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Today I drove up to Gore to hand in a few seasons pass applications for myself and some friends(Through the 5-Friends Program I get to ski Gore/Whiteface all season long for FREE, can't beat that deal), I decided to do some hiking and looking around while up there as well. I hiked up a trail that started on Sunway and traversed the ski area and went in and up the Twister Glades...they are really beautiful to look at in the summer, trees all nice and thinned out, ferns growing around, birches and various other hardwoods spaced out perfectly for skiing...well all in all I hiked up 1,500 verts to the Saddle area, originally I had planned to hike up to see the expansion but time would not allow it as I had a commitment to be to at 3pm. On the expansion, I saw an photo from a helicopter or plane, and it appears they already had at least 2 trails cut top to bottom and they are in a different spot then I had thought. For those that know Gore, the lift looks like it will be placed a little way down the old Tannery Trail and angled up to the top of Bear Mountain where the Gondi now ends. The new trails from the overhead view looked like they should be good for a couple double fall line sections, not too interesting but who knows what Gore decides to do with them, my guess is they will be groomed flat all day, everday. Gore should let at least one of them be a bump run. The big difference with this expansion will be the Cloud Traverse is not necessary anymore, and the Chatimac Glades should be lengthened as you do not need to cut back to the Straightbrook quad, you can continue down those woods till you hit the old Tannery Trail. -Scott - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SkiVt-L is brought to you by the University of Vermont. To unsubscribe, visit http://list.uvm.edu/archives/skivt-l.html