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

Originally Posted by thin cover

Nice rudeness!

Looking a little chilly up there also Rog, with those winds might take a while to soften. Hoping Otto opens, Easties still look good from the wild cat web cam, plenty of turns worth the drive, for me.

I will be bringing the Worth demo fleet if anyone wants to check a pair out.

Like this SPAM warning VTF? You're a big boy and know what spam is. Not interested move on. See ya up there.

Sounds like there will be a crew up there if the road decides to open. It was definitely wet and manky last week but still fun.

Ouch



Teh knew Deth



D, got room for another?

thousands of feet of nice corn followed by bbq cookout.
lower avy. dangers than last week and 100% snowpack.

bring your new flame rog so we can check her out
bobby

Pretty sure vtf was tongue in cheek there LD. Although the flexion in your post made it more spammy then mine

VTF- of course dude. Sorry we got
Cut off in my attempt to call you back. Yesterday. Was fishing with Lars and service was spotty. Caught a bunch of fish though.

Let's see if this rd opens. Half the fleet is summer waxed already and 2 pairs are under going insert surgery. Have to finish those up.

Originally Posted by thin cover

Let's see if this rd opens.

The Saturday opening decision will be made by 4pm today (Friday).

Originally Posted by flowing alpy

thousands of feet of nice corn followed by bbq cookout.
lower avy. dangers than last week and 100% snowpack.

bring your new flame rog so we can check her out
bobby

Which one?

Originally Posted by Jonathan S.

The Saturday opening decision will be made by 4pm today (Friday).

Yup. Just called and found out the same. The guy said "chances are good" let's hope so.

VTF and TC - of course I know you were in jest. Just messing with yaz.

See all you bitches tomorrow!

Originally Posted by Vt-Freeheel

D, got room for another?

wait! wha? woa!?

VtFree planning to ski...this late into mtb season???


I would ask the same question but i know when it comes down to it i'm burnt out on driving/pre-dawn rising after the last 2 months of the season...


but those snowfields look pretty sweet...

shit of all the weekends.. would have liked to be a part of the may skiing but will be attending dirtfest down here in Pa.....have to be honest .. would rather be doing laps skiing then mtnbiking.....hope the road opens and you guys git sum.....looking forward to TR if it opens....

Dirtfest should be fun. We're headed down towards Jersey for a MTB weekend.

Well next time i will come meet you guys in jersey....great pic of you in the JERSEY......be safe and enjoy the riding....

Have a safe weekend to all.......enjoy the weather.......

VTF..skiing this late???? that would be a rare siting.....

Tomorrow morning, 8:00, at the gate -- be there!
(Or maybe a little bit later for those of us with long drives...)

Originally Posted by Jonathan S.

Tomorrow morning, 8:00, at the gate -- be there!
(Or maybe a little bit later for those of us with long drives...)

Sweetness. It's on. Going to be a gem of a day too!

From their facebook page:

Friday - 2 pm Status Update - We will be opening Saturday May 19 for private cars and guided tours to the summit! Operating hours will be 8am - 5pm. Weather permitting (as always) we will now be open to the summit 7 days a week. The Auto Road will LIKELY open to motorcycles by 11 am Saturday, this gives us time to get more water on the gravel section and some auto traffic on that gravel to pack down the loose stones that are currently on the surface. The Hiker Shuttle service off the summit will begin next Saturday, May 26. Game on! hw

Its a go. See you all tomorrow morning.

Originally Posted by flowing alpy

thousands of feet of nice corn followed by bbq cookout.
lower avy. dangers than last week and 100% snowpack.

bring your new flame rog so we can check her out
bobby

Dude! If you're gonna continue to taunt us with your snowpack reports, pics please.

speaking of which: the PNW snowpack nearly swallowed one of its own:

http://www.nwhikers.net/forums/viewt...d895951d450d19

http://www.wayneflannavalancheblog.c...on-decker.html

a happy ending to this story, fortunately.

(first read the story courtesy of killingtonzone)

Originally Posted by lynchdogger

Yup. Just called and found out the same. The guy said "chances are good" let's hope so.

VTF and TC - of course I know you were in jest. Just messing with yaz.

See all you bitches tomorrow!

Don't worry mang, you would know if I was not joshing you.

Originally Posted by mtnbiker/boarder

Well next time i will come meet you guys in jersey....great pic of you in the JERSEY......be safe and enjoy the riding....

Have a safe weekend to all.......enjoy the weather.......

VTF..skiing this late???? that would be a rare siting.....

Well if I had gotten the invite to the PA dirtfest I might have gone south. bitch!

Originally Posted by Vt-Freeheel

Don't worry mang, you would know if I was not joshing you.



Well if I had gotten the invite to the PA dirtfest I might have gone south. bitch!

