A collection of thoughts about planning, building and enjoying a backyard trail network in central Vermont.

Sunday, March 8, 2015

2015 the winter of powder..

We haven't had a single thaw in the last 50 days.  Each snowstorm has brought fresh powder on top of powder.  The snow this winter has been.. well kinda epic!

Here is Ethan Phelps getting after it on conference room earlier this month.


Josh Hanford on upper 101 during an after work twighlight ski.


Here is Josh and Tappy at the bottom of the tow.


Josh captured this cool shot of Tappy and I heading up the hill.


Kricket and I have been taking turns skiing and watching the kids when we get home after work.  Here is a shot of the sunset from a solo skin and ski above the house.


I also spent a day off from work to ski with Hardy Avery up in Northern VT.  The snow is pretty good everywhere right now.  Here is Hardy getting after it.


Hardy got a nice photo of me on an old logging road.


The rope tow has been spinning just about every weekend for an hour or two at a time.  It's hard to ski more than that as your arms get pretty tired.

We had a flat tire by the end of February. The old tires had cracks in the sidewall so we knew they were short lived.


We used a come along and a chain to pull the rope back so we could get the rope off the tires.


It was a powder day (andbone of the best days of the year so far) so we tried pumping the tire back up to see if we cluld get a few more runs in.


It was good for three more runs before it went flat again.


Diring the week I picked up two new tires that were $52 each.


The following weekend we got the new tires on and we're back in business!


We met up with a few friends at Sigarbush for Galen's friend Bradley's birthday ski party.  Everyone rocked the carpet!


Galen and Elet enjoyed meeting the ski cow.


Just waiting for mom and Elet..