Sick White Water today. Clean 20 footers, shuttle, repeat....sad to see all the damage, but today was an absolutely gorgeous day out on the river lapping a great waterfall run on the North Branch...

True. Lot's of great bouldery white water below tunnel vishion that will be vastly different I'm sure. Every run that isn't bedrock will be different. It's kind of a cool think actually. ...

Annual peak flows for the Dog going back to 1934....reading over 10,000 for the second time in 80 years today...
http://nwis.waterdata.usgs.gov/usa/nwis/peak/?site_no=04287000

For the Mad, the...

Just got back from scouting around. Couldn't find anything runnable. All our micro creeks went from too low to run at about 10 a.m. to way too high by 11 a.m. We stayed out until 2 driving around...

New Haven Ledges are some awesome water. Just a playground. I'm scared everytime I go...then in all melts away. It's why I love it. You are forced into the moment...fully enguaged, like skiing...

RAIN!!!!!!
Been cleaning a steep one...600fpm.....C'mon Irene!!!

Who gives a fuck. I stopped buying passes at Stowe because of AIG 5 years before the bailout. I live 45 minutes away. I quite sure I've donated more of my time in developing free, open to the...

All your stupid analogy aside, you do ZERO trail work, and bitch about the trail people are now building legally, and open to the public. A fucking revolution for the cycling community riding on the...

Yea, I'm not saying you all suck, I'm saying that folks that don't enjoy flowing, bench cut trail and bitch about how local builders are "ruining" or "talking all the challenge out of" MTBing by...

"maybe if we were riding the mini-x superhighway style trails it would be OK, but fun "old school" tech kept finding me overshooting corners."-VTFREE

Nah, you were over shooting corners because on...

Sweet one. I caught my best fish to date this morning, a 22 inch Brown. Up at 2:30, hokked up at 4:30. Took a solid 30 minutes to peel him out of is hole. Fun times, but you really have to want...

Thanks. I built that trail with Hardy last summer. SO MANY WHEELBARROWS of dirt and armouring. Welcome to the new school.
ps...the vid doesn't work for me...

NICEONE!
edit: Just realized that's a BROOK TROUT!?!? Huge one at that. Maine?

Water temps are back down and altough stealth is key due to low flows and crystal clear water, I did siht and tie into a nice 16 inch bow on a dry fly this morning. Rode Waterbury before work...

The turnout was great. The fest site was awesome. We kept the groups down to 20. I actually started with 17 on both days. Ended with 8 the first day and 5 on Sunday. No carnage. Perfect dirt. ...

There's a shop in South Stowe on 100.

12 hours on the bike between Saturday and Sunday. Led to long Stowe rides as part of the MTB fest. Great groups, trails are in great shape. Rode all the Maple run stuff, all the sterling stuff,...

Incredible steelhead! I hunted for those a few days on lewis early spring. I guess some fish holding up high late in the season. We had a quite morning here. Small bows and a descent brookie. ...

More wild fatties down this way....Loving exploring the river here. It's really been fishing pretty good. This guy jumped on a sulfer emerger as well from his hideout under a rooty undercut bank....

Certainly didn't mean to imply the action was limited to the local folks....I've seen some nice 'Nooski photos on StreamandBrook, as well as a nice Brookie from Furnace I think. Never see them over...

I think I live in paradise...
Winter was awesome.
Spring was awesome.
Now early summer with nice cool temps and a bit a rain here and there are keeping water temps down and local folks have been...

97800Dad was up this weekend and we got into several nice wild trout. Several bows 15-18 inches and this monster of a wild Brookie. Pop was stoked!
97799
I was stoked on this wild rainbow, and we...

Nah, that sewage. I boated a micro I do have the First descent of here in Northfield. Green river valley, slate gorges, waterfalls. Real drag before work. More rain on the way! New Haven laps on...

We all came from somewhere, unless you abnacki. Actually hit one out of the park. Huge Pow day. Good the hear about Danville, Joe's is one of may favorite runs.

Now it's pouring. Awesome weather event.

Lol. This microcosmic shitshow is a riot. Phish. Pillheaded pedalphiles. May as well give them your coin.

Fuck yea, bring on the rain you hating mother fuckers. I boated that creek the day it took the road out in Duxbury! Bring it on mother Nature, and I will rejoice in it! Rain, Sun, Snow, it's all...

We ussually will get into a pattern at some point over the summer where the ground will become saturated over a number of days from thunderstorm activity or one big rain event, then localized...

Fishing has been hit or miss. As in I got 2 hits tonight and missed them both. The second was the monster I've been stalking for a few weeks now. Thick hatch tonight and the water is down and...

Sharing the Mtn culture, prime coinditions, not Dirt-stained leftovers...but it's too late. Season's coming to an end. Time to start pedaling. Could give a shit what you think really. If I get a...

dead forum. I'm trying to get some new folks to realize what's up, not post in a ghost town full of western content. 'smatter rog.....I am clouding up your "high George" blog?

Yea, wicked bummer. If only there were a way to shred and huck your way thru all this rain........say, in your back yard, where shit is going off on a once-in-ten-year-cycle.

AND, the Middlebury Gorge. Classic Class 5 including a swim in the scarry left side at Fillopean...if your not boatin.....you ain't SHIT! ;)
http://youtu.be/q02cdv_w0U4

Not a great showing. A hole ride and an absolutely nasty looking piton. Enjoy these...Rayn and JBeck. The NewHaven at 1200 footy particularly pleasing. You could be holding onto every patch of...

You can arrange privte instruction thru Clearwater in Waitsfield. Not sure what Barry charges, but it'll be the same instructors the VPC uses.

There is still a 10-12 foot nearly vert drop there, the lip is just really hard to see. Not really a boof (wheelie drop in a kayak that prevents you from going deep into the white water and...

Hard to see the lip of a 12 foot drop into deep hydrolic. Scouting it out on our personal first D of Terril Gorge in Morrisville. A heck of alot of boating, not so many pics this year. Also ogot a...

Must......keep.....paddlingwhitewater. Amazing spring with the deep snowpack followed by the wettest April on record and this soaker we just got blessed with! Overhead pow? Yes Please.

Didn't you just get back from the grand? How was that?

Drysuit. Not nearly as cold as riding lifts in VT in January and February. In fact, I was sweaty with just a dry suit and one base layer. Overhead POW.

Fantastic whitewater season in NewEngland. Some record high water last week and 2 personal first desents, including a little brook in my home town I have been cleaning for 3 years. New boat rocks,...

Yesterdays sunset was sick. Sometimes you just have to be iin the right spot for a great photo. Hump Cone?

What a gong show.

Really? Super light carbon ski that they have been struggling with durability since the beginning. If you want them to last, save them for deep pow days at the resort and Back Country from what I...

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qcwbIu_vggI/TaDQZXdaPiI/AAAAAAAAETQ/SqagtI4NxHc/s1600/curtissavardimages4256.jpg
Sick race.

Boated yesterday, pick my newly powdercoated Bike frame up tomorrow....
LET IT RAIN!!!!!
I'm ready for spring and green grass, fishing for trouts and laying in the sun out on the bike trails.

Safety meeting at the bottom, check.

Yea, I am. Very conservative. Near death experiences will do that to you. I was very uncomfortable and basically side slipped it down to where the snow got descent.

Yea...on some mid-fats that have been tuned and a 4 buckle boot.

Popped my Mtn Washington Cherry yesterday. Up GOS, Down right gully. Pretty gripping decent on bullitproof with my lightish tele gear. What a Mtn! Shurburn was rippin GS double rainbow all the...