East Coast Roll Call 6.0 Get Your Stoke On!

[icelanticskier]

Just moved back to the mother east coast after a few years traveling out west. I'm living in the North Conway area. Hoping to hook up with some folks that know the area for some days up high once the snow starts to fall. Have touring experience and gear but won't bore ya with the details unless we're actually gonna ski together.

Have a pretty solid (not gross) couch and a sweet sleeping loft at my place 15 min from the pinkham notch visitor center that I'm very willing to share with anyone that shows me the witnertime lay of the land up on the rock pile.

i'll be up quite often (not weather depending) unless it's raining. lines in tux and a coupla other drainages come in after the 1st decent snows with blows in December, sometimes November. I often skin the cat early am on storm days before venturing across the street for poking/powing around.

rog

[cat in january]

Recent email from Chris Joosen:

If you haven't signed up yet please do soon today. It will help our logistics volunteers greatly in relation to coffee, food, adult hops and barley, etc.


The Gaspe Avalanche Center will be with us again
Chief Ranger Ben Woodard and Bob Baribeau from Mahoosuc Rescue will talk about Baxter State Park's Avalanche issues on Mt. Katahdin,
A talk by one of the worlds premier snow physicists Sam Colebeck on wet snow,
Meteorologist Rebecca Scholand will discuss field weather observations in dynamic conditions in relation to avalanches
Tim Brown from AIARE will help us better understand avalanche problems and the value of quality communication.
Roger Damon will give us an update on eastern man made snow avalanches at ski areas
A round table discussion by renown international climbers in how they avoid avalanches in the big mountain
We are also trying to lock in another well know avalanche brain from Colorado via Sweden- consider it a welcome surprise if it all comes together.
And much more.


Register Here

[icelanticskier]

sounds like way too much to pack into one evening.

rog

[cat in january]

Workshop is for the day. Beer is for the evening.

[icelanticskier]

Workshop is for the day. Beer is for the evening.

ah. guess I coulda looked into it a bit further

pretty day!

rog

[icelanticskier]

wintery

http://www.mountwashington.org/weath.../deck/deck.jpg

rog

[cat in january]

Wooo Hoooooo looked back in on the thread thinking it was time for the 13/14 ECRC!!!!!!

[BigDaddy]

Laser moved to Florida...


I think we're stuck with Cock's roll call for this year.

[I've seen black diamonds!]

Wooo Hoooooo looked back in on the thread thinking it was time for the 13/14 ECRC!!!!!!

YES!
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[east or bust]

From Killington!

[Fenris]

Sweet, I'm free that day and have a job, so I've got money to go this year!

Chief Ranger Ben Woodard and Bob Baribeau from Mahoosuc Rescue will talk about Baxter State Park's Avalanche issues on Mt. Katahdin,
Here

And Bob is gonna be there chatting about Katahdin! I guess I'll have to rejoin Mahoosuc Rescue now so I can get on the trip this year.

[icelanticskier]

3.5 hours of mtb exploration and barely left town today. starting to realize that my area is quite the mtb mecca. so much stuff! gorgeous day. hope everyone's out enjoying it.

off to the beach!

rog

[icelanticskier]

From Killington!

nice! the rivah had the guns goin recently as well. won't be long!

rog

[tBatt]

Had a solid weekend of big water and big hangovers.




many, many more photos and a couple words over on Harvey Road.
http://forum.nyskiblog.com/Moosefest...td4031443.html

[icelanticskier]

sweet big water^^^^^^

moar winter stoke. .3 inches o new on da rock

http://www.mountwashington.org/weath.../deck/deck.jpg

rog

[neufox47]

Recent email from Chris Joosen:

If you haven't signed up yet please do soon today. It will help our logistics volunteers greatly in relation to coffee, food, adult hops and barley, etc.


The Gaspe Avalanche Center will be with us again
Chief Ranger Ben Woodard and Bob Baribeau from Mahoosuc Rescue will talk about Baxter State Park's Avalanche issues on Mt. Katahdin,
A talk by one of the worlds premier snow physicists Sam Colebeck on wet snow,
Meteorologist Rebecca Scholand will discuss field weather observations in dynamic conditions in relation to avalanches
Tim Brown from AIARE will help us better understand avalanche problems and the value of quality communication.
Roger Damon will give us an update on eastern man made snow avalanches at ski areas
A round table discussion by renown international climbers in how they avoid avalanches in the big mountain
We are also trying to lock in another well know avalanche brain from Colorado via Sweden- consider it a welcome surprise if it all comes together.
And much more.


