Re: An iboats Ski Trip?
Oh wow....<br /><br />I used to go skiing all the time when I was stationed in Boston, MA with the Coast Guard!<br /><br />Killington? ....LOVE IT!
In fact, I still have a huge, enlarged, photo of me taken from Bear Mt's lodge, looking up at Outer Limits. I safely made it down the trail, and right near the bottom, I held up a fist, pumping it in the air, when the photo was taken!<br /><br />For those that don't ski or never been to Vermont, Killington is the ultimate mountain of all mountains. Killington is the east coast's answer to Vail, Aspen, or Squaw Valley.... There is an {infamous} trail at Killington called "Outer Limits". It is true... If you fall, then God help your a**, 'cause you are going to slide all the way down to the bottom!!!
Put it this way... That nasty trail is so steep is some sections, that it unbuckled one of the buckles on my boots!
I think word has it that the trail is something like 63 degree pitch or something like that... It is a right of passage of every skier to ski Killington at least once in their lifetime!<br /><br />Believe it or not, I haven't been on skis since 1993. I still have my trusty Olin Comp SL's and Caber Azzurro racing boots, and all my gear. I just haven't had the time to ski since 1993 and was stationed in places where I couldn't ski. Then after I retired from the USCG, I moved here to Virginia. Yes, Virginia has ski areas, but they have the most shortest ski season, most man-made snow, of areas that I have seen! ...and they have the audacity to charge darn near the same ticket prices as Killington, Hunter Mt, Stowe, Whiteface Mt, Sunday River, etc...etc...etc...!! {{Oooooo... 11 trails, 1000 foot vertical, and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of people for only 11 trails!
}} Sorry Virginia... I am spoiled rotten by growing up in upstate NY and skiing on real mountains with real snow and dozens and dozens of trails. If I get back on skis, I'll take vacation and head back up north.<br /><br />Butch A.
