Thread: East Coast Roll Call V---> SO MUCH better then all the other roll calls

supe still skiing well at kmart but headwall is rocky and thin and a couple of sections had to be manually reconnected tuesday.
lower headwall still covered nearly edge to edge.
going fast though and shitty weather on the way.
the fat lady is practicing her scales!


PTT:

Originally Posted by MadPatSki

At MTL_Ripper: Regarding the Caribou in the Gaspe Park. It is the late remaining caribou south of whatever latitude. It is a very distinct population and very far from others. Spring is when the new ones are born and they are very sensitive to stress and human intervention from what I know. I'm not a biologist, but I'm sure there is a good reason for restricting the area in that time of the year.

I agree that the Plan Nord, Jumbo and Gateway Pipeline /tar sand are crappy for the environment, it doesn't all these 'wrongs' can stop you from making something 'right'. I prefer letting the scientist decide and let politicians out of it.

When I ate at the Gite many years ago, I was surprised to see on the menu . . . caribou! And not just from anywhere, but from Canada too. IIRC, even Quebec!

So I asked the waiter why so many restrictions were in place for hiking/skiing/etc to protect the caribou, but here we were being encouraged to eat them? His answer was essentially that in the quote above.

Originally Posted by MadPatSki

At MTL_Ripper: Regarding the Caribou in the Gaspe Park. It is the late remaining caribou south of whatever latitude. It is a very distinct population and very far from others. Spring is went the new ones are born and they are very sensitive to stress and human intervention from what I know. I'm not a biologist, but I'm sure there is a good reason for restricting the area in that time of the year.

I agree that the Plan Nord, Jumbo and Gateway Pipeline /tar sand are crappy for the environment, it doesn't all these 'wrongs' can stop you from making something 'right'. I prefer letting the scientist decide and let politicians out of it.

I've just finished my late season weekly update: 3 ski areas left for this weekend: MSS, J and K.

“May” not ski and ride lifts for long in the East – East Closing Thread 2012 – Part 6
http://madpatski.wordpress.com/2012/...d-2012-part-6/

Oh yeah, some serious snow on the way... on the North shore east of Quebec City. Road Trip?

I have most of next week off. I'm in, got a TDI wagon with a box so we can travel on the cheap too.

no news yet from jay regarding operating staus after sunday but an encouraging pic went up today:

hiking season in the cats is rapidly ending

Originally Posted by buckethead

That looks pretty sweet. Anyone going to be up tomorrow? Looks like the rain could hold off until after lunch.

Originally Posted by scottski63

hiking season in the cats is rapidly ending

^^ wow that's a narrow ribbon scott! great bumping into you last weekend. you can rest assured that everything we skiied on not called superstar or skylark has gone the way of the cats' hiking snow.
i'll get that fresh tracks pic of you up tonite.
it will be all the moire poignant knowing the same shot would be on dirt today!


^^ won't be there saturday powbmps but if you get out rip some nice zipper lines and report back on how the place is holding up.
(still no announcement re : operating status past sunday...me no likey )

MadPat and Jonathan, you are of course right on the money. I love the caribou too. But it is getting harder to see how actual science is affecting policy rather than just politics affecting it.

On bad days I should avoid talking at all, let alone Internet posting, but what's said and done is done, so...

... who's going North this weekend? The Saguenay looks pretty good for new snow at the moment...

Originally Posted by mtl_ripper

MadPat and Jonathan, you are of course right on the money. I love the caribou too.

Yes, I sure loved that tasty caribou at the Gite!
(Seriously!!!)

^^^^^ northern quebec has a population of over 1 million caribou, which are hunted. South of the st lawrence the population is a dwindling 183 with coyotes and bears eating the 3-4 new off spring a year. So it is rapidly declining. I am sure it was good, but I highly doubt it was a southern quebec Caribou. You have to pay a lot extra for that.

more chic choc stoke, looks sick!

as promised, a pic of scottski from last saturday



hard to believe it was winter just a few days ago!

Details here:
https://picasaweb.google.com/1183643...eat=directlink

But a few pictures in brief . . .

