Mini TR - 10-6-07 - NOW I remember why I left NY!

**stuckathuntermtn** · 10-07-2007, 04:40 PM

My first TR!!!
And my first time hiking to ski.
With the onset of snow in the Bridgers, I went to check out bridger bowl.
There was about 2 feet of snow and a bunch of people at the trail head.
The snow was wet and heavy. I started out at 12:30 (had some other stuff to do), and was still on the green trails on the north side by 2:30. Going down was actually kinda hard because of the low angle, heavy snow, and the forward mounting of my skis.
Somehow I didn't hit one rock on the way down, but was stepping on them all the way up. I'll let the pictures do the talking. The first one is off the front of the house early in the morning. It's all melted now, but it was the first snow fall.

**Endlessseason** · 10-07-2007, 04:53 PM

Cool! I cannot believe all this early October stoke!

I think it might just be the preview to a great year.

**rideit** · 10-07-2007, 04:56 PM

Conversely, I once got an honest to god three foot powder day hiking at Hunter Mountain on Oct. 10th...(I don't remember the year).

**BB RidgeKid** · 10-07-2007, 05:13 PM

Much better than the M, eh.

Nice shot of my car:

**DaveTV** · 10-07-2007, 07:40 PM

Originally Posted by rideit

Conversely, I once got an honest to god three foot powder day hiking at Hunter Mountain on Oct. 10th...(I don't remember the year).

That would NOT be Hunter, NY..

**stuckathuntermtn** · 10-07-2007, 08:58 PM

Originally Posted by BB RidgeKid

Much better than the M, eh.

Nice shot of my car:

lol, which one are you?!
I did see a TGR sticker there later in the day.

**rideit** · 10-07-2007, 09:40 PM

Originally Posted by DaveTV

That would NOT be Hunter, NY..

It WAS Hunter...I drove down from Syracuse in an insane blizzard, and nearly froze to death in the car...got up in the AM, hiked the mountain twice, and got back to Syracuse in time for an evening event at S.U.
The storm destroyed millions of trees, and knocked out power all over upstate NY.
The snow was completely melted within days, and then the season turned into the usual man-made shittshow.

It MUST have been this storm:

LEAD: A plow clearing a stretch of the Taconic State Parkway yesterday near Austerlitz, N.Y. As milder temperatures returned, the sun melted most of the snow, but thousands of homes and businesses remained without power. Page B2. (AP)

October 6, 1987 Caption
MORE ON BLACKOUTS AND BROWNOUTS (ELECTRICAL) AND: WEATHER, SNOW AND SNOWSTORMS, ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER, NEW YORK STATEMETROPOLITAN DESK
The Snow Melts but the Pain Lingers
By ROBERT D. MCFADDEN
LEAD: A golden autumn sun melted much of the snow that Sunday's freak storm dumped across New York, Connecticut and other parts of New England yesterday, but thousands of homes remained without power, hundreds of schools and businesses were closed and road and air travel was still limited.

October 6, 1987 New York and Region News
MORE ON BLACKOUTS AND BROWNOUTS (ELECTRICAL) AND: RESCUES, WEATHER, SNOW AND SNOWSTORMS, ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER, NEW YORK STATE, HUNTER MOUNTAIN, NEW ENGLAND STATES (US)METROPOLITAN DESK
Jersey Pitches In to Help Upstate New York Restore Power
LEAD: Jerry DePew, a supervisor for Public Service Electric and Gas of New Jersey, briefing his workers yesterday in Catskill, N.Y. They were to be assigned to trouble spots in Columbia County to help workers of the Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation repair transmission lines knocked out in the snowstorm Sunday.

