mreaves

I visited Anfield in 2017. As much as I dislike the Red Sox, FSG has done a great job with the Reds.

Not everybody

You don’t know the score?

And the locals pronounce it Staahk

We have made it up to 10°. The forecast high is 18°, that may be a tall order to get to.

That was the first thing I noticed on that map

Didn't get into the negative numbers here, 2° for the low

No, GMP. I’ve always heard Washington Electric was bad for outages.

We lost power for an hour or so. I’m only a quarter mile away from a substation so this was actually one of the longer outages we’ve had.

In fact, I would say that anything less than that up here is downright unreasonable.

I don’t mind it but I’d at least like to have kept the ground whitened a bit.

When I trailer someplace to snowmobile I usually drive with my bibs on and boot up once we get where we are going. Driving in snow boots can be a pain.

I haven’t heard that.

But that’s the one I want

Lol. Nearly $40k per year for taxes. Nice place though.

You know from living down there but Dorset is such old money. You can really feel it at the Field Club. I’ve always sort of though of Dorset as the old money and Manchester as the gauche, new money. Of course I live in the part of VT that is no money.

Looks like it. I find the mention of a ski area in Dorset interesting along with the fact that Pabst packed it in and shuffled off down the road to Bromley.

"Davidson investigated but never carried out two other lofty mountain projects. He abandoned the notion of a ski resort on Mt. Equinox after candid consultations with Fred Pabst of the Wisconsin beer-brewing family. In the early 1930s Pabst had started his own ski area in the Taconic range, a few miles north of equinox in east Dorset, but found the snowfall there insufficient; he then met with far more success at the higher, south facing Big Bromley in Peru, in the Green Mountains. Davidson also considered a cable-driven railroad between his mountaintop and the Southern Vermont Art Center. A funicular rail ride to the summit from the art center, the former Gertrude Devine Webster estate on an eastern flank of Equinox near Manchester, could have been a grand tourist attraction. But its cost would have been prohibitive in relation to revenues gained during the brief warm-weather Season. In any case, Davidson always "thought big" about his mountain." http://www.equinoxmountain.com/earlytimes_davidson_phd.php

I don't think I ever rode my snowmobile that season. I will say that it is like a blur for me as both my parents passed away that December. I think there was a decent upslope event in February or March. Also, I grade my winters on how usable the snow is, when it snows and then melts out repeatedly, I consider it useless.

Clubs get a grooming contract each year that pays for start up costs and grooming twice a week. There is a minimum amount they get even if they never turn a track (hello 2015-16). For construction projects, there is a grant system where projects are submitted for funding allocation but clubs also do some small stuff on their own. There are also grants for equipment purchases and major repairs. The main reason why TMA prices are higher is because we are a private, non-profit organization so we don't have really have any state involvement other than a passthrough from DMV registrations ($28 per sled -$5 the state keeps for handling) and a small % of the gas tax. Liability insurance is crazy expensive and each year the company we use "drops" us before the jack up the rates. VAST's, the umbrella organization of all 127 clubs, annual budget is about $3 million.

Were you up here in 2015/16? There was nothing redeemable about that winter. I don’t recall a great stretch at all.

About 15 years ago, we undertook a 10 year plan to widen and smooth out our 40 miles of trail. It took longer than 10 years but it was worth it. Our trails weave in an around some granite quarries and the piles of waste rock so its not always easy to smooth the trails.

As much as I would have loved to have gotten more snow, I'm pretty happy to not have go out and clear trails like that.

There are a couple of clubs that groom the National Forest roads that skirt that area but I think a large portion of the area you circled is part of the Glastenbury Wilderness tract of the Green Mt. National Forest

@powderfreak posts some great undercast pictures from the top of Mt. Mansfield from time to time. I saw one from Whiteface yesterday. I don't remember where it was.