East Coast Roll Call 6.0 Get Your Stoke On!

[HankScorpio]

just POURED rain in stowe for 10-20 minutes, now it's just showring and spitting. but wow...holy CRAP. utter downpour like a midsummer thunderstorm. musta been that fast wind that just rolled in from the south had some moisture in it. woof! battening down the hatches in case it gets any worse

Damn I might re-think skiing Sunday. Warm rain + windy temps in the teens = ice skiing.

[vt_ski]

You are forgetting the mighty Upslope component! I'm still holding out hope -forecast is still calling for snow on the backside of this.

Damn I might re-think skiing Sunday. Warm rain + windy temps in the teens = ice skiing.

[HankScorpio]

You are forgetting the mighty Upslope component! I'm still holding out hope -forecast is still calling for snow on the backside of this.

NOAA says 1-3 inches. I'm trying to be optimistic.

[Moeghoul]

Power out at the house, trees down, insane rain a few hours ago, tropical storm winds, WTF. Car was packed and ready to roll back south. Hope smuggs snowpack held up, it was quite the shitshow for most of the morning. Older dog was so freaked out she jumped into the bathtub for cover, lulz. Here's the apocalypse rainbow!

[Moeghoul]

,,,,,,,

[buckethead]

^^ nice, got a picture of the same rainbow from fixed grip.
hopefully no more rain in northern vt??

[icelanticskier]

Probably concerned that you're not there to help her out with the weather

"pounding" and "hard" were words in the most recent text used to describe how it's been snowing all afternoon at the loaf.

miss those words

rog

[masaraksh]

Driving north and crashing at Grampa Grunts tonight. Jay Peak early morning

pumped/

[Bottleman]

"pounding" and "hard" were words in the most recent text used to describe how it's been snowing all afternoon at the loaf.

miss those words

rog

Quoted for truth. Can;t see shit but it's snowing like a mutherfucker.

[vt_ski]

Reports this morning of 6" dense at 3K, switching to mixed precip/r***, but still forecast for snow on the backside.
Fingers crossed.

NOAA says 1-3 inches. I'm trying to be optimistic.

[crank54]

Quoted for truth. Can;t see shit but it's snowing like a mutherfucker.

Wait, really? In that case, I know where I'm skiing tomorrow. I thought it was r*ining up there.

[BassBone]

It's warm rain in Boston right now...



I'd be more pissed if I had mounted sticks, and boots to ski, anyway. Any boot fitter recommendations? Willing to drive to some parts of VT or NH; haven't gotten new boots since I was 14, so it's about fucking time.

[thin cover]

Reports this morning of 6" dense at 3K, switching to mixed precip/r***, but still forecast for snow on the backside.
Fingers crossed.

It was definitely deep on the upper mountain. When we left at 12, over 3k was wet snow, graupel and sneet. Down low was sneet and rain.


This morning was however the best skiing yet, this whole week delivered in a huge way. We all agreed we dont even care that it was raining.

We got in the steeps and trees today, everything is skiing incredibly well. 3 feet easy on the upper mountain. Felt like 6-8" more fell over night.

Some shots from today. I have a some other ones I will get up soon.







Tbatt- bummed to hear about your grandmother. I think your grieving will be assuaged in spades with a season in utah.

[masaraksh]

Summit Ski&Snowboard in Framingham seemed to know their shyt when I went there.

[gpcharles]

not sure if anyone else saw this wind report from manny last night:
date time temp dir speed gust
2012-12-21 14:55:00 28 111 85 118
2012-12-21 14:50:00 27 -9999 0 9
2012-12-21 14:45:00 27 109 5 58
2012-12-21 14:40:00 27 111 0 2
2012-12-21 14:35:00 27 -9999 0 0

but that must have been straight WILD to be outside in. 11:35pm: absolute dead calm; 11:45pm 5mph breeze with a stray 58mph gust; 11:55pm BAM ... 85mph sustained & 118mph wind gust. woof.

anyway... right now another absolute downpour is cruising through stowe... teaming sideways.

[MadPatSki]

Still dumpin at the reserve , power just started going out briefly

It was the same at Edelweiss. I was told that Fortune and Cascades were closed due to power outage. Skied 13 runs on apocalypse snow...TR at 11. It was Heavy...and wet, but never turned to rain. It was really limit at around noon, but changed back to fat flakes when I left at 1pm. I had to be back in town at 2.

Their calling for Ottawa an extra 10-15cm overnight plus 2 cm tomorrow. My guess was that they was around 25-30cm at the hill.

[cat in january]

Looks like I will be driving from Portland to Sugarloaf early tomorrow for the day. May have room for 1 or 2. alternatively if anyone has room for 1 or 2 let me know. Will try to get in Crank's slipstream-man drives fast and skis fast too.

[MANHIL7]

Rain or snow at the loaf? Alarm is set for 4am but radar looks green and yellow....hoping I'm just looking at it wrong...

[Johnny Utah]

So the loaf is our only confirmed snow, eh? Who's gonna have the 3am VT update?

[ticketchecker]

I'm sitting five miles from the loaf access road, it's pouring rain on my deck.

[bern43]

Summit Ski&Snowboard in Framingham seemed to know their shyt when I went there.

I wouldn't go there for boot fitting. Ski Stop in Westwood or drive north. I've had luck with Inner Bootworks up by Stowe. For mounting, I'd go to Ken Jones in Manchester, not too far from Boston.

[nihiles]

BOSTON AREA MAGS

I got fucked so not going to make the 9pm showing of Chasing Ice tonight in Cambridge. Four tickets at will call someone please use them!!!

PM me doggies.

[Johnny Utah]

^^^ thats like the opposite of good

[ticketchecker]

sugarloaf is pretty anal about skinning and other stuff most of us like to do. the rivah is MUCH more chill in that regard. no hard asses at the riv like at the loaf. much different mt ops vibe.

rog

Sounds like you spend more time in the water than skiing the loaf, which is cool.

IME loaf patrol doesn't care about skinning. Now if you're skinning to avoid buying a ticket somebody might take issue with that.

[icelanticskier]

Sounds like you spend more time in the water than skiing the loaf, which is cool.

IME loaf patrol doesn't care about skinning. Now if you're skinning to avoid buying a ticket somebody might take issue with that.

based on my experience skinning both before lifts open for the day and accessing terrain that is "open" but not open, the riv is much more chill about it.if you've done both quite a bit at both hills, correct me if i'm wrong. a snowcat sees you skinning at the riv before dawn? they wave hello, maybe even a thumbs up. the loaf? i always get shit for it, every time. unless i can avoid them. not avoiding buying tickets.

rog