East Coast Roll Call 6.0 Get Your Stoke On!

[buckethead]

here's a bit of an under-edited, water-on-the-lens POV from yesterday

enjoy

AWESOME GUYS!
you had me with the patrol shack footage

edit: nice! this will also be PTT

[tBatt]

They told us yesterday that the toll road would be open today. Thought I was working. Turns out I wasn't. Headed up and got there at about 11:30 to attempt some shuttle laps on the North-facing toll road slide. Got there and the road was STILL closed. Fuck. More hiking it was.

Snow line was about 500 vert above where it was yesterday. Had to ski the south-facing resort stuff.

Really manky and thin but still had decent snow. Summited around four. Tons of people up there today.











Woot woot!

[ex-powderbroker]

Whiteface for the win! Any pow pics left to process

[MadPatSki]

Okay here is my last post of the Eastern Closing Thread.

Thoughts on the end of season, Eastern liftserved and beyond (oe. Not East or not liftserved).

Some geeky analysis on previous dates and stuff. Some of you might be interested.

It’s a Wrap and the Storm – Eastern Closing Thread 2012-13- Part Last
http://madpatski.wordpress.com/2013/...-13-part-last/

[tBatt]

Whiteface for the win! Any pow pics left to process

Haven't brought any of them onto the computer. Lens was kinda foggy. It wasn't quite pow.super sense and super creamy. Really only skied In the top two or three inches. Which worked awesome, because there wasn't any base under the snow

[neufox47]

Made myself not check the or the weather all weekend. Parents and family were in town and we went around hiking to waterfalls.... Way to get after it guys! I'm so freaking jealous!

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[buckethead]

there was indeed a whole other, wintry world beyond superstar. rock skis not required (though that's what i brought for that long lap with goniff). skins were not needed either as the snow was grabby enough between ss and killington peak to skin virtually.

a bizzarro day indeed. yes, very much like an october first storm of the season outing with the late, muddied supe thrown in to add to the confusion. for me the coldest and most inclement ski day since early march. and more untracked snow than daylight.

a little of an entire season thrown into one day. perfect way to let it a go til fall. pics to follow but not til i get out of bed!

and now some pics before i get back into bed:
9:30 am: superstar looking mighty strange after all these weeks

met up with goniff after a lap or two and it was time to see what was behind rope number one.

some good turns to be had where the wind blew the snow on ovation
but the rollover back on supe was now beyond soup


after a short lift hold and it was time to see what jonathan s. had found over his way (hours earlier):
always scenic, sometimes deep. as expected the no-skin skinability - our friend on the up - not always so friendly on the down.


continued

[buckethead]

continued:

....but good turns were had for sure. upper escapade was deep, if grabby. the outline of my pole baskets says it all; as does the workings of the wind: deep here, bare there.

half way up the cascade headwall was a good time to finish off the black chocolate stout i was carrying in my pocket. then my phone died.

we took the stairway up to catwalk and continued down to double dipper where we encountered honest-to-goodness hoot-inducing powder turns...this was the sweet spot up there in the not so early afternoon.
upper east fall was pretty nice too until the bottom. we skipped the lower which had a high sketch/risk factor, and took a long slow slide down great northern before walking down the final 200 ft of vert on some nice, spongey ground.

one lap on supe and we decided there was just enough time for one more run. dead of leg i barely made it in time but had second-to-last last chair waiting for me and it was back up to the top, to finally meet up with vt-free, ml242 and 'the padowan', drink champagne and headies and celebrate before finally facing the heavy gusts for the walk down the headwall to the snow.

as the last few remaining skiers reached the bottom of the snow, non-mags jen and john and i decided it wasn't quite over til we said it was over and walked up the lower snowfield (er, patch) for the last black chocolate stout of the day before being the last 3 off the hill.



ironically the sun would make its first appearance of the day just an hour too late.
great food (and deep fried everything from pickles to cupcakes, PB&J and bacon courtesy of the party's host) and pumping tunes and fireworks ruled the party at the ski tunnel...and like that the long season went out with a blast.


props to all at killington for doing it right all spring long
and thanks to the mighty ullr for going out strong!

[monkfish]

Tuckerman yesterday after nearly 6" fell on the summit Saturday night through Sunday night. Started out windy and a bit cloudy up top (could see snow still blowing into Huntington on the hike up); ended up a lovely spring corn afternoon.

[Vt-Freeheel]

That looks nice with the rays^^^^

Back to Riding, City guys [ML242] sure have an odd kit



Not that mine is any better



FUCKING mosquitoes are cloud thick right now, good times.

