Free heel frolic at Mad River Glen

[lowangle al]

March 11 and 12 there will be a Tele event at MRG put on by Wendy Bridgewater. It will have demos by the Fey bros, clinics, and beer from a local micro brewer. I doubt I'll be there but if I could I would go, it sounds like a good time.

[randoskier]

March 11 and 12 there will be a Tele event at MRG put on by Wendy Bridgewater. It will have demos by the Fey bros, clinics, and beer from a local micro brewer. I doubt I'll be there but if I could I would go, it sounds like a good time.

Re Beer: Lawsons?

My parents built a house on Lincoln Gap Road, spent my summers up there and a few winter breaks. My introduction to nature and the outdoors.

Is the Warren Store still going strong? The "pay phone" in Warren village was free courtesy of the Waistsfiled and Fayston Telephone Co.

I hope the Den is still serving food/beer, shame that the Blue Tooth is no more (Warren Zevon's wife was a waitress there).

Good memories in VT!

Mad River ski it if you can! Single chairs rock! (I know one in Slovenia too- Vogel)

[vt_trees]

March 11 and 12 there will be a Tele event at MRG put on by Wendy Bridgewater. It will have demos by the Fey bros, clinics, and beer from a local micro brewer. I doubt I'll be there but if I could I would go, it sounds like a good time.

Re Beer: Lawsons?

My parents built a house on Lincoln Gap Road, spent my summers up there and a few winter breaks. My introduction to nature and the outdoors.

Is the Warren Store still going strong? The "pay phone" in Warren village was free courtesy of the Waistsfiled and Fayston Telephone Co.

I hope the Den is still serving food/beer, shame that the Blue Tooth is no more (Warren Zevon's wife was a waitress there).

Good memories in VT!

Mad River ski it if you can! Single chairs rock! (I know one in Slovenia too- Vogel)

Grew up in the MRV. Learned to tele watching Wendy her husband Ben and the Dickie Hall crew.

Warren Store still going strong, although they have done much internal redesign.
The Den and the wonderful burgers on English Muffins are long gone.
Pay phone is still in place, I believe.

[randoskier]

March 11 and 12 there will be a Tele event at MRG put on by Wendy Bridgewater. It will have demos by the Fey bros, clinics, and beer from a local micro brewer. I doubt I'll be there but if I could I would go, it sounds like a good time.

Re Beer: Lawsons?

My parents built a house on Lincoln Gap Road, spent my summers up there and a few winter breaks. My introduction to nature and the outdoors.

Is the Warren Store still going strong? The "pay phone" in Warren village was free courtesy of the Waistsfiled and Fayston Telephone Co.

I hope the Den is still serving food/beer, shame that the Blue Tooth is no more (Warren Zevon's wife was a waitress there).

Good memories in VT!

Mad River ski it if you can! Single chairs rock! (I know one in Slovenia too- Vogel)

Grew up in the MRV. Learned to tele watching Wendy her husband Ben and the Dickie Hall crew.

Warren Store still going strong, although they have done much internal redesign.
The Den and the wonderful burgers on English Muffins are long gone.
Pay phone is still in place, I believe.

Lot of memories there diving and swimming at Warren Falls and the swimmin' hole over the mountain in Bristol. I learned to ski at Sugarbush the ski school (in the mid 70s!!) was completely Austrian, very exotic for us tikes having instructors named Helmut, Franz, and Alfons- they wanted to pump us up! You must wedel kinder! Never liked the Glam thing at S-bush so we mostly skied at Glen Ellen- 2600 ft vertical no lift lines zero glam- then they got absorbed by S-bush ugh...

Did a lot of fishing there on the Mad and also on the White and Dog rivers.

Are you a season ticket holder at MRG? (they bought the ski area). If so, do you know a fellow ticket-holder named Stuart who works (or worked) for the State Department? He is 6'8" so you can not miss him. He was the chief Consul at the US Consualte in Lyon, France when I was in the Rhone Alpes. I can not recall his last name, i can not imagine him skiing!

Mad River is the hardest on-piste skiing in North America. Always kicked my ass! That is a really a beautiful valley. Last visit for me was about 2004, only for a few days in summer (Did the big jump on the lower pool of Warren Falls! Shocked the wife!). Was pretty much the same there as the 70s, 80s. Hope it never changes much.

