That facility in Weston sounds interesting, it would be a great place to break in some new Scouts on cross country skis or snow shoes before going into the mountains. Thanks for the reference.

I had mentioned the "introduction" day we went to last year in a previous post. I poked around and found this year's info:
http://www.wintertrails.org/
Winter Trails Day is coming up, January 7, 2006. It looks like from their site that it's going to be at 100+ locations around the US and Canada. It was a great way to have some fun, and demo lots of different gear at one time for free. I think they were also running sales on gear that weekend, at least up at the Waterville Valley location.