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Faceshots at Massanutten this morning. Hearing some grim reports of WV road conditions, with numerous closures due to accidents. Curious whether 33 through to Canaan would be a poor decision, tomicogs, will be interested to hear you take on road passibility.
I64 in WV was closed for a while yesterday w/ accidents blocking both directions of travel.
Friends in Elkins, Summersville, and the Valley all say its pretty treacherous on all roads. Photo attached of a back road entering 33 near Elkins, from a friend. He said that the rear windshield of this truck says "Insane Redneck," which is apt, because apparently you need to be insane to be driving down there in that mess.
Timberline is generally cool w/ skinning up (or at least used to be), and Salamander is a gentle grade for booting up, if you can make it to the Valley.
I've lurked here for a few years now and even though I'm just a (soon to be) dentist JONG, I figure this is as good a thread to make my first post as any. I'll be at Whitetail as close to opening as possible tomorrow with a few friends. I'll be the short guy on Extremes, black TNF pants, gray jacket. One buddy will be on Kung Fujas, red jacket. Not sure what the others will be wearing, but they'll be on snowboards.
I'll keep an eye out for Bros.
I know I'm probably getting my hopes up unnecessarily, but the idea that I'll actually be skiing on natural snow in this area has me more excited than I've ever been to ski around here :yourock:
Haha..I might do a spit take seeing someone on bros at Whitetail.
I'll probably hit Liberty or maybe Seven Springs in the couple days following Christmas.
Haven't been to either in years.
I actually saw somebody with them at Wisp a year or two ago. Only pair I've seen in person.Quote:
Originally Posted by gmdesigner
pics from today
http://picasaweb.google.com/sbutts1963/BigSnow121909#
hillbilly hippie tele buds @ whitegrass today
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2567/...279ce5bb_o.jpg
My rational brain just has trouble believing this pic..Quote:
Originally Posted by cdlv
bo-leeve it! or better yet. come ski at whitegrass in canaan tommorrow (today really) and ski for yourself. more whitegrass fun......... oh, these local boys are skiing on nnnbc xc gear too....... [TGRVIDEO]868233[/TGRVIDEO][TGRVIDEO]868235[/TGRVIDEO]
yeah, it was that good, better, made turns in places that I've been waiting for years to be in, Baldy Face then on into Cathedral=$$$$. knee deep, slutty face shots if you milked it, lots of unexciting pics, solo dawn patrol from 6:30ish-2ish, so no action shots.
roads were passable, 40-50mph the whole way, 81-70-68-220-50-93. timed it perfect to be about an hour behind the last plow pass, lucky with that, mtn roads no worse than the interstate, just deer instead of semis.
will post pics once sorted thru..
wow.
Well, whitetail was really freaking crowded as expected.
Liberty was surprisingly uncrowded until around 11. They had Lower Strata au naturale, which was nice, but there are definitely rocks lurking (same was true of White Lightning, which I think they closed later on). There were also a number of people poaching liftlines, which didn't seem to make Ski Patrol too happy at first, but they kinda seemed to give up on enforcing it.
The snow actually allowed them to open up 100% of the trails for the morning, even though the terrain parks weren't fully ready yet. I was surprised to see that Whitetail didn't push much new terrain online today, which made me glad I'd ended up at Liberty instead...
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Originally Posted by FlyinGuitar08
What did you expect? There is not enough $$$$ in the world for me to go near that place on a weekend. My buddies on SP there earn their greenstamps!
Heading that way today(Monday).
im not good skiing downhil on skinny xc gear , but if you can do this stuff on nnnbc xc gear and ski pow like these boys you have arrived!
more from whitegrass...
[TGRVIDEO]868980[/TGRVIDEO]
I earned some fresh pow turns Saturday at the local high school while my driver dug out his truck and then skied at whitetail Sunday. I met one guy from here eying my BRO's in the ski rack. I think he said his alias was Goose?
Whitetail thursday
Tipp doesn't ski.
couple of grey WhiteGrass pics, skiing in a cloud pretty much all day, no action shots, was solo....been waiting for years for it to happen again, front face of Baldy is filled in! Was knee deep with pockets of more...
http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs086....3_340489_n.jpg
http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._3489923_n.jpg
http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos...3_393523_n.jpg
carried the GPS for shits n giggles, have always been curious about tour numbers:
10.6mile covered, 7:30ish elapsed, 22.9max spd, 2.8 moving avg avg, 6238 feet of ascent.
