Boy was Kmart crowded today - looked a lot more like mid-December than pre-Thanksgiving. Fortunately the same can be said about the amount of terrain they had open.
Very nice spring skiing.
Couple of pics to show conditions:
Top of Cascade was a bit thin - I suspect it will not be open tomorrow
The Superstar headwall was open and skied very nicely
Natural terrain not quite there yet
Overall - beautiful day to start off the season
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^^^ Lots a pepper in the middle of Chute.
Just great that you skied Left in November. Never done that.
Nice feather in the cap.
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Good to be back in the TGR saddle. Nice PC! I was wondering if it was in. Too much to do this weekend, but if it somehow survives next week....
I did however work some first turns in out west last weekend....not too shabby a start to the season.
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Quite a bit of snow blown in there! I didn't think to probe it and get a depth, but I think barring some really massive rain tonight/tomorrow there's a good chance it will set up as the base in there for the season. Itching to run back up and get some more turns in this morning, but alas, gotta do all the "important" "real-world" things I have been putting off to live in skiing-in-November fantasy land this week. Gonna try to get back up there Tuesday after this weather blows through and see how things are looking.
Nice peace coast. How did it ski? What was the schwack to the gully and out like?
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Dry styrofoam. The kinda stuff that's easy to boot up and easy to ski but you are right on the surface and don't leave a track at all on the way down. Schwack was pretty heinous, lots of thrashing around and falling into bushes and randomly busting through crust up to my crotch while being heckled by a whole Boy Scout troop at the base of the ravine.
love the effort, PC. what you described is just how I imagined it would be. done many early season assaults on left, right, and others. the schwack is worth it to get on some real terrain. gonna be a skating rink once this rain passes and we go into deep freeze mode up high. any bit of snow on the back side may be a bit touchy. if winds are strong enough, some good tamping could lock any new snow in place pretty well. but that climbers upper right could be quite sporty
maybe sunday.
4+ hours of trail building this am. put in quite a long section of new one track. fucking deer ticks galore. pickin em off me by the dozen, but well worth dealing with em to create mtb fun. surf comes up tomorrow for the week. yay mid week waves. fucking bout time. sick of weekend waves.
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Quick shout out to VT_freeheel. He hooked us up with VT's finest: heady topper on our way out of town! Thanks and good sharing some Edward at Mad Taco with you! Catch you during the season.
TC, sorry we didn't catch you. We did go into Cambridge to the Main St. Bakery yesterday. I know you were north. Next time.
Thank you all for the recommendations!
^^^^^^dave called me while I was out in the woods today. HE'S BREWING!!!
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^^^^that's gonna be our next beer tour!
^^^^^AWESOME! the trails i'm building are in a big chunk of land between my house and daves brewery. BIKE N BREW!!!
rog
fml, my house is filling up with women faster than jay on a pow day. baby shower. only other guy coming is an ole bf of my gf. yay.
drinking.............
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One word for you, EVACUATE!
So, start of the season around these parts, guess its time to check in on the ol' ECRC.
/looks at page count
/notices there's already 28 pages of "banter"
/leaves
^You should have looked closer. Missed lots of Jay stoke.
The quads have been punished. Walking down stairs hurts like hell!
Wow Props East Coast for getting Left Gully.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Natures peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn. - John Muir
"How long can it last? For fuck sake this isn't heroin -
suck it up princess" - XXX on getting off mj
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well that was a trip. all over now, thank god. George is warm and pissing hot drizzle: http://www.mountwashington.org/weather/mesonet/?z=3
Peruvian. 1st day lift served is a killer. this is the 1st year I skinned for turns for 1st day. no pain at all the next day or the day after.
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^^^the good news I skied both days this weekend. Stretching like mad.
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