Best ski day so far this season ... and first tracks!
Posted On Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at at 10:04 PM by MTB ManMonday we went skiing at Butternut in Great Barrington, MA. We had the best day of the season so far. I'm not surprised. Based on last year's experience, the closer we got to the end of the season, the better it got!
Weatherman was predicting partly cloudy, slight chance of light rain or snow.
Never happened! 100% perfectly clear, cloudless blue, blue sky almost the whole day. Warm temps, no wind.
And best of all .... First Tracks! Yeah, the triple chair lift on the right side of the mountain as you face it (don't know what the directions are there) didn't open up until 11AM. As it turned out, we got right in line behind a couple of snowboarders. At the top, while the snowboarders were fiddling around we hit the trail, Freewheeler, it's the dark blue on the right in the map below, and quickly realized we were the first ones on it that day. Sweet! I'll tell you, I put the pedal to the metal!
View from the triple ... spring is coming! Bittersweet! It's great skiing but it signals the end of the season.
Your's truly ... Freewheelin'!
Hope you all had a nice Monday at work! Ha ha!
Oh, by the way, $20 lift tickets. ;-)
