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e process usually begins in the early summer with site
visits to the course and pipe locations, conceptual design and
planning for the courses to be built, and much discussion
with all parties involved regarding all aspects of operations
and logistics.
As the season gets underway, we work together with the
host resorts to ensure that the quantity and quality of snow
will allow for a rst rate event. e slopestyle and halfpipe
builds for these events typically have a team of two agents
per discipline on-site several weeks prior to the rst day of
practice to get the build nished and make any necessary
adjustments.
Are there major dierences in your
snowcats and the ones used at most ski
resorts?
A: SPT has two Prinoth Bison X
snowcats, 1 Prinoth winch snowcat and one
22-foot Zaugg Pipe Cutter. ese cats are
actually not dierent from what is available
to every resort through Prinoth. e
equipment we use is designed specically
for construction and maintenance of parks
and pipes. Outside of that, what makes
our cats appear so dierent is the awesome
Oakley wrap job that make them look as
mean on the outside as they are on the
inside.
I understand you guys ship your own
cats to most national events? Do you have
operations overseas?
A: e SPT cats are used for and shipped to all three stops
on the Dew Tour, the ESPN Winter X Games, the Burton
U.S. Open and other special projects around the U.S. When
we work overseas, on projects such as the ESPN Winter X
Games Tignes and the World Snowboarding Championships
in Oslo, we rent cats through Prinoth for the builds.
Describe the building of a halfpipe.
A: Logistically, halfpipes are the single most dicult
features to build. When we scout out a location for a pipe,
we are looking for a gradual, consistent 18-degree slope,
preferably with as few rollers and signicant pitch changes
as possible. Once the proper location has been found, most
pipes usually require some degree of earthwork to help
smooth out the run (removing any high or low points) and
to assist with the basic form of the pipe, so that less snow is
required for the build.
We pay particular attention to detail in how we process
the snow that goes into the pipe and constantly check and
re-check measurements throughout the construction process.
Once constructed, the real trick to maintaining a great pipe is
patience and experience.
Top left is a photo taken at
Silverton, Colorado during SPTs
construction of a halfpipe for Shaun
Whites Project X for Red Bull. The
mochines were own in by helicop-
ter. Top right, and the sequence of
lour shols below, show lhe creolion
of pipe and platform for Killingtons
Dew Tour held Jan. 18-21.
Photos provided
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from the cover
6-7 Skiing the trees
We take a photographic tour of a few
of Vermonts premier resorts for tree
skiing and learn a few tricks along the
way.
8-9 Bromleys 75th
One of the oldest ski resorts in the na-
tion has kept up with the times thanks,
in part, to the leadership of former
owner Fred Pabst of the PBR dynasty.
10-12 Legislative skiers
Vermonts legislative leaders set aside
their differences routinely to compete on
the race course. Its fun, its competitive,
its non-partisan. Its Vermont!
42-44 Stores with more
Walk into any of Vermonts country
stores and youre transported to a by-
qono oro. lls cborminq, cozy ono oo-
nitely local. We take a tour of 7.
Skiers are drawn to Mad River by the feeling of a true wilderness
experience unsullied by money, pretense or pomp... Mad River
Glen is simply the last great place where skiing is stripped to its
bare and sublime essence. It is far more than a ski hill- it is an
ideal, a belief, that echoes in the heart of every true skier.
- A MRG Skier
www. madrivergl en. com
Single skier photo credit: Brian Mohr/[Link]
Single chair photo credit: John Williams
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Curtis Savard, Oliver Parini
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By Jason Mikula
KILLINGTON With the 2012 Dew Tour now in the
history books, heres a question many are dying to ask: Just
how do you build a halfpipe or superpipe, anyway, not to
mention in a year with not a lot of natural snowfall?
e answer, it turns out, is that it takes a lot of work,
planning, cooperation with the host mountain and
experience. Snow Park Technologies (SPT) is a California-
based company that builds the pipes for the Dew Tour as well
as many other big events throughout the world. ey were in
Killington building the Dews pipes and course and took the
time to tell us a bit about themselves, lend us some photos
and let us in on a few secrets.
First, some background. e company was found in
1997 when two friends, Chris Gunny Gunnarson and
Mike Binnell, were asked to design and build the courses for
the inaugural ESPN Winter X Games at Snow Summit in
Southern California. As locals with a reputation for being two
of the godfathers of terrain parks, Gunnarson and Binnell
were a natural selection for course designers for marquee
events on the winter side of action sports, and their work
with the Vans Triple Crown (now the Dew Tour) and ESPN
X Games became a springboard to launching what would
formally become Snow Park Technologies in 1999.
Four years after STPs incorporation, with the company
continuing to grow and taking on new clients, SPT entered
e making of a halfpipe
SPT travels the world creating platforms and pipes for competitions
into a license agreement with Booth Creek Ski Holdings
and moved their headquarters from Big Bear Lake to the
hotbed of Californias winter scene: Lake Tahoe. From the
new headquarters in Truckee, SPT took on managing the
terrain parks and youth marketing programs for the various
Booth Creek resorts, and what is now the SPT Resort Partner
Program began taking shape at resorts such as Northstar and
Sierra-at-Tahoe, California, Waterville Valley, Cranmore
and Loon, New Hampshire, and Summit-at-Snoqualmie,
Washington.
A year ago, on Jan.1, 2011 the license agreement with
Booth Creek came to an end, and Gunnarson and his wife,
Genevieve, bought the company back. Now, with a fulltime
sta of more than 15 employees and a dozen core contractors,
SPT is headquartered in a new facility just outside of Truckee,
in Verdi, Nevada.
From there, we pick up the questions:
Describe what you do and accomplishments since
you hrst incorporated in 1999.
A: Since SPTs inception, the company has designed and
built more than 250 competition courses, including: all of
the Winter X Games and Winter X Games Europe courses,
the Winter Dew Tour, the Burton U.S. Open and the Vans
Triple Crown, among others. In addition to course designs
and builds, SPT has added sport organizing as a new line of
business.
Another growing sector of SPTs portfolio has been
industry and athlete projects, which have included
collaborative projects, such as the Red Bulls Shaun White
Project X and the Simon Dumont Cube Pipe. Outside of
special projects and events, SPT also works with 15 of the top
resorts in the United States to provide terrain park and youth
marketing consultation services.
Together with SPT, these resorts are home to the highest
quality and most innovative terrain parks around, oering
every level of terrain park imaginable: from the Burton
Progression Park, to the Burton Stash and e Streets, to
iconic jib and jump lines. To complement the Resort Partner
Program, SPT also has built-out a dedicated jib fabrication
shop - where the jibs for both partner resorts and events are
conceptualized and manufactured along with a line of snow-
shaping tools.
How much time does it take to design/develop
superpipes and the slope style courses?
A: Due to the fact that every course and pipe is dierent
and must be tailored to what the event promoter is looking
for, as well as to the geography specic to each location,
designing and developing courses for marquee events such
as the Winter Dew Tour, Winter X Games and the Burton
U.S. Open takes months of planning and preparation.
The crew from Snow Park Technologies uses tricks of the trade to construct half pipes and slopestyle jumps throughout the world.
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to win ra e prizes, while enjoyinga post-race lunch and music.
Registration covers thetrail pass at Rikert Nordic Center for the
[Link] of eventregistration will be allowed only if the event has
not lled to 300 participants before then.
Entry fees range from $25 to $60, depending on the category
and how early you register, so register early.
e event is a benet event for the Catamount Trail Associa-
tion and Moosalamoo Assocation, which supports the states only
National Recreation Area. For more information call 802-864-
5794, or visit the MNRA at [Link], or [Link]-
[Link].
Best On-Snow Events
get one to come along. e date is Feb. 11,
just three days before the lovers holiday,
Middlebury, home of the internationally
known Middlebury College.
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Warren will host
Vermont Seniors
Winter Games on
Feb. 12
WARREN, Vt. e Vermont Senior Games
Association will hold the 2012 VSGA Winter
Games at the Sugarbush and Blueberry Cross
Country ski areas in Warren on Feb. 12. e
games are open to anyone age 50 and older. e
games consist of a giant slalom race at Sugarbush; a
Nordic ski and snowshoe races.
e modied giant slalom will be held in the
morning at Sugarbush with the winners deter-
mined by combined two-run [Link] the after-
noon, a 5-kilometer classical Nordic ski race at
Blueberry ski area will be held. Snowshoe events of
100- and 200-meters will also be held at the Blue-
berry touring center. Winners will be determined
by time of one run on the course.
Competition will be held in ve-year age
groups, starting with 50-54. e gold medal
winner in each event will be recognized as the Ver-
mont Senior Games champion. Silver and bronze
medals will also be awarded.
Sugarbush is oering special discounted all-
day lift tickets for VSGA competitors. Competi-
tors who already have Sugarbush lift passes need
pay only the race entry fee. Seniors who want to
compete at both venues will receive a reduced com-
bined race fee. Sugarbush Resort is also oering a
discounted two-day lift ticket for anyone wishing
to ski Feb. 11-12.
To register or for more information, visit www.
[Link], or contact Winter Games
coordinator Ann Taylor at 862-2288 or Nordic ski
race director Leonard Robinson at 496-6687.

Annual Harris Hill Pepsi Challenge in Brattleboro, Vermont.

February 18 & 19; celebrating 90th year of ski-jumping
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BRATTLEBORO, Vt. e annual Harris Hill Pepsi Challenge, featuring ski jumpers ying
o the 90-meter jump in Brattleboro, will be held Saturday, Feb. 18 and the Fred Harris Memorial
Tournament will be held on Sunday, Feb. 19. is years event has been selected by the International
Ski Federation to host the rst FIS Cup tournament ever held in the U.S. e jump at Harris Hill
was re-built in 2009 to conform to the FIS specications in anticipation of hosting such an event.
As if that top competition werent enough, Saturday will also hold the U.S. collegiate ski jumping
nals and the United States American Ski Jumping nals.
is years event will draw over 60 jumpers from around the world, including jumpers who are
seeking a spot on their 2014 Winter Olympic team, said Rex Bell, chief of competition, adding
that the high level of competition will provide plenty of excitement for spectators.
e competition gets under way at 11 a.m. both days. In addition to jumping, the weekend
includes opening ceremonies, food vendors, music, a bonre, beer tent and appearances by Jumper
the Cow, the o cial mascot of Harris Hill Ski Jump.
ese original extreme athletes have been jumping at Harris Hill since1922. In 2009, ski jump-
ers from the U.S. and Europe competed at the grand re-opening of the hill to the cheers of a record-setting crowd of approximately 8,500
spectators. It is the only 90-meter ski jump in New England and the newest Olympic size 90-meter jump in the country. More information
on volunteering and attending the Harris Hill Ski Jump can be found at [Link].
7th Annual Peak Snowshoe Challenge March 2-3
AND 2012 Winter Death Race Same Weekend
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PITTSFIELD, Vt. e name of the game is
snowshoes, hundreds of them traversing hundreds of
snow-lled miles March 2-3 in Pittseld, Vt., during the 7th annual
Peak Snowshoe Challenge competitions.
e most strenuous snowshoe event, said Andy Weinberg, race
director, is the Peak Snowshoe Ultra marathon Challenge, a 100-mile
beast that starts at 8 a.m. on March 2. e registration fee is $225.
ere are three other weekend snowshoe competitions: Peak Snow-
shoe Marathon, a 26.2-mile event; Peak Snowshoe Half Marathon, a
13.1-mile event; and the 6.5-mile Peak Snowshoe Fun Run. Registra-
tions are $100, $80 and $60 respectively.
Snowshoe Challenge registration packets are available from 5 p.m.
to 9 p.m. on March 2 or at 6 a.m. at the Pittseld Original General
Store. Races begin at 8 a.m. For all snowshoe events, registrants can par-
ticipate as solo, relay and team racers. e 2011 Peak Snowshoe Chal-
lenge drew 250 competitors from as far away as Colorado and Florida.
On the same weekend, Pittseld will also host the 40-mile, 5th
annual 2012 Winter Death Race that like its famous summer
counterpart, Spartan Death Race oers unpredictable challenges
that can last 24 hours. Winter Death Race headquarters will be
Amee Farm Barn on Rt. 100 in Pittseld, which will be open to
2012 Winter Death Race competitors at 6 p.m., March 2. Check
in is at the Pittseld Original General Store. Last year there were 30
competitors, but Weinberg expects 100 this year.
Registration for all events is open until Feb. 28. For more informa-
tion, email Andy Weinberg, race director, at pittseldultra@[Link].
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Publishers Desk
On the cover of this publication in mid-
January 2007, we ran this headline in large,
bold type: FinallySnow! It came in form
of a 14-inch dump near the end of the second
week, then snowed a little the following week.
It signaled the end to what had been a dismal
winter so far.
It was a year much like now. We joked about
doing snow dances, seeding clouds or even
getting down on our knees, but we knew sci-
ence could explain the phenomenon, so we
listened intently and waited.
It started to snow in bits. Four inches here,
another three-to-ve a couple days later.
ere were even a few 10-12 inch snows in
the mountains, but the valleys never really
had the sense that winter had yet arrived.
at is, until Feb. 13-14. at night, during
what has since been dubbed the Valentines
Day Blizzard, much of Vermont was buried
in three to ve feet of snow. Big akes lled
the sky and fell in a fury, adding inches upon
inches each hour. Roads closed. Communi-
ties practically shut down because travel in
residential and commercial areas by car was
nearly impossible.
ose lucky enough to already be at a ski
resort had terric powder, once the lifts were
dug out. e rest of us couldnt get there.
Instead, we shoveled and plowed and wished
we could have been marooned at our favorite
resorts.
e happy ending that year is that it kept
snowing right through
March and April. We were
still skiing after Cinco de
Mayo, and Tuckermans
was good into mid-May.
Im hoping for a repeat.
I say hoping because
theres scant research one
can do to make any reli-
able comparison. And I
tried.
I read all about the Arctic
Oscillation and North
Atlantic Oscillation thats
keeping the jet stream owing straight and
pushing the colder air north into Canada
and keeping the moisture to the south of
us. I know that the rst week of January this
year was the driest ever and that more than
95 percent of the Lower 48 was experienc-
ing below average snowfall and record high
temperatures at 1,500 recording stations.
ere is some comfort in company. Colorado
resorts have been hit harder than Vermonts;
and until the past few days Californians still
thought it was summer.
But still wanting to believe in science, I kept
reading. I learned that if the jet stream is strong
and fairly straight, it acts as a barrier prevent-
ing cold Arctic air from venturing south. I
now understand that because the jet stream
has lingered to the far north for an unchar-
acteristically long time without many south-
ward dips, weve had our unusually
snowless winter. And I read that wild
uctuations in the Arctic Oscillation
and NAO in December have been
the most radical in the past six years
with the past two years being o the
charts. Weird stu.
But when I read that scientists arent
sure why this is happening maybe
its global warming associated with
the loss of Arctic sea ice and maybe
not then I think, hey, maybe Ill
just go do a little dance in snow for
the heck of it. My cars in the park-
ing lot, theres plenty of room, a little jig wont
take that long and chances are no one will
notice much.
So, I do, most every night after work. And
Im sticking to my hunches that were going to
have a repeat of 2007 only this time, when
it rst starts to snow real hard, Im heading for
the lifts with my skins.
**********
Not that Im complaining. We had terric
snow throughout Vermont last Friday and
Saturday, and theres been respectable skiing
in the northern resorts for the past couple of
weeks. Not epic, but certainly some good
days have been logged.
Witness the 100 inches of snow that has
already fallen at Jay Peak. Plenty, if you use
adequate caution, for a little tree skiing,
which is the subject of Brian Mohrs cover
piece in this issue. He talks about learn-
ing the ropes, gets local pros to share their
wisdom, and tempts readers with a bevy of
photos that makes us want that next big
storm to hit sooner than later.
**********
Learning the tricks of tree skiing meshes well
with a column on Page 39 by ski instructor
Tony Crespi, who talks about overcoming
fear on dicult slopes or, perhaps, in the
trees. We do what we think, he says. So if
you think you can, it reinforces a possible
loop between your mind and body and youll
probably be OK; but if you think you cant,
you probably wont.
eres medical reasoning behind the con-
nection, which makes for interesting read-
ing. Regardless, its good advice whether
youre skiing trees or a bunny slope on your
rst day out.
**********
You know youre in Vermont when the
state legislature and governors administra-
tion puts aside their dierences and hashes it
out on a giant slalom course; and when you
walk into a Vermont general store and step
back into a bygone era.
We capture both themes in feature stories in
this issue that remind us of one thing: Ver-
mont is truly a special place to live, work and
play.
Cheers, and do a little jig before you get into
your car. Hey, it cant hurt.
Skiing the trees in the Mad River Valley.
Photo by Brian Mohr
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country stores
theres always something going on, including
cookie decorating classes for kids and other
fun events. [Link].
H.E. Shaws, Stowe:
Functional and fashionable
clothing & footwear
Since 1895, the Shaw family has been
outtting the skiers, outdoorsmen and the
fashionistas of Stowe with well-made clothes
and sundries. H.G. Shaws General Store
still stands in the same historic building at
54 Main Street (not to be confused with
the supermarket chain down Route 100).
eres a good chance that if you walk in,
Anne Marie Shaw, her mother or her hus-
band, Sal, will can help you nd a sweet pair
of eece-lined womens boots, an elegant
Isis ski jacket (made by Vermont women,
for women) or you might spot Anne Maries
brother Tiger, a former Olympic and World
Cup skier or his brother Andy, a rep for
Volkl skis.
ough the store focuses on unique
apparel, shoes, and gifts, and is located in
downtown Stowe, it has all sorts of odds and
ends.
[Link]
Jericho Center Country
Store, Jericho:
Vermont foods, wine, gifts
In 1807, a man named Piny Blackman set
up shop in Jericho, not far from Smugglers
Notch, selling staples like our, gin, rum,
sugar and molasses. It was a good place for
a store as Smugglers Notch was just up the
road and the Canadian smugglers who ran
booze across that mountainous gap during
Prohibition were likely just as hungry as the
families who ski the resort today.
e store is still open seven days a week,
and remains one of Vermonts longest-run-
ning general stores. It remains as much an
antique shop as a place to buy local beef
from Boyden Farms or LaPlatte River Angus
Farm, Vermont Cookie Love dough or cook-
ies, or regional wines and ice wines.
[Link]
Curriers Quality Market,
Glover:
Gas, meat, hardware, deli, post

