Waterfall at Stowe

hey sam that was me that hit it right after you, funny you noticed that

After the recent thaw and freeze, I don't know if last nights 12"-18" will be enough cushion.

Your first big drop, and it will be to a flat landing - what could go wrong?

Aside from the obvious problems, a flat landing won't teach you shit about how to land properly, so why bother?

Im not sure whos first big drop your talking about, but unlike most of the other big drops at stowe you have a clear landing (no trees/rocks). That being said this dosnt sound like the storm to hit it in: lots of ice under all that new pow.

The waterfall’s a gnarly drop. Never done it but there are always a few tracks. I'd be worried about the landing. Something that flat could screw your knees. The landing is pretty much on top of that little catwalk tracking across the mountain. There are a lot of good lines around that area though. Be cautious and good luck if you go for it.

funny- nobody mentioned this, and a bit off-topic, but it's another great drop on the other side of the notch- may be gone forever after 2007-2008 season.

a decent cliff @smuggs, under the sterling lift (backside of stowe's spruce peak) up near the top, there's a fenced-off 25-30ft cliff that's ripe. landing has a decent pitch- the cliff itself is beyond vertical (read: no speed needed to clear) and the landing area usually collects obscene amounts of snow (you can see from the lift- there's a natural snow-fence effect going on)

heading down upper exhibition under the lift- skier's right tuck around the fence- put skis on, and launch away. there's a slightly smaller drop/option to skier's left (can get to w/effort)

if you ski stowe, go up spruce, take the ridgeline trail down to sterling pond, and get over to smuggs. ski down under sterling liftline. you'll see the fence, and the chute/ballsnapper trail that veers off to the left. duck right around chain-linked fence. drop it.

reason i mention this- there's serious talk of them putting in a quad @ sterling- and widening the trails up top. this includes blasting/leveling this drop to increase downhill capacity and it's one of the best liftline drops i've seen in the east- easily up there w/ tower 5 @MRG and Waterfall @stowe.

i hope to drop it once next season before the (possibly) destruction.

to get back to stowe, ask a liftie or whatever how to get to R&B to Launch (side bowls easily accessible below after dropping it) this route will take you to 108 and a not-so-bad skin/hike back to the top of the notch... or just ski smuggs all day- the place has plenty of good drops, chutes, and bowls that are relatively unknown to most.