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Sure, used to ski VT quite a bit.

Love the drives, love the folks,....

You might correctly guess that...i might be from NH. (You remember NH? It is on the RIGHT on the map.) Left there at age 29 for the last time; though we still have a little shack up in the White Mountains, near Bretton Woods and the Ammonoosuc (Abnaki for "small, narrow fishing place) River, that abutts the Mt. Jefferson Wilderness Area.

'Be sure to visit Ticonderoga' is the best advice we can give. It is perhaps the MOST important site to understand its importance to the turn-around in our first civil/uncivil war against the British Crown....

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i will try the Vanilla Bean if i can get myself to drive into Pomfret. i avoid visiting anything french these days and that sounds an awful lot like colloquial lingua francaise Canadienne for frenchy fries. (Pomme de Terre, fried)

i used to strap a ski rack on an original CSX (a '64 in '64) trunk-lid and go up to Killington throught the dark and early am snow storms for a big bit of downhill. (Given the car, roads and weather, i didn't even need to use the plus-longue Head JC Killy downhills ((JC either crashed or won, i either crashed or lost.)) Hey, it was my only car and the 289 keep the interior very toasty and dry; even though the occasional salt slush splashed up along the driver's roll bar right brace, through an oval hole in the passenger floor. Never did cover that hole.

i drove that car so hard for so long that it developed many fatigue cracks in the body where the frame flexed and work-hardened the aly. i did over 60K miles in 4 years, all hard and fast. The most cars i ever passed at once on a country two-lane road was about 20 or so. It was autumn leaf time and they were just farting along the Kankamangus, rubber-necking the colors; so i blew them all off rather easily on a short stretch of uphill straight. The last passed saw me go by in something of a blur, i suppose, still climbing at a wee over 100.

Hill passing was the most fun, where the hp/wt ratio was most obvious. Used to love blowing off the 'Vettes on up hill runs. On a long run, i could get them to cook either their engines or brakes or even occasionally both. That extra 1300 pounds of iron and fiberglass was not easy for them to overcome.

Not much hill driving in FL, though. Miss it a lot. But, i do not miss hand-shoveling 10 inches of mis-forecasted partly-cloudy off the driveway every morning from Dec. 15 to Easter, either.

Just for fun, here is a nic pix of JCKilly for your memory test. He changed skiing forever. Pretty good for a french postman?

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