e farther north you go, the more real

Vermont feels. And if you are in the vicinity
of Burke Mountain or Jay Peak, and really
want real, stop in at Curriers in the tiny
town of Glover. e rst thing you will see is
a full-sized taxidermied moose. e second,
an owl. e third, a bobcatand so on and
so.
If the taxidermied animals are not enough,
there are hundreds of pictures of hunt-
ers with their catch. If youre ok with that,
youll nd this place is about as authentic as
a country store gets. Jim Currier may invite
you to try the store-made sausage, show you
the stains on the oor where the old molasses
barrels once stood, and proudly tell you, in
his characteristic Northeast Kingdom drawl,
how he heats the store on 18 cords of wood.
e Currier family has been running the
store 35 years, but they carry on a centuries
old tradition. e store still sells gas and
hunting licenses, sporting goods and sodas.
It has a deli, a meat counter and acts as the
Glover post o ce. In 2010, when Vermont
Grocers Association named Jim Currier
retailer of the year, the only person who was
surprised was him.
No website. Phone, 802-525-8822.
Editors note: Val Nebraska helped with the
reporting of this story.
More Stores
with More
e Vermont Alliance of Independent
Country Stores ([Link])
maintains a web site with a store locator
map, and links to more than 50 member
stores. Or pick up a copy of Country
Stores of Vermont: A History and
Guide, In it, author Dennis Bthory-
Kitsz tells the backstory of many of
Vermonts nest ongoing independent
stores.
H.E. Shaws General Store in downtown Stowe has been serving skiers and
local residents since 1895.
(Continued from Page 43)
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By Brian Mohr
For many, making turns in the trees is one of the greatest
joys of skiing and riding in Vermonts Green Mountains.
e trees oer shelter from the wind, a feeling of solitude
and a chance to make your own fresh tracks. And although
Old Man Winter was o to a slow start this season, abun-
dant recent snowfall, especially at higher elevations, is luring
skiers and riders into the trees again.
At Jay Peak, where well over 100 of snow has fallen this
season, tree skiing is accessible to skiers of all abilities within
a variety of marked and patrolled tree skiing zones.
Skiers can take it one step at a time here, says Dana
Kennison, the director of Jays Ski and Ride School, who has
been skiing at Jay for nearly forty years. Some of our easier
glade runs, like Moonwalk Woods and Buckaroo Bonzai
are great spots to get used to maneuvering in the woods.
Kennison is referring to techniques more specic to tree
skiing, like weighting both feet more equally, looking far-
ther ahead than usual, and keeping your speed in control.
With some practice, skiers and riders at Jay who are new to
tree skiing can safely progress to intermediate tree zones,
like Beaver Pond and Show O glade, and to even more
challenging zones like Timbuk2 and Valhalla woods.
Tree skiing is all about natural snow, shares Kenni-
son. Its also a slower experience, its scenic and its less
trackederes something special about making your own
way through the woods.
At Vermonts cooperatively owned Mad River Glen, tree
e art, and tricks, of tree skiing
skiing is a more integral part of the skiing experience. Many
runs are partially gladed, while many others are relatively
narrow, and thus, make you feel like you are out in the
woods. And between Mad River Glens nearly four dozen
ocial trails, theres an incredible abundance of tree skiing
terrain just waiting to be explored by skiers of all abilities. In
many ways, Mad River Glen is a tree skiers paradise, with
its majestic yellow birch, maple and beech trees towering
overhead, countless natural features and even skiable creek
beds coursing through the woods.
Terry Barbour, the Ski School Director for Mad River
Glen, believes tree skiing is an a great way to dial in your
overall technique, by demanding that you control your
speed, get balanced and learn to be light and quick on your
feet. He oers a few pointers, as well.
First o, make sure you can ski in powder, says Barbour.
Explore some areas out on the trails that are ungroomed,
where there is some fresh or chopped up snow to practive
in. And practice making short radius turns in those condi-
tions.
ese techniques are fundamental to good and safe tree
skiing, he says. When rst venturing into the trees, says Bar-
bour, look for moderate terrain with very open glades. Get
comfortable, and keep your speed in control. Look for the
openings, and go there.
A little professional instruction can go a long way when
it comes to tree skiing, while preventing you from biting o
too much tree bark at once. Both Barbour and Kennison,
and their crews of expert tree skiing instructors, would be
glad to take you out. Beyond Mad River Glen and Jay, too,
theres a world of tree skiing to explore at Vermonts many
ski areas. Bolton Valley, for instance, also oers an extensive
backcountry trail network for those interested in pushing
even beyond the bounds of the lift-served ski area.
Both Barbour and Kennison agree that skiers should
always head for the trees in groups of three, for safety,
and always know where the stretch of woods you decide
to explore will lead you. As an old sign up on Killington
Mountain still claims, e mountains are just as cold and
lonely as they were two hundred years ago do not ski
alone.
As for equipment, many pros in Vermont recommend
a ski that is relatively short, fat and with some sidecut or
shape. is combination oers greater oatation and con-
trol in softer, untracked snow, and easier maneuvering in
the relatively tight connes of the Vermont forest.
Its not like the trees are going anywhere, so take it slow
and enjoy your time in the shelter and solitude of the forest.
Build up your condence level one step at a time before
venturing into the steeper, deeper tree lines that await you.
Always respect area closures and ropes, and whatever you
do, dont get caught in the trees at Mad River Glen after
3pm or theyll feed you to the bears.
###
Brian Mohr and his wife, Emily Johnson, are regular con-
tributors to the outdoor and skiing media and publish the
northeast skiing website, [Link]. You can
learn more about their work at [Link].
Wilh snow ying, lhol's ChileCrozy Croig Bornord skiing in lhe Mod kiver Volley.
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If youre hesitant to buy sh so far inland, dont be. Before
buying the store in 1983, Austin owned a lobster business and
restaurant on Cape Cod and the sh and the lobster is fresh as
it gets.
[Link]
The Vermont Country Store, Weston &
Rockingham:
Clothing, toys, gifts
More than a country store, the Vermont Country Store is an
ode to nostalgia. In 1945, Vermonter Vrest Orton, at the time a
speech writer in the Pentagon, mailed a catalogue to friends on
his Christmas list. e catalogue carried many of the things his
fathers old country store in Calais, Vermont once carried.
e catalog did so well, the next year he moved back to Ver-
mont opened an actual store in Weston, at the time 25 miles from
the nearest paved road. Today, the catalog sells more than 5,000
products, its a $100 million business and the Weston store is
packed with everything, as Vrests son and current CEO Lyman
Orton says that represents nostalgia. Its the place to nd an-
nel union suits, TinkerToys, gingham bedspreads, penny candy
and boxed shortbread cookies. In 2010, the store reissued Vrests
wife Mildreds classic Cooking with Whole Grains cookbook.
Along with the store, the Orton family (now with seventh
generation sons and ripping skiers - Cabot, Gardner and Eliot)
established the Orton Family Foundation, which has been active
in preserving the fabric of small historic towns around the coun-
try. eir eorts also spawned the right to dry movement,
which prevents anyone in Vermont from banning an outdoor
clothesline, and many credit the Ortons with helping pass Ver-
monts no-billboard law in 1968 after Lyman Orton allegedly set
about tearing down a few huge billboards along Route 7.
e Ortons opened a second store, in Rockingham, in 1967
behind a Christmas tree farm and oer free wagon rides around
the farm on select days each December to pick and cut your
own tree.
[Link]
The Ripton Store, Ripton:
cnocsniss, esv cov, eosx o==cs, co==ss
Walk into the Ripton Country Store just a dozen miles from
Middlebury, the countys shire town, and you know this could
only be Vermont. Eclectic
paraphernalia is everywhere.
A hundred or so glass bot-
tles and jars are scattered on
the walls and counter tops; a
pair of stued horned rabbit
heads are mounted on
one wall along with other
smaller mammals; old metal
signs touting sodas or beer
or engine oil recall a bygone
era; and there are things of
no particular importance,
except that they caught the
fancy of Dick Collitt, who
along with his wife, Sue,
have owned the store for the
past 35 years.
One of those items along
the wall is an old can of
Shinola shoe polish. Collitt
has it there because it makes
him smile. I always won-
dered where they got that
phrase, You dont know sh-t from Shinola, he says with a grin
as he takes it down to display his prize. Most of this stu is like
that: It means something to us it doesnt have to be special to
anyone else.
e small, red-sided clapboard store, with its wood-plank
oor and pot-bellied stove, sells the basics: snacks, pre-made
sandwiches, beef jerky, beer, the local newspaper, the regional
paper and the New York Times, locally grown organic toma-
toes, penny candy for the kids, a respectable selection of wines,
enough stu for a quick dinner, Vermont maple syrup, of
course, and there are several poetry books by Robert Frost, who
spent summers just up the road a piece. eres an old, working
gas pump outside and the store is also the home of the Ripton
Post Oce serving as the meeting place for the 500-plus
residents who live in this mountain town.
e store has been serving locals since 1879. e Collitts
bought it from Bucky and Jorene Doria back in 1976. At the
time, Dick was a commercial banker just 10 miles outside of
Philadelphia. ey had two sons, 4 and 6, and lived in a six-
bedroom colonial, but they were missing something. ey saw
country stores
the ad for the store in the Wall Street Journal, paid a visit and
bought it a few months later. And, they say, theyve been happy
since.
Its not much of a living, Dick says about the income they
draw, but its a good life.
No website, he says, but the phone beside the hand-crank
cashier still works.
The Warren Store, Warren:
Gourmet food, wine, clothing, crafts
Located in a two-story white building, just across from the
elegant Pitcher Inn, the Warren Store is what happens when
you infuse a classic old village store with just enough city
money. When New York investment banker Win Smith bought
Sugarbush Resort, his family also bought and renovated the
Warren store and inn. And though it sells its own private label
Warren Store wines, specializes in artisanal cheeses and has its
own bakery, it retains enough small-town quirkiness with Ver-
mont crafts and jewelry upstairs to be fun and cozy. Best of all,
Al lell, Lymon Orlon's lhree sons, Eli, Cobol ond Gordner, represenl lhe sevenlh generolion ol lhe Vermonl Counlry 5lore, shown cenler. Al righl, Dick Collill rings
up o bill ol sole ol lhe kiplon Counlry 5lore, jusl down lhe rood lrom lhe Middlebury College 5now Bowl, where he ond his wile hove been owners lor 35 yeors.
kurol posl olhces ore o normol porl ol mony counlry slores in Vermonl.
(Continued from Page 42)
(See Country Stores, Page 44)
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Photos by Brian Mohr and Emily Johnson / EmberPhoto
Clockwise from top left: Emily Johnson (l) and
Lindsay Mohr (r) ski an open chute at Mad RIver
Glen; Dave Bouchard in the steeps of Vermonts
back country; a lone skier enjoys the serenity of
the woods at Pico, Vermont, while a skier, bottom
right, relishes an open shot and deep snow in the
backcountry. Above, a skier cuts it close through
tight trees at a good clip.
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By Lisa Gosselin
I came to Vermont to ski. I stayed, in part for an old gen-
eral store. It stood on the left side of the road in the village of
Moscow, as you headed toward Stowe Mountain Resort. It
was a place where you could get a great deli sandwich and
a passable cup of coee. It housed a tiny post oce with a
window with brass bars, and the towns big game weighing sta-
tion.
You could nd anything there from canned soup to ginger
beer to intricate jewelry crafted by a neighbor. But you also went
there for talk of the last Noreaster, a good recipe for stewed
venison or, if you earned the trust of locals, to learn the inside
line on where to nd the best powder staches in the woods.
at store, like so many small general stores is gone now. But
the good news is that there are still many others where the wood
stove burns bright, conversations run long and you might nd
(and I list, based on actual items) any of the following: A 40-lb.
wheel of cheese. A full-sized bull moose (taxidermy). Ginger
beer. Fleece-lined boots. A case of embalming uid. Live lob-
sters.
ese classic, independently owned stores are not known
for skinny jeans or video games. But you can nd authentic
Vermont gear such as wool pants from Johnson Woolen Mills,
a pair of Darn Tough socks, handmade soaps from Vermont
Soap Company, hyper-local microbrews and dozens of other
local treasures.
And, if you can make the time, you can warm your hands in
front of the wood stove, set a chair on the wide-planked oor-
boards and sit, and just watch and listen. Youll get a glimpse of
Stores With More
Vermonts Country Stores are Alive, Well, Eclectic and Worth the Trip
the way life used to be, and Vermont life still is.
A few ski country favorites in Vermont, south to north, are:
H.N. Williams Department Store, Dorset:
Clothing, lawn & garden equipment
Just ve miles north of the Manchester outlet stores is one of
the best-kept classics of country storedom. First-growth oor-
boards, some 22 inches wide, line the store; a mishmash of lawn
and garden implements and clothing pack the shelves, and Billy
Brownlee, a sixth generation descendant of store founder Wil-
liam Williams, runs it.
e store started as a tannery in 1840, grew to a Depart-
ment Store that sold everything from harnesses and sleighs to
bicycles and shing rods. e H.N. Williams annals recount
one time in 1985 when someone decided to stump the store
owners, Ada Williams Rumney and her husband Austin to see
if they really did carry everything. e person called in one day
requesting an ox yoke. After some stumbling around, Austin
got back on the phone: You want the 7 inch or 9 inch bolt?
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William Austins Antiques, Chester:
Axiouss, =nsse =se, soo =ouxi
It might be easy to dismiss the Victorian building near the
cross-roads in Chester as just another overcrowded antique
shop. Except for one thing: a sign out front that sometimes
reads Lobster rolls.
Make your way through 15 tiny rooms crammed with stacks
of vinyl LPs, Tiany-style lamps, Hoosier cabinets, kitchen
ware, carved decoys, weird taxidermied animals (including
wolves and sher cats), and you come upon an authentic 1950s-
era soda fountain complete with formica counter and six shiny
chrome and red-leather swivel stools.
Bill Austin eventually appears to ask if you would like an ice
cream oat (made from cream he gets fresh from a farm down
the road two days a week) or a lobster roll (thats about all thats
oered). If you say lobster roll hell lead you down a narrow
set of stairs into a ground-level room hes converted into a lob-
ster pound and sh market.
Epitomizing the classic decor and appearance of Vermonts country stores is the one in Jericho Center.
Inside the Country Store in Jericho Center.
(See Country Stores, Page 43)
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By Karen D. Lorentz
PERU, VT. Bromley Mountain is one of the 30 oldest
ski areas in the U.S. But oddly enough, its history begins in
Manchester, which was renowned as a summer mecca long
before Fred Pabst decided to operate ski areas on nearby
hills.
Summer tourism got a start in Manchester in the 1800s.
e development of the commercial therapeutic mineral
springs in Vermont brought about the construction of
hotels, and by the 1850s, Manchester was one of the better-
known locations that attracted a successful mineral-spring
hotel business. e largest hotels oered resort-styled spas
with bowling alleys and ballrooms. e Equinox in Man-
chester Village was among the most stylish, and today
as the updated Equinox Resort and Spa is one of the
longest-lived such hotels in Vermont.
Collegians popularized the growing interest in skiing
in the early 1900s by starting outing clubs and college ski
meets. Many Vermont towns picked up on the trend by
forming winter sports clubs, which promoted downhill
skiing as well as ski jumping and other winter competi-
tions like snowshoe races. ese were the years when skiers
earned their turns by hiking uphill on skins and the snow
trains brought people from the cities to Vermont for out-
door recreation.
With its reputation for many lodging establishments
as well as outdoor activity, Manchester was a natural for
becoming an early ski center. Even before the rope tow,
locals and visitors used cross-country skis and the primitive
wood skis (no edges, bear trap bindings) to traipse around
on golf courses and woodland trails.
Bromley Mountain Debut
Born in 1899, Fred August Pabst, Jr., was the grandson
of the founder of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. Pabst was an
old guard visionary, an entrepreneur who loved skiing and
harbored dreams of making skiing available to the working
men and women, as well as for those who could aord trips
to St. Moritz or Sun Valley.
After a 10-year stint in the family brewery business, and
some business courses at Harvard, he went to Europe to ski
and learn more about the ski business, and in particular, ski
instruction. Liking what he saw, he set his sights on a future
in skiing.
Pabst formed Ski Tows, Inc., in 1935 and started 17 areas
Bromley celebrates 75th Season
in the Midwest, Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, and
Quebec between 1936 and 1941. Rather than cater to the
elite corps of well-to-do, rugged sports-minded collegians,
Pabst wanted to create a sport that everyone could enjoy.
What he foresaw when the snow trains started rolling in the
1930s was a bigger potential market in the workers pour-
ing out of urban o ces for trips to places where they could
learn the sport.
Finding a great interest in skiing in the Manchester area,
Pabst settled in Vermont in the 1930s and installed a rope
tow at the Equinox Golf Course in Manchester and a J-Bar
on Mount Aeolus in East Dorset for the winter of 1936-37.
Ski races had been held on Bromley Run in the mid-
1930s, so when there was poor snow in the valley the winter
of 1937, Pabst installed a rope tow below Route 11 on Little
Bromley. at tow rst operated the winter of 1938. (Due
to his many tow ventures, you will often read of a variety
of dates for Bromleys start up but these are accurate for the
Bromley ski area.)
e next year he installed a unique 2,200-foot rope
tow that had a turn in it (due to the terrain) at the West
Meadow across the road on Big Bromley. Rutland Herald
articles indicate that this tow began operations in January
1939. According to Pabsts accounting records, Big Bromley
grossed $1,350 its rst season (winter of 1938-39), while
Little Bromley had revenues of $2,498!
At the same time, Pabst was installing tows and J-Bars
elsewhere and still running Mount Aeolus. His idea to have
a chain of ski areas was a little before its time, however.
With World War II, gas rationing, and not enough skiers,
his 17 areas failed to make money so he began to sell them.
Favoring Bromley as a good location, he purchased the
Walker Farm (155 acres for $6,000) in March 1942 and
began expanding his Big Bromley operation, making it
one of the rst major ski areas in the country.
Pioneering Big Bromley, e Sun Mountain
Pabst lived in a farmhouse by the side of his tows and
when his new base lodge burned down in 1944, he replaced
it by converting the Walker barn and painting it red (later
replaced by his Wild Boar Lodge and Restaurant in 1950).
Most ski-area founders built northeast or eastern facing
trails so that the sun wouldnt melt the snow. Not Pabst. He
boasted that as a south-facing mountain, Bromleys slopes
were sunnier, warmer, and more apt to soften up, rather
than be hard eastern boilerplate.
He also made about half of his slopes wide and open and
manicured them so that they could be skied with just a
few inches of snow. To accomplish this in the years before
snowmaking, he blasted out the rock (1947), bulldozed the
ground, raked the dirt, and planted grass. He bought his
rst Tucker Sno-Cat for grooming and hired teenagers to
pick rocks in the summer so the trails would be as smooth
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75th Celebration
Bromley celebrates the beginning of its 75th
season of operation the weekend of January 21 and
22. Festivities kick o with a Saturday Dress in Your
Favorite Decade Race with prizes to the best costume
and the fastest times in mens and womens divisions.
Registration is at the Info Desk in the Base Lodge
from 9 a.m. until 11a.m., and the race runs from 10
a.m. until noon. (e race is free, but a lift ticket is
required.)
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party ot oanclng ano tooo at tbe 8ase looge.
On Sunoay, tbose wbo sbow up wltb more
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entereo lnto a orawlng tor a 8romley gltt bag
tbat lncluoes a 75tb Annlversary Neece trom
Potter 8rotbers. Tbe person sbowlng tbe
most season passes wlll wln a 8ob Lllls 75tb
Annlversary prlnt.
Cbeck out 8romley's webslte to revlew a
wonoertul arcblve ot Llmlteo Loltlon prlnts
ot 8romley's blstory tbat are now avallable
tor purcbase. Tbey reNect bygone tasblons
ano gear, as well as oeplct tbe llte ot tbls truly
blstorlc area. Aooltlonally, tbe top Noor ot
tbe base looge teatures vlntage prlnts tbat
protesslonal pbotograpber 8ob Lllls bas put
togetber tor tbe celebratlon.
(See Bromley, Page 9)
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STOWE Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe
is oering introductory Learn To Cross
Country Ski - Classic and Skate techniques
group ski lessons as part of the states learn-to-
ski-and-ride campaign. e lessons are oered
each day at 10:00, 11:00, and 1:00 through-
outthe ski season. Rentals, lessons and trails
are located right out the door of the lodge.
e Trapp Family Lodge Outdoor Center
also oers daily backcountry ski lessons
and tours; introductory, intermediate, and
Improve your skiing at Trapps XC center
advanced. Whether you are new to backcoun-
try skiing or are looking for secret stashes of
powder to carve tele turns through we have
lessons, tours, equipment and some of the
greatest access the northeast oers.
e resort oers private lessons and in
house packages for those Nordic skiers look-
ing to either improve their race performance
or take their classic and skate technique to
higher performance levels. Call 802-253-
5755 for more details.
MONTPELIER, Vt. Getting a higher
education in Vermont takes a deeper meaning
these days as the Consortium of Vermont
Colleges (CVC) and Ski Vermont entered a
partnership expected to boost both tourism
and enrollment at Vermonts many public
and private institutions of higher education.
CVC and Ski Vermont share a passion
for providing high quality, transformative
experiences, whether on campus or in
Vermonts mountains, said Nate Ball from
Vermont Technical College and chairman of
the councils promotions committee.
Vermonts colleges and mountains
make a positive and a lasting impression in
the minds and hearts of our students and
Ski Vermont partners with consortium of Vermont
Colleges to help boost tourism and enrollment
visitors. Partnered with Ski Vermont, we will
invite more young peopleand the young at
heartto enjoy all that Vermont has to oer
in the winter. e ultimate goal is to recruit
fresh, ambitious minds to pursue higher
education in Vermont, where they can ski
and snowboard and hopefully stay to help
Vermonts economy grow and prosper, Ball
said.
Vermonts mountain resorts, like its
institutions of higher education, play vital
roles in Vermonts economy, environment
and communities, said Ski Vermont
President Parker Riehle. Our partnership
with Vermonts higher education institutions
creates a powerful alignment of brands and
reinforces that Vermont as a place to ski,
ride and learn is as much a state of mind,
a lifestyle, as a physical place. ese lasting
connections ultimately have the potential to
inspire graduates and prospective students
alike to support the states economic, social
and environmental initiatives.
Aliation with Ski Vermont provides
CVC with the potential to target millions of
winter enthusiasts from around the globe who
visit Vermont to experience all that winter
oers.
e Consortium of Vermont Colleges is
a collaboration of 20 colleges and universities
in Vermont. To learn more, visit www.
[Link].
MONTPELIER, Vt. January is Learn
to Ski and Snowboard Month, and there is
no better place to experience the thrill of
learning to ski or ride than in its original
state. Vermont, which consistently logs the
third most skier days in the nation, also has
some of the best instructors in the world,
and plenty of terrain specically groomed
for those skiers and riders who are just
getting started.
Best of all, rst-timers can learn for as
little as $[Link] unprecedented oer is only
in January; only in Vermont and will serve
almost 10,000 skiers and riders.
In a state that welcomes seven times its
Ski industry oers 10,000 beginner lessons for $29 in January
population in skier visits annually, weve truly
earned our reputation as being the premiere
learn to ski and ride destination, Ski Vermont
President Parker Riehle says. Newcomers to
these sports can appreciate Vermonts iconic
landscape, its esteemed ski heritage and highly
certied professional instructors.
To spread the love of winter to new
enthusiasts, 13 Vermont resorts are oering
beginner lessons in January (non-holiday)
for $29. e beginner lesson will include a
full day beginner lift ticket, full day ski or
snowboard equipment rental, and a lesson
with a professional instructor. Due to the
deeply discounted price, the oer is limited
Ski association and Heritage Aviation partner to increase state tourism
SOUTH BURLINGTON In a
partnership expected to elevate Vermonts
travel and tourism business, Ski Vermont
and Heritage Aviation struck a cross-
promotional marketing agreement.
e new partnership establishes
Heritage Aviation as the ocial air charter,
Fixed Base Operator (FBO), and aircraft
maintenance services partner of Ski
Vermont. Ski Vermont is the association
of Vermonts 18 alpine and 30 Nordic ski
areas.
Ski Vermont and Heritage Aviation
share a passion for providing the highest
quality service, said Parker Riehle,
President of Vermont Ski Areas Association.
Ski Vermonts work with Heritage Aviation
will introduce general aviation passengers
and aircraft owners to the distinction
and authenticity of Vermonts mountain
lifestyle.
Aliation with Ski Vermont provides
Heritage Aviation with the ability to leverage
its association with the Vermont winter
brand and Vermonts world-renowned
skiing and snowboarding industry, said
Heritages Public Relations Manager Julia
Atherton.
to one beginner package per person.
Specic age restrictions include: Valid
for ages 4 and over, only at Bolton Valley
Resort; valid for ages 6 and over
Smugglers Notch Resort, Stowe Mountain
Resort, Sugarbush Resort; valid for ages
7 and over Burke Mountain Resort,
Killington Resort, Pico Mountain, Okemo
Mountain Resort; valid for ages 8 and over
Jay Peak Resort; valid for ages 13 and
over Bromley Mountain Resort, Mad
River Glen, Mount Snow Resort, Stratton
Mountain Resort.
New skiers and riders can sign up by
emailing info@[Link].
Stratton Training Center J3 racer Scott Trudel blew through the course at
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is exciting partnership provides
Heritage Aviation customers with a world-
class winter experience, Atherton said.
Perhaps most importantly, our relationship
allows us to reach out to our domestic and
international clients who are attracted to
the many amenities and advantages of
Vermonts mountain lifestyle.
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STOWE, Vt. One of the oldest and
most unique ski races in North America,
e Stowe Derby started in 1945 as a
personal challenge between two amaz-
ing skiers Austrian Sepp Ruschp, who
was hired to come to America and head
the new ski school at Stowe, and Erling
Strom, world famous mountaineer from
Norway. e challenge was the same as
it is today a race from the top of Mt.
Manseld, Vermonts highest peak, to the
historic village of Stowe. It was the ulti-
mate test of a skiers ability.
Ruschp was the winner of the rst
Stowe Derby.
Today, the race attracts over 900 com-
petitors, ranging from Canadian Cross
Country Ski Team members and NCAA
Champions to recreational skiers looking
for a thrill. While the race can be very
competitive at all levels, it is also a fun
race.
Over the course, participants ski
through 20km of challenging terrain,
racing down Mt. Manselds Toll Road
and along the entire length of the Stowe
Recreation Path before reaching the nish
in the village. e course has a total verti-
cal drop of over 2,600 feet. e winners
will complete the course in under 45 min-
utes, while recreational skiers can take a
couple of hours to go the same distance.
is year, e Stowe Derby is on
Sunday, Feb. 26, registration is open and
can be done online.
e Stowe Derby
gets ready for annual
race this Feb. 26th
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With rope tows being tiring on the arms and T-Bars hard
to ride for twosomes of unequal weight or height,
Pabst installed Vermonts rst J-Bars to make get-
ting up the hill easier. He had seen the rst (boot-
legged) J-Bar built at Oak Hill in Hanover, N.H.
in 1935, and hired an engineer to improve upon
its design. His J-Bars worked well, but Pabst later
paid a licensing fee for use of the patented J-Bar
design to Ernst Constam, its inventor.
Pabst moved the J-Bar from his East Dorset
area to Bromley in 1942 and, as he closed other
areas, continued to add more lifts until, by 1955,
he was operating ve J-Bars, a Pomalift, and two
rope tows 4,500 rides an hour, which the Wall
St. Journal proclaimed was the greatest lift capac-
ity in the nation!
In 1958, he installed a 5,700-foot Riblet
Double chair that ran from the base to the top of
the mountain and had ve J-Bars, one rope tow,
and a Pomalift running. e double was named
the Number One, after its designation as the rst
two-seat chairlift to be licensed by the state of
Vermont.
Among his many other astute moves, Pabst,
who had organized snow trains in Wisconsin and
Chicago in 1939-40, made arrangements for the
New York Central to run snow trains to Rutland.
By 1947, Bromley saw 800 skiers a weekend. Air-
lines started running ski ights to Rutland and tour buses
also brought skiers to Bromley.
Pabst implemented a ski school for the 1945-46 season,
and Bromley soon boasted a large professional sta of
trained ski instructors and became known for its ability to
teach beginners.
While many of the nations edgling ski areas closed down
during the war, Pabst kept Bromley going and growing.
Pabsts wife, Sally Litcheld, whom he married in 1945,
was an instructor who enjoyed teaching children and had
much to do with Bromleys emphasis on providing helpful
services for families.
In 1946, Bromley implemented Vermonts rst state-
accredited Ski Nursery (now the Kids Center). Sally also
supported the areas Junior Instruction Ski Program (JISP)
for school youngsters, which the Bromley Outing
Club, a group of area adults, created in 1951. It
was Vermonts rst Junior Program and is now
one of the oldest and longest continuing such
programs in the country with 600 to 700 students
from area schools participating weekly during the
winter.
From Cloud Seeding to Snowmaking,
Alpine Slide to Adventure Park
After the snowless winter of 1953-54, a cloud
seeding expert was summoned to Manchester
to seed the clouds to make it snow. Although
Project Snow didnt work, Pabst did succeed
in installing a large conventional snowmaking
system (starting in 1965) and committed close to
a million dollars to put snowmaking on the face
of Bromley Mountain. He was the rst operator
in Vermont to take snowmaking to the top of a
mountain.
By 1967, he advertised, e Worlds Larg-
est Snowmaking System. As a marketing-savvy
entrepreneur who took skiing seriously and
worked hard to create a good experience, Pabst let
the world know about his eorts. A true vision-
ary, Pabst was fond of saying, Any work we can
do to give skiers more for their ski dollar is worth-
while.
He also began building the Bromley Village on 200 acres,
but with his health failing, he sold the area to Stig Alberts-
bromley
(See Bromley, Page 13)
(Continued from Page 8)
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of places, and so Im not sure I can pick just one spot.
I will say that weve got a lot of great ski areas in Ver-
mont.
Why do you like to ski?
e ski hill is where we let loose, and everyone just
has a ball. When I see my kids ski race, it charges me
up again, just like when I was a kid. Its a sport that
really shows the inner spirit for example, in De-
cember, when the snow starts falling. Youre kids are
pumped, and youre pumped.
Why is skiing important to the state of Vermont?
Financially, its incredibly important. We get more
than four million skier visits a year that brings in $700
million in direct spending.
In many ways, Vermont skiing and riding denes
us. is is where the 10th Mountain Division built
the ski industry in the United States. We were rst in
skiing and we still have great skiing. Its a part of our
heritage, just the same as maple syrup, Lake Cham-
plain and all of the other great things we have here.
How can we make skiing and riding better in the state of
Vermont?
Well, thats what were trying to gure out, and we
really need to work with the Ski Areas Association to
come up with some ideas.
Name: Karen Marshall
Position: Chief of
Connect Vermont, the
organization that is
bringing broadband to
every household in the
state.
When did you start skiing or
riding?
I started skiing when I seven
years old.
Where did you grow up skiing or riding?
I grew up going to Kissing Bridge, which is outside
of Bualo, NY.
Did you ever race?
Ive mostly raced for fun as an adult, but not as a
kid.
Do you Nordic ski?
Occasionally, Ive been known to skate ski, but I
mostly downhill ski.
Whats your home ski hill now?
Stowe.
Whats your favorite Vermont ski hill?
I have a really special connection to Stowe because
Ive spent my entire adult life around Mt. Manseld.
In one way or another, my community life, my work
life, and my fun life have all been on the mountain.
Whats your favorite ski area ever?
Jackson Hole.
Why do you like to ski?
I like how skiing is a total disconnect: its just your
skis and you, where you are and the weather. You dont
have to think about anything else.
Why is skiing important to the state of Vermont?
A NOT SO
POLITICAL
RACE
Vermont legislators
enjoy some slope side
competition
By Oliver Parini
If youve ever thought that Vermont legislators
were progressive on the oor of the State House,
wait till you see them on the ski hill their edges
are sharper than a libuster, and their reverence for
Vermont skiing and riding will have you convinced
of your new inalienable right.
With this in mind, we decided to track down a
few Vermont legislators and members of Gov. Peter
Shumlins administration while they hit the slopes
during the annual Legislative Ski Night at Bolton
Valley on March 16, 2011.
In between runs on the giant slalom course and
chairlift discussions on adding powder clauses (giv-
ing tacit permission to miss work if it snows more
than 6 inches) to amendments, we grilled them on
their ski and ride resums, opinions and ideas for the
future of Vermont skiing and riding.
Here are a few of those proles:
Name: Willem Jewett
Position: State
Representative, Ripton;
Minority Leader of the
House.
When did you start skiing or
riding?
I started skiing when I was
two or three years old, so its
been a bunch of years now.
Where did you grow up skiing
Name:
or riding?
I started skiing at Mad River Glen.
Did you ever race?
I was on the racing team in high school and also
at Bowdoin College.
Do you Nordic ski?
I used to just alpine ski, but Ive been expanding
my repertoire. Now, I usually telemark ski when Im
at the ski area and in the backcountry too. I also
like to skate-ski.
Whats your home ski hill now?
I live in Ripton, and so Im about a six minutes to
the lift at the Middlebury College Snow Bowl, four
and a half minutes from the Bread Loaf Ski Center
and ten minutes to the Blueberry Hill Ski Center.
Whats your favorite Vermont ski hill?
I really love the rugged-mountain experience of
Mad River Glen, but Ive also really come to admire
the variety in the Vermont ski market. Our ski areas
really do an amazing job at oering something for
everyone.
Whats your favorite ski area ever?
Ive had the privilege of being able to ski in a lot
I think we need to have as many kids learn to ski and ride as
possible, so they can appreciate the mountains.
Karen Marshall
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By the Ski Vermont sta
Michael Jager is the Creative Direc-
tor and President of JDK Design, based
in Burlington, Vermont. For over 20 years
his design studio has had a profound inu-
ence on snowboarding. Michael shares a few
thoughts and recollections.
Q: When did you start
skiing?
When I was 4 or 5 years
old, I was like, I need to
ski. So my parents went
to Ames department store
and got me these horrible
cable-binding, sketchy
things. I would just do
it over and over, trying to gure it out. All
through high school, I was constantly think-
ing about it. And in my sketchbooks, I was
constantly drawing skis, ski boots, graphics,
designs, shapes. I was imagining ski boots
with knees and hinges. So when I realized
I was going to get into design and art, I was
like, Man, Id love to do ski graphics some-
day. Album covers and ski graphics.

