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Hi folks, The usual crowd of cheapskates converged on Mad River Glen today to take advantage of the $3.50 lift tickets on the annual Roll Back the Clock day. It was fairly busy, but not oppressively so, until the double chair broke down around 11:00, and everyone descended on the single. I had just boarded the double when this happened, but was only about 6 inches off the ground, so was able to join in the exodus. From that point on, there was about a 15-minute lift line for the single, until about 1:00. Then it was like someone blew a whistle or something, and everyone left, because the crowds simply evaporated. Coincidentally, that's also the time they got the double running again. From then on, it was ski on to either lift. The skiing? It was good. Not great, but good, and certainly the best day I've had so far this season, which admittedly isn't saying much. The 2-3" of snow last night did a good job of softening things up just enough, particularly in the morning on the trails. Later in the afternoon untracked was a bit harder to find, until I discovered that the right side of Fall Line was still nice and soft, to the point of there being a bit of untracked left, and the farther right I drifted the more untracked there was and the better things got, until I was pretty well into ****house Woods. Being solo, I had been avoiding the woods, but this was too good to pass up. Sure it was only a few inches, but the base under the fresh was nice and forgiving. I ran into Scott in the lift line, and later Chris, but never got to ski with either of them. I think they may have bailed at the 1:00 bell. Oh, and I managed to tear loose the patch on the base of my ill-fated Rossis again, which caused me to run back to the truck to replace them with the CMH Volkls that I had brought along for just such an event. After the switch, I had to ask myself why I even bother with those stupid Rossis. Are those Volkl Explosivs the perfect ski? For me, more days than not, they are. Dave G. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SkiVt-L is brought to you by the University of Vermont. To unsubscribe, visit http://list.uvm.edu/archives/skivt-l.html