On the Chickadee with a Skida/Wild Wings hat! 3/6/2019

Open, 1º, sunny, high today about 19º. What a great mid winter ski day. 22 km classic tracks and 6 km of skate. Ian re-groomed all the low trails this morning with the PistenBully, and groomed the Chickadee and Middle and Upper Blue Jay yesterday. After he groomed the Chickadee, Upper and Middle Blue Jay 5 people skied the Chickadee and 1 or 2 people skied the Middle and Upper Blue Jay. Perfect, set up tracks. Oh, what a day!

Where’s Waldo? Ian grooming on Waite’s Place Loop. 3/7/2019

Chickadee. It has a couple loops off of the main trail. One Ian calls the extension. It is the loop shaped like a heart just before the Loon. The Loon. And Waite’s Place Loop. Someone asked the other day why Waite’s Place Loop wasn’t a bird name. Well, we don’t consider it a separate trail. And the Waites had a homestead up there sometime in the early 1800’s. (This is why, if you live in Vermont, your place will never be called by your name, always the name of whoever owned it before you.) The Waites that lived up there are great grandparents of Bobby and John Waite of the real estate world. They didn’t live up there very many years and they moved to Weston. As you can imagine, it would have been a very unfriendly place to live by yourself in the winter. So there you have it. Your 2 cents of trivia for the day.