Thread: Sandy dumps "White Lightnning" in the highlands of West By God Virginia.

Well about 10 maggots just drove 13 hours south from as far as way from Cambridge, Vermont to ski snow left by a hurricane in West Virginia. Nature can be fucking bizarre!!

the music for the TR



Vermont Plates in West Virginia



The snow was super dense wind affected and there was tons of it! There was not a single place that I stuck my pole that was less than 2 feet deep. The Majority of places were at least 36 inches deep with some lee sides easily in the 48 inchish range. IE my pole was stuck totally past my grip.

this is at the Base of Whitegrass touring center, and honestly one of the less deep places I found...



Day 1 took us to Whitegrass Touring Center. Which I was honestly like why are we here? knowing that Timberline had MUCH better pitch. Decided to go with the Flow and ski Whitegrass with the crew. We skied some fun albeit low angle open slopes, tree and meadow at Whitegrass. Never has meadow skipping been taken so literally.

Whitegrass running on donation only today.



Crank54 and Dowork on the ski out of Whitegrass Touring center.



ThinCover meadow skipping



Crank54 is the same Meadow



ML242 in the Ghost Forest at Whitegrass Touring center



a stoked maggot and local crew after a day of skiing Whitegrass.



after some moonshine and beer we headed to out cabin for the night.

10 dollars a night with dinner and breakfast. Only Catch? no power..

check out the snow drifts



best use of a ceiling fan ever



a happy group of Mags on top of Timberline



Thincover on our first run at Timberline







Crank54 getting his first run with actual pitch





back up again guys?



Beautiful Canaan Valley



Dowork is happy about the Glades at Timberline



Crank makes it look deep



Thincover skiing anything but in the woods at TLine



good bye Timberline



Thincover has alot more pictures I am sure of it. My guess though is he exhausted from driving back to Vermont at 1pm yesterday. Overall a great trip totally worth it for sure. The snow is probably still good there. Go get some!

Yeah dude! awesome shots, great getting out with you 650 miles away from where we normally ski. I will get some shots up soon ....it was a late night.

SICK!!!!

Way to chase the storm and get some pre season turns in.

I am so psyched that the northeastern mags got to taste our WV magic and came back raving.

Well done.

cool! way to be keen.

Definitely some nice work there!

Would have added some comedy if someone put that ceiling fan on high

Something positive out of a really sad storm. Way to get after it

"Squeal like a pig"

Glad you got some in the hillbilly hills

FKNA, what a trip!

Not stoked at all to be at work right now, but I don't think you could slap the shit-eating grin off my face at this point. Totally awesome. Exactly what I needed!

Yeeeeeeee-haw! Wish I was there, but glad y'all got some and made it back safe.


I know TC has about a thousand more pics... way to get this season started.

Nice work guys. I would have been down with you guys if my skills weren't needed in these parts. Money talked in this situation so I had to pass the trip up. Glad it was successful, is great way to start the season!

Shit grinning fun the past few days. Good to meet a lot of new folkds, including quite a few local and spirited peeps.

A few iphonies.

The road ahead


Headlamp pool


Last lap with ML on Friday at CV



View of valley towards Whitegrass from CV



ML brought the pimp camera and Contour, I'm thinking he's got some really good stuff from the trip.

very nice

Found it! Well done boys.

Cool Buswackin is the last one to show up and the first one to get a TR up.

Dealing with my daughter's bday this weekend. Hopefully my computer/picture loading issues *&@#%(%@( !!! will be resolved and I'll be able to some Halloween at Timberlne and November 1 summit at Whitegrass.

NIce meeting a bunch of you guys. Man, it was a loooong drive back.

Way to get it while the gettings good. I grew up skiing Timberline and they've gone entire winters without getting that much natural snow.

Nice trip.

Originally Posted by spindrift

Would have added some comedy if someone put that ceiling fan on high

That was not a concern until the morning...



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Nice work, tho Dalt's ski bases are the wrong color, missed marketing opportunity

Originally Posted by roark

Nice work, tho Dalt's ski bases are the wrong color, missed marketing opportunity

Only a matter of time until I caught shit for that

Did not have the dukes adjusted to my new boot bsl I realized and grabbed the wrong skins. So I was on the dyna setup. Worths are getting drilled for dynafits this weekend as well.

awesome, albeit pretty strange way to start the season. 52 hr road trip in an unlikely direction for some quality skiing.

good to meet some maggots down there and thanks to the locals for showing us around. esp dug the whitegrass experience, some kind folks that know how to make you feel at home with some moonshine and sandwiches and a hot fire. glad that places like it still exist.

also huge thanks to TC for driving 90% there and 100% of the way back. impressive performance. Cowboy neil at the wheel, the bus to never ever land.

looks like we got back to vt just in time for the notch closure due to snow...

Originally Posted by treewell-dweller

52 hr road trip in an unlikely direction for some quality skiing.

Is that a typo or sarcasm? I thought I was the one that had the longest time in the car this week? 34 hrs Ottawa-Albany-West Virginia. Time includes the driving around Tuesday night and getting the lay of the land plus that beer run 3 towns away to find a open store with beer.

A total of 2800km for an epic trip. It was worth it.

not sure how many km we traveled, but not as many as you. you def get the prize for most km and hours logged, my friend...

i meant 52 hours door to door, including skiing and (a little) sleeping.

was easier to post pictures since I am visiting my family in pittsburgh, Pa. The skiing was a nice bonus.