Photos from along the Catamount Trail. Click to enlarge.
2012 3-Day Tour in Southern Vermont
Greetings!
I am Dean Bloch, the coordinator of the Southern Three-Day Tour, January 20-22, which will include sections 6, 7 and 8. I am very much looking forward to this trip! There will be tour-specific information posted or linked on this page, and on the forum page below.
I have found the multi-day tours to be a great way to ski sections of the trail that I might not ski on my own, and also a great way to meet some super people. So please consider skiing this tour even if you are not currently a member of the Catamount Trail Association, or haven't skied these sections, or don't usually ski with other people.
Aside from the great skiing, we will have a fun get-together on Saturday night at the lovely home of Dagny St. John in South Londonderry. More details will be forthcoming!
This tour will have a combination of intermediate and easy sections, but it is still a backcountry tour, and adverse snow conditions such as ice or heavy powder can make moderate terrain very challenging. I would ask that you read the page entitled "Skills and Fitness Guidelines" below. CTA tours are certainly not races, but we want to make sure that skiers will be able to complete the tour in a reasonable amount of time so they don't endanger themselves or others. And we want you to enjoy the tour!
In advance of registering for the tour, you are welcome to send me an email or call me to discuss whether this tour is a good match for your ability and experience. If it turns out this tour is not a good match, I'd be happy to recommend other tours that might be better matched.
I want to give a BIG THANKS to: Andrew Harper, who is helping to coordinate this tour and who is also leading the Section 7 tour on Saturday; Dagny St. John, who is leading the Section 6 tour on Friday and who is one of the Trail Chiefs of Section 6, and who is hosting our Saturday night get-together(!); and Jonathan Bigelow, who is leading the Section 8 tour on Sunday and is also the Trail Chief of Section 8. I also would like to thank Debby Dorsett, who is the other Trail Chief of Section 6, and Grant Braddish and Michael Scronic, who are the Trail Chiefs of Section 7. Also, many thanks to Bob Jordan, Jill Aspinall and Rich Larsen, as well as the CTA staff, for much behind the scenes assistance!
We are planning on having great snow for this tour! But in the event that we don't, I am still planning to have outings each day, such as hikes or snow-shoes.
Information about the tour will be posted on the forum page below as we get closer. If you have any questions or would like to discuss any of the above, you can post questions on the forum, which is a public site. If you would rather, please feel free to give me a call or send me an e-mail. I hope to see you on the snow!
Dean Bloch, Tour Coordinator for the Southern Three-Day Tour, January 20-22
802-899-5127; dtbloch@gmail.com
Important Documents & Links
All tour participants must be CTA members and read the following documents before signing up for an MDT:
Waiver Form-Multi Day Tours (download and print)
Lodging: A list of lodging options along the MDT route will be made available, and all participants will be responsible for arranging their own lodging and meals.
Please also review the forum, below, for other updated, important documents for our tour.
3-Day Southern Tour Public Forum
Here you’ll find the latest documents and updates about our tour. Please consider joining the CTA Forums to join in the conversation. Create a username for yourself (with only your first name or “trail name” if you feel most comfortable with that, since this is a public forum) and then you can start responding to people’s postings or write about a new topic.
**Note that signing up for the forum does not mean that you have signed up for the tour. Here you will find the information to sign up for the tour.
If you have a question that you’d rather not post publicly, please email me directly at dtbloch@gmail.com.
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