I Like Our Prospects

[EdBacon]

Visited Prospect Mountain today. Opened in 1938 and operated on and off until 1991. About ten years ago it was reopened as a backcountry and nordic ski area. 

This place is a blast. Lodge straight from the 1960s. Wood paneled everything. Metal wickets for your ticket. Wood fired stove with bricks on top to stick in your stinky wet boots. Homemade cookies at the counter. I got a bowl of chili. 

There's a designated uphill track straight up the old T-bar lift line. The split board did its job. First time using one. I think I got the hang of it by the end of the day. The mountain tops out at 2770 feet and you get around 600 feet of vertical. A good first test for uphilling since I've never done it before. The trails are still cleared so there's lots of options down from the top, plus a few places where they've thinned out the trees. They're sitting on around 24-36 inches of snowpack right now in the southern Greens. About 8-10 inches fell on Sunday and a couple more last night. Fresh tracks could be had on a lot of the trails. The lift line and two of the wider ways down the mountain seem to get the most traffic. Those were choppy pow but still pretty fun. No real steep sections except for maybe the top of the T-bar tow line. 

Big old cross country championship thing going on today. Lots of buses in the lot. Place was packed with high schoolers. 

Girls race was on during my second run. Accidentally came out of a trail onto the race track. I think they rang the cowbell for me. It was all good. 

Love the split board. Today was tons of fun.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Wow that was a nice report. I’ll have to google exactly where the place is.  

[EdBacon]

1 hour ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

Wow that was a nice report. I’ll have to google exactly where the place is.  

It's like ten minutes outside Bennington, VT. Very easy to get to. 

[Mixilplix]

What rig ya get?

[EdBacon]

1 hour ago, Mixilplix said:

What rig ya get?

Arbor Landmark I got on sale. Union bindings. I think their standard model. 

Nothing fancy. It all seems to work well. 

[Icecoast]

14 hours ago, EdBacon said:

Arbor Landmark I got on sale. Union bindings. I think their standard model. 

Nothing fancy. It all seems to work well. 

I had to sell my union chargers when i got my splitpig...the disks arent big enough to fit splits with the channel. I was bummed because they were really solid bindings, not just for split bindings. I always wanted to hit prospect...thats the area you drive past heading towards Mt Snow from NY?

[EdBacon]

10 hours ago, Icecoast said:

I had to sell my union chargers when i got my splitpig...the disks arent big enough to fit splits with the channel. I was bummed because they were really solid bindings, not just for split bindings. I always wanted to hit prospect...thats the area you drive past heading towards Mt Snow from NY?

Yeah, on your right as you come up the mountain from Bennington on Route 9. 

[mbike-ski]

Aight, I have few day to kill in VT next month, will put this on the list