At 09:36 PM 10/20/2005, John Crowley wrote:

>Sorry, Skip, but I think you are replying to Jim, not me.

Sorry.  You guys look so much alike it's easy to get confused. ;-)

>In any
>case, yes, South Ridge opened '76-'77, IIRC and Bear in '79-'80.
>
>Jim appears to have a vivid memory of South Ridge - better than I do, anyway.
>
>I just remember lots of trees being down in what you guys are calling
>Echo Woods for what seemed like several seasons - and skiing through
>on a "path" through them at one point felt like being on a land
>speeder in an old Star Wars movie (as in the good ones, such as my
>favorite and the best of them all, "Empire Strikes Back").


Yeah, post ice storm/blowdown.  You're quite right, and you've 
reminded me that some lines were cleaned up and a lot of the other 
blowdown was kept in place in a forlorn hope that it would help keep 
other trees from being knocked down.


>I recall skiing the Judge (??) and Jug Handle when they were kinda
>gladed, does that make sense (the down side of the lift)?

Almost.  The Judge was down on Northeast Passage - a short, steepish 
and natural section of the NEPtune lift line, below the mid 
station.  What you're thinking of was the Jug and Jug Handle.  Jug 
was a liftline, so there really wasn't any glading.  Jug Handle was a 
short gladed run that was one of the last places at the K to find pow 
after a dump.  Not many people knew about it.


>And I
>remember being invited to train GS with the UVM men's team (I was not
>college age yet) on the lower, steeper parts of the section that goes
>up toward the midstation.  Was that Pipe Dream?  The trail must have
>been de-gladed by then.


Lower Pipe Dream, and yes, it was.

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