Q: Did you start snowboarding because of

your involvement with Burton?
Snowboarding was something I got
inside of through skateboarding. Once I was
out of design school, I had a skate ramp in
the woods behind my house. A young kid
e Soul of Snow interview: Michael Jager
named Brian Reed came and asked if he
could skate the ramp, which was cool, as
skating is about friends and community.
He was the person who brought up snow-
boarding, so we started riding together at
Bolton every day and night that we could. It
was interesting as an extension of skating,
snowboarding made the mountain totally
new for me again. Snowboarding got me
dreaming about mountains again. About
a year later, we met Jake and his crew and
the snowboarding world evolved for us from
there.
Q: Do you think the cultural dierence
between skiers and snowboarders is still
relevant?
I do think theres a fundamental cultural
divide, but its just not as electric now. e
sparks are gone. But there is a dierence at
the core; I call it sideways culture. Surf,
snow and skate its this sideways, against-
the-grain-of-culture kind of thing. Its very
individualist. And once upon a time, skiing
represented that. I saw that. I mean Stein
Eriksen was a punk, really. He was a rebel
character, very maverick. So is there a dif-
ference? Yes. But there are skiers and riders
doing amazing things on mountains that
people couldnt even imagine ten years ago.
Q: Has snowboarding impacted your work
as a designer?
Absolutely. Very early on, we realized the
importance of diversity and cross-fertiliza-
tion. Design has to be built upon an under-
standing of the fabric of life. If youre trying
to attract someone to a snowboard, you have
to realize that probably two months ago, they
might have been in the Apple Store buying
a new iPhone. Snowboarding itself has de-
nitely had an impact on our work and a lot
of areas beyond it. Snowboardings creative
freedom was the threshold that opened
minds to what was possible, graphically, on
so many things bikes, motorcycles, hel-
mets, trucks, etc.
Q: What role does riding play in your life
now?
Its huge. I have three kids and they all
snowboard. Its certainly transitioned to a
place of being in nature; being on the moun-
tains with the people you love is pretty damn
cool. Its dierent from the speed, the pro-
gression, the desire, which was the fuel for
me for a long time. I like to ride fast and
smooth and condent, and try to teach the
kids good etiquette, but its mostly about cel-
ebrating being outside and hanging out. e
connect and ow I feel like Ive imparted
that to my kids.
My oldest son, Eli I can just rage with
him anywhere and I know that Ive embed-
ded the ability in him to just pick a line and
understand the relationship to a mountain.
A lot of people get to experience riding or
skiing, but very few get to do it enough to
actually get connected to the mountain. Its
just like magic when you hit it. And to know
that youve passed that on to a son or daugh-
ter, its a real accomplishment. You really
connect to nature somehow. And unless
youve ever gotten condent enough to con-
nect with the equipment and the mountain,
the weightlessness of snapping out of a turn
once you get it, youll never forget it. Its
so beautifully addictive. Youve got to seize
every moment of it that you can get.
Its dierent from the speed, the progression, the desire, which was the fuel
for me for a long time. I like to ride fast and smooth and condent, and
try to teach the kids good etiquette, but its mostly about celebrating being
outside and hanging out.
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Why is skiing important to the state of Vermont?
e ski industry is the economic engine of Vermont.
Its a little precarious that we rely on Mother Nature
as an economic engine, but it is an economic engine
nonetheless. It attracts a signicant amount of sales,
rooms and meals, which is all revenue in for the state.
I also think its important to our kids. My kids
are now 16 and 18, and they started skiing when they
were two. Every once in a while I think, Wow, there
are kids that have never been to the mountain before.
Many of which dont even know what its like to have
the freedom of being outside, and having the ski areas
be so close that you can just hop in the car and go
for the day. I think we need to have as many kids
learn to ski and ride as possible, so they can appre-
ciate the mountains.
How can we make the ski industry better in Vermont?
I think that our ski areas have done an incredible
job over the last decade, in terms of how to marry
with our environment in a conscientious way.
Whether its drawing down water for snow mak-
ing, or how theyve approached development. Ver-
mont was one of the rst places to seek consensus
before putting developments up, and establishing
a process behind them. So, I think our ski industry has
taken the lead there.
To the extent that we can market and bring people
to Vermont this way, or however we introduce them,
there is a connection to economic development. Do
they locate here? Do they decide they want to bring
their family here? Ultimately, when you think what we
need here is a greater population, its a great door for
people to walk through.
Name: Mike Yantachka
Position: State
Representative for
Charlotte
When did you start skiing or
riding?
I started skiing after col-
lege, which was back in
1970.
Where did you start skiing?
Powder Ridge in Connecticut.
Did you ever race?
e very rst time I tried racing, I crashed into the
second gate, and havent done it since. So tonight was
my rst real race, and I really enjoyed it!
Do you Nordic ski?
Yes, I often like to cross-country ski in my backyard.
Whats your home ski hill now?
Smugglers Notch.
Whats your favorite Vermont ski hill?
I like Bolton Valley because its fairly close to where
I live in Charlotte. But, if Im going out for a full day of
skiing, Ill usually go to Smuggs.
Whats your favorite ski area ever?
Haute Nendaz in Switzerland that was really
good skiing!
Why do you like to ski?
Its fun! You can go fast or slow while enjoying the
view. Ive never seen more beautiful scenery than when
Im riding up the lift in the middle of winter on a nice
sunny day.
Why is skiing important to the state of Vermont?
Its a major tourism attraction for
the state of Vermont. Vermont is ski-
ing and skiing is Vermont.
How can we make it better?
Bolton Valley has a wind generator,
and I think we should put them in at
all of the resorts in Vermont. It would
be really great to reduce the energy
requirements on the rest of the grid.
If youve got ski-lift towers, you
might as well have wind turbines too.
Name: Megan
Smith
Position:
Commissioner
of Tourism and
Marketing
When did you start skiing or
riding?
I started skiing when I was
three years old.
Where did you grow up skiing or riding?
I grew up in Michigan, and my family would
always take ski vacations at Seven Springs in
Pennsylvania.
Did you ever race?
I began racing as an adult. My family and I
moved to Killington where I bought a business
(e Vermont Inn) and lived, and I started Ski
Bum racing at Pico.
Do you Nordic ski?
I cross-country ski, snowshoe and snow-
board!
Whats your home ski hill now?
Killington.
Whats your favorite Vermont ski hill?
ey are all my favorites!
Whats your favorite ski area ever?
My favorite ski area of all time is Snowmass,
Colorado.
Why do you like to ski?
I love to go fast, I love to be outdoors, and it
just makes me feel good.
Why is skiing important to the state of Vermont?
Skiing is everything to the state
economy because its a way for us to
showcase our beauty. Skiing is a great
way for people to come to our state
in the dead of winter and appreciate
how gorgeous Vermont is. If you get
up to the top of our peaks and look
out, theres really nothing like it. Its
just unbelievable to me; weve done
such a great job preserving the natu-
ral beauty of our state.
How can we make skiing and riding
better in Vermont?
I think were making a stab at it,
but we need to get more Vermonters
and young people skiing and riding,
and weve got to make it aordable
that is key. eres a huge market
of competitive athletes out there that
Powder Ridge in Connecticut.
learn to ski and ride as possible, so they can appre-
How can we make the ski industry better in Vermont?
I think that our ski areas have done an incredible
ing, or how theyve approached development. Ver-
three years old.
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Cross Country Ski Areas
service. Adult and childrens skis, snowshoes and
baby sleds are available for rent. The spacious
Base Lodge Restaurant is open 7 days/week. Open
everyday from 9 am to 5 pm.
CONTACT:
Route 9, Woodford, VT 05201
Main phone: 802.442.2575
STATS:
Typical season .....................November April
Total Terrain .......................................... 35 km
Machine-tracked ................................... 35 km
Skating Terrain ...................................... 30 km

Stratton Mountain Nordic Center

Stratton Mountain Nordic Center is located out of
the Sunbowl Lodge at Stratton Mountain Resort. We
offer 10 km for cross country skiing and for snow-
shoeing. The beautiful wooded trails are groomed
for both classical and skate skiing. The terrain of-
fers something for novice to advanced skiers. In-
side the base lodge we have a full service rental
and retail shop. Open daily from 8-5. Lessons avail-
able.
CONTACT:
RR 1 Box 145, Stratton Mountain, VT 05155
Main phone: 802.297.4114
Phone 2: 800.8TRATTON [Link]
STATS:
Typical season ...................December March
Total Terrain .......................................... 10 km
Machine-tracked ................................... 10 km
Skating Terrain ...................................... 10 km

Timber Creek Cross Country Ski Area

Across from Mount Snow, cradled by the Green
Mountains, is Timber Creek a very high quality
cross country ski area. With a dependable mountain
climate and a high elevation, an abundance of snow
becomes a way of life at Timber Creek. The skier
has a choice of adventures on a trail system that me-
anders and explores where you can ski the forested
hills or reach up to the high Green Mountain ridges.
CONTACTS:
Route 100 North, West Dover, VT 05356
Main phone: 802.464.0999
Fax: 802.464.8308
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STATS:
Typical season ...................December March
Total Terrain ........................................... 14 km
Machine-tracked .................................... 14 km
Skating Terrain ...................................... 14 km

Viking Nordic Center

Viking Nordic Centre is one of the oldest cross-
country ski centers in North America. With 40 kilo-
meters of trails we offer something for every skier.
From the rolling gentle terrain of our inner trail
system to the long loops through the woods of our
outer trail system, beginners and experts can find
terrain that will both please and challenge them.
After a long day of skiing you can enjoy a hearty
cup of soup in our Olympic Caf; or bring your own
lunch for a picnic at our warming hut overlooking
Vermonts Stratton Mountain.
CONTACT:
615 Little Pond Rd, Londonderry, VT 05148
Main phone: 802.824.3933
Fax: 802.824.4574
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STATS:
Typical season ...................December March
Total Terrain .......................................... 40 km
Machine-tracked ................................... 35 km
Skating Terrain ...................................... 30 km

Wild Wings Ski Touring Center

Classic skiing at its best. Family skiing or ski to
train. Tracks set with Piston Bully they last longer.
Ski through the woods or along the brook. The ani-
mal tracks we see regularly include bobcat, rabbit
and deer. Rental and lessons available.
CONTACT:
Box 132, Peru, VT 05152
Main phone: 802.824.6793
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STATS:
Typical season ...................December March
Total Terrain .......................................... 25 km
Machine-tracked ................................... 25 km
Skating Terrain ........................................ 0 km
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are playing yearlong team sports, and I think
were going to have to gure out how to get
these people on skis and snowboards.
Name: Sue
Minter
Position: Deputy
Secretary
of the Agency of
Transportation
When did you start skiing or
riding?
Ive been skiing since I
was a little girl. I didnt grow
up in Vermont, but skiing is what brought me here.
Where did you grow up skiing or riding?
Stowe.
Do you Nordic ski?
I often do a combination of cross-country, telemark
and backcountry skiing. I love to go out and explore
the woods of Vermont.
Whats your home ski hill now?
Mad River Glen ski it if you can!
Whats your favorite Vermont ski hill?
I love Mad River. I love what it is, what it is about,
and what it has sustained in terms of its history. Its
a technically challenging mountain, and the trails
are real. I love the spirit of the people there, and the
woods!
Whats your favorite ski area ever?
I have very fond feelings for Stowe because its the
mountain I grew up on, but Im lucky because my
husband, David Goodman, is a ski writer. Weve been
fortunate to have the opportunity to ski in a ton of dif-
ferent places, and so its hard for me to pick the best of
all. But, if I really had to say, my favorite place has got
to be Tuckermans Ravine on Mount Washington.
Why do you like to ski?
I love being outside in the backcountry, exploring
the woods during the quietest time of the year. I also
like ascending to the top of a peak, being out in the
extreme weather, and being able to stay warm hiking.
eres also a social aspect of being on the hill, and I
really enjoy that too.
Why is skiing important to the state of Vermont?
Vermont is a ski destination, and we have a diverse
range of options here. From Bolton Valley, which is
a wonderful family ski mountain, to the much larger
mountains like Killington, and the more unique
mountains like Mad River Glen. Each of these com-
munities has a strong sense of place, and I think peo-
ple come to Vermont for its strong quality of life.
How can we make skiing better in Vermont?
I enjoy the fresh air, speed and cold
weather. Its not just a question of it
being a social sport for me I like to
get outside, and I dont have any prob-
lem skiing by myself. Its just a great
winter sport.
Jeb Spaulding
Well, we could always add more snow in the winter!
I think we should keep the trails as natural as possible
we shouldnt be making them atter and wider. We
should continue to promote all dierent kinds of ski-
ing from cross-country skiing to backcountry skiing,
downhill and riding. Weve got to continue market-
ing the diversity of our product, while supporting one
another, and making sure the ski areas continue to be
supportive of the communities in which they reside.
We also need to make sure that we continue to grow in
a compact manner, so that we can maintain the land-
scape that people come here for as much as they do for
the downhill experience.
Name: Jeb Spaulding
Position: Secretary of
the Administration
CLIeI operaLIn oIBcer
When did you start skiing or rid-
ing?
I began skiing when I was
very young, between the legs
of my father! In fact, I actually
skied at Stratton Mountain on
its opening day.
Where did you grow up skiing?
Bromley.
Did you ever race?
Ive only raced recreationally, and it was never too
serious.
Do you Nordic ski?
Yes.
Whats your home ski hill now?
I like to ski at a variety of places in Vermont, but
my 31-year-old daughter has a pass to
Sugarbush, and so Ive
been skiing there a
lot this year.
Whats your favorite Vermont ski hill?
I really enjoy a variety of places. I live in Montpelier,
and so the two closest mountains to me are Stowe and
Sugarbush, and theyre both great mountains.
Whats your favorite ski area ever?
I cant really say. At the moment, though, my favorite
place to ski is the Castlerock area of Sugarbush. It re-
minds me of skiing when I grew up. Its a slow double
chair, and its all natural snow.
Why do you like to ski?
I enjoy the fresh air, speed and cold weather. Its not
just a question of it being a social sport for me I like
to get outside, and I dont have any problem skiing by
myself. Its just a great winter sport I like the chal-
lenge of it too. Im a competitive guy.
Why is skiing important to the state of Vermont?
e ski industry is a tremendous economic engine for
the state of Vermont. Beyond the fact that it regularly
brings in a signicant amount of revenue, there are a
remarkable number of people whose rst experience
with Vermont was skiing. It was the reason they came
here, and a number of them are still here. I would count
myself in that category: Im originally from Massachu-
setts, and my family came here on vacations when I was
a kid going to Stratton and Bromley. Even then, I knew
I wanted to live here, and I think I share this experience
with a lot of community and business leaders who are
here specically because of our ski industry. Its a source
of human capital.
How can we make skiing better in Vermont?
e ski industry in Vermont is already very good.
However, we need to continue to build a strong rela-
tionship between the state and the private ski industry
in terms of promotion and marketing. Were also look-
ing to expand our EB-5 investment program, which
places like Jay Peak and Sugarbush have used to gener-
ate capital for their expansion. Its a program that allows
foreign investors to get a
green card if they make
a signicant investment
that generates jobs,
and were trying to
expand that.
Vermont is a ski destination, and we have a diverse range of options here. From Bolton
Valley, which is a wonderful family ski mountain, to the much larger mountains like Kil-
lington, and the more unique mountains like Mad River Glen. Each of these communi-
ties has a strong sense of place, and I think people come to Vermont for its strong qual-
ity of life.
Sue Minter
skied at Stratton Mountain on
its opening day.
my 31-year-old daughter has a pass to
Sugarbush, and so Ive
been skiing there a
lot this year.
ate capital for their expansion. Its a program that allows
foreign investors to get a
green card if they make
a signicant investment
that generates jobs,
and were trying to
expand that.
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STATS:
Typical season ...................December March
Total Terrain .......................................... 60 km
Machine-tracked ................................... 50 km
Skating Terrain ...................................... 20 km
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Brattleboro Outing Club
The BOC Ski Hut is the place to cross-country ski in
Brattleboro. Its so close and convenient, its practi-
cally XC in your backyard! Just two miles from town,
the Ski Hut is where friends and family gather to
make the most of winter. Learn-to-ski programs af-
ter school, ski and snowshoe rentals on weekends,
special events that celebrate the gift of winter. We
maintain trails for all tastes- Classic-only trails
meander through the woods, while our fairway
trails are groomed wide with both skating lanes
and stride & glide tracks. In fields adjacent to the
fairways, our Hunde-loipes (Hound loops) for dog-
lovers and their pets are groomed regularly.
CONTACT:
348 Upper Dummeraton Rd. PO Box 335
Brattleboro, VT 05302
Main phone: 802.254.4081
Contact our web page at BrattleboroOutingClub.
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STATS:
Typical season ............mid December March
Total Terrain .......................................... 33 km
Machine-tracked ................................... 25 km
Skating Terrain ...................................... 20 km

