They were staying at a nice efficiency at the Mountain Crest Condos over in the Northern Tract section of the ski area. We had no trouble making a rendezvous with them on the benign slopes served by the Powderidge chairlift. I was proud of my foresight in suggesting they join us on this trip. I got a big kick out of the variety of clientele at Snowshoe. DC and Baltimore area skiers and boarders dominate the ski areas in Virginia and Pennsylvania closer to my Northern Virginia home.
Snowshoe draws from all over the Southeast.
I rode up on a lift with an 11 year old boy from Tifton, Georgia, not far from the Florida state line. He said he made a 17 hour bus ride with a church group. I took an early morning ride up a high speed quad with one very stoked snowboarder named Jeff from Greensboro, North Carolina. He couldn't understand why his buddies preferred sleep over snow. Late on Saturday I rode up a beginner lift with a young lady from Lexington, Kentucky wearing a John Hopkins University Rugby jacket.