EAST COAST ROLL CALL #8 14/15 A NEW HOPE

[PhishDaly]

http://www.killington.com/site/2for1/2for1-social-1516

For those early season turns

[Jonathan S.]

A little over two weeks later ... still horribly and hopelessly (?) hot, but some nice updates over what I previously wrote for the upcoming 2015-16 season:

ESAW has been majorly upgraded for this season!
Preliminary overview here:
http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/s...*-Nov-6-8-2015
... so subscribe to that thread for further updates on the details.

Also upgraded is our rando race at Magic, now part of the U.S. Ski Mountaineering Association National Series, with some Westerners and also I hope those fast Quebec racers joining us for both March 12 & 13:
http://nerandorace.blogspot.com/2013...out-magic.html
Saturday will be a traditional-style race, and Sunday will be the NE debut of three additional race formats (uphill-only "Vertical" race followed by a crit-style 60-min race and concluding with an elimination-style sprint race).

My previous post follows below:

Is skiing content allowed during the depths on the non-ski season?

If so, then even though I am sincerely reluctant to start thinking about the 2015-16 ski season already, especially after having finished my 2014-15 season only couple weeks ago, I've had to start planning some dates, so here goes for anyone who might be interested in any of the following:

"Module 1" portion of my "Level 1" Avalanche Safety Course:
- October 24 (Saturday) at Northfield Mtn MA.
- Can serve either as refresher (since the extensive pre-course homework means no ppt bs on stuff you already know) or as the classroom prep for field sessions of a L1 course.
- Much more info here: http://avycourse.blogspot.com/

Eastern Snow & Avalanche Workshop ("ESAW"):
- November 7 (Saturday) in North Conway NH.
- More specifically, in Intervale, on the northern outskirts of North Conway, at the Theater in the Woods (which sounds really random, but is a great venue).
- Also social events on Friday evening.
- Last year's details here: http://www.esaw.org/
- But in summary, anyone interested in avy safety should attend (although you'll get far more out of it if you've already had some formal avy education, which is also why I've now shifted my fall classroom course to *before* ESAW).

NE Rando Race Series:
- Okay, now this is absurdly too early to try to lock in these dates, but the nat'l governing body wanted something. (By late June!)
- So here's what I have for our races: http://nerandorace.blogspot.com/2013...schedules.html
- And here's the schedule we hammered out for all of the Northeastern U.S. (including laying claim to Owl's Head just across the border): http://nerandorace.blogspot.com/2013...ern-races.html

*****

Okay, enough of the 2015-16 winter: back to the 2015 summer!

[Vt-Freeheel]

It seems winter is slowly nearing with JS pushing the fall AVI workshops, wouldn't know it with the weather this past week. The pictures of Maine have me longing to visit the southern end of Mt. Dessert this fall for some pedaling and lobsters coupled with fresh mussels and steamers.
As has been the usual, riding a lot, got in a game of Run Rabbit, Run at Bloobs last week [first time there since April 2014] and it is still boring unless ridden at 11.
I took advantage of my free summer pass and took 3 runs at the Mountain Saturday before heading to Stowe for the brewers fest. The new whip is tons of fun on the newer machine made trails which have the best combo of perfect radius and steepness to flow well. Get some odd looks and comments from the DH crowd, but hold my own. Think I'll add a big bike to the stable over the inter.



Here are a few pics of the Valley House return area, dba fractured rock.





Riding around in the backyard in the evening this week after it cools a bit, hydrate or die, and saw some bear tracks [a bit late so I rode over them], hoping the bear keeps out of my blackberries in the yard.



No one else has been out since Saturday so they missed this tasty oyster score. great weather for fungi this week, riding with a bigger pack to pick more at a time.



The ribs ^^ were yummy as was this chicken I smoked while working in the shop, it went well with the garlic aioli and fresh mushrooms.



While I was spinning the wheel Saturday Epod [lift op super. at the bush] showed me a video he took of the parasailer who decked a tree last weekend. Had him forward it to Surface so we could all watch what not to do.

OUCH!

[Jonathan S.]

It seems winter is slowly nearing with JS pushing the fall AVI workshops, wouldn't know it with the weather this past week.

Yes, quite the disconnect to be spending hours in front of the computer planning skimo/rando races, avy courses, and ESAW as the home office AC cycles on while glances at the radar map show t-storms drifting by.
Which reminds me, for any lurkers out there who might be ski patrollers interested in avy, mountaineering, and/or bc skiing, I am also organizing this annual event:
http://amn15.nmnsp.org/
The main focus is on NSP instructors for these topics, but our definition of a candidate instructor is pretty much any patroller who's interested in this kind of stuff -- some of the presentation are more administrative, although we also have lots of hands-on skills refresher stations for avy beacon searching, ropework rescue, etc.
Attendance is free (ditto for nearby camping), plus we even feed you Saturday breakfast
Email me via the email address at the website to register.

[Jonathan S.]

Eating my shredded wheat on a rainy summer morning while reading in Powder about how Greg Petrics "embodies the salty crew of locals that look beyond" Stowe's various luxuries including "gondola and eight high-speed quads" (which I admit prompted me to check out the website in case I had missed some massive upgrade last year).

[Vt-Freeheel]

Well I think GP uses the gondola, then his crew of 4 uses their 8 quads to go beyond.