[therudeness]

Cool pic of whiteface on facebook "pure adirondacks" today



putting the skis away. great season, see y'all soon

[From_the_NEK]

Couple of picts from Sunday at the mountain between I and K. More picts in TC's full report http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/s...in-Northern-VT

[whitewoodchuck]

here's a bit of an under-edited, water-on-the-lens POV from yesterday

enjoy

Way to have fun in the late snow. Looks like you guys enjoyed yourselves!!!

[whitewoodchuck]

Couple of picts from Sunday at the mountain between I and K.

Remarkable pics given the time of year, glad you got out and had some fun!

[HD333]

There will be a lot of people, looks like they have the human electrocution area set up. I try and run there once or twice a week.



You can stay here.
http://millfalls.com/

Another lodging option if you haven't already booked anything is the Fireside Inn in Gilford. Right across the street from Patricks Pub. 5 minutes or under to Gunstock. Mills Falls is nicer and has more around it but is a good 20 minutes to Gunstock.

[buttahflake]

holy fucking shit!
what year this be?
two finger braking, no fucking lid, boat shoes, and those green tightie shitz!
VT-F why would you ride with such a rodeo clown?
i'm fucking dying here, this shit is gold.




oh, and good on y'all who made turns!
woot

[Goniff]

Sunday was one for the record books, indeed. Some shots taken by me and Bucket (after his phone died).

7:30 AM - the excitement begins

About 2-3" at the K1 lodge but much more higher up

8 AM line-up for first tracks

Bucket making every turn count on SS and Ovation



Skinless skinning up Launch Pad


First stop on the tour was upper Escapade

The best chocolate stout of the season

Next up was Catwalk. Last time I hiked these was opening day on Oct. 13.





Then some hero pow on upper Double Dipper

Finished with a sticky slide down Bunny Buster and Mouse Trap

6 PM and Bucket doesn't want to leave SS

Thanks to Bucket for convincing me to stay a little while longer for the rockin tunnel party. These guys know how to put on a party. Great way to end my best and longest season in 40 years of skiing.

[tBatt]

Couple more pics from Whiteface Day 2.

here's a bit of an under-edited, water-on-the-lens POV from yesterday

enjoy

Rudy, Im surprised we didn't run into you at all. But I take it you didn't check the roll-top door on the actual patrol shack? The main door was locked, but garage-looking door opened no problems. They had heat and nudie magazines! We let some clothes dry out in there for a minute while drinking a beer and reading a few articles...

[therudeness]

^^ woah, score! naw, we didn't check the other one.. we were happy enough to have some cover and a radio with a pretty sick rock station pre-tuned. you guys found way better reading material, that's for sure!

[ex-powderbroker]

Hey buttah, It ain't easy being steezy (on laundry day)! Too bad my biking is about as good as the threads.

Did find some good turns though today with motherfucking vt-free Doug Coombs!



Last four days have featured biking, skiing twice, and climbing. Fucking rogworthy I tell ya.

Still a bit of snow in airplane but it's very close to breaking into two sections.

[icelanticskier]

Hey buttah, It ain't easy being steezy (on laundry day)! Too bad my biking is about as good as the threads.

Did find some good turns though today with motherfucking vt-free Doug Coombs!



Last four days have featured biking, skiing twice, and climbing. Fucking rogworthy I tell ya.

Still a bit of snow in airplane but it's very close to breaking into two sections.

BEYOND ROGWORTHY!!!

nice run of multistoke boyz!!!

did you sample what's left of the easties?

rog

[icelanticskier]

such a gorgeous shot! striking!

rog

[JerseyDave]

Damn. I think we might have gotten all of that in liquid form in Maine.

Great looking rapid. Awesome storm and an awesome spring for playing outside. Rivers are in great shape, trails too. Another good shot of rain coming thru. Might get some water for my day off tomorrow!

[Jonathan S.]

Still a bit of snow in airplane but it's very close to breaking into two sections.

So how much vertical was left?

And sounds like with this wx fx:
http://www.mountwashington.org/weath...t_forecast.php
... it will no longer be continuous by tomorrow/Thursday?

did you sample what's left of the easties?

Can’t be much left by now – even on May 10 (opening day) the vertical was already about to get choked off to ~340'.
Seemed like even less than that about a week ago in Dave Metsky’s pictures ... which I can't find now (TT, T4T?) ... although I did just notice these cool pics from Otto:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...3350717&type=1

[Tuckerman]

holy fucking shit!
what year this be?
two finger braking, no fucking lid, boat shoes, and those green tightie shitz!
VT-F why would you ride with such a rodeo clown?
i'm fucking dying here, this shit is gold.





woot

Probably going yacht racing after a quick ride.