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Thread: Lucky #7 EC Roll Call 2013-14!
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03-07-2014, 06:13 AM #4701Banned
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i might go south and pummel us beach folk, again
rog
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03-07-2014, 06:21 AM #4702
Up to 25.9` now 16` summit, time to wax, yellow?
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"If the road You followed brought you to this,of what use was the road"?
"I have no idea what I am talking about but would be happy to share my biased opinions as fact on the matter. "
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03-07-2014, 06:45 AM #4703
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03-07-2014, 06:54 AM #4704
My (totally non-scientific, anti-jinxing, curmudgeon) predictions for the storm late next week:
Scenario 1: Storm blows up, dumps 3 feet of snow in CT/MA but there is a sharp cutoff on the north side and NVT gets 2.567” (still more snow than we have received in the last 3 weeks). White Mtns heavily shadow the NEK.
Probability=40%
Scenario 2: Storm is a cutter and tracks through Ottawa, dumping 3” of hot rain on New England.
Probability=40%
Scenario 3: The storm barely organizes and produces widespread snow showers in NE that accumulate enough to barely cover the dirty 3 week old snow currently on the ground. Shovels stay in the garage.
Probability=40%
Any way this plays out, there is a 120% chance the NEK gets screwed as usual.Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood.
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03-07-2014, 07:02 AM #4705
^^^oy vey.
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03-07-2014, 07:05 AM #4706
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03-07-2014, 07:12 AM #4707www.apriliaforum.com
"If the road You followed brought you to this,of what use was the road"?
"I have no idea what I am talking about but would be happy to share my biased opinions as fact on the matter. "
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03-07-2014, 07:23 AM #4708
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03-07-2014, 07:38 AM #4709
PSA!
Just a reminder, lest anyone forget and unintentionally buy a ticket at MRG this W/E. Deal with it one way or another, it is NATO Telefest and the lines will be very long.
I admit that the long lines help me get my rest, an unabashed blessing. Other folks may not care to be shuffling in lines...
You have been remindedThe sad truth is that whine does not age well
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03-07-2014, 07:39 AM #4710
people still tele?
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03-07-2014, 08:17 AM #4711
^^^^only under chairlifts.
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03-07-2014, 08:23 AM #4712Gel-powered Tech bindings
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Please don't abuse the term "rando race" (or ski mountaineering race, or skimo) by applying it to this lame joke of an event.
I'm serious: two ~700' laps at Whaleback?
And for that you have to pay $38?
Oh, but you do get a lift ticket for your $38 -- good for that day only, at Whaleback of course.
Then again, the ticket will come in handy if you want to ski any of Whaleback's semi-decent terrain, since during the race you're allowed to ski only a predominantly beginner route.
Alternatively, you could just wake up at the same time and take a couple laps at Wachusett early in the morning.
But don't take those laps all the way to the summit, because then you'll be getting in more vertical, and even the lamest route from Wachusett's gentle summit has more interesting skiing than that beginner route at Whaleback. So better stick to just two laps on Ralph's Run off the lower mtn/hill.
Or along the same drive to Whaleback, stop at Crotched or Ragged instead.
And if you want a real rando race, this weekend Jay Peak is Saturday March 8 and Owl's Head (just across the border) is Sunday March 9. (I don't have any involvement with either race, but the Jay course looks much improved from prior years, and the Owl's Head course looks decent, although it does include one flat traverse to access a backcountry skintrack).
Then for the following weekend, our race is Sunday March 16 at Magic. If this Thursday storm materializes, then the descent route will be Red Line. If not, then Broomstick to Black Line. For the full competitive course, three skin laps on the skinner's left periphery (super fast & efficient), then a final lap up underneath the Red Chair (skinning at first, then of course shifting to a boot pack). Or however many skintrack laps (~1,520' each) you can muster for the shortened course.Mo' skimo here: NE Rando Race Series
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03-07-2014, 08:24 AM #4713
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03-07-2014, 08:38 AM #4714
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03-07-2014, 08:55 AM #4715
You realize you sound like a pompous twit, right?
Rondo racing is just great for peeps who like it. Personally I could give a shit how fast and how much vert someone climbs in a day or a week or a yr, but to tool on a beginner event is just lame. Did you come out of the womb a pro?
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03-07-2014, 09:19 AM #4716Banned
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nice day.
hi
rog
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03-07-2014, 09:32 AM #4717
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03-07-2014, 09:47 AM #4718
got up to MRG yesterday, ostensibly to pick up my lost-then-found praxis BC (got the clall monday that patrol had dug it up (many props to them for continuing to look after the snows piled up) but it turned out to be one of THE sleeper days of my season.
trenching fresh groomers? check
no ice? check
somewhat hero bumps on chute? check
cold temps but a bluebird sun that made it feel like the beach? check
but wait there's more!
untracked woods - soft hero pow (possibly mistaken by others for crust and avoided?) CHECK
private mountain with no lines all day? check
and caught up with vt-free after way too long after skiing to cap off a pretty damn perfect day.
just wishing i was up there for one more today.
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03-07-2014, 10:01 AM #4719Registered User
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^MRG SCORE!!!
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03-07-2014, 10:05 AM #4720
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03-07-2014, 10:25 AM #4721
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03-07-2014, 10:43 AM #4722
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03-07-2014, 11:00 AM #4723
Damn, bucket! Now I'm thinking I should toss the pow skis in the car for MRG tomorrow and not just the carvers.
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03-07-2014, 11:16 AM #4724Registered User
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I dream of your glade locales TC. Always killer stoke.
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03-07-2014, 11:16 AM #4725
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