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    Hometown USA: Glens Falls, NY

    Annual rainfall in the east, particularly summer, is way higher than Montana. Winter ground is frozen so no mud or drainage problems. Summer trails need to have good drainage and hardened if used by bikes or atvs.
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    Hometown USA: Glens Falls, NY

    Sure, but it's only likely to happen as part of a larger scheme. State agency staffers and some environmental groups realize that BC skiers as a legitimate recreational user group are being left out of the regs that define what's possible for trails. Had our second shots Feb.18, local pharmacy
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    Hometown USA: Glens Falls, NY

    Hadn't been there in years and hard to tell in the winter but I'd say yes, mostly. But there's lots of open, natural or cut, because the canopy suppresses the undergrowth, one of the things that made it appealing in the first place.
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    Hometown USA: Glens Falls, NY

    Bozeman to Burlington round trip airfare $240/person and we might still be waiting for vax in Montucky.
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    Hometown USA: Glens Falls, NY

    Lyon is what it is - good place for climb-the-hill BC skiing due to high base elevation, slope, snowfall, lots of open hardwoods, with natural or user cut ski lines from the days when it was owned by an absentee timber company. Some of the lines look like any glade ski you've ever seen, others...
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    Hometown USA: Glens Falls, NY

    Lyon is history. APSA has been trying to work something out with the authorities (DEC, APA) and the usual array of Adk environmental groups to make it legally possible to design and create environmentally acceptable trails for backcountry skiing at various locations, separate from existing...
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    Hometown USA: Glens Falls, NY

    We just spent six weeks back east in January and February to get vaccinated, so I got to ski there for the first time in years. Snowed twice. First was good, the second was the unfortunately common occurrence of a nice powder dump with a topping of freezing rain - storms tend to come up from...
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    Hometown USA: Glens Falls, NY

    I grew up between Glens Falls and Saratoga, have had a summer business in the east Adirondack foothills near Lake Champlain since 1976. Mostly a backcountry skier, been spending winters in Bozeman for the last ten years, muchly to escape chancy and sometimes impossible BC conditions in the...
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