From:
Carole K. Folley [mailto:carolef@twcny.rr.com]
Sent:
Monday, January 20, 2003 9:43 PM
To:
Eleanor L. Sheldon; Eddie Luban; Tom & Peg Hotaling; Richard Matthews;
Pauline Cecere; Maria Hosmer-Briggs; Joan Yungwirth; Jack Lancette; Gail Ferat;
Andrea Hospodar; Kurt Ries
Cc:
Ann Gregory; Mary Jean Byrne-Maisto
Subject:
Re: VERMONT SKI TRIP
Wow! Sounds like big fun!
Top five awesome ski treks. Hmmmm. We didn't do any of that when I was there.
Guess I'd better hurry back, so I can do it, too.
How is Ellie? You didn't
leave her stuck in that snow bank down the trail, did you?
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Original Message -----
From: Eleanor
L. Sheldon
To: Eddie
Luban ; Tom & Peg Hotaling ;
Richard Matthews ; Pauline
Cecere ; Maria Hosmer-Briggs ;
Joan Yungwirth ; Jack Lancette ;
Gail Ferat ; Carole K. Folley ;
Andrea Hospodar ; Kurt
Ries
Cc: Ann
Gregory ; Mary Jean Byrne-Maisto
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003
7:15 PM
Subject: VERMONT SKI TRIP
What
a great time we had at Honorary Geezer's (Kurt Ries) condo in Vermont. Kurt is always looking for people to join
him on adventure ski treks (life insurance isn't required, but is recommended). The temperature was a little cool, but in
range of 9 to 15 which is good when skiing a normal pace. I'm not sure if the down hills were normal
now that I think of it.
We
skied on the Bolton Valley's backcountry trails the first day and the second
day we skied the Catamount trail from Bolton to Nebraska Valley (near Trapp
Family Center) - close enough to hear the music. Thanks Fast Eddie for planting the seed as it would have to fall
in my top five all time awesome ski treks.
You actually climb nearly 1500 feet and drop nearly 2500 feet or
something like that, so you can see we went in the right direction.
Every
once in a while we would lose Kurt (did I mention that he is a telemark
extremist?), but then he would appear out of a snow bank down the trail
somewhere. He got me trying it after a while as he makes it look so good and
easy. It's not a bad idea to have a
dozen tubes of icy hot or something like that back at the condo if you go with
Kurt. I went down after my ski caught
under a branch (like down real fast I mean) and it definitely reminded me of my
senior status. It's great getting a
discount because you are old, but it's a bitch falling around on mountains.
Kurt has this thing whereby he sees where a rabbit might be able to work it's
way though the underbrush and he calls it a "Glade" and if it is wide
enough so something big enough to eat the rabbit can get though then he calls
it an "Open Glade". Anyways,
he goes nuts when he sees these Glades and all of a sudden he like dives off
the mountain with one ski several feet ahead of the other and bent down like
Groucho Marks and he disappears in 4 feet of snow. Then you may see his cap for a second and he's gone again. He's
the only man I know that judges women by the width of their skis. Telemarking is actually the rule and not the
exception in that area.
You
can actually ski out Kurt's condo door all the way to Canada on the Catamount
Trail.
Dave