Abetone

Abetone: 1940m, vertical drop: 500m, longest run 3.5km. Central Italia, close to Pistoia, part of the Appenine mountain range.

As you can see, blue bird skies... it was a gorgeous day.

Wee... that's me!

Ours don't exactly look like this over on the east coast.

Apres ski Italian style: Birra Moretti and grappa.

My fellow east coast riders, help me out on this one. Does this system exist in the US anywhere? Here, your lift ticket is a magnetic card that you put in an exterior pocket, and you walk up to the gates when you are entering the lift. It automatically scans it and opens it to let you on the lift, which is, by the way, a moving rubber carpet type contraption, instead of piles of slush and ice and a man who has to shovel all day. We do love our lifties, though, so I am not suggesting that we get rid of them.