TR: EC 2/11/07

[Dawn Patrol]

I've been super busy since I moved back to school, but I finally got some skiing in. Nice to get back out there.

East Coast skiing has inspired such terms as New England blue ice, boilerplate, and the ice coast. To show some of the west coasters where these came from, I put this little TR together.

A little in bounds messing around to warm up






Ok, enough of that, time for some fun.

Best friend/brother/ski partner/nonmag Patrick








Boilerplate?












New England Blue Ice?














I'd say not too bad for a place called the Ice Coast...

[WhatTheHuck?]

The East Coast is going off!

[iskibc]

Good to see you guys finally getting some over there. Conditions look pretty damn good.

[DaveTV]

LOCK AND LOAD - already told the boss I am MIA Friday...

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY,MAINE
1159 AM EST MON FEB 12 2007

...GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS WILL USHER IN VERY COLD AIR CREATING
DANGEROUSLY COLD WIND CHILLS TONIGHT AND TUESDAY MORNING. THIS
WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A STORM SYSTEM MOVING UP THE COAST WEDNESDAY
AND THURSDAY WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY SNOWFALL...

.AN ARCTIC COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION TODAY. BEHIND
THIS FRONT GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS WILL BRING IN MORE COLD AIR
LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. TEMPERATURES WILL DROP BELOW ZERO OVER
MOST OF THE REGION TONIGHT... EXCEPT NEAR THE COAST WHERE LOWS
WILL LIKELY STAY NEAR OR JUST ABOVE ZERO.

THE COMBINATION OF WIND AND COLD TEMPERATURES WILL LEAD TO
DANGEROUSLY COLD WIND CHILLS OF 20 BELOW TO 25 BELOW ZERO OVER
SOUTHERN... CENTRAL AND COASTAL AREAS OF MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE
AND 30 BELOW TO 35 BELOW ZERO OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS OF
WESTERN MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE.

IN ADDITION...A MAJOR STORM SYSTEM WILL APPROACH THE REGION
TUESDAY NIGHT...THEN TRACK NORTHEAST ALONG THE COAST WEDNESDAY
AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT. WHILE THE EXACT TRACK REMAINS A BIT IN
QUESTION...IT DOES APPEAR THAT A SIGNIFICANT WINTER WEATHER
SYSTEM WILL IMPACT THE AREA FROM LATE TUESDAY NIGHT INTO
WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR MORE THAN 6 INCHES OF
SNOWFALL ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA. YOU SHOULD MONITOR LATER
STATEMENTS AND FORECASTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
CONCERNING THE EVOLUTION AND TRACK OF THIS STORM SYSTEM.

[TyWebb]

Nice TR...good pics

[dfinn]

those pics pretty much some up what I've been skiing the past week or two. There's good conditions out there, you just have to be willing to duck some ropes.

[Dawn Patrol]

those pics pretty much some up what I've been skiing the past week or two. There's good conditions out there, you just have to be willing to duck some ropes.

No ropes were ducked. Past the first three pics, we weren't on ski area property for the rest of the day.

[Tin Woodsman]

No ropes were ducked. Past the first three pics, we weren't on ski area property for the rest of the day.

Well technically, unless you ski on the bottom 3/4 at North, you're never on ski area property, but that's just semantics. Slide Brook was skiing nice, eh? A little cream cheesy at times, and a couple things to watch out for on the lower 1/3, but really nice and empty.

[Dawn Patrol]

Well technically, unless you ski on the bottom 3/4 at North, you're never on ski area property, but that's just semantics. Slide Brook was skiing nice, eh? A little cream cheesy at times, and a couple things to watch out for on the lower 1/3, but really nice and empty.

I'd say there was very little to be worried about. That last pic was probably taken pretty close to the brook itself. Just have to know where to go

I guess I don't get the whole rope ducking thing, there is plenty of good snow around right now, you can easily go find some on your own without ducking ropes.

[Tin Woodsman]

I'd say there was very little to be worried about. That last pic was probably taken pretty close to the brook itself. Just have to know where to go

I guess I don't get the whole rope ducking thing, there is plenty of good snow around right now, you can easily go find some on your own without ducking ropes.

I'm talking more about deadfall than anything else. There's lot of it around everywhere this year for some reason, and it's a little more visible on the lowest 1/3 in SB Basin but mostly buried up higher.

As for rope ducking, not sure why it's needed at SB right now - there haven't been any ropes to duck for three weeks running.

[geo039]

Nice EC stoke!!!!

[Dawn Patrol]

I'm talking more about deadfall than anything else. There's lot of it around everywhere this year for some reason, and it's a little more visible on the lowest 1/3 in SB Basin but mostly buried up higher.

As for rope ducking, not sure why it's needed at SB right now - there haven't been any ropes to duck for three weeks running.

Yea, infact, some of my favorite little places on the mountain are wrecked right now... Probably from the wind/ice storms in late fall. But the brook seems to be pretty clean, it may have been sheltered a little more.

[Jay's Dip Powcher]

sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!