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CTA's 2024 "Multi-Day Tour #7"
Logistics and Shuttles

Car Shuttle Thoughts:

The car shuttle seems to confuse folks who haven't done it before. We have to do some driving before we ski, do not confuse the 'morning meeting place' and the 'start of skiing'. The morning meeting place is where we usually finish our skiing for the day.

The daily routine is that we will all meet at a pre-determined morning meeting place and time. We will then leave some cars at the morning meeting place and drive everyone to the start of skiing in as few cars as possible. We will then ski the section and finish at the end of skiing point. Then some folks with cars at the end of skiing point will have to bring people back to their cars at the morning meeting place. If you do this for enough years, you will have skied the length of Vermont once, and driven it four times. But some of the drives are very pretty.

Please be careful with carpooling to the start, if you show up at the morning meeting place with all your seats and ski rack filled then you can't help with any part of the car shuttle. If someone wants to bring a 15- passenger van and a driver, I bet some folks would buy you beers.

There are three main scenarios once we have all met at the morning meeting place:

1) You drive your car in the morning: You fill your car with other skiers and their gear at the morning meeting place, and drive to the start of skiing. Then you ski (usually ending up at the morning meeting place), then you get in someone else's car, along with a bunch of the other drivers, and they drive you back to your car at the start of skiing. In this case you might want to leave a warm coat and/or boots in one of the cars that stays at the morning meeting place, so you'll have something dry and warm to wear when you are driven back to your car. But make sure they won't have already left when you finish.

2) You ride with someone else in the morning: You leave your car at the morning meeting place and ride with others to the start of skiing. Then you ski back to your car(usually ending up at the morning meeting place), and, most likely, you will then drive some morning drivers back to their cars at the start of skiing after we all finish skiing. In this case you can leave your warm clothes in your car, but you don't want to take anything you don't want to ski with while you are riding down to the start of skiing, in other words, you get into the car ready to ski.

3) You don't drive at all, just ride with others to the start of skiing, and aren't needed for returning drivers to their cars at the end of the day.

In any case, do not leave the end of skiing until you have been checked off the list and have checked with the leader to see if you are needed for more driving. This means you may be hanging around the trail head for a while, in most cases there should be a car you can get into to stay warm if needed.


Parking Lot

End of the day parking lot - Photo by Sheri Larsen


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