Route (counterclockwise) was actually reasonably efficient in terms of skiing:non-skiing vertical descent at over 40% (although in terms of vertical:horizontal, not so efficient!):




Some turns above the hut after dinner on Wednesday (so that it counts as a ski "day" right?):




Thursday morning, The Beach (from just below the summit of Jefferson) skied perfectly, then hooked up as always into Stealth Gully to descent into Jefferson Ravine (with views of Great Gulf in the background):




The top part of the 7 had amazingly excellent snow *and* coverage, then the gully crossover was fine, although soon after that the snow disappeared (but fortunately I found the hiking trail almost immediately, since otherwise the lower elevations in King Ravine were horrendously schwacky):

Scottski, nice job finally making it up to K. Wish I could been there with you guys.

Rudeness, if you see this, the temp is going to start to fall tomorrow leaving you with a few days of snow. Hope you find some lines that are still going.

All this time I thought the park rangers were forbidding the feisty drink

Jonathon at it again. Awesome ^^^! Hope we get another monster white wash over the weekend and into Monday. Daks and PA appear to be in the honey hole for this one.

Enjoy the weekend bitches!

Originally Posted by thin cover

northern quebec has a population of over 1 million caribou, which are hunted. South of the st lawrence the population is a dwindling 183 with coyotes and bears eating the 3-4 new off spring a year. So it is rapidly declining. I am sure it was good, but I highly doubt it was a southern quebec Caribou. You have to pay a lot extra for that.

I was going to mention it, thanks for the reply TC. The population have been distinct since maybe the last ice year a few thousand years ago.

The Atlantic-Gaspésie woodland caribou

The Atlantic-Gaspésie caribou population, found on the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec, is classified as endangered, which means it is at imminent risk of extirpation or extinction. Under Quebec legislation, it has been classified as vulnerable since 2001.

Gaspésie Provincial Park was established in 1937 to protect the declining herds. Hunting inside the park was banned in the 1930s and logging ended in 1977, yet the population declined from about 500 to 1,000 individuals in the 1950s to about 200 in the 1970s.

The population stabilized in the 1990s after a national recovery plan called for strategies such as coyote control and management of tourist activities. Since 1999, a special forest management plan was implemented for the habitat area outside the park boundaries.

http://www.sfmcanada.org/english/topics-caribou.asp

http://www.ameriquefrancaise.org/en/...3%A9%20Caribou

Greg, you know they serve them in the Quebec US Embassy? They asked you...do you want some McCaribou with your fries?

http://www.famousinternetskiers.com/...-americas-hat/

Just update my Last to Spin post on the Ski Mad World blog.

Here it is...

Saturday update:

Killington has announced that Sunday April 22 will be their last day of the season.

Ran in the forecast where the three remaining ski areas.

Mt St-Sauveur was closed today with the rain, will open sunday is the forecast is better: 2 runs / $20. Open only on weekends.

Jay Peak is only running the Triple. 3 runs / $35. Will be evaluating re-opening the weekend sometimes midweek..

Killington is at 5 runs / $49. Last day on April 22.

Killington tomorrow from Boston... Anyone want to split gasoline and make some turns?

Looks like some white on the Smuggs cam? Any rpts from tha hill? Thinking about hiking on Tuesday if it's worth it.

Less than an inch on the other side...

is this a joke 12-18 inches in 7 springs, pa tomorrow

http://www.weather.com/maps/activity...ast_large.html

^^ Nice tour jonathan.

I wrote up Part II of my birthday run on this rainy day in boston.

Originally Posted by drewvw

^^ Nice tour jonathan.

I wrote up Part II of my birthday run on this rainy day in boston.

Nice Drew. 1, 2 and . . . part 3? How was that part three birthday boy?

Great stuff! Think we are going to get winter 5.0 today and tomorrow? Let's hope so.

the forecast is crazy in PA, but i severely doubt any of the resorts will be spinning lifts.

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick...&FcstType=text

i'll be out poaching at laurel mountain, that's for sure. this could be our biggest single storm of the year!