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Probably not a widely recognized trail name, but it's in Goodman's book, and maybe familiar to some VT'ers. Starts, interestingly, at the top of Bolton, and down to Little River State Park; one-way, car shuttle trip. I think I may have skied part of it in my getting lost on the backside of Bolton adventure... it's nice back there! Curious if anyone's done the trip, I keep thinking it must be a good one. Apparently not that easy to follow, and when you're back there... you're out there.

Usually ski it about 2x a year on Ultravector BCs and T2s or T4s. Bring skins as a backup obviously. Full trail from the top of Vista at Bolton down to the bottom of Woodard Hill Road is about 8miles (with detours when the snow looks good in the glades off the sides) and maybe 1k-1.5k elevation gain on the rollers, but primarily headed downhill. I prefer to park where the road closes in Little River State Park and split off to the north and come down the glades in the Stevenson Brook drainage.

Usually the Friends of Bolton get a day of trail maintence in every fall. There are blazes on the trees but they can be sparse or worn out in some places and keep an eye out for some carved wooden signs on birches along the trail ("The glades are lovely, pure and white"). There are really some incredible birch glades for turns off the side of the trail!

It's about a 3-6hr trip depending on how many detours you take and which way you come down in the second half - DM me if you want some more details. I may have some gps tracks that could be useful. There's an amazing band of cliffs with views straight across the valley to Camels Hump which is worth the detour for lunch on a nice day.

Thanks loafr, that's good info. I did come across an article somewhere that had a similar description. I found some fine glade skiing on my (mis)adventure back there; I was up at the of the backcountry trails, and got sucked a little too far skiers left. Nice run till I realized I took the wrong drainage, and hadn't brought skins to climb back up (thought I was staying in the trail system). It was all a dumb move on my part, I'd been up there before.