Breaking trail at the VIC
Tom Romeo drove an hour from Massena on a snowy Sunday to cross-country ski at the Paul Smith’s College Visitor Interpretive Center.
An avid outdoorsman, he had spent the previous day breaking his own trail elsewhere. That, he said, “was quite a slog.” So it was a pleasant change to glide along a quiet groomed path in the woods, and to picnic at a VIC lean-to.
“It’s a nice little trail system,” he said.
Craig Arquette of Akwesasne also appreciates the VIC’s smooth skiing enough to drive about an hour south. He comes for the area’s better snow and groomed classic skiing.
“At home it’s just snowmobile trails,” he said.
They were happy to pay the $10 day pass to ski their pick of the 25 miles of skate, cross-country and snowshoe trails as they currently
