to break trail up hill for as long as this climb is. On Sunday it was easy since the snow wasn't that deep and the trail was broken.
We couldn't say enough about what an amazing job Dave has done with this section.
The pic is Dean, Dave, Paul, and Mt. Grant (I think) just before crossing the New Haven River.
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