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_J3HgDg2uggU/Sy...709%20skii.jpg
sweet GPS! thats a badass mountain nestled in between 2 downhill resorts aint it! east coast backcountry at its finest!
wish Whitegrass was closer to Philly. sad banana.
That is a pretty cool GPS map, I went to Deerbutt Monday. Thinking most folks back to work and school, boy was I wrong. I did get some much needed exercise and skied with some friends. Had to pull the rip cord around 2ish as all schools were out for xmas break and the federal workers were off for the day.:confused:
Hell...if there's going to be a Mid-Atlantic rollcall thread, why not just keep bumping it for the season to meet up with other mags.
Anyone interested in skiing Whitetail or Liberty tomorrow night? I'll drive, but I can't escape work until 3:30 or so.
Whitetail Thursday. Who's in?
I could be. I'll get into DC Wednesday night and just have to make sure I can extricate myself from family.Quote:
Originally Posted by St. Jerry
May do Whitetail X-mas day. It might rain a bunch too.
Alright campers. I'll be at Whitetail tomorrow(today Dec. 24), probably for a 4 hour deal late morning - mid afternoon.
Red Jacket, grey pants, grey helmet. Blue and orange Volkl Snow Wolfs with NAXO's and red G-Ride boots. Carrying 5 pennies.
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RT for me today, looks like they're opening Gunbarrel, pure PA gnar.
Damn Midlantic Mags, if you want a role call you got to keep this alive.
I hit Whitetail today for the first time in 12 years. I've never seen the whole place open. I skied the trees no less. It was more comedy with 2 parts bushwacking, but it was the principle.
Sunday morning I'm visiting Ski Liberty for my first visit in a decade. It's 100% open (has that EVER happened?) Last stop before I head back north.
Same description as before:
Red Jacket, grey pants, grey helmet. Blue and orange Volkl Snow Wolfs with NAXO's and red G-Ride boots. Carrying 5 pennies.
gmd, ms. shred and I will be at Liberty on Monday, and then 2 or 3 days a week throughout the end of the season.
fuck gunbarrel was the scariest thing when i was 5 years old, exhibition was pretty scary too lol. goood ol RockytopQuote:
Originally Posted by tomicogs
welll, they didn't open it until after lunch, when they turned off the guns, and then just the bottom, no headwall. Fun cruddy soft snow to play in though, good times until the light got flat around 2ish.
oh yeah, usually Yellow jacket, gray pants, on tele.
Ski Sno mtn. Fuck Elk. Hit Camelback, Jack Frost BB and Shawnee. Fuck Elk mtn. They suck
Hey Shreds, sorry I'll miss you guys at Liberty. I hope this rain doesn't ice things up too much for Sunday.
I've gone touring a couple of times in the last two days from My parents house up and down the powerline right of way in suburban MoCo. Wasn't really downhill - I never took my skins off or locked my heels, but crazy sensation to be able to do that here (in soft snow and never strike bottom)
I was thinking as I drove past this on my way to Whitetail the other day... What might be the sickest descent around MoCo MD (if even possible?) next time there is a serious dump:
http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/a...1&d=1261799737
Travilah Rd Quarry in North Potomac
ski area vid, kind of a test for using the chest harness on the new HD Gopro, much easier to manipulate the camera than the usual helmet mount. This was filmed Monday after the big dump
[ame="http://www.vimeo.com/8393590"]DB chest cam test on Vimeo[/ame]
[ame="http://www.vimeo.com/8553418"]Skiing at Pharris Knob on Vimeo[/ame]
WhiteGrass was pretty damn fine over the wknd...
Friday morn:
http://tomi.smugmug.com/Sports/ski/W...96_8VzJ3-M.jpg
Baldy overlook:
http://tomi.smugmug.com/Sports/ski/W...27_jCfEE-M.jpg
http://tomi.smugmug.com/Sports/ski/W...29_URSiR-M.jpg
Went exploring on Saturday:
http://tomi.smugmug.com/Sports/ski/W...59_9oAa9-M.jpg
Sunday moring pick me up:
http://tomi.smugmug.com/Sports/ski/W...94_kdeHi-M.jpg
Plastered:
http://tomi.smugmug.com/Sports/ski/W...83_DMRgG-M.jpg
http://tomi.smugmug.com/Sports/ski/W...68_vr32b-M.jpg
Nice photo TR. :biggrin:
That looks awesome. Sick day Wednesday? Hrmmmmm
Bro's in WV, from Friday:
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all those west virginia gas pipeline cuts are good for somethin I guess! long live Whitegrass and barrys whirld! :) 110" of snow and still comin...lake flake. Utah snow at Davis prices!