Last weekend Mitch and I decided to have a guys weekend away and squeeze in a few more days of skiing. With all the rain we had recently, Vermont got dumped on with snow. We drove up to Kathy's on Thursday in quite the storm, snow, sleet, rain and ice.
Friday morning Mitch and I got up and went down to Sugarbush and enjoyed an awesome day of skiing. Snow all morning giving us fresh tracks on all our runs and then the sun came out after lunch to reveal a beautiful day.
When we got back to Kathy's we decided to go online to check out some other ski areas because Sugarbush didn't have enough staff and the lines for everything were outrageous!
On a whim I decided to look at ski areas in Quebec (Last year we skied at Mont Tremblant and really enjoyed it). I came across some reviews of Mont Sutton in Suttyon, Quebec. I heard before that this was a good mountain and the reviews I saw online confirmed my hunch. Google maps said that Sutton was a little more than an hour away from Kathy's so Mitch and I decided to make a run to the border.
Mont Sutton was great, a wide open mountain the looked north across the flat St. Lawrence Rive plains. There was about a foot and a half of fresh powder and more in the trees. Unlike some glade skiing in VT, Sutton's glades were wide open and easy to pick clean lines through. Mitch, though still learning to ski was able to keep up and he had a great time picking his own lines through the trees! This winter Mitch has made some great strides on skis. He now uses poles to plant and turn and he has learned to use the fall line of a slope to manage his speed and control.
After a great day skiing the trees we headed back to Vermont and across the border. However at the border we ran into some issues because I didn't have a birth certificate for Mitch and Tracy was not with us. The border agent asked me to pull over and come into the office to answer some additional questions. Realizing that we could be in trouble I decided not to be my usual smart ass self as the agents wanted to be sure that I was not trying to abduct Mitch. They even asked Mitch where his mom was and where he was coming from and and to where he was going. After about 15 minutes of Q&A and a lecture the borer patrol let us continue on our way home.
