Northeast Rant on Weather

**cinnepa** · 01-02-2007, 08:39 AM

the cycling season continues on.......

**Showtime06** · 01-02-2007, 08:46 AM

global warming... I'm convinced is only on the east coast, heading back up to ME today hopefully this winter can turn around soon... positive thoughts here guys

**MassLiberal** · 01-02-2007, 09:05 AM

Originally Posted by Showtime06

global warming... I'm convinced is only on the east coast, heading back up to ME today hopefully this winter can turn around soon... positive thoughts here guys

I'm sure that rising global temps might have something to do with it, but not everything. My senior year at colby it seemed like it never stopped snowing. We also never had a "january thaw" that year (2001) and temps were, on average, 20 degrees cooler than it is now.

**strawjack** · 01-02-2007, 09:17 AM

it was refreshing to see my kids making the best of the 2-3 inches that we picked up at our house. they worked hard w/ their shovels and used the deck, plastic ramps, and random pieces of wood to create their own little snowskate jib park. the following day it was pouring rain and they're still out there scrambling to keep the snow where they need it...the making of east coast skiers developing right before my eyes.

next week we'll get some!!!! we have to!

**Damian Sanders** · 01-02-2007, 09:23 AM

Originally Posted by steve

I'm a dripping wet, gaping pussy!!!! YES!!!!

huh.....

Steve, this message board typically caters to "extreme" skiers and "backcountry" skiers. It seems like you are neither. Perhaps you'd be happier over on epicski or alpinezone. Just a thought.....

**crashnburn'd** · 01-02-2007, 09:27 AM

Yeah dude. I'm totally 'extreme' and 'backcountry'. Don't be bringing your lame 'resort' skiing here.

**DaveTV** · 01-02-2007, 09:28 AM

Boy everyone is getting chippy with this weather pattern - at least this guy found some in New England this weekend..
http://thesnowway.com/gallery/main.p...n/20061230jay/
http://thesnowway.com/gallery/main.p...n/20061231jay/

**Free Range Lobster** · 01-02-2007, 09:31 AM

Jay would have sealed the deal with the rental and pushed like 1200+

**steve** · 01-02-2007, 09:35 AM

Originally Posted by Damian Sanders

I'm a miserable fuck with an inferiority complex and I treat my disorder by logging onto internet message boards from my parent's basement and telling people that I'm more hardcore at skiing than them. It really helps, if only for a while.

Fixed it for you.

**helmetcam** · 01-02-2007, 09:40 AM

Originally Posted by tief schnee

I'll just eat at the Hot Truck. Good bye cruel world.

Mmmmmm MBC, PMP, so good and so bad at the same time.

Is the Hot Truck still there? who owns it now?

Good times.

-- Class of '28 (Uhall 2) 1988-1989

**Damian Sanders** · 01-02-2007, 09:41 AM

Originally Posted by crashnburn'd

Yeah dude. I'm totally 'extreme' and 'backcountry'. Don't be bringing your lame 'resort' skiing here.

Oh, I think that most people here do mostly resort skiing.....but they typically have some sort of backcountry or extreme component to their resort skiing.

From what I've read from Steve, he's a whiny resort bitch.....no extreme, no BC at all.

**Free Range Lobster** · 01-02-2007, 09:45 AM

Word has it while I got some liners cooked on Monday that Sherburne Trail was not TOO bad (not TOO good either) over the weekend. YMMV.

**steve** · 01-02-2007, 09:47 AM

yeah, i'm a resort bitch. no extreme. no bc.

but - if being "extreme/bc" in 200" of snow at 10,000' makes me behave like you, then I'll take vermont resort rain any day. This weather may make me miserable, but at least I'm not an asshole.

**Damian Sanders** · 01-02-2007, 10:15 AM

Originally Posted by steve

yeah, i'm a resort bitch. no extreme. no bc.

but - if being "extreme/bc" in 200" of snow at 10,000' makes me behave like you, then I'll take vermont resort rain any day. This weather may make me miserable, but at least I'm not an asshole.

Steve, I ski mostly in the east and it's been a pretty good year so far. You should read some of my TR's.

Oh, and you're a whiny asshole.

**steve** · 01-02-2007, 10:21 AM

Originally Posted by Damian Sanders

Steve, I ski mostly in the east and it's been a pretty good year so far.

how good is it?

tuckerman ravine from december 31:

yeah it's fucking great so far.

(you don't have to lie to make friends.)

**MassLiberal** · 01-02-2007, 10:23 AM

Well, if you could ski the waterfall like TJ Burke in aspen extreme you'd be super sickter now, wouldn't you.

**crashnburn'd** · 01-02-2007, 10:27 AM

Originally Posted by MassLiberal

Well, if you could ski the waterfall like TJ Burke in aspen extreme you'd be super sickter now, wouldn't you.

