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

Originally Posted by therudeness

can rogblog or anyone else recommend a B&B in the n.conway or gorham area that might impress? saturday starting to look nice now too........

North Conway, yuck, don't stay there! If you want romantic to impress, stay in Jackson, like rog suggested. It's a beautiful little village to explore. If there's no room at the Inn at Thorn Hill, here are a couple others to consider:

http://www.thewentworth.com/

http://www.innatellisriver.com/

http://www.carternotchinn.com/

http://www.innatjackson.com/

Hope you can find a lovely place to stay.

hmmmm, nice info links^^^^^^^^^^^single? not that it matters, I KID, I KID!!!

KAPOW!:

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 66. Calm wind becoming north between 7 and 10 mph.

Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 30.

Monday: Sunny, with a high near 70.

altho i think that those that get out saturday will score the smoothest untracked snow. us sunday/monday folk will be lapping tracked out scraps

weather looks deluxe tho. who's in and for which day?

shitty surf this morning. paddled out anyway. fuckit. shitty surf only makes you and the good surf that much better. man was it shitty

rog

Originally Posted by icelanticskier

hmmmm, nice info links^^^^^^^^^^^single? not that it matters, I KID, I KID!!!

rog

HA! Very happily married to a man who can keep up with me on skis...plus I get a free Jay pass being married to him and who could give that up! Glad you approve of my suggestions though!

Originally Posted by SheSkisTrees

HA! Very happily married to a man who can keep up with me on skis...plus I get a free Jay pass being married to him and who could give that up! Glad you approve of my suggestions though!

sounds awesome to me, good for you guys!

rog

Originally Posted by icelanticskier

hmmmm, nice info links^^^^^^^^^^^single? not that it matters, I KID, I KID!!!

KA-P.O.W.!:

fixed it for ya romeo

edit: ...and when we get our FKNMay(TM) dump, you can thank ME! my snow tires are coming off as i type

Originally Posted by buckethead

fixed it for ya romeo

nice ski stoke bucket!

ugh, gotta go to work.................

rog

Looks like the auto road is opening up as far as treeline this weekend, anyone know where that would be along the route and what the slacker possibilities will look like from there?

^ A partial opening (to treeline) is worthless for skiing.

Here are full opening dates for recent year:

2011: May 15
2010: May 17
2009: May 16
2008: May 24 (late-morning opening that day)
2007: May 25 (poor coverage with strange distribution: NE snowfield gone, and max vert was M-i-L @ ~350')
2006: May 27
2005: May 30 (open to coaches only, with Airforce drop-off allowed)
2004: May 14 (very poor coverage)

Originally Posted by jgb@etree

How does one manage to get themselves banned from newschoolers?

Regardless, kudos to you for a job well done.

Yeah, I want Mr. Bishop to see this cuz I miss my NS

so much for that 50 bucks i gave them....

JS and other time chronicling roadies, after opening up to treeline how long do you think it will take them to get it to the top assuming good weather, a week or so? I'd like to get there while there are still scraps left, without temps hitting freezing overnight it's going to go so quickly. Crossing my fingers that I'll be able to drive up next Wednesday or Thursday. If so, anyone around for a midweek George day? And how them gullies looking lately, hope they're still steep!

I'd kill for another day on MIL, not going to happen this year.



that picture of NJFS was from three weeks later in the season, 2010.

RIP MCA.

Originally Posted by ml242

JS and other time chronicling roadies, after opening up to treeline how long do you think it will take them to get it to the top assuming good weather, a week or so?

With "good weather" = hot, dry, sunny weather, sure, that's about right.
The key though is that "bad" weather melting our snow does not necessary equal "good" weather for making progress on opening the road: they need to get the frozen culverts opened up, as well as deal with any road repairs. (Some of the road website's blog entries have provided interesting details for those with civil engineering tendencies.) So wet weather that eats away at our snow can still keep the culverts frozen up high -- that kind of pattern is what explains road openings that have delivered us to pretty poor skiing options.

RIP MCA, sad day. This is a long one but a good one if you haven't seen it and like the Beastie Boys.

Sweet pics BUCKETand again that was a great weekend up there.......
hope that all has a wonderful and safe weekend.....80 something out here in pa....heading for a mtnbike ride then a KTM weekend in the dirt.....

Got on the river for the first time this year. had a nice LONG swim on the second rapid. Lost my drain plug. Overall, good time.

Working 4-midnight, getting up at 6 for my first guiding trip of the season, back at the hotel for another 4-midnight, mommy's birthday, and then finals week. and then SUMMER! giddyup!

From the Ski Mad World blog... Title of the thread says it all.

Mont St-Sauveur saves the ‘May’ and is last to spin again – Eastern Closing Thread Part 9
http://madpatski.wordpress.com/2012/...thread-part-9/

MSS is again last to spin and makes it to May.

Need to return to MTL, so heading from Ottawa to Montreal only add an extra hour. Plus free skiing with my season pass from a Ottawa local owned by MSSI. Not sure when or if I'll detour...I didn't last weekend even if I went down to MTL.

Originally Posted by lionelhutz

If anything fits the ECRC it's clock shots. We're all all about the clock. Just a lot of dudes trying to impress everybody with their clock.

