TR: Vail to NH

[zartagen]

It would seem everyone goes west to go ski the big mountains. After years of hearing about Mt. Washington from friends from the east coast, I had to make the trip east to ski Tuckerman Ravine.

It started with a flight to Boston. Within an hour of landing I was sitting at Fenway, watching a Red Sox game. Not a bad start if you ask me.


We headed up to NH the next day for some climbing at Rumney.


We then loaded up our packs for 4 days at Hermit Lake and headed up first thing the next morning. We dropped off the heavy stuff and headed Hillman's up for a quick lap on The Duchess (see video).

The next day we skied The Lip, Chute Variation, and Dodge's Drop.

Hiking up Chute Variation


Lunch on top


Dodge's


Tucks is a beautiful, unique place.


Saturday came with gorgeous blue skies and 2000 of our closest friends


We ticked off a few more lines and headed down for dinner with a view




We did one more (rowdy) Duchess lap on Sunday morning before heading back to the car.

After living in my ski boots for 4 days, it was time to put the climbing shoes back on and climb at Cathedral Ledge


The beast flake variation of Recompense




And last, but not least, a quick video from my first time skiing on the east coast

[buttahflake]

is that guy a wizard?

[ex-powderbroker]

Nice tr, glad to see you got some good weather and good times.

What routes did you like at Rumney? Haven't been there since I was a complete jong shitshow (i've since graduated to newb shitshow)

[zartagen]

Centerpiece and Masterpiece at Bonsai, and Millennium Falcon at the Main Cliff were all classics. Wish I could have had more than one afternoon there. The rock at Rumney is really cool, and the routes and nice and steep and pumpy.

[east or bust]

sweet tr

that shot in the video around 34sec is awesome, you were cruisin

[Grape_Ape]

I am glad you to taste some White Mountain goods. Thanks!

[danmelon]

Nice TR!!

[WaistDeepGroomers]

Well done! You could probably sell your story to NH Tourism for a couple grand. I can see the marketing campaign now: "Vail local flies to New Hampshire to ski the better season."