October 7, 1987 Caption
MORE ON BLACKOUTS AND BROWNOUTS (ELECTRICAL) AND: WEATHER, SNOW AND SNOWSTORMS, ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER, NIAGARA MOHAWK POWER CORP, PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC & GAS CO, NEW YORK STATE, COLUMBIA COUNTY (NY), NEW JERSEYMETROPOLITAN DESK
THE TALK OF COLUMBIA COUNTY; Amid Autumn's Glory, Power Woes Persist
By HAROLD FABER, SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES
LEAD: The fall foliage is deceptively beautiful here this weekend. Beneath a canopy of crimson and gold maple leaves is a carpet of fallen trees, broken limbs and downed power lines, the legacy of the sudden, devastating snow storm that struck last Sunday.

October 10, 1987 New York and Region News
MORE ON BLACKOUTS AND BROWNOUTS (ELECTRICAL) AND: WEATHER, SNOW AND SNOWSTORMS, ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER, NEW YORK STATE, COLUMBIA COUNTY (NY), ANCRAM (NY)FOREIGN DESK

**dirtybryan** · 10-08-2007, 01:43 AM

Haha, that was the year I was born. I grew up in Upstate NY and my folks still tell me about how intense some of those early season storms were in 1987. The early snow wrecked tons of trees because they still had foliage on them.

**DaveTV** · 10-08-2007, 07:02 AM

Originally Posted by rideit

It WAS Hunter...

Well I stand corrected then, but probably closer to glop than pow I would imagine
The Northeast's earliest snowstorm in 150 years dropped heavy snows across the region's higher inland elevations - up to 20 inches in New York's Catskill Mountains, 18 inches in Massachusetts, 12 inches in Vermont and 9 inches in northwestern Connecticut. Coastal areas everywhere had only cold rain.

At least six deaths were attributed to the storm, which also caused millions of dollars in property damage, closed roads, isolated some communities and downed trees and power lines throughout the region, where sunny skies and mild temperatures in the 60's yesterday belied the storm's ferocity.

Three New Jersey hikers who were trapped by six-foot snowdrifts on Hunter's Mountain, near Tannersville, N.Y., remained stranded near the mountain's heavily wooded 4,025-foot peak last night after attempts to rescue them with a state helicopter were unsuccessful due to the rough terrain.

**rideit** · 10-08-2007, 07:23 AM

From what I remember, it was pretty good (on the snowboard).
Except for these three stupid Jersey Joeys that wouldn't stop yelling 'help us, we're cold' as I jibbed off of their 'snowcave'.

Fuckin' Campmor whiners.

**grskier** · 10-08-2007, 09:30 AM

I've actually had a few good pow days at hunter, a couple at Belleyere, a couple at Windham too....

people act like it NEVER snows in NY...

**Smails** · 10-08-2007, 09:54 AM

I remember that storm, I was in second grade and we were out of school for a week! I also remember my mom somehow cooking over a kerosene heater. That wasn't so cool . . .

Anyway, Bridger looks way better than Huuunta Mountain anyday.

**DaveTV** · 10-08-2007, 10:12 AM

The chicks are way hotter in NY than Montucky tho..

**stuckathuntermtn** · 10-08-2007, 08:45 PM

dude, you should see the girls out here!

**P_McPoser** · 10-09-2007, 03:26 AM

Originally Posted by DaveTV

The chicks are way hotter in NY than Montucky tho..

I disagree whole heartedly.

**Dawn Patrol** · 10-09-2007, 06:59 AM

Originally Posted by rideit

Conversely, I once got an honest to god three foot powder day hiking at Hunter Mountain on Oct. 10th...(I don't remember the year).

Buffalo got hammered last October 11 (I think) with two feet. Half a million people lost power for up to ten days...

**XtrPickels** · 10-09-2007, 07:23 AM

Thanks for the pics. I'm surprised that it was drivable up to there. That cuts a bunch of the flat slog out of the climb

**stuckathuntermtn** · 10-09-2007, 12:25 PM

Yeah, and on the way out is was driven-over and melted a little more, and A LOT less dangerous. It was a tiny bit sketchy going up, even with all-wheel drive.