A New York State of Mind, some day in May 2014

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The scene, NYS, morning.

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Lacking a partner, and without the ability to go it alone sans heavy weaponry, Broke Some Ribs headed the call at 1:30am and joined me for our first ski in 3.5 years.

TGR comes through.

Headed up in the early morning light over the 59th. I never get sick of the view here, It's like a reverse King of New York where I'm an outdoorsy Christopher Walken that rarely kills anyone.

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We arrive early to the snow line, teh global warmings is melting the glaciar at a rate of inches per day, but it looks like it goes.

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BSR's hospitality in this corner of the world is legendary.

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After which, it was time to ski some laps.

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We made some turns on the headwall of many of EXPERTS ONLY terrain.

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RTT3 had just been around for target practice, too.

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BSR wanted to lead, so I let him route find over a snow bridge.

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[img]He wanted to lead some more, so after resupplying at base camp we continued our wandering in search of gnar.[/img]

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He had selected a route called ridicullisima, looked good to me.

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Spring on a cliff is really cool.

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people like this ledge:

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But, approaching the top out and freezing cold in the wind, we decided to rap.

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The ski down went almost to the car, too.

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Burritos and Jalapeno Cornbread was consumed after but I have no evidence of that.

Shhhhweet.

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Nice! Gotta love tax funded, government made corn.

Water is our most valuable resource, we need to use it wisely.

The day was pretty hairy. I would say we barely threaded the needle to survive. Avy risk was the worst I'd ever seen it, with evidence of recent slabs cutting loose. The rapid warming didn't help either. Moments after the he snow bridge photo was taken, I experienced my first crevasse fall on the EC.

We're just glad to be back home with our families and loved ones.

Excellent report, obviously you were the best skiers on the mountain. Thanks for the Gunks stoke too, I have fond memories of high times there at this time of year, back in the day.

Nice - gonna head back there this wknd and finish grinding those tax dollars into the grass.

Nice! Looks like a fun weekend

Which mountain is this?

Beats shopping for mattresses online any day of the week. Need to get on the wall soon, I guess.:yourock:

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Which mountain is this?

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It is the southernmost snow East of the Mississippi

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Originally Posted by NoPostholio

It is the southernmost snow East of the Mississippi

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Nope...

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ML, nice to see the stoke!


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Nice! Looks like a fun weekend

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Weekend? That was my day off yesterday.

Hustle hustle hustle




Thanks for the comments and extra thanks to Broke Some Ribs for the company and leading that climb. I'm still wowed by the whole thing.

Great work

Any signs that the grey wolf infestation is spreading to the Catskills?

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Great work

Any signs that the grey wolf infestation is spreading to the Catskills?

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No moose carcasses to speak of. We did hear a couple howls on the summit, which made me wish I had brought my own Beretta. But I think they were scared off by our manly musk that can only be generated by steep skinning in sunny, 70 degree temps.

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But I think they were scared off by our manly musk that can only be generated by steep skinning in sunny, 70 degree temps.

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Watch out for cougars, they love them some man musk. :biggrin:

Jalapeño cornbread ftw!

Some really fine recreation here, nice shots bud!

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Originally Posted by ml242

Weekend? That was my day off yesterday.

Hustle hustle hustle




Thanks for the comments and extra thanks to Broke Some Ribs for the company and leading that climb. I'm still wowed by the whole thing.

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Haha I was looking at those patches this past weekend... Brought my wedding getup but didn't even think of sticks. Saw how fat it still was and almost drove back home for my crampons and climbing harnesses/ice screws.


Way to stick it to the taxpayer, maaaaaaan

Disappointing TR; no shots of putting on boots already clicked into the bindings

pretty cool, way to get after it

makes me want to move back to ny........................

Thumbs up from the West coast!

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He had selected a route called ridicullisima, looked good to me.

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Looks like someone needs to learn how to properly place a cam.

That was part of the "What not to do portion of my Trad refresher.