Re: {hoosac range skiing} Digest for hoosac-range-skiing@googlegroups.com - 2 updates in 1 topic

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Robert M

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Feb 27, 2026, 6:17:56 PMFeb 27
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Nice Beartown Report. How was the parking?

  I was hoping to get there today but diverted to CTs only CCC ski area for a few 300' vert laps.  Snow was great, deep base. We'll see what the warm up does to the ledges. 

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Phil <philipk...@gmail.com>: Feb 26 05:22PM -0800

Despite my optimism in 2024
<https://groups.google.com/g/hoosac-range-skiing/c/nk7nbizLO2M/m/brS10bHRAgAJ>,
it took another two winters to get Beartown checked off the bucket list.
Went there today with Lynn A. and enjoyed it tremendously. Very challenging
terrain. Way beyond what I was expecting for a circa 1930s network of ski
trails. I should have read the description in Skiing in the East
<https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015003494294&view=1up&seq=285>
more carefully. (Grades of 40 deg. are reported. Yikes!!)
 
Kudos to WMBA for doing the work to make this a destination. Rick, a
regular at B.t. from Stockbridge, was our source of spot info. We met him
in the parking lot. Following his suggestion we warmed up on Polar and,
before bottoming out on the collecting trail, reascended to examine the
middle of Lower Tow Line. That would have been a challenging descent though
it still had some soft, untracked snow along the margins (Polar was pretty
well skied out). Instead we continued traversing in the area between Polar
and Lower Tow and enjoyed a more controlled, untracked, descent through the
trees. There are many openings on the margins of the maintained trails to
make similar forays.
 
I've definitely become a fan of the area and humbly admit being guilty of
underestimating the impact that it can make on you, standing at the lip of
one of the trails and staring it down waiting to see who blinks first. It
was very reminiscent of the Steeple Trail on Stowe. Best map I found is on
Backtrack:
https://www.backtrackmaps.com/explore/map/6BNs2GMFEmnqAUSdqTjvN/fu4n97YyS9pAnunfVwLgz
 
Thanks Andy and all the others,
Phil
Phil <philipk...@gmail.com>: Feb 26 05:26PM -0800

Actually 2023 when I made that list.
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Philip Lussier

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Feb 27, 2026, 8:37:55 PMFeb 27
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The parking is tight but with cooperation you can get five cars shoehorned into the available space, provided you know who wants to leave first and leave them nearer the road.

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Neal Chamberlain

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Feb 27, 2026, 10:05:08 PMFeb 27
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Yes that correct.m I spoke with Zack the Lee highway guy. 
Parking on the road is allowed. The road has little traffic. Parking across the street in the no trespassing pull out is strictly forbidden. Violators may be towed. 
Neal Chamberlain 
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