Grafton Ponds Outdoor Center

Grafton Ponda focuaea on croaa country akiing,
snowshoeing, ice Skating (no ice skating) Biath-
lon, and tubing on a 600-foot hill. There are 15 km
of Nordic trails groomed with a snow-cat and a til-
ler (which includes 5 km with snowmaking) and 15
km of back-country trails, along with another 10 km
of snowshoe trails. They offer a wide variety of ter-
rain and a full service cross country center includ-
ing rental, retail and snacks. A series of winter ac-
tivities, including family and kids programs, demos,
clinics and races, take place throughout the season.
Grafton Ponda ia part of the Grafton Inn, which of-
fers special ski & stay packages.
CONTACT:
783 Townshend Road, Grafton, VT 05146
Main phone: 802.843.2400
Reaervationa: 800.843.1801 Fax: 802.843.2245
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STATS:
Typical season ........... December Mid-March
Total Terrain ........................................... 45 km
Machine-tracked .................................... 15 km
Skating Terrain ....................................... 15 km

Hildene, The Lincoln Family Home

Hildene is a historic house built by Robert Todd
Lincoln primarily as a summer home. It is open
year-round and includes the mansion and gardens,
farm and reatored PuIIman paIace car. In the winter
months, we offer ski and snowshoe rentals for chil-
dren and adults, and lessons by appointment.
CONTACT:
1005 Hildene Rd, Manchester, VT 05254
Main phone: 802.362.1788 Fax: 802.362.1564
[Link]
STATS:
Typical season ...................December March
Total Terrain ........................................... 14 km
Machine-tracked .................................... 14 km
Skating Terrain ......................................... 0 km

Prospect Mountain Cross Country Ski

Center
Proapect Mountain Croaa-Country 8ki Center ia Io-
cated on Route 9 in Woodford, Vermont, just 7 miles
east of Bennington. At the highest base elevation
of any aki area in the atate, Proapect Mountain haa
earned its reputation of being the snow magnet.
Proapect haa over 35 km of expertIy groomed aki
traiIa, and offera exceIIent akiing to everyone from
racers to families. The full service ski shop includes
a heated waxing room and a profeaaionaI waxing
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son, who had managed the mountain for
him since January 1970. In a 2004 inter-
view, Albertsson said he bought the area in
the spring of 1971 and continued to build
some 150 units in the Bromley Village that
Pabst had started.
Albertsson also installed two more chair-
lifts, removing the J-Bars that had divided
the main mountain. (Prior to this time,
Little Bromley had been discontinued when
the highway was rerouted and is now the
parking lot.)
In 1976, Albertsson installed the rst
Alpine Slide in North America for summer
fun. He also expanded
his revenue base by
selling slides to other
ski areas (which he
was still doing in
2004).
Knowing the Vil-
lage was about 60
percent built and that
its revenue stream
would soon come to
an end with nothing
to replace it, and also
sensing the consolida-
tion trend in the ski
industry after several
di cult snow years, Albertsson had tried
to buy Okemo in 1978-79. When that
eort failed, he sold Bromley to Stratton in
December 1979.
Stratton, in turn, sold the area in 1987
to a small investor group that also owned
nearby Magic Mountain. Today, Joseph
ODonnell, a Boston businessman, is the
sole surviving owner of that group, which
closed Magic in June 1991 and later sold it.
He continues to own Bromley, while expe-
rienced managers operate the area on a daily
basis.
Bromley has continued to innovate by
inaugurating the rst full-time Telemark
Program in the East, developing innovative
learning programs and kids instruction,
and introducing Valet Parking for week-
ends and holidays. e area kept abreast of
industry trends by welcoming snowboard-
ers and free stylers with terrain parks and a
halfpipe and by replacing the double with
the Sun Mountain Express Quad in 1997.
Millions have been poured into grooming
and snowmaking and base lodge expansion.
Most recently, in conjunction with its
new KidsRule Mountain Camps program,
Bromley built a $1 million, 3,000-square-
foot kids facility (addition to the base
lodge). e Learning Area received a top-
to-bottom makeover including expanded
terrain, a Kids Cabin for bathroom
breaks and warming up, and a fully enclosed
SunKid Wonder Carpet, which replaces
two older lifts.
e area has also steadily built up its
summer business with the ever-growing Sun
Mountain Adven-
ture Park featur-
ing such activities
as mini golf, water
rides, climb-
ing wall, bounce
house, kiddie
park, assorted
thrill rides, and
Vermonts rst
Zip Lines. e
ZipRider features
four half-mile,
side-by-side lines
that drop 700
vertical feet for a
thrilling ride that hits speeds of up to 50
mph. Additionally, the lineup of special
events and entertainment continues to
grow each summer.
As a result of its long history of improv-
ing the experience for skiers and espe-
cially for families, Bromley has become an
area where you ride the lift and invariably
your seatmates rattle o a long association
with the area that often dates back to their
grandparents.
What Bromley loyalists like about the
mountain is its terrain and friendliness.
From thrillers like Pabst Peril, Havoc, Cork-
screw, and the tough glades to the begin-
ner slopes, the diversity of runs oers the
proverbial something for everyone. ese
same loyalists also cite the convenience of
all trails funneling to a single base, the won-
derful kids programs, and the areas aord-
ability and ambiance as reasons for their
deep-seated aection.
bromley
Any work we can
do to give skiers
more for their ski
dollar is worth-
while.
Fred Pabst, 1960s
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Cross Country Ski Areas
ensuring a fair dumping with any snowstorm. 65 ki-
lometers of groomed and wilderness trails spread
across the beautiful Vermont countryside, with con-
nections to the Catamount Trail and Vermonts Long
Trail. The Halfdan Khlune Trail climbs to 2,800 feet,
making it the highest maintained ski trail in Ver-
mont. The rental shop offers a full line of touring,
backcountry and skating skis on a fi rst come, first
served basis. We also have 40+ pairs of snowshoes,
for both adults and children.
CONTACT:
RFD 3, Goshen, VT 05733
Main phone: 802.247.6735
Phone 2: 800.448.0707 Fax: 802.247.3983
info@[Link]
[Link]
STATS:
Typical season .......... December to mid-March
Total Terrain .......................................... 65 km
Machine-tracked ................................... 25 km
Skating Terrain ...................................... 25 km

Blueberry Lake
The Snow Bowl of Sugarbush. For the last two
years, we have skied everyday of the season af-
ter opening. The ski area offers 31 km of trails all
of which are groomed. Some of the trails are lit for
night skiing.
CONTACT:
424 Robinson Road, Warren, VT 05674
Main phone: 802.496.6687 Fax: 802.496.5198
STATS:
Typical season .......... December to mid-March
Total Terrain .......................................... 31 km
Machine-tracked ................................... 31 km
Skating Terrain ...................................... 31 km

Catamount Trail Association

The Catamount Trail is a 300-mile public cross
country ski trail that spans the length of Vermont. It
offera a mixture of ungroomed backcountry terrain
and groomed traiIa - a aki experience for everyone.
Guidebook available. Maintained by the member-
supported nonprofit
Catamount Trail Association.
CONTACT:
Main phone: (802) 864-5794
info@[Link]
[Link]

Mountain Meadows XC Area

Located in the heart of the Green Mountains, Moun-
tain Meadows cross-country ski area has been at-
tracting skiers from all over the world for the past
35 years. Snowmaking, new trail marking system,
improved trails through spectacular meadows and
hard woods.
CONTACT:
209 Thundering Brook Rd, KiIIington, VT 05751
Main phone: 802.775.7077
Phone 2: 800.221.0598 Fax: 802.747.1929
[Link]
STATS:
Typical season .....................November April
Total Terrain .......................................... 57 km
Machine-tracked ................................... 57 km
Skating Terrain ....................................... 57 km

Mountain Top Inn and Resort

Eleven miles from Killington, 60km trails (40km
groomed) classic, skate and pristine backcountry
for skiing or snowshoeing on 350 of acres at eleva-
tion up to 2,100 ft. Varied terrain for all skill and
age levels. Private or group lessons, rentals, snow-
making, daily grooming, ski shop (Rossignol demo
equipment & rentals, Tubbs snowshoe rentals),
snack bar. Designated pet friendly trails. Nordic ski
and other seasonal packages available.
CONTACT:
195 Mountain Top Rd, Chittenden, VT 05737
Main phone: (802) 483-2311
Phone 2: (802) 483-6089
Reaervationa: (802) 483-2311 Fax: (802) 483-6373
stay@[Link]
STATS:
Typical season .......................... late Nov.-April
Total Terrain .......................................... 60 km
Machine-tracked ................................... 40 km
Skating Terrain ...................................... 60 km

Okemo Valley Nordic Center

Okemo Valley Nordic Center features 22 km of tra-
ditional Nordic track trails and skating lanes that
wind their way through pristine meadows and Nor-
dic hillsides and along the Black River.
The Nordic Center also has an additional 13 km of
dedicated snow-shoe trails. Okemo Valley features
modern trail grooming and terrain ideally suited
for all ability levels. Cross-country ski and snow-
shoe rentals are available, along with group and
private lessons.
CONTACT:
77 Okemo Ridge Rd, LudIow, VT 05149
Main phone: 802.228.1396
Phone 2: [Link] Fax: 802.228.7095
info@[Link] [Link]
STATS:
Typical season .....................December April
Total Terrain .......................................... 22 km
Machine-tracked ................................... 22 km
Skating Terrain ...................................... 22 km

Oles Cross Country Center

The combination of snow and scenery at Oles
Cross Country Center in the Mad River Valley is
perfect for skiing and snowshoeing. Discover 30
miles (50K) of moderately rolling trails groomed for
classic skiing and ski skating. All abilities can ski to
panoramic views of Sugarbush or into the rare quiet
of the deep woods. Rent cross country ski gear and
snowshoes at Oles, including skating skis. Learn
to cross-country ski better. We offer fun lessons for
beginners to coaching for racers. We love to share
our favorite sport. Adventure with us on a guided
ski or snowshoe tour.
CONTACT:
PO Box 1653, WaitafieId, VT 05673
Main phone: 802.496.3430
Phone 2: 877.863.3001 Fax: 802.496.3089
[Link]
STATS:
Typical season .....................November April
Total Terrain .......................................... 50 km
Machine-tracked ................................... 50 km
Skating Terrain ...................................... 45 km

Rikert Nordic Center

Located 12 miles east of Middlebury on Route 125
in Ripton, VT - 2 miles west of the Middlebury Snow
Bowl. Situated on the Bread Loaf Campus of Mid-
dlebury College bordered by the Green Mountain
National Forest and the Robert Frost Homestead,
the center offers 50 km of carefully groomed trails
for classic and skate skiing and snowshoeing for
all abilities. Included in this terrain is a new world
class 5km FIS sanctioned race course that was built
this fall. The newly renovated shop offers rental
equipment, repairs and maintenance and is fully
ADA accessible. A staff of instructors offer both pri-
vate and group lessons.
CONTACT:
Route 125
Middlebury College Bread Loaf Campus, Ripton,VT
Phone: 802 - 443- 2744
mhuaaey@[Link] [Link].
com
STATS:
Typical Season: ................. December - March
Total Terrain: ........................................ 50 km
Machine Tracked: ................................... 50 Km
Skating Terrain: ...................................... 40 km

Three Stallion Inn Touring Center

Come and enjoy the '8porting Life' on 35 km of x-c
skiing and snowshoeing trails that criss-cross our
1,300 wooded acres and open pastures.
CONTACT:
Three Stallion Inn, Randolph, VT 05060
Main phone: 802.728.5656
Phone 2: 802.728.5575 [Link]
STATS:
Typical season ...................December March
Total Terrain .......................................... 50 km
Machine-tracked ................................... 35 km
Skating Terrain ...................................... 17 km

Woodstock Nordic Center

Just out from the ski center are 10 km of gentle
meadow skiing that connect to our fitness center
and the 20 km of woodland trails on Mt. Peg. There
are also 30 km of trails located across the village
green on Mt. Tom and these quite often become
the favorites of those who discover them. Skiing or
snowshoeing Mt. Tom puts you on century old car-
riage roads in the midst of Vermonts first tree farm
and Vermonts first National Park site.
CONTACT:
Route 106, Woodatock, VT 05091
Main phone: 802.457.6674
Phone 2: 800.448.7900 Fax: 802.457.6699
emaiI@[Link] [Link].
com
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Breweries Wineries
1. Lawsons
Finest
The Warren Store
284 Main St.
Warren, Vt 05674
802-272-8436
[Link]
[Link]
Open 7 days/week, 8 a.m. 6 p.m.
Store brings in a rotating line-up of bottles
delivered every Friday.
Straight from the Green Mountains to your
head! The Warren Store is the exclusive
retailer to Lawsons beer, a small batch artisanal
microbrewery. Lawsons goal is to provide local
brews of the highest quality and freshness, while
crafting unique new recipes and emulating the best
of widely appreciated styles.
2. Shelburne Vineyards
6308 Shelburne Road
Shelburne, Vt 05482
802-985-8222
[Link]
Open 7 days/week, 11 a.m. 5 p.m.
Tastings and Tours
Taste our internationally recognized, award-winning
red, white, rose and dessert wines; tour our state-of-
the-art winery; picnic & stroll through our vineyard and
discover how we make world-class wines from region-
ally grown grapes.
3. Harpoon Brewery
336 Ruth Carney Drive
Windsor, Vt 05089
802-647-5491
[Link]
Open May October, 7 days/week
Tastings and Tours (hourly)
Friday: 5 p.m. 7 p.m., Saturday: 11 a.m. 5 p.m., Sun-
day: 12 p.m. 4 p.m.
Harpoon Beers each have their own individual characteris-
tics in terms of taste, color and body. Our goal is to make
beers that are distinctive and, most importantly, a pleasure
to drink.
4. Boyden Valley Winery
64 Vt Route 104
Cambridge, Vt 05444
802-644-8151
[Link]
Open May December, 7
days/week, 10 a.m. 5 p.m.
Jan April, Friday Sunday, 10 a.m. 5 p.m.
Wine tasting ($6+tax) all day. Tours (free) 11:30 a.m.
and 1:00 p.m.
Boyden Valley Winery is a fourth generation family farm
that produces a variety of international award-winning Ver-
mont wines. Vermont Ice is the premier line of Vermont ice
wines. Come try the New Vermont Ice Apple Crme liqueur
or our traditional reds, whites, rose and fruit wines.
5. Vermont Pub & Brewery
144 College St.
Burlington Vt, 05401
802-865-0500
[Link]
Open 7 days/week, 11:30 a.m.
1 a.m. (Thu-Sat open until 2 a.m.)
Vermont Pub & Brewery is Vermonts original brewpub.
Opened in 1988, it continues to be a celebrated landmark
und produco world-cluss boor soloclions, which uro ull unl-
tered with no preservatives.
VBA inilioles Possporl
progrom lor guesls who
visil Vermonl's breweries
ond brewpubs
If youre a lover of micro-brews, the Vermont Brewers
Association has developed a Vermont Brewery Challenge,
complete with an Official Passport program for guests who
visit four, 10 or all 21 breweries or brewpubs in the state.
Those who visit four breweries, get a Drink Vermont
Beer bottle opener; those who visit 10 breweries earn a
Drink Vermont Beer t-shirt; and those who visit all the
breweries get the grand prize: a Collectors Set of Vermont
Beer Gear.
The rules are simple: Visit a brewery or brewpub that is part
of the challenge (listed on the Vermont Brewers Association
website ([Link]); enjoy a glass or pint and
get your passport stamped at that brewery with their official VBA
symbol. (The passport card is available on the VBA website or at most of
the breweries.)
Prizes are given out when the passport is mailed into the Vermont Brewers
Association, 142 Kirk Meadow Rd., Springfield, Vt. 05156. (Be sure to indicate your
shirt size if you qualify. The offer is valid while supplies last and is good only for
breweries & brewpubs, not at wineries or cideries.)
An interesting personal account of one guests experience who toured the state on his
motorcycle visiting each location can be found at [Link]
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Enjoy 60km of groomed trails, rated as some
of the nicest trails in New England!
Enjoy lunch at the Ski Center and stay in one of
Vermonts most scenic and historic inns tucked in the
heart of Robert Frost country with exquisite dining.
For more information go to [Link]
Blueberry Hill Ski Center
Goshen, Vermont 802-247-6755
Enjoy 25km of groomed trails, rated as some
of the nicest trails in New England!
Enjoy lunch at the Ski Center and stay in one of
Vermonts most scenic and historic inns tucked in the
heart of Robert Frost country with exquisite dining.
For more information go to [Link]
Goshcn, Vcrnont 802-247-6735
Skating Terrain ...................................... 50 km

Jay Peak Nordic and Snowshoe Center

The Jay Peak Nordic and Snowshoe Center is located
in the Golf Clubhouse and offers 20km of groomed
and tracked terrain for beginners and experts alike.
Pristine winding trails that amble through unspoiled
wilderness coupled with unparalled mountain
views are the hallmarks of our trail network. Snow-
shoers are welcome to experience the backcountry
by day or be guided in the evenings on our fireside
tours. A true destination resort, Jay Peak also offers
ice skating, curling, lodging , dining, an indoor wa-
ter park and plenty of night life.
CONTACT:
830 Jay Peak Road, Jay, Vermont 05859.
Main Phone (802) 988-2611 x4653
Reaervationa 1-800-451-4449 Fax (802) 988-4049
info@[Link].
STATS:
Typical season ......... Thanksgiving - mid-April
Total Terrain ........................................... 25 km
Snowshoeing trails ................................... 5 km

Morse Farm Ski Center

Visit Vermonts newest, family friendly cross-coun-
try touring center, with views of Camels Hump
and the Hunger Mountain range. Professionally de-
signed scenic trails offer a diverse choice of terrain,
through softwood forests, sugarbush and across
gently rolling open pastures. Suitable for all skill
levels, from first-timers to seasoned experts, who
will appreciate the banked turns on our many chal-
lenging downhill slopes.
CONTACT:
PO Box 1200 1168 County Rd., MontpeIier, VT
05601
Main phone: 800-223-0090
[Link]
STATS:
Typical season ................... December - March
Total Terrain .......................................... 20 km
Machine-tracked ................................... 20 km
Skating Terrain ...................................... 15 km

Sleepy Hollow Inn & Bike Center

Come cross-country ski or mountain bike with us!
Our trails are challenging and great fun. Visit But-
ternut Cabin, with a stunning view of Camels Hump
and Vermonts rolling Green Mountains. Our eight
bedroom newly renovated country inn is gaining a
reputation for great service and hospitality. We of-
fer skiing, ice-skating, night skiing, snowshoeing,
single-track mountain biking, and hiking. Our full
line of rentals will surely make your visit hassle-free
and memorable.
CONTACT:
1805 Sherman Hollow Rd, Huntington, VT 05462
Main phone: 802.434.2283
Phone 2: 866.254.1524
info@[Link]
[Link]
STATS:
Typical season ................... December - March
Total Terrain .......................................... 40 km
Machine-tracked ................................... 30 km
Skating Terrain ...................................... 25 km

