Tag Archives: Stowe

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Up & Over: Spruce Peak to Smugglers Notch and Back

A good day’s work in beautiful spring conditions: Alpine touring up to the top of Spruce Peak in Stowe on April 10, over Sterling Pond, and down to the Smugglers Notch base in Jeffersonville. And […]

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Top of the State, State of the Top

Climbed very slowly up Mt. Mansfield last week, going from misty valley fog through bright sun on bright foliage to a smattering of ice and snow on top, at the highest point in Vermont, 4,395 […]

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Trapps’ in Snow

It’s been an off-and-on winter, but snow returned on March 1, and people turned out at the Trapp Family Lodge trails in Stowe, VT, to enjoy it.

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April in Vermont

Well, it may be spring where you are, but it’s not quite spring here. These were all taken the past two days. Above, there’s mud under the snow in East Montpelier. Below and bottom, the […]

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