Forgot to post this but Stowe yesterday was pretty freakin' good as far as 
spring skiing goes.  Temperatures remained around freezing up top but was 
well into the 40's in the sun at the bottom.  Strong sunshine from 11am on 
brought a great few hours around lunchtime that featured soft, hero snow 
on a firm base on sunny trails...with a thin 1/2" layer of soft stuff that 
would nearly peel away on a lot of the glade trails.  Did a run in the 
Pipeline region between Goat and Nosedive (area doesn't see any sun during 
the day) and it was frozen but edgeable...but also a far cry from lower 
elevation woods that required constant hop turns to even think about 
turning your skis from one side to another.

Overall, a few people were getting into the parking-lot-party 
mentality...but there's still a couple months left of skiing on Mansfield 
(lift and/or human powered skiing).  Base depths are deep up high, south 
facing, lower elevation slopes are running thin, but when are they not?  
C'mon folks, we've got a long way to go!

Wierdest part of the day was when a helicopter started flying around the 
Chin, through the Notch, down RT 108, etc.  Not sure what he was up to but 
he got pretty close to the mountain at times.  

Find the helicopter approaching from the northeast...
http://tinyurl.com/lhma2
Went around the Chin and did a close fly over of of the ridge.
http://tinyurl.com/pgw8n
Then inbetween me and the Chin.
http://tinyurl.com/moq8o

Looked almost like a military helicopter but couldn't see any markings on 
him.  

Some senic photos:

Line I took through the Upper Goatdive woods...still solid in the shade 
but quite enjoyable in the sunny spots.
http://tinyurl.com/nmqan

Quad.
http://tinyurl.com/logwb

National.
http://tinyurl.com/mdd4k

Gondi.
http://tinyurl.com/s5ysa

Chin.
http://tinyurl.com/lclqo

Lower Goatdive...beautiful spring hardwood glade skiing.
http://tinyurl.com/r64nc
http://tinyurl.com/pl8a8

C'mon everyone, get out there and ski.  Snowfall begins again mid week 
with occasional chances for the next two weeks.

-Scott

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