Smugglers Notch Cross Country

Smugglers Notch Nordic Ski and Snowshoe Adven-
ture Center is conveniently located at the center of
this year-round resort, providing a host of exciting
activities for every member of the family. PSIA-Cer-
tified instruction in both classical and skate skiing;
daily guided snowshoe treks and night tours on 24
kilometers of dedicated snowshoe trails; ice skat-
ing on a natural outdoor rink. With over 100 pair of
Red Feather 8nowahoea and pIenty of akia, boota,
poles and ice skates, Smugglers can outfit age 5
and older.
CONTACT:
4323 VT Route 108 South,
Smugglers Notch, VT 05464
Main phone: 802.644.1173
Phone 2: 800.451.8752 Fax: 802.644.2713
amugga@[Link] [Link]
STATS:
Typical season .....................December April
Total Terrain .......................................... 34 km
Machine-tracked ................................... 23 km
Skating Terrain ...................................... 28 km

Stowe XC
Cross Country Ski Areas
Skating Terrain ...................................... 50 km Our trails are challenging and great fun. Visit But- Stowe Mountain Resorts 35 kilometers of groomed
and 40 kilometers of backcountry trails are the
highest in Stowe. Also available are 5 kilometers of
trails specifically for snowshoeing. Theyre all part
of the largest connected cross-country trail network
in the East... a nordic skiers dream, that also con-
necta with the Trapp FamiIy Lodge XC Center, Top-
notch and Edson Hill ski touring centers.
CONTACT:
5781 Mountain Rd., Stowe, VT 05672
Main phone: 802.253.3688
Phone 2: 800.253.4754 Fax: 802.253.3406
info@[Link] [Link]
STATS:
Typical season .............. December - late April
Total Terrain .......................................... 70 km
Machine-tracked ................................... 35 km
Skating Terrain ...................................... 35 km

Trapp Family Lodge Cross Country

Center
Located on the apine of the Green Mountaina, they
are blessed with good snow conditions all season
long. The center offers 55 km of groomed trails that
are interconnected to the Stowe Mountain Resort,
Topnotch and Edson Hill ski touring centers, mak-
ing a trail network of 120 km groomed trails and
another 100 km of back country trails. The center
has a complete retail store with accessories, cloth-
ing and equipment, a repair shop, a ski school and
rentals of all kinds.
CONTACT:
700 Trapp Hill Rd, Stowe, VT 05672
Main phone: 802.253.8511
Phone 2: 800.826.7000 Fax: 802.253.5757
info@[Link] [Link]
STATS:
Typical season .....................December April
Total Terrain ........................................ 100 km
Machine-tracked ................................... 55 km
Skating Terrain ...................................... 55 km
CENTRALREGION
CENTRAL VERMNT
Blueberry Hill
Blueberry Hill Blueberry Hill is continually expand-
ing its trail network and maintaining high grooming
standards. The ski lodge sits at just over 1,600 feet,
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6. Otter Creek Brewing Company
793 Exchange St.
Middlebury, Vt 05753
802-388-0727
[Link]
Open 7 days/week , 11 a.m. 6 p.m.
Offers self-guided window tours
Otter Creek Brewery is a front-runner in the American Craft
Brewing Revolution. Otter Creek recently expanded its facili-
ties to accommodate growing demands for its quality beers.
They are proud to use sound environmental policies and us
as many local ingredients as possible.
7. Long Trail Brewing Company
5520 US Route 4
Bridgewater Corners, VT 05035
802-672-5011
[Link]
Open 7 days/week, 10 a.m. 7 p.m.
Sales and sampling at the visitor center
Vermonts #1 selling craft beer, Long Trail is dedicated to
providing an outstanding experience. Whether you are inter-
ested in enjoying some of their award-winning brews or to
luking u sol-guidod browory lour, guosls will nd oxlruordi-
nary insights.
8. Rock Art Brewery
632 Laporte Rd./Rt. 100
Morrisville, Vt 05661
802-888-9400
[Link]
Open Monday Saturday, 9 a.m.
6 p.m.
Tasting daily until 5:30 p.m. (with
purchase of $4 souvenir glass)
Tours 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. daily, 11 a.m. Saturday.
Now settled into their new facility in Morrisville, Rock Art
Brewery is excited to brew some new ale in addition to their
same wonderful beers. Started in 1997, Rock Art has enjoyed
wide popularity for their unique recipes.
9. The Alchemist
35 Crossroad
Waterbury, Vt 05676
802-244-7744
[Link]
Cannery: 7 days/week,
11 a.m. 7 p.m. retail shop,
tasting room and self-guided
tour.
The Alchemist Cannery is cur-
rently focused on brewing one beer perfectly. Heady Topper,
our ugship Doublo lPA, is nol inlondod lo bo lho biggosl or
most bitter. It is meant to give you wave after wave of hoppy
goodness on your palate. Tremendous amounts of hops will
croop up on you und louvo you wilh u donso, hoppy nish in
your mouth. So drinkable, its scary.
10. Zero Gravity
American Flatbread
115 St. Paul St.
Burlington, VT 05401
802-861-2999
[Link]
Zero Gravity craft brewery is located in-
side American Flatbread Burlington
Hourlh whoro you will nd T0-T5 houso
brews on tap all year long. Zero Gravity
offers unique tasty selections and a wide variety of styles from
around the world including Mid-evil style brews made with
herbs instead of hops.
11. Grand View Winery
Max Gray Road
E. Calais Vt 05650
802-456-7012
[Link]
Open May October 7 days/
week, 11 a.m. 5 p.m.
Tours, tastings and retail store
Grand View Winery specializes
in non-grape wine produced
with character and not sweet.
It won a double gold award for
its Cranberry wine, gold for its
Strawberry Rhubarb wine, and
silver for its Pear wine this year at the Finger Lakes Intl
Wine Competition among other awards.
12. Magic Hat Brewery and Artifactory
5 Bartlett Bay Road
South Burlington, Vt 05403
802-658-BREW
[Link]
Winter Hours Winter Tours
Mon-Thurs 10-6 Thurs-Fri 3,4,5
Fri-Sat 10-7 Sat 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Sun 12-5 Sun 1:30
Where ancient alchemy meets modern-day science to
create the best tasting beer on the planet. Come watch
our spores dance and play! Visit the Artifactory for FREE
samples, FREE Tours and the most unusual shopping ex-
perience!
13. Woodchuck Cidery
153 Pond Lane, Middlebury, VT 05753
802-388-0700
[Link]
Facility not set up for public tours
Cider can be purchased in all 50 states
The Vermont-based, independently owned and operated ci-
dery is now leading Americas fastest growing alcohol bev-
erage category, through its visionary mix of innovation and
tradition. Their signature high quality production is naturally
gluten-free, which is something that sets them apart.
14. Flag Hill Farm
PO Box 31, Vershire,
Vermont 05079
02.5.7724 [Link]
Open for tours and tasting by appointment
Flag Hill handcrafts traditional, farmhouse-style Vermont
Hard Cyders, distilled fruit spirits, Pomme de Vie and Stairs
Pear. Here in the Green Mountains of rural Vermont, Flag
Hill takes a slow, traditional, wine-making approach to their
hard cider.
15. Fresh Tracks
Farm Vineyard
& Winery &
Sugarhouse
Round
4373 VT Route 12
Berlin, VT 05602
02-223-1151 [Link]
Come visit our beautiful and sustainable tasting room just
3 miles outside of Montpelier. Sit and enjoy sampling and
sipping our selection of wines all grown and produced on
premise here at the farm. We also offer delicious local cheese
plates to enjoy with the wines as well as unique and locally
selected gifts. Check our website for hours and different
events happening throughout the year. The hours for the
tasting room are Wed-Fri 1-7, Sat & Sun 11-6.
12. Magic Hat Brewery and Artifactory
Winter Hours Winter Tours
Mon-Thurs 10-6 Thurs-Fri 3,4,5
Vermont is known for many things, but
not usually for its whiskey, at least not yet.
at may soon change, however, as the
WhistlePig distillery is producing some of
the nest whiskey in the world on a pic-
turesque farm in the
apple-bearing town of
Shoreham, bordering
Lake Champlain.
is seemingly un-
likely setting is where
renowned distiller
Dave Pickerell and
founder Raj Peter
Bhakta have created a
world-class rye whis-
key. ey call it Whis-
tlePig. It is a 100-proof ,100 percent rye
whiskey. Its aged for at least 10 years
in new American oak barrels, giv-
ing it its distinctive character. Us-
ing 100% pure rye is unique, as
most whiskeys made with rye
are blended with corn and
barley or both.
And the taste? Amazing.
At least according to the ex-
perts.
Will Vermont be the next Kentucky?
When WhistlePig Rye Whiskey was rst re-
leased in the summer of 2010 it received nu-
merous distinctions, including highest ever
designation from Wine Enthusiast Magazine
with 96 points and a place in Wall Street Jour-
nals top 5 best whiskeys
of 2010.
Master Distiller Dave
Pickerell says of his whis-
key that the 100/100 em-
bodies the perfect com-
bination of proof, purity
and age, and hits what he
calls the sweet spot in all
three categories.
Before joining Whis-
tlePig, Pickerell spent 14
years as Makers Mark Master Distiller in Lo-
retto, Kentucky.
WhistlePig Straight Rye Whiskey is hand-
bottled at the Farm Distillery in Shoreham. It
is among the oldest farms in the state. In 2006,
founder Raj Peter Bhakta bought the farm and
is restoring it as he cultivates acres of rye grain.
Bhakta and Pickerell hope to not only produce
the nest rye whiskey in the world, they say, but
also to create a truly sustainable farm- a work-
ing model of modern agriculture in Vermont.
in new American oak barrels, giv-
ing it its distinctive character. Us-
ing 100% pure rye is unique, as
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592 Governor Chittenden Rd, Williston, VT 05495
Main phone: 802.879.6001
Phone 2: 888.680.1011 Fax: 802.879.6066
[Link]
STATS:
Typical season ............ mid December - March
Total Terrain ........................................... 35 km
Machine-tracked ................................... 35 km
Skating Terrain ...................................... 35 km

Craftsbury Outdoor Center

For over 35 yeara, thia year-round reaort in the
Northeast Kingdom on over 400 private acres has
offered outdoor activities for the whole family.
In 2008, it was re-organized as a non-profit entity
whose mission focuses on lifelong sports, stew-
ardship and sustainability. Members (both day or
annual) and winter time guests can enjoy 85k of
groomed nordic ski trails, snowshoeing, orienteer-
ing, ice-skating, backcountry tours, biathlon pro-
gramming, and more.
The Center has space for up to 90 houseguests in its
variety of trailside accommodations. Choose from
private cabins to comfortable lodges - all room
pricea incIude your meaIa in their Vermont Freah
Network Member dining hall. Youll enjoy lots of
fresh, local ingredients with every meal!
If youre ready for some indoor time, guests have
access to amenities such as free wifi, massage ther-
apists, sauna and fitness room - plus homey public
spaces. Babysitting can be arranged with advance
notice.
NRTHERN VERMNT
Bolton Valley XC
Nordic and backcountry skiing are hallmarks of
Bolton Valley Ski Resort. The highest elevation of
Vermonts cross-country ski areas ensures great
snow, usually from early November well into April.
With over 100 km of Nordic trails, Bolton is consid-
ered by many to be the best backcountry in Ver-
mont. The Nordic Center offers both Classic and
Skate skiing lessons as well as guided tours and ski
clinics. Snowshoeing is another popular activ-
ity; the resort uses Tubbs Snowshoes as rentals.
Nordic ski and snowshoe packages with lodg-
ing are available.
CONTACT:
4302 Bolton Valley Access Rd., Bolton Valley, VT
05477
Main phone: 802.434.3444
Phone 2: 877.9BOLTON Fax: 802.329-6871
nordiccenter@[Link]
STATS:
Typical season: ...............................................
December - early April
Total Terrain ....................................................
88 km
Machine-tracked .............................................
26 km
Skating Terrain ................................................
26 km

Burke XC/Kingdom Trails

Two centers located on Darlng Hill and near
Burke Mountain offer something for everyone.
At Kingdom Trails the atmosphere is noncom-
petitive, our focus is the quality of skiing and
your awareness of the surrounding country-
side. Eight main loops make up 50 km of trails
to accommodate all skiing abilities. At the two
Nordic centers on Darling Hill and Burke XC
you can warm your feet and enjoy the splendid
views.
CONTACT:
PO Box 204, Eaat Burke, VT 05872
Main phone: 802.626.0737
Phone 2: 802.535.5662
info@[Link]
STATS:
Typical season: ........... mid December - March
Total Terrain ........................................... 80 km
Machine-tracked ................................... 50 km
Skating Terrain ...................................... 35 km

Catamount Family Center

All year long enjoy recreating on our trails as you
discover the four corners of our beautiful family
farm. Go at a leisurely pace, taking time to enjoy
yourself and your family. You can pull off the trails
at scenic points to soak up memorable views of
Mt. Mansfield or Camels hump to the east or Lake
Champlain and the Adirondacks to the west. This
farm is rich in history. The first governor of Vermont,
Governor Chittenden, built the main house in 1798
for his son Giles. It has since passed to our family
and is in its 6th generation of ownership.
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
535 Lost Nation Rd, Craftsbury Common, VT 05827
Main phone: 802.586.7767 Fax: 802.586.7768
[Link]
STATS:
Typical season ............ mid December - March
Total Terrain ........................................ 135 km
Machine-tracked ................................... 85 km
Skating Terrain ...................................... 85 km

Hazens Notch
Located at the top of Vermont in the Covered
Bridge Town of Montgomery near Jay Peak
Resort, Hazens Notch is on the western edge of
the snowy Northeast Kingdom. 70 Kilometers
of groomed and marked trails pass through
mixed mapIe, birch and evergreen foreat and
across gentle, open meadows. There are spec-
tacular views of Hazens Notch and numerous
peaks over 3,000 in elevation in the Jay Range
and Cold Hollow Range of the Green Moun-
tains, which completely encircle the trail sys-
tem. 30 trails for all abilities provide loops of
different lengths for classical cross-country
skiing and or snowshoeing. Trail difficulty is
evenly divided between easy, moderate and
difficult.
CONTACT:
P.O. Box 478, Montgomery Center, VT 05471
Main phone: 802.326.4799 Fax: 802.326.4966
[Link]
STATS:
Typical season .............. December - April
Total Terrain ................................... 70 km
Machine-tracked ............................ 60 km
Skating Terrain .............................. 20 km

