This trip turned up completely by surprise when my friend Matt called me Monday morning to say that his friend had gotten sick and that he had an extra spot open in his car. His plan was to drive up to Williston, VT and spend the night at the Holiday Inn. Overnight guests supposedly got free lift tickets to nearby Bolton Valley. The forecast was for a warm week and conditions up north had been icy, groomed hardpack the previous weekend. I’m never one to turn down free skiing, however, so Wednesday morning Matt and I left Cape Cod for Vermont.
The first night skiing session started at around 7pm in the very cold, windy, and slushy Bolton parking lot. The mountain was hurting for snow, and there were large bare, rocky sections on most of the trails. Thank God I paid close attention to these bare spots that night. The woods were dangerous. And then it started to snow. By the end of the night, as Matt and I left early to ensure we would be able to make our way down the access road, about 6″ of powder had collected on the mountain.
The next morning, after we sidled our way into line with a visiting ski team to get a free breakfast, we crawled, slid, and skidded our way up to Bolton Valley. 18 inches of fresh snow blanketed the mountain, covering all the bare rock from the previous night. It also made the skiing absolutely incredible.
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