If the Upstate ski traffic is the equivalent of an orderly grid, then the midwest places I used to ski are the on-snow version of a demolition derby.
They should issue strobe lights with all helmets there.
I still call it The Jake.
I've been hit by some of the previously referenced out of control yahoos shooting onto the trail from the ditches just off the side, all backseat and arms flailing, and it never occurred to me to ask them to slow down as we tumbled down the hill in a tangled mess of skis and swearing.
I think a stop sign could have been helpful in that situation now that I think about it.
I still call it The Jake.
A lot of my favorite small places did it like this too, which would eventually make for some good bump lines on one half and groomers on the other. Just surprised no one had seemed to take advantage of the fluff in that pic and opted for what looks like fast GS turns on the cords. To each their own.
I still call it The Jake.
IME when a trail goes half groomed like that the ungroomed side is almost always mostly untouched. I'm ok with not understanding. Kind of used to it actually![]()
I'd probably turn farm for a few runs on the fluffy side and then go carve some trenches on the groomed. Unless there's a stop sign I can't see.
And Wisconsin thinks it has a smelly derriere...
Ha. One time I was standing in line at a coffee place in Saratoga on, like, April 10th, which was after a month of God teasing us with 50-60 degree days, some two or three in a row, and then, on that morning, we all woke up to 10 degrees. The general mood was foul. Like, fuck this shit already.
What do you think we are, idiots? That's is a January photograph and there's no snow on the road. I don't know where that is, but it's sure as hell not upstate.
It's probably photoshopped. Or it's someplace dryer and warmer. Like Maine. Or Nova Scotia.
Edit: I can see a tiny little bit of blue sky. Dead giveaway. Probably Nova Scotia.
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