It was the only sign of civilization. Micucci, who owns a sports equipment store in Gorham, just over the state line from Bethel, Maine, looks for places like these every week, and expects to keep going well into May because of the tremendous snowfall this year. Total snowfall on Mount Washington this winter was 100 inches above the normal 250 inches. It's a fabulous year. The snow has filled in places I can't remember ever filled in.
Some places are unrecognizable.
It can take hours to get up, minutes to get down. The equipment has gotten so much better. There's been an explosion in technology. The sport is even more popular in the West, where there is more terrain, and much more popular in Europe, where skiers can travel from hut to hut for overnight stays, Behr said. No trail is very far from a road.