East Coast Roll Call 23/24_The Guns Are Blowing

[halliday]

Never blindly follow a set of tracks. Somebody's luck could be your misfortune.

[raisingarizona13]

That’s just what I thought. Music and voice over was some level of weirdness. Raising Arizona hit it. I try to hard to be nice sometimes

I try hard to hide my asshole-ness but I often fail miserably. I think the comments such as "no matter what you do there's always a danger" or "sounds like they did everything right" or "sometimes you just gotta send it" etc. made me angry and dislike humans a little more than my regular levels.

[ex-powderbroker]

I place all the blame on instafluencers, and the subsequent eyeballs that see the "sick footy" when it's picked up by unofficial, powder, STE, etc. Buncha fucking knuckleheads!

It’s because someone took down the “no blog zone” sign

[Vt-Freeheel]

Ha^

[buckethead]

Haha! Nah, it'a going to do whatever it's going to do. I'm hopeful though and you easterners sure do deserve a good winter.

we do and thanks for the well-wishes. wishing a good winter out your way as well.

I place all the blame on instafluencers, and the subsequent eyeballs that see the "sick footy" when it's picked up by unofficial, powder, STE, etc. Buncha fucking knuckleheads!

yup powder seemed really irresponsible applauding a very high-consequence run down a very bony chute...and encouraging influence-prone readers into thinking it's in - in november.
i can't imagine the wearer of go-pro would have skied that sans video capture and platforming for the world to see/"look at me"

[cat in january]

It’s because someone took down the “no blog zone” sign

All of this could have been avoided if that pizza box was still there.

[Aldo]

It's an interesting dynamic and makes their poor decision more understandable but......man that solo skier was super lucky! How often do solo skiers go up on MW in considerable avalanche danger to ski high consequence lines like that this early in the season? It seems a little odd to me. Was the solo skier poaching the other two skiers tour? If the solo skier hadn't run into anyone, skied a line and got caught in a slide this story would probably be very different.

Anyways, it's looking like the east is about to have it's best season in what? 20, 30 years? Maybe it's less but with how infrequent good winters are back there these days it's a real bummer to take yourself out this early. I know you guys and gals out east are hungry but take it slow and let things fill in. I've seen way too many soldiers go down because of that "over stoke" too early in the season.

Totally , this whole story line is filled with head shaking details. But, second paragraph, all good!

[romeo tango]

....Also wonder if skier 1 had his bindings locked out or they malfunctioned as indicated in the report....

any mechanical device can malfunction.

how often do bindings malfunction?
Seriously
.

[buckethead]

it would suck if he left a toe in climbing mode.

[cat in january]

Would not have been surprising if he did given how spicy it was there

[waxloaf]

He said somewhere that they were tectons, and weren’t locked out.

Whether that’s true or not is a different question


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[charlesj]

I used to go up there in the 80s and a few times since then. I made some poor choices and once broke the top of my humerus on the rocks between upper and lower Chute (forgot to crank up the Look N99s) fortunately my pack was ready to go and collar bone was ok, driving back to beantown with 4sp ‘75 2002 was a minor bitch.

Not Without Peril is a great book on a century and a half of fuck ups up there. IIRC the common thread was hubris. People sticking to their plan regardless of changing conditions, inability or unwillingness to adapt or turn the fuck around. It’s always sad when someone dies pursuing our passion. I agree that the ease with which one can document and share crazy shit contributes to people doing more crazy shit, often without the wits or chops to do it.


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[Bushwacka]

Tuesday tram serviced powder laps.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C0xoWsFgspB/

Today's Meadow skipping in Jay's State Forest

https://www.instagram.com/p/C02cOq4AJLO/

tomorrow could still be good in far northern vermont.

[MyNameIsAugustWest]

Not Without Peril is a great book on a century and a half of fuck ups up there. IIRC the common thread was hubris. People sticking to their plan regardless of changing conditions, inability or unwillingness to adapt or turn the fuck around. It’s always sad when someone dies pursuing our passion. I agree that the ease with which one can document and share crazy shit contributes to people doing more crazy shit, often without the wits or chops to do it.
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I recommend this book to everyone that spends time in the mountains. It's more than MTW although it certainly has the stats to show how brutal it can be. I almost got my ass handed to me on the Franconia Ridge. In summer.

[daviski]

on a lesser note, I had a great day today at Stratton, top to bottom and along two upper lifts, just endless fast and firm often with no one else in sight

Does anyone know if when Pico reopens tomorrow they will have their chair running to the top

[danmelon]

+1 on both previous posts.

Read it over the summer. A great reminder of the humility we should have when going in the mountains and how much it can affect others if shit does go wrong.

Headed out for hot laps last night. Indeed fast and firm and no one around. Good times!

[MyNameIsAugustWest]

on a lesser note, I had a great day today at Stratton, top to bottom and along two upper lifts, just endless fast and firm often with no one else in sight

Showed up at the crack of 1:00. Even that late in the day, the snow was surprisingly good.

Shout out to buttah for fixing my dumbassed-ness so quickly that I only missed 1 lap with my buds. Sorry we never linked up on the hill.

[jhyatt]

Never blindly follow a set of tracks. Somebody's luck could be your misfortune.

Truth. Especially in places where people base jump.

[Peruvian]

Truth. Especially in places where people base jump.

That gave me a chuckle.

[Fred Pabst]

that solo skier adds quite the wrinkle.
....

I noticed the "third person" in the videos, hanging out near the top with skis in their pack. Maybe is was Rog, telling them it was good to go??

Always amazed that it is not necessarily the first person down that causes a slope to rip.

[telefreewasatch]

Got me and Ikon, Indy, and winterized Transit.
Seems like you all are having a winter worth skiing the east...
Haven't skied the east since '76 when I moved to Salt Lake.
Love to trade some driveway parking and skiing with mags for a spot in my driveway and / or house a mile up the LCC and some local mags to ski with.

Won't comment on the Mt. Washington lemmings.

[Peruvian]

Got me and Ikon, Indy, and winterized Transit.
Seems like you all are having a winter worth skiing the east...
Haven't skied the east since '76 when I moved to Salt Lake.
Love to trade some driveway parking and skiing with mags for a spot in my driveway and / or house a mile up the LCC and some local mags to ski with.

Won't comment on the Mt. Washington lemmings.

[raisingarizona13]

Hey, if it's good it's good!

I can't speak for TFW but I'd personally kill for an all-time day at Plattekill and MRG. I miss those places but planning a trip out east for skiing from out here rarely makes any sense.

[cat in january]

Yeah our Winter is about to enter the first suck stage. If serious I can help you out with places to park at Black Mountain of Maine, Saddleback and sugarloaf. Nothing special as everyone can, but I can at least point you in the right direction at each place. Would be cool to share turnsif you come East, but all of us we wondering why?

[telefreewasatch]

How can one prove that dog is man's best friend?
Lock your wife and your dog in the trunk of the car.
Open it in three hours.
Who's happy to see you?

Does that answer the why?