Highland Lodge & XC Center

THE HIGHLAND LODGE IS CLOSED FOR
LODGING.
Trail use is available as follows.
Craftabury AnnuaI membera are free to uae
Highland Lodge trails as part of their member
benefita. Find out more about annuaI member-
ship at: [Link]/membership
Day akiera coming from Craftabury are aIao free to
use HL trails. Those tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for
students and seniors, under 6 are free. These tickets
can be purchased from Craftsburys Touring Center
Day akiera wanting to onIy aki at HighIand ahouId
first stop at its Touring Center. Craftsbury intends
to have the Lodge Touring Center staffed on week-
ends and holidays with volunteers and Craftsbury
staff. Mid-week Highland day skiers will have ac-
cess to membership information at the trailhead
and tube for self-serve payments of the trail fees
($10/$5), with Greensboro residents skiing for free.
CONTACT:
Highland Lodge
1608 Craftsbury Rd., Greensboro, VT 05841
For traiI information, caII Craftabury: 802.586.7767
Or visit its website [Link].
STATS:
Typical season ................... December - March
Total Terrain .......................................... 50 km
Machine-tracked ................................... 50 km
Cross Country Ski Areas
592 Governor Chittenden Rd, Williston, VT 05495 CONTACT:
A Soul of Snow Interview:
Ed Koren, e New Yorker Magazine
By Ski Vermont sta
We talked briey to Ed Koren, noted cartoonist for the
New Yorker Magazine and a Nordic skier in Vermont,
about his experiences in the Vermont [Link] are his
responses:
What do you remember about your rst time Nordic
skiing?
I obviously liked it because it was much more freewheel-
ing and it was a whole dierent part of Vermont that I
could access. at was a kind of pleasure, an unexpected
joy that you could be o on skis in the middle of the
winter. For me, it was just a wonderful freedom that sort
of presented itself.
Why have you continued to ski?
Because I love it. Im passionately addicted to it. I go out
every day in the winter. I have my trails around here. I can
range across the whole landscape and its just a wonderful
part of the day. eres a reection and a thinking about
human life that comes along when trucking through the
woods.
Is skiing an escape from your studio?
I wouldnt think of it as an escape; its more positive
than that. Its really an important part of my life to be
out in this winter world. Also for an artist, the world of
the woods and elds and winter is just a delight, an endless
discovery of things to observe. So no, its not an escape at
all. Its almost a nourishment. If it wasnt so transcendently
wonderful, I wouldnt do it.
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At Woodchuck, we do things our own way. We
start with the nest ingredients crafted at our
local cidery here in Middlebury, Vermont. Then
our cider-master meticulously oversees the
details of every small batch before any bottle or
keg leaves our back door. Its this special
attention and love for our product that ensures
we always deliver a smooth unique hard cider
that is true to our roots. Independent to the core.
proud to be
partnered with
[Link]
Eat. Ski. Chill.
Boiled down to the very basics, for ski die-
hards, thats a ski weekend and they love it!
Grab breakfast and hit the slopes. Eat lunch
and chill; ski a bit more then chill. en its
home for dinner,
fun and relaxation,
and nally sleep
only to do it all
over again the next
day.
Its great fun,
wonderful exercise,
fantastic family
bonding, but ski
families also know
that packing up
for the weekend
can be a haul, and
schlepping groceries only adds to the hassle
and thats where a small but growing Vermont
food company is working to make the weekend
ski trip a little easier.
Graze is a new Vermont-based company on a
mission to bring the best of Vermonts sustainably
produced foods directly from Vermonts family
farms to your front door. e company is cur-
rently delivering freshly produced foods to four
Vermont ski areas: Stratton, Stowe, Sugarbush
and Okemo.
We have a lot of customers in Faireld
County Connecticut, the suburbs of Boston
and in Vermont who also own or rent up at the
mountains, said Graze co-founder Christy Cola-
surdo, and they asked us if we could do deliver-
ies to the slopes. We launched our rst mountain
deliveries last season at Stratton, and it was a big
Graze: Vermont Company delivers
wholesome local foods to your doorstep
hit. So this year we added a few more popular
resorts.
Graze, which is based in Vergennes, the heart
of the Champlain Valley, has been delivering
fresh Vermont foods down country for the past
couple of years. As
with existing cus-
tomers, ordering is
easy and delivery is
free, Colasurdo said.
Customers visit
Grazes webstore
at [Link]-
[Link] and shop
for food theyll need
for the weekend
from breakfast
foods and cheese
platters to prepared
entrees to fresh baked goods. Graze will deliver
the order right to a persons mountain doorstep in
insulated bins on Friday afternoon, so its waiting
for them when they arrive for the ski weekend.
Colasurdo jokes, We coined a slogan for
the mountains: Eat, Ski, Chill. Essentially, we
know that after a long day on the slopes, the last
thing anyone wants to do is gure out whats for
dinner. When you get a Graze delivery, you can
put up your feet, pop a homemade lasagna or
other chef-prepared entree in the oven and break
out the cheese platter by the replace. What
could be easier?
Colasurdo also noted that customers feel
good knowing they are supporting local farmers
and foods producers, many who live and work
on nearby Addison County farms. For more
information, call 1-888-WE GRAZE.
MONTPELIER Gov. Peter Shumlin
was in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah in
mid-January for the annual Outdoor Indus-
try Association Retailer Winter Market, one
of the largest outdoor sports industry gather-
ings that attracts more than 20,000 attend-
ees and retailers of products that support
outdoor recreation and lifestyle.
e governor attended the Winter Market
with Adam Howard, publisher of Backcoun-
try, Telemark Skier and Alpinist magazines
and a Republican state representative from
Cambridge. He promoted Vermont compa-
nies to raise their prole at the event, demon-
strating his strong support for the industry,
and meeting with national rms that might
be interested in adding operations in Ver-
mont.
Among the Vermont businesses partici-
pating in the market are:
Ibex Outdoor Clothing
Burton Snowboards
Dale of Norway
Darn Tough Vermont
Gordini USA
Icebug
Johnson Woolen Mills
Julbo
Lombi Ltd
K-Tor
Louis Garneau USA
SKIDA
TSL Snowshoes
Turtle Fur Group
Valde
VEW Do Balance Boards
e governor also was set to meet with
o cials from Rossignol and other national
rms to promote Vermont as a great state in
which to do business.
Vermont governor attends national ski
show to support industry, attract business
Stowe Carnival draws professional ice carvers
STOWE, Vt. e countrys best ama-
teur and professional ice carvers will compete
at Stowe Mountain Resort on Saturday, Jan.
21. e nationally sanctioned NICA event
takes place during Stowes 10-day Winter
Carnival, an annual celebration thats been
happening since 1922.
e Ice Carving Competition will take
place between noon and 4 p.m. in the Spruce
Peak Plaza, with an awards ceremony and aprs
ski party featuring Live Music at 7 p.m. inside
Spruce Camp at the base of Stowe Moun-
tain Resort. e theme of this years event is
Circus and all the magnicent ice sculptures
will remain on display around Stowe for the
duration of winter, or until they melt.
Formed in 1987 as a not-for-prot orga-
nization, the purpose of the National Ice
Carving Association (NICA) is to promote
the art of ice sculpture through education,
competitions, standardized judging and exhi-
bitions.
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As of Jan. 1, 2012, the Vermont Ski and Snowboard
Museums collection totaled 7,600 catalogued objects. is
number does not account for the fact that most things in this
collection come as a pair boots, skis, mittens or socks.
While each item has a unique catalogue entry, not much
is known about all the items. e Museum received from the
Bromley Outing Club in 2003 a large black portfolio, tied
on two sides, containing a stack of oversized graph-like paper
lled with numbers. e portfolios label reads Daly FIS-
Point Calculator. e sheets are titled Slalom or DH/GS with
a number range. New light has been shed on this intriguing
object thanks to Mike Leach at the Mount Manseld Ski and
Snowboard Club (MMSC).
Heres that story.
e FIS (International Ski Federation) began in 1910 as
the First International Ski Commission and focused mainly
on Nordic events. Ten European countries met to standard-
ize the rules and regulations of competition. e International
Ski Commission met until World War I interrupted. After
the War, alpine skiing started to grow in popularity, which
changed the committees focus.
From the dierence needs of Nordic and alpine events came
the FIS. e original group consisted of 14 members; the
United States joined in 1946. Today, there are typically 110
member countries. e FIS oversees the Olympic disciplines
of cross country, Nordic combined, ski jumping, alpine skiing
and snowboard, and all of the disciplines in each category. It
also regulates speed skiing, grass skiing, telemark and masters
skiing competitions.
FIS alpine points are calculated by dividing the competi-
tors race time by the winners time, multiplying it by a con-
stant and then subtracting the constant. ere is a formula for
annually dening the constant (there is a dierent constant
for each discipline).
VERMONT SKI AND RI DE MAGAZI NE, J ANUARY/ FEBRUARY PAGE 33
Stowes Charles
Daly pioneered
early FIS point
system for racing
ermont
Ski Museum V
BY MEREDITH SCOTT
Ihis pholo is lrom lhe Februory 193 Ml. Monsheld 5ki Club newsleller showing Chorles Doly ol 5lowe using
o device lo colculole Fl5 rocing poinls.
is formula includes a ratio of the average time of all racers in
a given race to the winners time. Needless to say, it is compli-
cated math, and now the formula and computation are man-
aged by the FIS Data Service under the control of the Alpine
Classication Sub Committee to the FIS Calculation Com-
mittee.
e rst logarithmic formula and tables were proposed by
Hugh Hunter Gordon of Scotland and accepted in 1975. is
formula changed in 1979 when Warren Lowry of the
U.S. proposed the linear formula used today.
Imagine trying to gure out the race points before
computers!
Charles Daly of
Stowe developed the
FIS point calculator in
the late 1950s. Con-
stant confusion regard-
ing the computation
of FIS points by race
o cials prompted
Daly to devise a full proof and quick method for cal-
culating points. He gured about 26,000 point possi-
bilities based on the time dierence between the racer
and the winner. During the 1962-63 season, Daly
calculated the FIS points for all United States Eastern
Amateur Ski Association (USEASA) sanctioned races.
e association adopted the Daly FIS Point Cal-
culator in 1963.
An o cial USEASA document describes how
and why the point calculator worked. It stated:
e purpose of the [FIS point] system is to allow
for fairly combining the times of competitors in
two or more races of dierent lengths and for
classifying competitors based on their all seasons
records.
e calculator contained Dalys calculations, one
set for downhill and giant slalom races and one for
slalom races, and a small tape with numbers ranging
from 29 to 240 representing the racers time.
To calculate points, one nds the sheet with the
winners time. en the tape is placed next to the sheet and the
winning time is matched to the 0 on the tape. en the tenths
of seconds are matched. e ruler is moved down the tape and
read across to nd the points. ese points were then put on
the o cial results. It is one thing to imagine this race day task
without a computer and another without the tables!
e Museum has one of the calculators distributed by the
USEASA. I only knew what this was and how it worked when
Mike Leach brought in Charles Dalys own calculator. His cal-
culator came in a specially designed wooden box that held the
charts (he had tabbed them with blue labels), the tape, and
a ruler designed by him and for him to more easily read the
charts. e box also had Dalys
hand written copy of the o cial
USEASA directions for use.
In November 2011, the
MMSC inducted Charles Daly
into its Hall of Fame. Dalys son
Shamus accepted the award and
told a story of Daly going head
to head with an early IBM computer. e computer needed a
large room; Daly needed a card table and a couple of stools
for him and his box. e computer conrmed that his results
were accurate. Shamus also said at his fathers 2011 induction:
At one point, I thought of my dad as an inventor but, as I look
back on things, innovator would probably be more appropriate
as he usually tried to nd better and faster ways to do things.
Daly is another example of dedicated volunteers improving
the sport. Do you know of another such individual? I would
love to hear their story. Please send it to me at mscott@vtssm.
com or post it on the Museums Facebook page for all ski his-
tory enthusiasts to see and to appreciate.
e Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum is non-prot organi-
zation whose mission is to collect, preserve and celebrate Vermont
skiing and snowboarding history. e Museum o cially changed
its name from the Vermont Ski Museum in 2011, and is work-
ing on fully incorporating snowboarding into its exhibits and pro-
grams. e Museum is located at the corner of Vermont Routes
100 and 108 in the center of Stowe village and is open 12-5 daily,
except Tuesdays.
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Resort Address Contact Stats
4302 Bolton Valley
Access Road
Bolton, VT 05477
Main Phone:
802-434-3444
Snow Phone:
802-434-SNOW
Reservations:
1-877-9BOLTON
[Link]
info@[Link]
Total Trails................................................70
Total Lift ...................................................... 6
Total Acreage ....................................... 300
Vertical Drop .....................................1,704
Avg Annnual Snowfall ........312 in./26 ft.
223 Sherburne
Lodge Road
East Burke, VT
05832
Main Phone:
802-626-7300
Snow Phone:
888-Burke
[Link]
info@[Link]
Total Trails................................................50
Total Lift ...................................................... 6
Total Acreage ....................................... 260
Vertical Drop .....................................2,011
Avg Annnual Snowfall ........240 in./20 ft.
910 Cochran Road
PO Box 789
Richmond, VT 05477
Main Phone:
802-424-2479
www.
[Link]
skiarea@
[Link]
Total Trails.................................................. 8
Total Lift ...................................................... 5
Total Acreage ....................................... 150
Vertical Drop ........................................ 350
Avg Annnual Snowfall ........225 in./19 ft.
830 Jay Peak Road
Jay, VT 05859
Main Phone:
802-988-2611
Snow Phone:
802-988-9601
Reservations:
1-800-451-4449
[Link]
info@
[Link]
Total Trails................................................76
Total Lift ...................................................... 8
Total Acreage ....................................... 385
Vertical Drop .....................................2,153
Avg Annnual Snowfall ........372 in./31 ft.
4323 VT Rte 108 South
Smugglers Notch, VT
05464
Main Phone:
802-644-8851
Snow Phone:
802-644-1111
Reservations:
802-451-8752
[Link]
smuggs@[Link]
Total Trails................................................78
Total Lift ...................................................... 9
Total Acreage ....................................... 311
Vertical Drop .....................................2,610
Avg Annnual Snowfall ........312 in./26 ft.
5781 Mountain Rd
Stowe, VT 05672
Main Phone:
802-253-4754
Snow Phone:
802-253-3600
Reservations:
800-253-4SKI
[Link]
info@[Link]
Total Trails............................................. 116
Total Lift ....................................................16
Total Acreage ....................................... 485
Vertical Drop .....................................2,360
Avg Annnual Snowfall ........336 in./28 ft.
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Richmond, VT 05477
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Resort Address Contact Stats Resort Address Contact Stats
PO Box 1130
Manchester Center, VT
05255
Main Phone:
802-824-5522
Snow Phone:
802-824-5522
Reservations:
800-865-4786
[Link]
info@[Link]
Total Trails................................................46
Total Lift ....................................................11
Total Acreage ....................................... 175
Vertical Drop .....................................1,334
Avg Annnual Snowfall ........144 in./12 ft.
PO Box 396
495 Magic Mountain
Access Road
Londonderry, VT 05148
Main Phone:
802-824-5645
Reservations:
802-824-5600
[Link]
info@[Link]
Total Trails................................................40
Total Lift ...................................................... 4
Total Acreage ....................................... 195
Vertical Drop .....................................1,700
Avg Annnual Snowfall ........156 in./13 ft.
39 Mount Snow Road
West Dover, VT 05356
Main Phone:
800-245-SNOW
Snow Phone:
802-464-2151
Reservations:
800-245-SNOW
[Link]
centralreservations
@[Link]
Total Trails................................................80
Total Lift ....................................................20
Total Acreage ....................................... 467
Vertical Drop .....................................1,700
Avg Annnual Snowfall ........166 in./14 ft.
77 Okemo Ridge Road
Ludlow, Vt 05149
Main Phone:
802-228-4041
Snow Phone:
802-228-5222
Reservations:
800-78-OKEMO
[Link]
info@[Link]
Total Trails............................................. 119
Total Lift ....................................................19
Total Acreage ....................................... 632
Vertical Drop .....................................2,200
Avg Annnual Snowfall ........200 in./16 ft.
5 Village Lodge Road
Stratton Mountain, VT
05155
Main Phone:
800-787-2886
Reservations:
800-STRATTON
[Link]
infostratton
@[Link]
Total Trails................................................94
Total Lift ....................................................11
Total Acreage .................................... 625+
Vertical Drop .....................................2,600
Avg Annnual Snowfall ......... 264in./22 ft.
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with every
$25 purchase
6 Free Cider Donuts
SOUTH BURLINGTON e Kelly
Brush Foundation awarded $100,514
in grants for spinal cord injury (SCI)
prevention at the end of 2011 enriching
the lives of those with spinal cord injuries
and furthering the foundations mission
to improve ski racing safety, Kelly Brush
Foundation President Charlie Brush
announced.
e foundation granted $53,442 in
Ski Racing Safety Grants to ski clubs and
race teams across the country, including
two grants to Vermont organizations. In
addition, the Kelly Brush Individual Grant
Program awarded $47,072 for adaptive
athletic equipment, including a grant to a
South Burlington adaptive athlete.
Raising the bar for ski racing safety is
part of the Kelly Brush Foundations core
mission. is round of Ski Racing Safety
Grants supports clubs and race teams from
Maine to Idaho in their eorts to make
the safety of their athletes a priority and
to change the paradigm for both ski racing
and training, Brush said.
Ski Racing Safety Grants assist racing
organizations in purchasing equipment
that enhances safety for racers including
safety netting to line race courses, padding
for chair lift towers and spine protectors
for racers. Fifteen clubs and organizations
received Ski Racing Safety Grants ranging
from $500 to Monroe County Special
Olympics, in Michigan to replace old and
unsafe helmets to $12,500 to the United
States Ski and Snowboard Association
Central Region, based in Minnesota, for
safety netting to bring the entire region
up to full netting on all courses. Cochrans
Ski Area in Richmond and Jay Peak Ski
Club in Jay received $3,000 each for
safety equipment. e Jay Peak Ski Club
will use its grant to enhance safety on the
mountains racecourse.
e Kelly Brush Foundation grant
makes a huge dierence to our small club,
ADAPTIVE ATHLETE CHRIS JEFFERSON of Aspen, Colo. competes at Copper
Mountain in Colorado in December. Kelly Brush Foundation grants assist
adaptive athletes in purchasing sports gear including monoskis and handcycles.
Foundation grants help race programs
provide necessary safety equipment
said Brigitte Ritchie, treasurer of the Jay
Peak Ski Club. With only 36 racers in
our program, nding funding is always a
challenge. Safety equipment like netting
to line courses and Willy Bags for chair
lift towers is a signicant expense. We are
grateful for the foundations assistance in
helping to make our race trail the safest we
can for our athletes.
e foundation also announced the
awarding of 13 Kelly Brush Individual
Grants for adaptive athletic equipment.
Individuals from across the United States
who are living with SCI received nancial
assistance with purchasing equipment
including monoskis and handcycles.
Among the recipients was South Burlington
adaptive athlete Jeremy Shortsleeve who is a
three-time winner of the Keybank Vermont
City Marathon and holds the course record
in the handcycling division. He received
$3,000 for handcycling equipment.
Enriching the lives of those with
spinal cord injury through adaptive sports
and recreation is a key goal of the Kelly
Brush Foundation. Specialized adaptive
equipment, often customized for the
individual athlete, can be cost prohibitive.
rough Kelly Brush Individual Grants,
the foundation aims to remove nancial
barriers to participation in adaptive sports,
Brush said.
e Kelly Brush Foundation annual
grants are made possible by the foundations
primary fundraising event, the Kelly Brush
Century Ride, which is held annually in
September in Middlebury and hosted by
the Middlebury College Ski Team. is
past September, 24 handcyclists and 721
cyclists rode in support of the foundations
mission and raised more than $275,000
for the foundations programs including
adaptive equipment grants, improving ski
racing safety, advancing scientic research
on SCI and supporting the U.S. Adaptive
Ski Team.
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T is for Terrain Parks.
New this year is the Progression Park on
Blackout (knee high features) for the pro-
gressing free stylist.
For experts, Broken Arrow park has features
made from fallen timbers and is located in
the trees o Lower Arrow. e biggest ter-
rain park is Noreaster for the most expe-
rienced free-stylists and includes the Truth
Rail and Amp Energy Bus), while Hot Dog
Hill is the place to learn how to hit rails
and boxes. Take the Inn Bound mini park
at Jackson Gore for a few easy hits.
Place to be Seen: the Dew Zone Jib Park
next to the Superpipe (500 feet long with
17-foot walls) boasts unique features and is
frequently used for competitions.
W is for WAA WAA.
e Womens Alpine Adventures program,
aectionately dubbed WaaWaa, features
a pint sized feisty director named Maria
Tomaselli, who got even moi to try snow-
boarding. e all female squad of coaches
gets the job done for anyone who is timid,
plateaued, lonely or coming o a divorce.
Its the program to go to for learning and
fun.
X is for Boarder X.
Located on the Lower Tomahawk, this park
oers intermediate and better skiers and
riders a chance to enjoy a playful assort-
ment of big bank turns, rollers and snow
mounds for a dierent way to slide down
a trail.
Y is for Your Responsibility Code.
Following the few simple rules of this
national code will bring you and others
greater safety and enjoyment on the
slopes. e site Okemo.
com/ your res pons i bi l i -
tycode also brings you
important info on the Park
Safety Pass, Helmet Policy,
Kids Safety Tips, and Top
10 ings Not to Do on a
Busy Day.
Whether new to snows-
ports or an Okemo loy-
alist, this info should be
shared with family and
friends every year.
Z is for Zaugg Pipe Mon-
ster.
Okemos half pipe is par-
tially excavated, but is
mostly made by groomers
who push man-made snow
into place, then step it out,
and cut the walls with a
Zaugg Pipe Cutter imple-
ment attached to a groom-
ing machine. is pipe
monster is a behind-the-
scenes part of the very cool
Okemo-devised laser tech-
nology utilized to make
Okemos super pipe, super
famous.
ings are among the
advances that all
have contributed
to Okemos growth
and popularity.
J is for Jackson
Gore.
Can you list its
top ten features.
Numero uno is the
eponymous slope-
side inn, which
sleeps 860 and is
a great place to
stay because it is
so convenient to
the lifts and the
following nine fea-
tures: the Spring
House (pool and
tness center); the
Ice House (cov-
ered skating facil-
ity); Adventure
Zone (mini golf,
bungee trampo-
line, disc golf,
Timber Ripper
and coming
soon zip lines
and canopy tours);
the Roundhouse
food court by day
that transforms
to beautiful func-
tion room at night;
re-pit and Bigloo
(popular conversation area and snow-play
hill in the courtyard); Coleman Brook
Tavern; lift-served tubing; spa services (mas-
sages, skin treatments, body scrubs); and free
summer concerts.
K is for Kids Night Out.
is program features Saturday evening
entertainment for children ages 6 months to
6 years, while Kids Night Out X is for ages
7-12 so parents can enjoy an evening dinner
date.
L is Lifts.
With an uphill capacity of 33,450 rides per
hour, Okemos 19 lifts include 9 quad chairs
(5 are high-speed), 3 triple chairs, and7 sur-
face lifts. You can ride from Jackson Gore to
the top of South Face on the 5 express lifts,
making all mountain areas quickly accessible
an Okemo plus that means more time on
the slope.
M is for Monday Morning Quarterback.
Ski or ride for $1 per point on Monday, Feb.
6. e lift ticket rate (on this Monday only)
will be equal to the combined score of the
two teams in the Big [Link] example, if
Team A scores 17, Team B scores 14 so a lift
ticket is $31. (Lowest combined score was
21 in 1973!)Ticket price wont exceed $59.
Check out the Steals and Deals on the web-
site for more ways to save.
N is for Nastar.
Okemo hosted weekly Standard races begin-
ning in 1963-64, followed by their succes-
sor Nastar races developed in 1968 and was
recognized as the nations top Nastar pro-
moter in 1979-80 (up 34% in a low snow
season). e program, which oers a handi-
cap as amateurs race against a clock and
course pacesetter, helped to generate inter-
est in Okemos Junior Racing programs and
sent many a participant to national Nastar
contests.
O is for Online-Only Deals.
If you havent visited Okemos website and
taken advantage of Midweek Online values
or Military Salute, Lift Ticket and Free
Lunch or the Two Day Weekend Warrior
oers, what are you waiting for?
P is for Penguin Playground Daycare.
is state-accredited day care program for
ages 6 months to 4 years is located at Jack-
son Gore and the Clocktower base area. Its
another successful, long-running Okemo
program that makes it easier for families to
enjoy the sport.
Q is for Quixotic and Quintessential.
Of all the competitions Okemo has hosted,
the Helmet Head Contest ranks up there
with the most quintessential quixotic.
On the idealistic side, it calls attention to
the issue of considering the use of a helmet
for added protection. On the typical Okemo
side, it is a classic example of having fun
while taking the sport seriously. ats
why this fun and funky event just won
rst place in the Heads Up National Ski
Area Safety Awards.
R is for Racing.
e Okemo Mountain Ski Club, formed
by a group of parents in 1956, originally
sponsored racing programs for juniors
and families. In 1987, the Okemo Com-
petitions Department took over all facets
of the competitions program (which
included freestyle and snowboarding).
Today there are programs for every abil-
ity and interest, including the ongoing
and ever popular Innkeepers series, while
OMARA (a successor parent group) pro-
vides key support for the junior competi-
tions programs.

