Patrick
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Bolton Valley on the last day of our Spring Break. 5th day of skiing in one week that started off with a few days in heavy rain. Pretty good result I would say.
This Spring Break trip was all about adaptation. It started with the postponed of the skiing part of it. First in the Laurentians then in Vermont. Changes of plans: the one day at Smuggs then two days at MRG couldn't happen either. Yesterday was Sugarbush, today we opted for Bolton. A smaller place that I haven't been to before. This area wasn't necessarily worth a day trip from Montreal when I lived there, I also prefer going see it's bigger neighbours (Smuggs, Stowe, MRG, Sugarbush).
Conditions we're definitely closer to what we found at Smuggs than Sugarbush. It's was snowing, many trails where closed. The conditions was similar to the loose powder found at Smuggs (not as much new snow) with some of the ice found at Sugarbush. It's funny how in some way, Bolton was in mixing of both area including the lifts Slow Quads.
Morgane, my 8 yr old daughter, had noticed that a Hard Luck, a black diamond was open on the Ski Report. Most of the black diamond stuff was closed including the Wilderness lift and area. That's the run we wanted to do followed by Spillway (hard and firm). We did these runs a few times and then I had to convince her that there might other fun spots on the mountain to ski. He eventually did Vista Glades on the top which had some nice powder turns and thin spots. We continued skiing on the edge of the trail (in the woods) along Fanny Hill. Great fun.
We headed toward Timberline area using the Cobrass trail (which was written down as closed, as the Vista Glades, on the Trail Report). The trail is a beautiful and twisting trail, it's also had some somewhat challenging conditions (thin and bare spots, ice flows, etc). Once at Timberline we did a few runs on Spill Over and Tattle Tale (only black runs open on this side). The later had loose powder, twiggs, ice, etc.
Bolton was fun and relaxing. Definitely less high speed skiing than at Sugarbush.
This Spring Break trip was all about adaptation. It started with the postponed of the skiing part of it. First in the Laurentians then in Vermont. Changes of plans: the one day at Smuggs then two days at MRG couldn't happen either. Yesterday was Sugarbush, today we opted for Bolton. A smaller place that I haven't been to before. This area wasn't necessarily worth a day trip from Montreal when I lived there, I also prefer going see it's bigger neighbours (Smuggs, Stowe, MRG, Sugarbush).
Conditions we're definitely closer to what we found at Smuggs than Sugarbush. It's was snowing, many trails where closed. The conditions was similar to the loose powder found at Smuggs (not as much new snow) with some of the ice found at Sugarbush. It's funny how in some way, Bolton was in mixing of both area including the lifts Slow Quads.
Morgane, my 8 yr old daughter, had noticed that a Hard Luck, a black diamond was open on the Ski Report. Most of the black diamond stuff was closed including the Wilderness lift and area. That's the run we wanted to do followed by Spillway (hard and firm). We did these runs a few times and then I had to convince her that there might other fun spots on the mountain to ski. He eventually did Vista Glades on the top which had some nice powder turns and thin spots. We continued skiing on the edge of the trail (in the woods) along Fanny Hill. Great fun.
We headed toward Timberline area using the Cobrass trail (which was written down as closed, as the Vista Glades, on the Trail Report). The trail is a beautiful and twisting trail, it's also had some somewhat challenging conditions (thin and bare spots, ice flows, etc). Once at Timberline we did a few runs on Spill Over and Tattle Tale (only black runs open on this side). The later had loose powder, twiggs, ice, etc.
Bolton was fun and relaxing. Definitely less high speed skiing than at Sugarbush.