I had a great first time trip to Stowe! Big thanks to KevinF for being an outstanding mountain guide - I never had to look at a trail map all day skiing with him the first day. He showed me a very good sampling of the terrain and got me into some nice intermediate bumps that were awesome and a baby glade that was just right for my first tree skiing experience. It was good getting to ski with SKI-3PO and his son as well, who it turns out, live in my area. The hike up an old ski trail to a very cool vista with a larger group of people we met up with was spectacular as well. Embarrassed that KevinF had to witness some really terrible skiing by me on the short trail descending from there. However, he might have marveled at how someone could try and crash so many ways, but never pull it off! My last run of the trip was memorable. I found bumps and some really nice skied off piled up snow most of the way down from the gondola. Outstanding.
I might not ever go back to Stowe though since it was perhaps a perfect 2 days there.
Winter storm Stella had dropped 50 inches of snow on the summit so there was incredible coverage, great groomers, soft bumps and nice areas of soft skied off powder to hit. Temperatures were cold, but not frigid, and there was not a cloud in the sky for 2 days and zero wind. Not sure I will be lucky enough to randomly hit such great conditions and weather again!
