Making Fresh Tracks Into 2021 With Vermont's 'Staytripper'

Words and photos courtesy of Seven Days

Making Fresh Tracks Into 2021 With Vermont's 'Staytripper'
By Carolyn Fox

A new year symbolizes a clean slate. Here in Vermont, we see the possibilities in a generous snowfall. Since everybody loves to make fresh tracks, we sought out the white stuff for this issue of Staytripper, Seven Days' road map to safely rediscovering the state during the pandemic. We can commune with Mother Nature off-piste on powdery slopes, shooting down a sledding hill on a Mad River Rocket, or carving the ice on frozen Lake Morey.

Or, for a new perspective, take a winter birding walk at the Green Mountain Audubon Center. You'll likely realize two things: First, we're never truly alone. And second, as Emily Dickinson wrote, "'Hope' is the thing with feathers."