Tbatt might be heading to Plattekill to meet me 5.28. Gravity Lover will be there too... I think one more makes it a mini, anyone else interested?

If coming from NYC.... pm me.

What, nobody posted a TR on the drive home?

Seriously though, nice seeing Thin Cover as always, and nice to finally meet Lynchdogger.

Total turnaround time for walking back from the town commons carnival with Micayla Friday evening to reaching the snow this morning was just a bit over 12 hours.
After a rather painful 4:20 alarm, and then a delay when I remembered that I should empty the dishwasher for those awakening considerably later, the drive got off to an unpromising start when I backed into my driveway from the garage, forgetting about my friend's car parked in aforementioned driveway. (See aforementioned 4:20 alarm.) After a brief inspection (no damage!), the drive was very smooth. (Somewhat unsurprisingly, traffic from Western MA to Northern NH is quite light early Saturday morning.)

I pulled into the lodge parking lot to use the facilities, only to see the Closed sign. So back across the highway to be greeted by George! No, not a clever reference to Mt Washington, but rather George, the friendly gate staffer, who provided me with the key stats, including 80-mile visibility -- nice!

Channeling my inner Frank Sprongl:






... I quickly passed the only car ahead of me and zipped up there ahead of schedule on the CD narration. (Which, unfortunately, switched to a new narrator sometime in 2010 -- the text is mainly unaltered, but no more "rendezvous with destiny" or however that line went.)


Vertical worked out to 366 per lap:




Although I'm going to claim an even 370', especially since the ancient Avocet tends to be conservative in recording vetical. OTOH, I was the only one "skiing" the bottom ~20' vertical, and the top ~20' vertical might disappear soon. Everything else is pretty solid though.
Oddly enough, the snow starts at pretty much the highest possible point for this time of year -- maybe ~20' vertical below the informal parking lot. The problem is with the missing bottom...
But still, skis like way more!

Snow quality started off nearly perfect for my first five runs by myself, then got beat up (but not too badly) once everyone else showed up . . . which was first dominated by the juvenile set:






The girls on the sides are the eight-year-old twin daughters of the proud father in the background. (And Mom works at Cranmore.)
This is their *THIRD* year coming up here.

"Are you going to post these pictures on the internet?"
"Yes, I will."
"Yay!!!"

The crew on their first run:






Here's Dad having some fun:






And the kids:






And the weather and scenery:






Dad had to carry up the skis for all three girls:






"Hey Camera Guy, can you take another picture of us?"





(I suppose that the majority of skiers there were of the age of majority despite what you see in my pictures, but being the father of a young girl, I of course took only pictures of little girls, hoping my daughter will be able to join them up there in a few years...)

nice jonathan! used to work with "the dad" at the rivah back in the day. good strong skier he is!

looked like a short on vert, long on fun kinda day. snow probably stayed great all day too in the sun and 60 degrees at that elevation. love our snow!

work n surf for me today. woulda loved to have joined ya tho!

rog

^ correct on all counts!

Nice write up Jon, we caught the girls and dad on their hike out when we had our casually timed arrival,the idea of Driving up instills the lazy vibe, guess we went with it

Snow was really good and had some great laps, steepest section of the fields were in which is the best skiing. Not Jon S's impressive 22 laps but Managed 8 before beer, grilling, sun, and other niceties called me away. Perfect weather up there for sure Rog. I was on the fence about fishing instead but glad I went, no other place I would have wanted to be once we got there.

I will throw some pics up in a bit including Freeheel hand feeding a mountain fox.

Been gone a while, busy with new job etc. Glad to see the ECRC is still getting after it. So anyone in for the American Craft Beer Fest?

Tbatt might be heading to Plattekill to meet me 5.28. Gravity Lover will be there too... I think one more makes it a mini, anyone else interested?

If coming from NYC.... pm me.

Now your talking! It would be awsome to do an east coast mtb mini. Platekill is out for me next weekend but meeting at Highland bike park, Burke/Kingdom Trails, Platekill or NEMBAfest this summer would be awsome. I'm a reg dweller at Highland and we are hitting NEMBAfest for sure with a crew. So how many of you guys like the lift served DH/FR stuff here?

Originally Posted by philth

Now your talking! It would be awsome to do an east coast mtb mini. Platekill is out for me next weekend but meeting at Highland bike park, Burke/Kingdom Trails, Platekill or NEMBAfest this summer would be awsome. I'm a reg dweller at Highland and we are hitting NEMBAfest for sure with a crew. So how many of you guys like the lift served DH/FR stuff here?

I've got a pass at mountain creek(formerly diablo) and will prob try and get up to highland once this summer. If any mags need to borrow a 2 bike hitch rack, I'm in queens.