[bauerb]

I grew up in VT but rarely skied the big resorts because of $$$. I think once a year or something MRG had a student day for $10. when we went, we knew there would be carnage. typically a bent pole or an edge ripped off a ski. my best MRG story from when I was a kid was fighting my way down a very narrow trail , huge moguls which were basically rocks covered in ice. I had just yard saled and was getting up when I see this blur going flying past me absolutely ripping the snow/ice/boulder field. took me a second to realized the dude had one leg.

[randoskier]

I grew up in VT but rarely skied the big resorts because of $$$. I think once a year or something MRG had a student day for $10. when we went, we knew there would be carnage. typically a bent pole or an edge ripped off a ski. my best MRG story from when I was a kid was fighting my way down a very narrow trail , huge moguls which were basically rocks covered in ice. I had just yard saled and was getting up when I see this blur going flying past me absolutely ripping the snow/ice/boulder field. took me a second to realized the dude had one leg.

We were skiing in Mayrhofen Austria a few Thanksgivings ago and had a big early season powder dump (not the usual icy crap), getting on the 5-er chair lift we got on with another couple we were skiing with, the rowdy 11 year-old local girls trying to get the chair ahead blew it so one wound up on our chair. She heard our English and asked where we were from. The oldest skier in our over-the-hill bunch was 72 at the time, he was an instructor at Killington for many years, then later was a instructor at Winter Park- the first year it opened!! But he had lived in Hawaii on a sailboat the proceeding 12 years before he moved here to Italy. So he told her" Hawaii" This started a screaming conversation between the girl on our chair and the ones ahead, very exotic to them Hawaii! He had been so out of skiing hat he was on 215cm alpine downhill comp skis, straights. Got to the top and the bossiest girl said "Do you vant to race us?" All the other girls laughed (I new this was a set up, they had prolly done this before)- we said sure- the five girls all took off one ski attached it to their backpacks then kicked our ass on one ski all the way to the bottom- incredible technique. Our buddy with the caveman-from-the-ice skis was the only one close. His style could be described as stiff East-Coast 70s ski-instructor, perfect balance and edge control, in all snows but not so pretty. We finally have him on Q-tips now and I was surprised when we went track nordic skiing that he can actually do a telemark turn. He is 75 now and we hope he gets to ski again- he has not since Covid hit here and his knees are catching up to him.

That was a good trip went to a Telemark World Cup race at the nearby Hintertux Galcier and had dinner with one of the families of a US skier, their son had injured himself in the warm-ups and was out for the season and in the hospital. I have a pic somewhere of my wife with another US Team Telemarker, and we hung out for awhile with the Norwegian team- Norway and the Swiss won just about everything both men and women. Norway not surprising, Switzerland was. The US team is cash starved and all athletes are peeved it is not an Olympic Sport. It should be!!

[bauerb]

one step at a time. skimo is the latest add to Winter Olympics, which is amazing. tele can be next ! the funny thing is, if tele became an olympic sport, I doubt very much that the pure tele skiers would make the team. it will be alpine racers who learn just enough tele to comply with the rules. eg. skimo racers come from Nordic and trail racing, with some good alpine fundamentals...olympic skimo racers will not come from the AT/backcountry crowd.

[vt_trees]

Are you a season ticket holder at MRG? (they bought the ski area). If so, do you know a fellow ticket-holder named Stuart who works (or worked) for the State Department? He is 6'8" so you can not miss him. He was the chief Consul at the US Consualte in Lyon, France when I was in the Rhone Alpes. I can not recall his last name, i can not imagine him skiing!

Not a passholder at MRG. Live further north in VT now. Haven't ridden a lift in a number of years. Try my best to stay hidden in the woods. The Free Hell Frolic may change that.

[bornaginalpiner]

March 11 and 12 there will be a Tele event at MRG put on by Wendy Bridgewater. It will have demos by the Fey bros, clinics, and beer from a local micro brewer. I doubt I'll be there but if I could I would go, it sounds like a good time.

We had great snow and great time the last trip to MRG for the telefest.