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• 1997 U.S. Ski Trip

At long last I've got enough photos and enough time and so here is the story of the latest St. John's ski trip.

Here we are checking in at Gatwick. One of the bonuses of this trip is that we fly, not on a charter flight, but on a normal scheduled Virgin flight to Boston and so reap all the goodies such as better food and, most importantly, the individual screens.

This is Daniel Sofaer and Bruno Farace before breakfast on the first morning outside their room. One of the disadvantages of skiing across the other side of the Atlantic is time differences - on the first morning boys were up and about at 4 a.m. That didn't last long into the week, of course.
In the background, the top storey with the big windows is where we had our meals and the top storey to the right of it with all the windows is the Green Room where we had ski party meetings and the dreaded Karaoke.

Here are some of the party getting stuck into breakfast. The food was good and there was plenty of it as well - very necessary when you consider all the energy that skiing burns up.

After breakfast this traditional American school bus would take us off to the slopes - a 10 minute journey in the case of Loon Mountain and 40 minutes for Bretton Woods on the last two days. Here ski passes are being handed out and "Have you got everything?" checks are being done.

As you can see from the bare patches on the slopes, we arrived to an unusually early end to an unusually mild winter (blame El Nino). That said, the two ski resorts did a superb job of looking after their snow and there were certainly enough trails open for us.

Overlooking the hotel is the famous Indian Head rock formation that gives the resort its name. On the first day of skiing Jonathan Farminer was unlucky enough to fracture his thumb. Being off skiing, he and Mr Bobroff decided to walk to the top of Indian Head.

And this is the view from the summit back down to the resort which can be seen just to the right of the stand of pine trees in the foreground. The twin ribbon of road running down the valley into the distance is the I93 highway to Boston. And all the rest is trees.

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