S is for Snow.
We cant ride or slide without it and, as
this season is showing, Okemos arsenal of
energy e cient snowguns are being put
to good use by a crew that mixes art and
science to make skiing/riding possible.
With cooperating temperatures, those
guns can cover 96 percent of the resorts
terrain (605 acres) with snow. S is also for
snowcat, the grooming machines that till
the hardpack or machine-made or natural
snowfall to provide the corduroy many
skiers crave.
But did you know that the snowcats give
rides to the summit on Saturdays and
select holiday evenings? And occasionally
take folks from Jackson Gore up to Epic
at Solitude for a ve-course dinner prepared
by Chef Craig Cornell.
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From trivia to revelation, heres the Okemo difference
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By Karen D. Lorentz
As an Okemo acionado, you dont need
me to tell you that Okemo Mountain Resort
is one of the top year-round destination
mountain resorts in the East, but you might
have some fun matching that fact with some
A to Z assets that help explain it as well as
account for its being among the top 15 most
visited ski mountains in the nation.
For those not familiar with the area, the
info below reects just a few of the many fac-
tors that have made Okemo so popular with
families and loyalists.
If you harken back to skiing Okemo in
the 1950s and 60s, Okemos standing wont
surprise you one snowake. ats because
Okemo was conceived as a family ski area
and as such featured slopeside housing early
on the area had the good fortune to own
private land as well as be partially located on
state lease land to make it convenient and
engender loyalty among families.
at strategy worked, and Okemo
boomed.
at loyalty enabled Okemo to survive the
challenging 1970s. A desire among Okemos
board of directors (the company was owned
by stockholders who were largely skiers)
to see the ski area remain competitive and
move ahead in the changing industry meant
that they took expensive snowmaking to the
summit (in 1981) before most areas even
embraced the concept.
But when nervous banks refused to lend
the necessary funds to move the mountain
forward after challenging no-snow seasons
in 1980 and 1981, Okemos board moved
to sell to someone with the wherewithal to
follow the master plan the mountain had
commissioned from Sno-Engineering, a top
ski area planning rm.
Ironically, that very decision propelled
Okemo forward far better than mere dol-
lars could have. ats because the couple
who purchased Okemo in 1982 had resort
experience and knew the value of customer
service while at the same time possessing a
background in building homes and resort
development.
Combining the two, Tim and Diane
Mueller were able to take the master plan
that called for more homes and mountain
improvements, tweak it, and execute it.
Skiers noticed and along with the empha-
sis on proering excellent customer service,
the Okemo dierence was born well before
most ski areas turned to the mantra of qual-
ity.
But the Muellers didnt just replace aging
pomalifts with chairlifts and add more trails
and housing, rather they focused on trends
and anticipated where the sport was going.
Under the Muellers leadership, Okemo
has operated
at the fore-
front of the
ski industry
and become
a leader in its
own right.
Below are
some high-
lights of the
old and new,
l o n g s t a n d -
ing as well as
avant guard
traits that
contribute to Okemos popularity.
A is for Air Bag.
Intrepid Okemo skiers/riders can launch
o a ramp, leap through the air, and land
on the Amp Energy Big Air Bag, a giant
inated PVC pillow on Lower Chief.
New this season, the air bag is set up to
learn tricks and jumps; hours are Monday
through Friday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Sat-
urdays/Sundays 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Cost is $6
for one jump or 3 jumps for $15.
B is for Bull.
Youll have to visit Okemos sister resort
Crested Butte, Colo., if you want to ride one
of the mechanical buckin bronco bulls, but
Okemo has its own Sitting Bull one of
the liveliest aprs-ski lounges in the state. Its
also a great place to have lunch and is family
friendly so kids get to enjoy live entertain-
ment, too.
C is for Coleman Brook Lobby Bar.
Located at Jackson Gore, this lounge features
a unique selection of signature martinis and
premium wines by the glass. Plus, its a great
place for Smores and people watching.
D is for Diane.
Diane Mueller, who has operated Okemo
with her husband Tim for 30 seasons now, is
one of a handful of women execs who run
with lifts in the country. Her title is techni-
cally Executive VP, but she prefers Director
of Stu, which is on her nametag. She brings
a wonderful family emphasis to the resort
and its orientation for new workers among
other contributions that also incorporate her
artistic air.
E is for Education and Events.
From its early ski school to Natur Teknik to
its modern day Ski and Ride School oerings,
Okemo has always put an emphasis on learn-
ing and professional instruction. e resort
also has a successful junior racing program,
which now carries over to Camp Gokemo in
the summer. When it comes to events, the
variety is bigger than ever with slopestyle
constests, rail jams under the lights, family
fun nights, and Festevol (March 24-25) top-
ping o a traditional line up of races, parties,
and more. Visit the website to check out the
2012 calendar.
F is for Foliage.
Okemo has two of the most unique ways to
enjoy Vermont autumns.
One is to hike up to and climb up the Fire
Tower at the top of South Face you can
drive up the Mountain Road (yes, the one
we ski in winter) to a parking area and take
a short hike to reach it or hike up the moun-
tain and get in shape for ski season. e 360-
degree views are worth the trip.
e other is to spectate or participate in the
Annual Okemo Hill Climb, a 44-year-old
auto race up the Mountain Road.
G is for Golf.
Ok, you know Okemo Valley Golf Club is
located across from Jackson Gore, but did
you know it is the rst and only Heathlands
styled course in Vermont? It also turns into
a Nordic Center in winter (great trails for
a cross-country ski or snowshoe jaunt with
rewarding views of Okemo), and the indoor
golf center operates year round.
H is for Home.
Home is where the head and heart feel com-
fortable and happy. Whether that is a place
that: aords excitement or a cozy place to
relax; exudes family values or hip retreat;
radiates beauty or peace; oozes fun or learn-
ing; or a combination of all the above, Oke-
mos warm welcome, service, programs, and
slopeside housing (most in the East) make
the mountain a place to come home to.
e half-million-plus annual skier visits
since 1996 would seem to attest to that!
I is for innovative.
Okemo was forward
thinking from the get-
go. Slopeside hous-
ing, Swiss Chalet on
wheels, Natur Teknik,
early snowmaking,
Nastar racing, SkiWee
for children (now
Snowstars), early
acceptance of snow-
boarding (and com-
mitting to it by hiring
professional instruc-
tors long before riding
became accepted), and being one of the rst
areas to experiment with shaped skis and
incorporate them into instructional oer-
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WITH QUINN KEATING
BOLTON VALLEY Quinn Keating lives in
West Bolton and spends his winter months working
as the Pro Ski Patrol Supervisor at Bolton Valley Ski
Resort. When its not snowing, he makes his living as
a carpenter. Hes a backcountry junkie all months of
the year, but during the winter, he says, its borderline
out of hand.
Quinns been working in the ski industry since
2001 when he got his start at Jackson Hole selling
bagels to powder hungry tourists. Hes been working
at Bolton Valley for the past four seasons.
Here s his Inside Line to skiing at Bolton Valley
Resort.
Q: Whats your favorite trail at Bolton Valley and
why?
A: Vermont 200. Drop into it with some speed o
Shermans on a powder day and dont look back. Youll
see. Link it with Moose Run and Glade, and I think
youll be happy with how your day has started.
Q: Favorite woods run?
A: So many woods, so little time. Id have to
say the one that starts by that birch tree near that
snowmaking pipe. You know, around that steep
corner. Duck in there, and make your rst left. Or
theres always Cobrass Woods! Its always a gem and
often avoids some of the thinner parts of Cobrass
later in the season.
Q: Insiders tip on how to avoid lift lines.
A: 1) Weekdays rule. 2) Singles line. Other than
that, if weekends are your ski days: Grab rst chair
on Vista (8:30 on the weekends), do two laps of your
choosing. Head back up and ski down Cobrass to
Timberline for its 9:30 opening. Head back up to the
main mountain around lunchtime and take a few laps
on Wilderness. Just about when your legs are done,
take them for one or two more laps up on Vista. Ski
Preacher and call it a warm down.
Q: If youre on a hot date, youd take her to?
A: Probably Bed Bath and Beyond, if its going well.
Q: One thing you have to eat at the mountain?
A: Rebbecas turkey pot pie in the deli.
Q: If youre out with buddies and want to save
some money on apres ski, go here:
A: Shaws Supermarket. Bag of chips + cheese =
nachos. Add cold beer and youve got it made. High
ve required.
Q: Best local bar?
A: Bolton Valleys own, James Moore Tavern.
Q: Favorite boot tter or ski shop in the area?
A: Finest tunes around. Ski Express in Richmond,
Vermont will hook it up. Have Will take a look at
your skis and hell dial them in. Seriously, these guys
are good.
Q: Whats the best non-skiing activity on or
around the mountain?
A: Grab some snowshoes and head over to the
Nordic Center. Weve got more miles of trails than
you can shake a stick at and theyre absolutely buried
right now. Its a winter wonderland and the peace and
quiet that the Nordic Center aords is something
thats impossible to replicate on the alpine side.
Q: Your favorite on-snow event of the year?
A: e copious number of powder days we
experience. So, I guess its more like events, and
there are a lot of them. I cant tell you the number of
days Ive driven up the access road to a surprise two
or three inches in the parking lot. BAM, everything
is refreshed and good to go!
Q: Best skier on the mountain guy or gal?
A: Tele Chuck. No one makes more use of the
edges of a trail that this guy. Chucks a true ninja and
its a pleasure to watch him awlessly rip it up under
the lift line.
Q: What makes Bolton Valley dierent from
anywhere else?
A: Bolton feels dierent. eres no question that
were surrounded by bigger ski areas. I think the fact
that were not huge and imposing is what makes us
special. e fact that were a smaller ski area often
plays in our favor as we ski untracked snow days after
the storms have moved on. Add to that that we face
west, which means we see a lot of sunshine. While the
other areas are going into the shadow at 2 p.m., were
just gearing up for another gorgeous sunset. Granted,
this is Vermont and we see the sun four times a year,
but I swear, its always sunny at Bolton.
Editors Note: is interview was originally done in
2010 and is one of our favorties.
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By Tony Crespi
Sometimes even the best skiers can feel,
well, apprehensive on the mountain. Some
folks may even feel
queasy from time to
time looking down
a steep, or icy, pitch.
Were not trying to
make fear our friend.
ats not the goal.
In truth, though,
East to West, from
runs the like of Ova-
tion at Killington to Spiral Stairs at Tellu-
ride in Colorado you may actually feel your
knees go weak.
If youre lucky, the snows good.
Heres the take-home: eres a big mental
game to becoming an expert skier. Whether
you prefer skis or a snowboard, and whether
you are on a shiny Black Diamond or star-
ing down the bumps of Outer Limits dont
discount psychological skills.
eres a mind-body dimension to
sports, explains Mala L. Matacin, Ph.D.,
chair of the department of psychology at
e University of Hartford in Connecticut
and a specialist in health psychology. You
cant separate the physical from the mental.
How you think impacts how you ski.
Skiing is, in fact, impacted by how we
think and can function like a feedback loop.
For example, if you think you will fall, you
then fall and you will likely conrm to
e fear factor: How you think impacts how you ski
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eres a mind-body dimension to sports. You cant
separate the physical from the mental.
Mala L. Matacin, Ph.D.
yourself that you were right and this was too
much! In fact, if you get caught in that nega-
tive loop youre not going to perform at your
potential.
In contrast, in a
positive loop, you
can enhance perfor-
mance.
So, what can we
do to enhance our
performance? Ski
easier terrain and
you likely will know
you can ski it well. And will! en, gradually
increasing the challenge oers an opportu-
nity to continually reinforce your belief in
your skills. In this positive loop your mus-
cles will remain more relaxed, and your atti-
tude will keep you in a better position on
your skis.
ese loops are critical, emphasizes
Matacin.
Realize, as an example, that
when tense or fearful we may
lean back in fear, which is less
than an ideal attack position,
while when we are relaxed we
are bettered centered and posi-
tioned on our skis. Its positive.
It promotes a positive feedback
loop.
Truly, one element that dierentiates
good athletes from great athletes is this
feedback loop. Done well, this positive loop
can be energizing. But, you need to have
the mental attitude that you can do it, that
you are good, and that you can get better!
Consider these pointers:
1: KEEP BREATHING
Too often skiers who become tense and
fearful begin to restrict their breathing.
Unfortunately, this restricts our muscle
exibility and movements. Its a negative
loop when breathing becomes di cult.
Breathe evenly.
As you breathe, tighten and loosen your
hands, arms, shoulders and body. Also,
practice gradually tightening and relaxing
each major muscle group.
Ski.
2: PRACTICE ON MODERATE TER-
RAIN
Harden your skills by taking harder lines
on easier terrain.
Too often folks ski a trail in the same
way. And often folks do not take a modest
or moderate trail and ski it on the harder or
hardest lines. Try this approach though and
build skills on a comfortable trail!
What stimulates fear? Ice? Narrow chutes?
e next time the mountain is tough, take
time to practice your weakness on more
moderate terrain. Ski easier trails in more
challenging ways.
3: PRACTICE
Practice, practice, practice.
Consider a lesson. Learning to build
any skill takes practice. Lots of practice.
And it is important to know what and
where to practice. Musicians practice basic
drills for hours and receive feedback from
music teachers, even when they become
very very skilled musicians. Similarly, pro-
fessional athletes practice basic skills and
drills repeatedly and receive feedback from
coaches.
So while youre out there, practice. You
can hone skill anytime, anywhere.
Columnist Tony Crespi is a former
ski school supervisor and coach whose
column is published throughout the
season. He is a frequent contributor to
publications throughout snow country.
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Visitors to Vermont might not expect live
jazz and blues at an aprs ski venue, but Joey
Leone, one of
central Ver-
monts most
popular musi-
cians, plays
jazz and four
other styles
of music ve
nights a week
in Killington.
Killington
has the largest
winter music
scene of any
ski resort in
the USA, said
Leone. is is
a very unique
place because there are such good musicians
here. ere is such diversity here. ere are
so many dierent venues here. You cant go
to any other ski town (and Ive been to many
other ski towns) that have a fth of the music
scene that Killington has.
Leone has played at over a dozen of the top
resorts nationwide. But for the last 15 years,
hes made Killington his home base.
Leone rst came to Killington in 1997.
After playing a number of popular estab-
lishments, he got a ve-night gig at Caseys
Caboose. Casey, by some miracle, brought
me in and let me do whatever the hell I
wanted to do, Leone said. at was when
I started the ve nights, ve dierent styles
of music, which was always my dream. I love
blues, I love jazz, I love playing acoustic, I
love classic rock and I love funk, rhythm and
blues, he said.
Leone has always loved the diversity, but
now its the Jazz night that steals most of his
passion. He performs live jazz on Monday
nights through the ski season at Santa Fe
Steakhouse. eres live jazz in Killington,
he gushed enthusiastically, and I bring it
there Truthfully, I dont go to the bank
that night, but I bring jazz and I bring real
jazz musicians from all over the East Coast.
Great jazz musicians I think on some kind
of karmic level I owe that to the music... First,
you must serve the music, because you cant
serve the public until you make good music,
he explained. ere may only be 30-40 people
in the audience, but they are stoked for jazz
and their passion runs deep, says Leone.
Killingtons long-running Jazz scene
is Vermonts Bourbon St. North
Jazz in Killington has a long history. Donny
Gray, a local music legend, brought it here
before Leone. About four to ve years ago,
Gray died.
We were
very good
friends at that
point, Leone
said. He had
cancer, so we
knew he was
going to die...
one day I said
Donny, if
there is any-
thing that
I can do or
anything you
need, you just
let me know.
So he calls
me up one day and says I think I know what
I want you to do. So, I was thinking, pick up
his medicine or something. Instead he says,
I want a New Orleans funeral, and I was
like, WHAT?! He said it again, I want a New
Orleans funeral, in Killington. I want you all
to march up the road like they do in New
Orleans and I want you to get the musicians
and I want a parade of people.
It was unbelievable, that this little guy
would have the nerve to ask me to do some-
thing like that, Leone said, getting choked
up as he remembered the scene. I was like,
I got to make a New Orleans funeral for this
guy. So, I started calling up musicians that I
didnt even know, but who could play that
style. Everybody showed up: 11 musicians, six
of whom I had never met, Leone continued.
I had a pocket full of money which I was
going to pay them, but no one took a nickel.
We marched from out at the Summit
Lodge past the Grist Mill, where he had
played for years, up onto the Access Road
doing the New Orleans thing, he said, sing-
ing a jazzy version of the song Oh, When the
Saints Go Marching In.
What I learned from that, Leone contin-
ued, was that its OK to ask. If someone says
they want to help, its OK to ask them for the
world.
Jazz in Vermont: Its not the most common
association for the state, but Killington is an
oasis where the horns blow loud and strong,
earning the Access Road a moniker that many
locals aectionately call Bourbon Street
North.
Joey Leone Band
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SUGARLOAF Declan OBrien, a
resident of Middlebury, won the slope-
style competition at Sugarloaf Mountain
in Maine on Saturday, Jan. 7. Competing
in the 16- to 18-year-old division, OBrien
took rst throwing a unique trick on one of
the elements (switch 540 rodeo shiftie with
a grab).OBrien also won the Best Trick of
the Day for the jump.
e win qualies him for the national
USASA championships at Copper Moun-
Midd teen wins gold medal at the
USASA slopestyle ski competition
tain Colorado in April.
OBrien is a sophomore at both Mid-
dlebury Union High School and Carrabas-
sett Valley Academy in Maine where he
trains and attends school during the ski
season.
OBriens next event will bring him
back to Vermont where he will ski in both
the halfpipe and slopestyle events at the
Vermont Open USSA event on Jan. 21-22
at Okemo Mountain Resort.
Middlebury resident Declan OBrien recently won top honors at an event in
Maine, including best trick of the day.
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Ripton, VT Ripton, VT
Two
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Collectors Items for Skiers, Riders,
Snowsport History Bus!
Two Award-Winning Books
Beautiful coee-table books feature illustrated histories of each re-
sort: 364 pages, 250 b/w photographs, 40 pages in color each book.
Killington and Okemo books are available in Vermont at respective
resort shops, local bookstores and ski shops and Vermont Ski Mu-
seum. Also at New England Ski Museum.
Visit [Link] to learn more.
ese books are in limited supply and make great
gifts for Valentines Day and Birthdays.
\MONTPELIER, VT. Deals aside,
skiing and riding are life-dening sports
valued for their diverse benets to individu-
als and families alike. Snow sports encourage
a lifestyle thats physically challenging, sheer
fun and cultivates a bond with nature. Skiing
and riding open the door to winter fun
bringing people together for adventures that
satisfy the mildest of carvers to the heartiest
of dare-devils.
Still, deals are nice to get and here are a
few in the area not to miss:
BOLTON VALLEY RESORT All-
inclusive ski and ride packages start at $79/
person at Bolton Valley. e package includes
ski-to-your-door lodging, lift tickets, break-
fast, and unlimited use of the on-site sports
center including indoor pool, sauna and hot
tub.
BURKE MOUNTAIN RESORT
Burke Mountain Resort oers special dis-
counts on Tuesdays and ursdays to anyone
age 55 and older. Also, a special Vermonter
rate is given to Vermont residents along with
residents of Coos and Grafton counties of
New Hampshire. Burke Mountain Resort
also brings value to its northern neighbors,
oering skiers and riders with a Quebec driv-
ers license buy one, get one free lift tickets all
season; some restrictions apply. Check www.
[Link] for details and ticket promo-
tions.
JAY PEAK RESORT Cost of a Hawai-
ian Surf Vacation: $5,600. Cost of a Vermont
Surf Vacation: $199. But its not the same,
Special single-day deals and ski packages still oer big savings
you yell? Darn right its not. ose who go
for a Surf and Stay vacation at Jay Peaks new
Pump House wont have to pay to y their
surf board. ey wont have to worry about
sand in their bathing suits. And it is guar-
anteed that there are no sharks. And $199/
night lands a suite in the new Hotel Jay, four
passes to the Pump House (and its Double
Barrel Flowrider surf wave) and access to the
weekly lineup of Jay parties.
KILLINGTON & PICO MOUN-
TAIN Score the best deal on lodging
and lift tickets for an upcoming Killington
getaway with a Ski & Stay Package featur-
ing two-to-seven-day packages. e deals
dont stop with lodging and lift tickets; save
on Snow Sports School lessons, equipment
rentals and spa services too.
MAD RIVER GLEN Since Mad River
Glen is skier-owned it is not too surprising
that it is well known for oering some of
the best ski values in New England. e best
way to save is by purchasing e Mad Card,
which gives skiers three transferable day
tickets good any time during the ski season
for only $144. And then theres Roll Back
the Clock Day, Jan. 31, to celebrate the ski
areas founding with $3.50 tickets, and who
can miss the St. Valentines Day special? Just
kiss your beau in the ticket booth and get a
day pass for 14 bucks. Heck, kiss her twice.
Wont save you any money, but it cant hurt,
right? Check it out online, along with other
