Friday, January 10, 2014

XC Skate Skiing at Grafton Ponds Outdoor Center

Hillary had the day off so we scanned the nordic ski centers in Vermont to see who had snow and trails in decent shape.  Since we have season passes to Mountain Meadows in Killington we are also part of the VT reciprocal pass program where you can ski one free day at all of the other nordic centers in VT.  Our research paid off as we ended up at Grafton Ponds Outdoor Center in southern VT.  There was much more snow down there and the trails were perfect for skating!  Hillary and I skated just over 20k and got a good workout on the hills throughout their trail system.  We stopped for lunch in the village of Grafton and even stopped in at the Cheese Store for numerous free cheese samples.  It was a beautiful day to see southern VT and ski some great trails.
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  1. Andy GlossnerJanuary 11, 2014 at 2:12 AM

    In the Nordic countries they say 1 mile = 10 km, which really takes the punch out of a longer workout. "I skied 2 miles today," just doesn't sound as good.

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    1. AndyJanuary 12, 2014 at 1:56 PM

      Seems like some faulty math to me! They are giving you no choice but to use metric, as we should do here ...

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