Ski Day #19- Oops, Somebody Left the Water Running (Mount Snow, VT)

Last Sunday I skied Mount Snow, Vermont's most southern big mountain. The day prior while I was skiing Stratton, it started to snow at about 3 PM. It snowed for about four hours until it turned to sleet at about 7 PM, then to rain sometime in the middle of the night.

As I walked up the lift just after 9 AM with rain drops pinging off my helmet I said to myself, "Oops, somebody left the water running." This quote is courtesy of Lewis Bodine, the side-kick of Brock Lovett in the movie Titanic and, along with Dusty from Twister, the greatest supporting role in a movie...ever.

The entire mountain was socked in with fog for the first few runs. As the day continued and the temperature got warmer, the rain shut off, the fog cleared out (a little), and we were left with great hero snow, corn so ripe that it made you smile with every turn. The best runs were on the north face. These runs are long with a steady, steep pitch.

For lunch, I took SKI Magazine's recommendation and headed to The Bullwheel, a restaurant and bar at the summit. The meat and cheese plate is the pick here. It comes with three cheeses, two types of sausage, mustard, cranberry spread, olives, and toast, most of it locally sourced. To wash it down, The Bullwheel has a number of craft beers on tap. I enjoyed a Harviestoun Ola Dubh, an old ale aged for 18 years. It is pretty potent, but definitely satisfying. For the faint of heart, try the Schneider Weisse Wheat Ale, a nice wheat ale that compliments the charcuterie very well.

-Steve
"Born On Ice, Perfected In Powder"

There he is, Lewis Bodine.