ongoing specials.
OKEMO MOUNTAIN RESORT
Combining lift tickets with lodging is one
of the best ways to save on the ultimate
winter getaway. Guests who opt for an on-
mountain stay at an Okemo Mountain
Resort managed property will enjoy the
convenience of charging goods and services
directly to their room account. Nearly 100
sales points across the resort oer this conve-
nience for guests. As an added bonus, guests
who book a minimum of three Midweek
Madness nights (Sunday through ursday)
will automatically receive a resort credit that
they can access immediately after checking
in. e resort credit starts at $25 and varies
according to lodging type and location. Mid-
week guests also receive Midweek Madness
coupons and an afternoon of complimentary
skiing or riding on their arrival day.
SMUGGLERS NOTCH RESORT
Smugglers winter packages include the
Base Package, a ski and stay package; the
Classic Package, which includes the resorts
award-winning childrens programs and the
Summit Package, which includes on-snow
instruction for all ages and abilities. Each
package features mountainside condomin-
ium lodging; lift tickets; snow tubing; ice
skating; access to the indoor pool and hot
tub, Nordic and snowshoe terrain, indoor
FunZone with climbing inatables, and teen
centers; and family and adult entertainment.
Guests that stay six nights get the seventh
night free over the Presidents Week holiday.
Visit [Link]/vacationvalues.
STOWE MOUNTAIN RESORT e
Stowe Points Card oers discounted lift tick-
ets through the winter, along with discounts
on attractions packages and greens fees at the
Stowe Country Club in summer. In addition
to the Stowe Point Cards discounted skiing,
snowboarding and golf, the Stowe Evolution
Card allows guests to earn points for every
dollar spent around the resort, towards free
lift tickets and golf rounds. Points are accu-
mulated point-per-dollar on purchases made
for lift tickets, golf, attraction packages,
retail goods, rentals, golf lessons and food
at resort restaurants. Points never expire and
every 450 points can be redeemed for a com-
plimentary lift ticket, golf round with cart or
summer attractions package. For additional
information call 800-253-4754.
SUGARBUSH RESORT Sugarbush
oers season passes starting as low as $399,
which is still a bargain this January. Visit
[Link] for specials on passes
and other specials.
TRAPP FAMILY LODGE Trapp
Family Lodge oers everything necessary to
get outside. At any experience level, the gear
and instructions available make ski or snow-
shoe treks a great adventure. Season passes
are available at a discounted rate. Visit www.
[Link] for details.
SKI VERMONT FIFTH GRADE PASS-
PORT e Ski Vermont 5th Grade Pass-
port program enables all fth graders to ski
and ride for free, and fall in love with winter
in its original state. Learn more and sign your
future Olympian up at [Link].
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OKEMO EVENTS
Sunday, February 5:
Big Game Sunday Solution
Ski, ride, see the Big Game and save an
extra $10. The Big Game Sunday Solution
ticket takes another $10 off our already
reduced Sunday Solution rate. Ski from
8am to 1:30pm for only $64 for Adults,
$54 for Young Adults and Seniors, and
$40 for Juniors.
Sunday, January 22:
Okemo Family Giant Slalom
Break out your race skis and speed
suits! Not only is this a great way to
have some fun family competition, but
there are also prizes for the top
finishers. Registration is in the base
lodge from 8-10am, racing from
11-2pm, and awards at 3pm in front of
the Sitting Bull. Parents must sign to
register kids under 18. Helmets are
required for all participants.
Saturday, February 11:
Light the Night Series Big Air
Okemo will be throwing some light on
Bull Run while competitors go big into
the AMP airbag outside of the Sitting
Bull. Win a chunk of over $1,000 in
cash, plus tons of other prizes from
RAMP, Swany and more. Plus, earn
those points for the opportunity to
take home a cool $1,500 as series
champion. Registration from 3pm - 5pm,
competition starts at 5pm. $15 per
event. Parents must sign to register
kids under 18. Helmets are required for
all participants.
Monday, February 6:
Monday Morning Quarterback
Ski or ride for $1 per point on Monday,
February 6, 2012! Here is how it works:
The lift ticket rate on this Monday only
will be equal to the combined score of
the two teams in the Big Game.
(ex. Team A scores 17, Team B scores
14 - so a lift ticket is just $31!)
(Ticketprice not to exceed $59.)
*For a complete events listing:
[Link]
all participants.
[Link] (800) 78-OKEMO
By Andrew Gratton
Over the past four years I have had the
pleasure of not only being a student at the
University of Vermont, but, more impor-
tantly, being a part of the Triple Major pass
community. e Triple Major doesnt mean
that I will graduate school with outstand-
ing knowledge in three dierent subjects; it
means I have full access to
three of the friendliest and
most fun ski and snowboard
communities in Vermont.
Living in Burlington,
Bolton Valley Resort is a
quick half hour drive from
home, which I take advan-
tage of before, between and
after classes. I remember
days where I would make it
up for turns in the morning
then go to class in the after-
noon, eat and then head
back up for night riding.
Night riding? you
might say, I thought we
had to make the trip over
the border into Canada for that. Wrong.
Bolton has been open for night skiing
and riding for years now, providing a place
for people of all ages to get out even if they
may have had to work or study all day. ey
oer special night skiing rates of $19 on Sat-
urday to promote the experience, as well as
$2 atbread slices and soda/beer for everyone.
I dont know anywhere else you can ski for
$19, but when its right in your backyard in
Vermont its almost a sin not to take advan-
tage of it. It is this night skiing that has helped
to draw in a great local market of people to
the resort who know Bolton is close, fun and
family-friendly
I was recently able to visit Bolton for night
riding on a Wednesday which happened to
line up with the weekly event series Bolton
calls Night Riders. ese arent fans of David
Hasselho and his black talking car, these are
young shredders from throughout the state
growing their skills in a friendly contest envi-
ronment. is contest is for kids of all ages
and abilities and just shows even more how
When the Sun Sets, the Night Riders Emerge
Bolton has dedicated itself to fostering the
ideas of snowboarding and skiing in kids.
It works as a great after-school program
for younger kids and many parents can be
seen scattered down the course cheering on
each kid as they take their runs.
ere are multiple age groups, as well as
skiing and snowboarding divisions, to which
the winner of each is given a
prize in the base lodge after
competition. As I stood at
the top of the park with all
the riders I was amazed at
how everyone knew each
others name, and it seemed
to be more of a friendly
jam session than a contest.
e positive attitudes help
to push people to the next
level making it more excit-
ing and fun for everyone as
well as evolving the riders
skill.
ese local contests
create a buzz at school, on
the bus, or just hanging out
with friends. When kids talk about the great
time they had at Bolton it is almost a chain
reaction leading them to bring two new kids
on their next visit. Mountains like Bolton are
essential to the development of the new crop
of skiers and riders, continuing to grow out-
door recreation participation nationwide.
e contest also reects the character of
the resort. e cheers from the lift after a nice
trick in the park or the hoots and hollers of
epic turns on a powder day, all can be enjoyed
by everyone at the mountain. e positive
vibes are almost contagious. Its homey feel,
friendly atmosphere, inexpensive cost and
close proximity to large portions of Vermonts
population make it a destination for anybody
who is looking to have a good time.
So next time you get back from work
or school and youre mad because there
was 10 fresh inches on the ground, just
remember, when the sun goes down, Ver-
mont goes to Bolton Valley.
Andrew Gratton is a Ride Vermont intern
for [Link].
MONTPELIER, Vt. Count to 88. Easy,
right? Especially if youre a fth grader. Whats
so signicant about the number 88? Its the
total number offree days on snow youll enjoy
without spending a dime at Ski Vermonts
alpine resorts andNordic ski areas if youre a
fth grader armed with a Fifth Grade Passport
in hand.
Ski Vermont believes that winter in Vermont
is a way of life, an opportunity to get outdoors,
to be healthy and active, and to share amaz-
ing experiences with friends and family. at
philosophy has led Ski Vermont to develop the
Fifth Grade Passport, a program that lets Fifth
Graders ski and ride for free, and fall in love
with the experience of sliding on snow, now
in its 12th year of enriching families winters.
is season marks thesecond year in which
the program will also enrich the community
by donating proceeds to Keep Local Farms.
When it comes to developing skiers and
riders, Vermont resorts have also nurtured
many an Olympic athlete to reach their full
potential. As importantly, Vermont Olympi-
ans like Hannah Teter, Hannah Kearney, Ross
Powers, Kelly Clark, Liz Stephen and Andy
Newell have all learned that skiing and snow-
boarding, rst and foremost, is about having
fun and sharing great times with family and
friends.
Its also about giving back to the commu-
nity, globally and locally, as these athletes do
personally, and in support of the Fifth Grade
Passport.
Keep Local Farms is an education and con-
tribution program that connects consumers
with local dairy farmers and encourages the
purchase of healthy, local foods that sustain
the working landscape for future generations.
For details about the Fifth Grade Passport
program, which is available to fth graders
throughout the country, call 802-223-2439.
Fifth-grade passports are a kids free ticket to fun
e contest also
reects the charac-
ter of the resort. e
cheers from the lift
after a nice trick in
the park or the hoots
and hollers of epic
turns on a powder
day, all can be
enjoyed by everyone at
the mountain.
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Resort Address Contact Stats
4763 Killington Road
Killington, VT
05751
Main Phone:
802-422-6200
Reservations:
800-621-MTNS
[Link]
info@[Link]
Total Trails............................................. 140
Total Lift ....................................................22
Total Acreage ....................................... 752
Vertical Drop .....................................3,050
Avg Annnual Snowfall ........252 in./21 ft.
PO Box 1089
Waitsfield, VT 05673
Main Phone:
802-496-3551
Snow Phone:
802-496-3551
Reservations:
800-82-VISIT
[Link]
ski@[Link]
Total Trails................................................45
Total Lift ...................................................... 4
Total Acreage ....................................... 250
Vertical Drop .....................................2,037
Avg Annnual Snowfall ........216 in./18 ft.
6886 VT RTE 125
Hancock, VT 05748
Main Phone:
802-443-SNOW
Snow Phone:
802-443-SNOW
www.
[Link]
snowbowl@
[Link]
Total Trails................................................17
Total Lift ...................................................... 3
Total Acreage ....................................... 125
Vertical Drop ......................................1050
Avg Annnual Snowfall ......... 144 in./12ft.
4763 Killington Road
Killington, VT 05751
Main Phone:
802-422-3333
Snow Phone:
802-422-1200
Reservations:
866-667-7426
[Link]
info@[Link]
Total Trails................................................52
Total Lift ...................................................... 7
Total Acreage ....................................... 265
Vertical Drop .....................................1,967
Avg Annnual Snowfall ........252 in./21 ft.
1840 Sugarbush
Access Road
Warren, VT 05674
Main Phone:
800-53-SUGAR
Snow Phone:
802-583-SNOW
Reservations:
800-53-SUGAR
[Link]
info@[Link]
Total Trails............................................. 111
Total Lift ....................................................21
Total Acreage ....................................... 578
Vertical Drop .....................................2,600
Avg Annnual Snowfall ........264 in./22 ft.
14 The Green
Woodstock, VT 05091
Main Phone:
802-457-6661
Snow Phone:
802-457-6666
Reservations:
800-448-7900
[Link]
email@
[Link]
Total Trails................................................23
Total Lift ...................................................... 3
Total Acreage ....................................... 100
Vertical Drop ........................................ 650
Avg Annnual Snowfall ........120 in./10 ft.
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Goosepimp Orchestra 11pm
Sat, Feb 11 Girls Guns and Glory 10pm
Thur, Feb 16 Adam Ezra Group
9pm
Carbon Leaf
10:15pm
Fri, Feb 17 Orange Crush
9pm
Sat, Feb 18 Orange Crush
10pm
Fri, Feb 24 Sly Chi
9pm
Sat, Feb 25 Last Kid Picked
10pm
Wed, Feb 29 Aprs Ski with Charley Orlando
6-8pm
Spruce Peak PAC
Sat, Jan 21 Winter Rendezvous
Tue, Jan 24 An Evening with Marc Cohn
7pm
Fri, Feb 3 Cocktails with Larry Miller 8pm
Sat, Feb 4 Terrance Simien & The Zydeco
Experience 7pm
Fri, Feb 10 The Stradivari Quartet 8pm
Sat, Feb 11 Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes
8pm
Sat, Feb 18 Turtle Island String Quartet 8pm
Fri, Feb 24 Suzanne Vega 8pm
Sat, Feb 25 Flackberry Smoke Live! 8pm
Tue, Feb 28 Celtic Crossroads 7pm
stratton
Green Door Pub
Sat, Jan 21 DBLDN
Sat, Jan 28 The Lustre Kings
Sat, Feb 4 Barry and the Penetrators
DEMO DAYS
Wed, Feb 8 Lovewhip
Sat, Feb 11 Dr. Green
Sat, Feb 18 Spectris
Sat, Feb 25 The Lustre Kings
Perfect Wife
Fri, Jan 20 Reggae Night with Selecta D-RO
Wed, Jan 25 Second Wind
Fri, Jan 27 Viva & Her Power Trio
Wed, Feb 1 Sarah Wallis Acoustic
Thur, Feb 2 OPEN MIC
Fri, Feb 3 Funkwagon
Wed, Feb8 Tor Krautter Solo
Fri, Feb 10 Soule Monde
Sat, Feb11 TWIDDLE
Wed, Feb 15 Kelly Ravin Acoustic
Thur, Feb 16 OPEN MIC
Fri, Feb 17 The Grift
Wed, Feb 22 TJays Acoustic Jam
Fri, Feb 24 Green Tea
Red Fox Inn
Sat, Jan 21 Lifted
Sat, Jan 28 The Grift
Fri, Feb 3 Glen David Andrews
Sat, Feb 4 The Naturals
Wed, Feb 8 Soul Rebels
Sat, Feb 11 Van Martin Band
Sat, Feb 18 Ill Funk Ensemble
Sat, Feb 25 November Rain
An outdoor concert at Killington.
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MUSIC IN THE MOUNTAINS
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music throughout
vermont
Bagitos - montpelier
Fri, Jan 20 John Mowad 6-8pm
Sun, Jan 22 The Butterfelds 11am-1pm
Tue, Jan 24 Girls Gone Folking Wild 6-8pm
Sat, Jan 28 Bronwyn Fryer and friends 6-8pm
Thur, Feb 2 Rebecca Singer Good to Go 6-8pm
Sat, Feb 11 The Subtle Bandits 6-8pm
Thur, Feb 16 Alison Mann & Colin McCaffrey 6-8pm
Green Mountain Tavern Barre
Fri, Jan 20 DJ Jonny P 10pm
Sat, Jan 21 DJ ENtertainment by: Larry Pike Jonny
P or DJ REV! Possibly even some guest DJ's from Vermont
Wed, Jan 25 GMT House Party 6pm
Thur, Jan 26 DJ Dance Party & Karaoke All day
Fri, Jan 27 DJ Jonny P 10pm
Sat, Jan 28 DJ Entertainment by: Larry Pike Jonny
P or DJ REV! Possibly even some guest DJ's from Vermont
Wed, Feb 1 GMT House Party 6pm
Thur, Feb 2 DJ Dance Party & Karaoke All day
Fri, Feb 3 DJ Jonny P 10pm
Sat, Feb 4 DJ Entertainment by: Larry Pike Jonny
P or DJ REV! Possibly even some guest DJ's from Vermont
Wed, Feb 8 GMT House Party 6pm
Thur, Feb 9 DJ Dance Party & Karaoke
All day
Fri, Feb 10 DJ Jonny P
10pm
Sat, Feb 11 DJ Entertainment by:
Larry Pike Jonny P or DJ REV! Possibly
even some guest DJ's from Vermont
Wed, Feb 15 GMT House Party
6pm
Thur, Feb 16 DJ Dance Party & Karaoke
All day
Fri, Feb 17 DJ Jonny P 10pm
Sat, Feb 18 DJ Entertainment by: Larry Pike Jonny
P or DJ REV! Possibly even some guest DJ's from Vermont
Wed, Feb 22 GMT House Party 6pm
Thur, Feb 23 DJ Dance Party & Karaoke All day
Fri, Feb 24 DJ Jonny P 10pm
Sat, Feb 25 DJ Entertainment by: Larry Pike Jonny
P or DJ REV! Possibly even some guest DJ's from Vermont
TAVERN OPEN 6PM-Closing
Wed, Feb 29 GMT House Party 6pm
burlington area
Nectars
Fri, Jan 20 Seth Yacovone Solo 7-9pm
Led Loco with The Dirty Blondes 9pm
Sat, Jan 21 Zack DuPont Band With Darlingside
and Jamie Kent 9pm
Sun, Jan 22 M YARD Reggae Night every Sunday!
10pm
Mon, Jan 23 Metal Mondays-Cover Night- ft.
Wrathchild, Made n ron, Black on Both Sides, and White
Noyez 9pm
Tue, Jan 24 DeRobert & The Half Truths with Jesse
Dee 9pm
Wed, Jan 25 Loves t with Cash s King 9pm
Thur, Jan 26 Love in Stockholm with Orange
Television 9:30pm
Fri, Jan 27 Seth Yacovone Solo
7-9pm
Spiritual Rez with Clint Bierman and the
Necessary Means 9pm
Sat, Jan 28 Jay Burwick
7-9
Blues For Breakfast
9pm
Sun, Jan 29 M YARD Reggae Night every
Sunday! featuring DJ BG DOG and DEMUS 10pm
Mon, Jan 30 Metal Mondays-Cover Night- ft.
Boatman's Lament, Abandon, Skrogg, and
Kairos 9pm
Tue, Jan 31 The Bumping Jones
with Fridge & The Spins
9pm
Wed, Feb 1 Wednesday night
residency with Soule Monde ft. Russ Lawton
- Ray Paczkowski 9pm
Thur, Feb 2 Conscious
Thursdays ft. Workingman's
Army and more 9:30pm
Fri, Feb 3 Seth
Yacavone Solo 7-9pm
blitz the ambassador
with lynguistic civilians
9pm
Sat, Feb 4 Tom Conors Duo
7-9
Grippo Funk Band
9pm
Sun, Feb 5
M YARD Reggae Night every
Sunday! featuring DJ BG DOG and
DEMUS 10pm
Mon, Feb 6
Metal Mondays- Cover Night
9pm
Tue, Feb 7 Grateful Dread Tuesday
Night Residency 9pm
Wed, Feb 8 Wednesday night
residency with Soule Monde ft. Russ Lawton
- Ray Paczkowski 9pm
Thur, Feb 9 Thunderbody with The
All Good Feel Good Collective
9:30
Fri, Feb 10 Seth Yacovone Solo
7-9 pm
Blues for Breakfast
9 pm // 21+ $5
Sat, Feb 11 Julie Beerworth
7-9pm
American Babies with
Torpedo Rodeo 9pm
Sun, Feb 12 M YARD Reggae Night
every Sunday! featuring DJ BG DOG and
DEMUS 10pm
Mon, Feb 13 Metal Mondays-Cover
Night- ft. Brave the Vertigo, Boatman's
Lament, and S'iva 9PM
Tue, Feb 14 Grateful Dread Tuesday
Night Residency 9pm
Wed, Feb 15 Wednesday night
residency with Soule Monde ft. Russ Lawton
- Ray Paczkowski 9pm
Thur, Feb 16 Craig Mitchell and
Motor City 9:30pm
Fri, Feb 17 Seth Yacovone Solo 7-9pm
The Souljazz Orchestra with Dr Ruckus
9pm
Sat, Feb 18 Jake Klar
7-9 PM
Afnque with sunyata & dj hector 9pm
Sun, Feb 19 M YARD Reggae Night every
Sunday! featuring DJ BG DOG and DEMUS
10pm
Mon, Feb 20 Metal Mondays-Cover Night
9pm
Tue, Feb 21 Grateful Dread Tuesday Night
Residency 9pm
Wed, Feb 22 Wednesday night residency with Soule
Skiers and boarders relax at Castle Rock Pub at
Sugarbush.
Photo courtesy of Castle Rock Pub
February 4
GrIPPO
FUnk BanD
9pm
Nectars,
Burlington
January 28
GIrlS GOne
FOlkInG wIlD
6-8pm
Bagitos,
Montpelier
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Monde ft. Russ Lawton - Ray Paczkowski 9pm
Thur, Feb 23 Dopapod with The Mantras 9:30pm
Fri, Feb 24 Pulse Prophets with Big Mean Sound
Machine 9pm
Sat, Feb 25 Sonic Spank with D.V.S. & The Bounce
Lab 9pm
Sun, Feb 26 M YARD Reggae Night every Sunday!
featuring DJ BG DOG and DEMUS 10pm
Mon, Feb 27 Metal Mondays-Cover Night 9pm
Tue, Feb 28 Grateful Dread Tuesday Night
Residency 9pm
Wed, Feb 29 Wednesday night residency with Soule
Monde ft. Russ Lawton - Ray Paczkowski 9pm
Red Square
Fri, Jan 20 Brian Dolzani
5pm
Amida Bourbon Broject 8pm
Sat, Jan 21 Grooveshoes
5pm
The Stone Revival Band 8pm
Wed, Jan 25 The Andric Severance
Xtet 7pm
Thur, Jan 26 Eames Brothers
7pm
Fri, Jan 27 Casio Bastard
5pm
The Mumbles 8pm
Sat, Jan 28 Seth Yacovone
5pm
Erin Harpe and the Delta Swing 8pm
killington area
McGraths Irish Pub
Jan 20 & 21 McMurphy's
Jan 27 & 28 Green Rovers
Feb 3 & 4
Tom Lanigan
Feb 10 & 11
Trinity
Feb 17 & 18
Shananagans
Feb 24 & 25
Ocean Valley Boys
Pickle Barrel
Fri & Sat
Jan 20 & 21 Dew Tour Weekend with
Lifespeed 8pm
Thur, Jan 26 The Brew
8pm
Fri & Sat
Jan 27 & 28 Lost in Paris
8pm
Fri & Sat
Feb 3 & 4 Someone Say Something
8pm
Wed, Feb 8 Passafre
8pm
Fri & Sat
Feb 10 & 11 the Benjamins
8pm
Fri & Sat
Feb 17 & 18 Felix Brown
8pm
Wobbly Barn
Fri, Jan20 Winter Dew Tour VP Party: The DJ
stylings of RAC DJ
Sat,, Jan 21 Happy Hour with Rich Meyer
The Bash
Thur, Jan 26 The Alchemystics
Fri, Jan 27 Big Bang Baby
Sat, Jan 28 Happy Hour with Big Bang Baby
Thur, Feb 2 Bow Thayer and Perfect
Trainwreck
Fri, Feb 3 Mondern Bliss
Sat, Feb 4 Happy Hour with Rich Myer
Sun, Feb 5 Super Bowl Sunday Party:
Biggest Screen in Killington
Thur, Feb 9 Sparkplug featuring Joey
Leone
Fri, Feb 10 The Zoo
Sat, Feb 11 Happy Hour with Rich Meyer
Thur, Feb 16 RPM
Sat, Feb 18 Big Bang Baby
Sat, Feb 18 Happy Hour with Big Bang Baby
Tue, Feb 21 Mango Jam
Thur, Feb23 Tony Lee Thomas
Fri, Feb 24 Garden State Radio
Sat, Feb 25 Happy Hour with Garden State Radio
mad river valley
Castle Rock Pub
Sat, Jan 21 The Grift
Sat, Jan 28 Big Basin Band
Sat, Feb 4 Disco Night At Timbers
Sat, Feb11 The Dave Keller Band
Sat, Feb 18 Starline Rhythm Boys
Sat, Feb 25 Japhy Ryder
Sat, Mar 3 The Grift
Sat, Mar 10 The Detonators
Sat, Mar 17 Disco Night At Timbers
MRG & General Starks
Pub
Fri, Jan 20 Chad Hollister 4-6:30pm Gen. Stark's
Pub
Sat, Jan 28 ManBando 4-6:30pm Gen. Stark's Pub
Tus, Jan 31 Starline Rhythm Boys 4-6:30pm Gen.
Stark's Pub
Sat, Feb 4 Abby Jenne Band 4-6:30pm Gen.
Stark's Pub
Sat, Feb 11 Brett Hughes and The Lowbrow
Backsliders 3-6pm Gen. Stark's Pub
Sat, Feb 18 The Grift
4-6:30pm Gen. Stark's Pub
Sat, Feb 25 The Dog Catchers 4-6:30pm Gen.
Stark's Pub
Slidebrook Lodge
Sat, Jan 28 The Malicious Brothers 9pm
Thurs, Feb 2 Dog Catchers
9pm
middlebury -
51 Main
Wed, Jan 25 Jazz Jam 8-10pm
Thur, Jan 26 The Ubiquitous Coyote 8-10pm
Fri, Jan 27 Glenn Roth 10-11:45pm
Sat, Jan 28 They Might Be Gypsies 9-11:45pm
Sun, Feb 5 Super Bowl Party 5-11:55pm
Sat, Feb 25 Mogani 9-11:55pm
Two Brothers
Fri, Jan 20 Phineas Gage Project 10pm
Sat, Jan 21 Horse Traders Breast Cancer
Beneft Show 9pm
Mon, Jan 23 H.O.P.E. Trivial Pursuit
Fundraiser 7pm
Tue, Jan 24 Karaoke
9pm
Wed, Jan 25 Trivia Night!
7pm
Thur, Jan 26 DJ Dizzle
10pm
Fri, Jan 27 80s Throwback Night w Jam Man
Entertainment 10pm
Sat, Jan 28 Snake Mountain Bluegrass 8:30pm
Tue, Jan 31 Karaoke 9pm
mount snow
Snowbarn
FFri, Jan 20 Tomorrow Never Knows
Sat, Jan 21 Grateful Dread
Fri, Jan 27 Bruce in the USA (with Love in
Stockholm)
Sat, Jan 28 Turkuaz
Fri, Feb 3 Mister Dix
Sat, Feb 4 Funkwagon
Fri, Feb 10 Cats Under the Stars
Sat, Feb 11 The ndobox
Fri, Feb 17 Dopapod
Sat, Feb 18 Jeff Tuohy Band
Sun, Feb 19 McAlister Drive
Wed, Feb 22 Zoso
Fri, Feb 24 Sonic Spank (with DVS and The Edd)
stowe
Matterhorn
Fri, Jan 20 Dr. Yes and the No Nos 9:00 pm
Sat, Jan21 The X-Rays with Joe Moore 9:00 pm
Fri, Jan 27 The Eames Brothers Band 9:00 pm
Sat, Feb 4 Blues For Breakfast 9:00 pm
Sat, Feb 11 Jeff Pitchell 9:00 pm
Fri, Feb17 One Over Zero 9:00 pm
Sat, Feb18 Mango Jam 9:00 pm
Fri, Feb 24 The Eames Brothers Band 9:00 pm
Sat, Feb 25 2U 9:00 pm
Rusty Nail
Fri, Jan 20 Funkwagon with Trubine 9pm
Sat, Jan 21 Aps Ski with TBA 3-6pm
Pleasure Dome 10pm
Thur, Jan 26 Viva DeConcini 9pm
Fri, Jan 27 Aprs Ski with The Mumbles 4-6pm
Justice 9pm
Sat, Jan 28 Afnque with Salsa DJ Dance Party
8-10pm
Wed, Feb 1 Aps Ski with Charley Orlando 6-8pm
Fri, Feb 3 Aps Ski with Dan Stevens 3-6pm
BioDiesel
Sat, Feb 4 MiZ 9pm
Yarn 10:30pm
Thur, Feb 9 Chamberlin 9pm
Fri, Feb 10 Wolfman Conspiracy 9pm
January 26
The Brew
8pm
Pickle Barrel,
Killington
February 11
The Dave
keller BanD
Castle Rock Pub,
Sugarbush