Powder magazine, favorite songbirds replaced by the 24/7 dissonance of the crickets, local sweet corn feasting and ferns dying off on the side of the trails. All signs that winter is nigh. Someone will likely ski natural snow on the East Coast in the next 8 or so weeks, Will it be you? Get after it!

[ex-powderbroker]

Petrics was the best part of the whole issue so far, I know that guy on TGR!

[retirwntm]

It seems winter is slowly nearing with JS pushing the fall AVI workshops, wouldn't know it with the weather this past week. The pictures of Maine have me longing to visit the southern end of Mt. Dessert this fall for some pedaling and lobsters coupled with fresh mussels and steamers.
As has been the usual, riding a lot, got in a game of Run Rabbit, Run at Bloobs last week [first time there since April 2014] and it is still boring unless ridden at 11.
I took advantage of my free summer pass and took 3 runs at the Mountain Saturday before heading to Stowe for the brewers fest. The new whip is tons of fun on the newer machine made trails which have the best combo of perfect radius and steepness to flow well. Get some odd looks and comments from the DH crowd, but hold my own. Think I'll add a big bike to the stable over the inter.



Here are a few pics of the Valley House return area, dba fractured rock.





Riding around in the backyard in the evening this week after it cools a bit, hydrate or die, and saw some bear tracks [a bit late so I rode over them], hoping the bear keeps out of my blackberries in the yard.



No one else has been out since Saturday so they missed this tasty oyster score. great weather for fungi this week, riding with a bigger pack to pick more at a time.



The ribs ^^ were yummy as was this chicken I smoked while working in the shop, it went well with the garlic aioli and fresh mushrooms.



While I was spinning the wheel Saturday Epod [lift op super. at the bush] showed me a video he took of the parasailer who decked a tree last weekend. Had him forward it to Surface so we could all watch what not to do.

OUCH!

Winter isn't officially here until Rog creates a new alias and nukes this thread. 😜

[buttahflake]

3rd place in the Cat 2 Fiddy-plus!
My legs blew sky high in the last two miles, got passed, pain train.


Loaf of incredible bread from Orchard Hill in Alstead NH, cool-ass wood trophy and a medal.
Today was a good day

[ex-powderbroker]

Congrats, buttah. That's fucking rad!

[buttahflake]

Thanks M!

[Vt-Freeheel]

Butta, That is fucking awesome! I know you have been working hard for this and it paid off. Those cutoff trophies are cool.


The Driven One and I discussed the race a bit yesterday while we were in your backyard.



We hammered up, down and around the mid south side. So much fun riding through open forest as opposed to the tree tunnel around here. Had to tell myself to stop gazing at rock walls and pay attention several times. Rode a trail [HOF] that hasn't changed hardly at all in almost 20 years.
Ready to enter the Labyrinth,

[buttahflake]

thanks VTF
i think i was the only one there, with 26" wheels!
the downhills on this course were made for small wheels
i did suffer going up, however, and the last 1.5 miles is going up, lactic acid fire, ouch.

wow, you can actually see the sun, nice old trail, VT.

[strawjack]

Nice Buttah! Then again, like I tell Rog, racing is ghey.

In other news, Tenney is giving it a go again with a new owner.

A lot of work has been done on the trails so far. Tenney will be looking for interested volunteers this fall to help out with the brush, painting and other work needed to get the trails open.

http://www.wmur.com/escape-outside/e...ntain/34782630

[buttahflake]

Nice Buttah! Then again, like I tell Rog, racing is ghey.

In other news, Tenney is giving it a go again with a new owner.

http://www.wmur.com/escape-outside/e...ntain/34782630

love that hill, PSC baby!
they should get a ski area management program going up there

[Peruvian]

Awesome sunset tonight. Even on a crappy cell.

[gpcharles]

Well I think GP uses the gondola, then his crew of 4 uses their 8 quads to go beyond.

Powder magazine, favorite songbirds replaced by the 24/7 dissonance of the crickets, local sweet corn feasting and ferns dying off on the side of the trails. All signs that winter is nigh. Someone will likely ski natural snow on the East Coast in the next 8 or so weeks, Will it be you? Get after it!

The other 5 are top secret.

[From_the_NEK]

Summers winding down:
Last night a thunderstorm to the west of me took on interesting back-lighting from the setting sun.







Storms Coming by Tim_NEK, on Flickr

[biggins]

Yeah Buttah! Nice work. Wife and I are signing up for the VT50 next year- she's doing the 50miler, I'm gonna gun for the 50k. Time to embrace the climb.

[Rontele]

The VT50 is a great race. Bummed I can't ride it this year. I'm coming back East likely for a longer period of time. Accepted a job in Boston and expecting baby Rontele sometime in Feb.

[lynchdogger]

Congrats buttah! Well done.

[JMO]

Got the fam away for a week outside of Sugarloaf on Flagstaff Lake. That was awesome! I can't believe that people don't go there in the summer. The place is a ghost town and the trails are empty. Not to mention The Rack is a great spot for beers in warmer weather. So good.

[robrox]

3rd place in the Cat 2 Fiddy-plus!
My legs blew sky high in the last two miles, got passed, pain train.


Loaf of incredible bread from Orchard Hill in Alstead NH, cool-ass wood trophy and a medal.
Today was a good day

Nice work!

[mtnbiker/boarder]

Congrats Buttah great work, Glad to see a 26er on the podium. I am the 26er left in our group and still not folding. Again congrats.

[MMP]

. Accepted a job in Boston and expecting baby Rontele sometime in Feb.

That escalated quickly. Congrats