Register Here

Signed up. Will be staying in N Conway, hopefully hitting the WROD the other day.

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[strawjack]

Had a solid weekend of big water and big hangovers.




many, many more photos and a couple words over on Harvey Road.
http://forum.nyskiblog.com/Moosefest...td4031443.html

Yahoo! da Moose! Never made it over there to run that beast and now I'm way too scared! Cool pics!

[icelanticskier]

Signed up. Will be staying in N Conway, hopefully hitting the WROD the other day.

may see you at da rivah on that sunday. if they open.

rog

[Jonathan S.]

ESAW Update!

Now that the world’s only superpower once again has a functioning gov’t, the USFS snow rangers have returned from furlough so we are closer to wrapping up our presentation line-up:

• - Doug Richmond (of Bridger Bowl & the American Avalanche Institute) will present on “Human Behavior at the Ski Area Boundary” and discuss Bridger’s snow safety program.
• - Continuing an annual theme of "Eastern avies somewhere other than the Prezzies" we will once again have Gaspe/Chic-Chocs, and new for this year will be Baxter/Katahdin.
• - If you were there in 2011, then you definitely remember the woman who presented on upslope snow: a very intense and captivating speaker! So, she's back, this time on field wx obs in dynamic conditions.
• - Tim Brown, a fully certified IFMGA guide, is flying in from CO to teach an avalanche instructor refresher course the following day. I'm not even going to bother listing his topic, since he was such a good presenter at our last refresher course two years ago that he can make any topic valuable and interesting!
• - Roger Damon (who has been teaching avy courses since the 1960s) will present on avalanches in-bounds at ski resorts...in the East! (One of the incidents is kind of like the Monty Python castle swamp skit.)
• - Panel discussion by int'l climbers on avoiding big avalanches on big mountains...ya know, like the equivalent of the Northeast Snowfield taking out Joe Dodge Lodge!
• - A world's leading authority on snow physics, Sam Colebeck, will for the third year in a row present on something I can't understand at all. The topic is different this year, but since I won't be able to understand it, the topic is kind of irrelevant. Still fun being overwhelmed like this, plus the microscope pictures are really cool too!
• - The nation’s foremost authority on avy rescue just happens to be passing through the East at this time during his typical intercontinental travels, so we’re hoping to wrangle him into a presentation also.
• - AvaTech. So what is AvaTech? Googling reveals just kind of a shell website. But here is a teaser pic from their guest presentation at an avy course I was teaching this weekend -- it's essentially the future of snowpit hardness profiles ... today:

Plus raffle prizes from our sponsors:
http://www.esaw.org/sponsors/

And many exhibitor displays, both during ESAW and the post-presentation socializing around the corner at IME:

American Alpine Club; ARVA; AvaTech; Combined Avy Education: AAA, AIARE, NSP; BCA; Barryvox/Mammut; Black Diamond/Pieps; G3; Combined Hagan / SkiMo.co / NE Rando Race Series; La Sportiva; Ortovox; Petzl & Adventure Medical Kits; RECCO

And as in prior years, registering on-line:
http://www.esaw.org/registration/
... will help us greatly with planning the seating, refreshments, beer, etc.!

[BigDaddy]

So there's snow blowing, Ullrfest happened and season passes are being bought....


Time for a new ECRC!


Laser is AWOL in Florida and seems to have lost touch with winter. As the man with the morning BoB reports,I nominate VT-F to start the new thread...

Anyone second?

[Cocximus]

Weird dream. I went to my local hill in august, and it was full of snow. Stoked, I grabbed my adrenalins with bd ascents to try them. The hill was frozen solid. I couldn't climb an inch.

[lynchdogger]

^^^ second that! Lets get it going. This weather keeps up will be climbing ice in a couple weeks. Gotta be time. And VTF is the perfect man for the job.

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[GetAmped]

Voodoo is looking pretty sweet at Magic:

[mtnbiker/boarder]

^^^^^ I would second that the new ECRC should be started by VTF.....its a shame Laser is mia but like Ullr fest the torch must be passed.......

If you haven't seen the VID BD posted about helmets , its worth watching...touching to say the least,,,,,,great educational tool....

ROG you should watch it twice maybe three time

TBATT....well done, looks awesome for sure ......scary as hell as well

[jgb@etree]

Voodoo is looking pretty sweet at Magic:

Voodoo, my ass. The proper name is Hermoine's Crotch

'tis looking good though!