Spit take...confirmed.

And that sucks. Peace out Beastie. Be with Bodhi.

Originally Posted by VTColdSmoke

LOL - what a judgemental biatch! Lucky for me the M.I.L. is actually pretty supportive of my pow addiction. She says I am "passionate" about it...

I didn't say that was from my MIL. LOL If you've been married for a number of years and continue with your addiction, you'll eventually hear some of these. First hand, but most of the time second hand from people talking to your wife. From the MIL, to your mother (I've heard a few from my late-mom and she was a skier, wife's friends or colleagues).

Originally Posted by SheSkisTrees

HA! Very happily married to a man who can keep up with me on skis...plus I get a free Jay pass being married to him and who could give that up! Glad you approve of my suggestions though!

Pretty sure I rode up a lift with you and your hubby this winter at Jay. Your hubby and I were talkin DPS and ski patrol. If it is you guys. Great peeps. And if not always been a fan. See you at Jay next year.

Rog, see you up in NH on small hill named George. Talk tomorrow. TC and crew? Weather is loooking tasty!

Originally Posted by JayPowHound

Looks like the auto road is opening up as far as treeline this weekend, anyone know where that would be along the route and what the slacker possibilities will look like from there?

Only issue with that is no parking there right?

Originally Posted by lynchdogger

Pretty sure I rode up a lift with you and your hubby this winter at Jay. Your hubby and I were talkin DPS and ski patrol. If it is you guys. Great peeps. And if not always been a fan. See you at Jay next year.

Hmmm...Could be. I woulda been wearing a fuschia/magenta/pink (whatevah ya want to call it) Patagucci jacket, letting my inner girly-girl finally shine through. (Anyone who knows me was surprised to see me in "pink" this year. It was the only color I could get but it turns out it's "my color"!)

We're really looking forward to next season since our new house will no longer take 110% of our time and we will actually be able to SKI again (this winter sucked, not because of the lack of snow but because we hardly skied ). By the way, speaking of our new house, it's a passive solar house and this winter (Dec. - May) we used a whopping 60 gallons of propane to heat our house, hot water, etc. I guess you could say the theory worked in practice. We also passed the Energy Star blower test with flying colors last Thursday.

Originally Posted by lynchdogger

Only issue with that is no parking there right?

Along with still facing a ~2.5-mile walk (each way) to the NNE Snowfield, or a ~3-mile walk to the NE Snowfield.

Originally Posted by Jonathan S.

^ A partial opening (to treeline) is worthless for skiing.

Here are full opening dates for recent year:

2011: May 15
2010: May 17
2009: May 16
2008: May 24 (late-morning opening that day)
2007: May 25 (poor coverage with strange distribution: NE snowfield gone, and max vert was M-i-L @ ~350')
2006: May 27
2005: May 30 (open to coaches only, with Airforce drop-off allowed)
2004: May 14 (very poor coverage)

early june 2005 and 2008 were VERY good in the easties.

here's june 1st 2005, skied all morning then drove back to east burke (owned a house there at the time) for the wednesday night east burke sports mtb ride. folks were stunned that i had skied that day before the ride. the snow and cover was unreal. my gf and i were the only ones up there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6kor...0Eo&playnext=1

such good skiing. clean canvas.

see you monday lynchy/tc, and whoever else is going. bike riding/surfing with the gal on sunday instead.

rog

Originally Posted by icelanticskier

early june 2005 and 2008 were VERY good in the easties.

Oh yes, great memories!

So let's see, June 1, 2005, only a strip was left for about 10 turns per run.
In Massachusetts, at Wachusett!
Three days later, Airplane was completely in. (Although that one guy almost died when he somehow augured in while skiing Turkey Chute.)
August 18, I did the running race and then skied Tux, although I don't remember if anything was left of the NE Snowfield. (At least one year when I did the race, it was still hanging in there.)

May 29, 2008, we could still tour back and forth, zig zagging up and down and along the NE Snowfield, East Snowfield, and SE Snowfield.
June 13, Left Gully was still almost full length.
June 21, after the running race, the floor of Tux was still completely in, so something like 500' still left.

Both those season finished up with nice skiing out West in August, so definitely some sort of bicoastal goodness going on those years!

Originally Posted by Jonathan S.

August 18, I did the running race and then skied Tux,

umm, i think you mean june 18th

May 29, 2008, we could still tour back and forth, zig zagging up and down and along the NE Snowfield, East Snowfield, and SE Snowfield.

glad i wasn't there. you know how i feel about messing up da canvas with zig zaggy skin tracks!

June 13, Left Gully was still almost full length.

here's two days earlier in lg, june 11th:










so many hundreds of days up high, so many memories, so good......

rog

Originally Posted by SheSkisTrees

Hmmm...Could be. I woulda been wearing a fuschia/magenta/pink (whatevah ya want to call it) Patagucci jacket, letting my inner girly-girl finally shine through. (Anyone who knows me was surprised to see me in "pink" this year. It was the only color I could get but it turns out it's "my color"!)

I had the opportunity to ski a couple of runs with you and your husband around Leap Day... ran into you guys on the Bonnie chair, and you dragged my slow ass behind you for an hour or two. Pink seemed to suit your personality just fine!

- Andrew