Plus, then he'd be "extreme" and "backcountry" and would fit in with all of us.

**Core Shot** · 01-02-2007, 10:28 AM

Originally Posted by DaveTV

Boy everyone is getting chippy with this weather pattern - at least this guy found some in New England this weekend..
http://thesnowway.com/gallery/main.p...n/20061230jay/
http://thesnowway.com/gallery/main.p...n/20061231jay/

I've actually skied with steve. Nice guy.

But even he fell victim to negativity in that last review.

Originally Posted by Steve (RiverCoil)

Conditions setup over night on the mountain rather poorly. Temperatures dropped and the snow froze and got some wind buff. Before ducking into the woods, I skied a few open trails and did not like the conditions. Northway and trails in that drainage were total skating rinks and the upper section of The Jet and Haynes did not look so good (I didn't ski either, but after seeing a few slides for life from the lift, you get the feel for how things are skiing). Natural trail snow coverage was completely obliterated and the words 'thin cover' did the trail conditions no justice.
Out of a dozen runs I ended up in the woods about 10 times picking out trusty powder shots where I suspected base levels would be adequate and dangerous hazards would be minimal (relatively). I found way more pow than I had expected. Each of my tree runs included at least one quarter of the run untracked or barely tracked. Many of those shots were places that I suspected had been trounced yesterday. It was slim pickings though... pick a line, get six turns, stop, reassess, likely traverse, repeat. By noon time the fresh lines were gone but sloppy seconds were still available. After a few more desperation runs for safe powder shots, my legs had enough and I called it a day.

**Damian Sanders** · 01-02-2007, 10:30 AM

Originally Posted by steve

yeah it's fucking great so far.

I'm sorry, I meant to say,"It's been a pretty good year for me so far."

But from what I hear, it hasn't been a good year for the whiny bitches.

**Free Range Lobster** · 01-02-2007, 10:32 AM

Originally Posted by steve

how good is it?

tuckerman ravine from december 31:

Wow! That looks fantastic! for ice climbing

**steve** · 01-02-2007, 10:36 AM

Putting our "extreme/bc" friend aside (I read his TRs and he skied a lot of man-made at killington), I've been looking in vain for good news about the future and have not been successful. Eliot Abrams explains models going out 384 hours - in that time there will be 4-5 storms, and every single one of them is forecasted to be rain in the northeast. He keeps emphasizing that this "could change", especially since JB pointed out a trough developing over hawaii - and at this point I will gladly take even 40º highs if it's dry - but the worst case scenario for us - rain - looks like its going to keep happening even after MLK weekend.

All I have to look forward to is what Joe Sobel wrote:
"..and by 10 days or so from now, some of the models are indicating a big arctic high pressure system (1060 mb) will be building in western Canada. It remains to be seen if pieces of, or a large part of, that air mass will head toward the U.S., but at least there is something for you eastern cold and snow lovers to be hopeful about."
http://wwwa.accuweather.com/news-blo...her&blog=sobel

**MassLiberal** · 01-02-2007, 10:40 AM

Originally Posted by crashnburn'd

Plus, then he'd be "extreme" and "backcountry" and would fit in with all of us.

well, obviously. But he would have to be chased by ski patrollers to make him REALLY extreme.

**gravitylover** · 01-02-2007, 10:41 AM

There is some hope, not much but every little bit counts right.

http://www.easternuswx.com/bb/index.php?showforum=15

Follow the goings on here ^.

Hey Damian Steve's right, you're an ass.

**Damian Sanders** · 01-02-2007, 10:43 AM

Originally Posted by steve

Putting our "extreme/bc" friend aside (I read his TRs and he skied a lot of man-made at killington), I've been looking in vain for good news about the future and have not been successful. Eliot Abrams explains models going out 384 hours - in that time there will be 4-5 storms, and every single one of them is forecasted to be rain in the northeast. He keeps emphasizing that this "could change", especially since JB pointed out a trough developing over hawaii - and at this point I will gladly take even 40º highs if it's dry - but the worst case scenario for us - rain - looks like its going to keep happening even after MLK weekend.

All I have to look forward to is what Joe Sobel wrote:
"..and by 10 days or so from now, some of the models are indicating a big arctic high pressure system (1060 mb) will be building in western Canada. It remains to be seen if pieces of, or a large part of, that air mass will head toward the U.S., but at least there is something for you eastern cold and snow lovers to be hopeful about."
http://wwwa.accuweather.com/news-blo...her&blog=sobel

Well Steve, I suggest that you just don't go skiing then. Very simple really. Perhaps you should just give up the sport entirely, move down to Florida, and take up Golf full time. I'm sure that with your natural athletic ablities, a couple years practice, and a sex-change operation, you'd be quite the contender on the L-PGA. DO IT!!!!!!