TR: EC Road Trippin for Winter

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I haven't done a TR in a while and just got back from a very cool spot yesterday I'd like to share. Winter has started and stopped many times in Vermont this season. Just when it starts getting good again we get rain. Stressing out about getting way too much work done, we decided that a road trip was needed. News was coming in that a small area along the western slopes of the Adirondack's and north into Ontario, which is famous for its heavy lake effect snow systems, was getting hammered again. They just got 130" cycle the week before and now had several feet in the forecast. Problem was finding steep and continuous terrain in an area of gentle rolling hills. We had heard about a large glacial divide in the hills, which contained steep ravine walls, raked with chutes, slides and tree gullies. But it needed a ton of snow to be skiable. The way these lake effect snow bands set up, it is common for there to be 12" in one area and 3' five miles up the road. So we drove for 6 hours away from the mountains of Northern Vermont and hoped for best. Fortunately, we lucked out and found some of the best steep BC pow skiing we have done on the EC, and in the most unlikely of places.





Set out looking for the skiable terrain.






Found some great tree skiing to start













We lapped this area for a while, reminding us of Hokkaido.














We moved on to another area with a tough to access slide path. We had to cross the river then climb it or walk back out to the start of the ridges and skin the mellower pitch and find the slide from the top. Opting to stay dry, we dropped a pin on the GPS and an hour and a half later we were on top of the slide and making awesome steep turns on stable snow.




First off to give the cliffs a go.






Take off









Boarder buddy following


After climbing back up to the ridge we scoped some long drainages that were filled in healthily with loads of lake effect, making wooded couloirs spilling steeply from the surrounding ridges. We couldn't tell if they went from the top and decided to come back for them in the morning.

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After arriving we did the best recon we could and our friend dropped first, after he disappeared from sight, the wooting got louder...


So we all went for it































Snowing hard now in the Northern Greens, hopefully Ullr appreciates our enthusiasm.

Thanks for looking!

[cat in january]

Nicely done and you have been away too long.

[I've seen black diamonds!]

That's awesome. Well done, my friend.

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Thanks guys

Cat- lots going on with new work, new family, should be around more often now.

[NoPostholio]

Excellent THP stoke!

[Slaag Master]

super sweet!!!!!!

[Goniff]

TC, good to see you skiing pow. Looks like a great find.

[HansJob]

Nice. Ski the East for the deeps w/ the peeps.

[buttahflake]

Motherfucker!

[SB]

TC brings it.

[BGSTi_403]

Outstanding work!

Way to make lemonade

[ex-powderbroker]

As much as I want to ski, skinning through a quiet forest right now would do it for me. Freaking brown-town over here. And don't even think about telling me to get a Fat-bike.

Nice work, TC.

This one might be my favorite. Looks like freedom:

[Kirby]

Wow! Awesome stuff.

Thanks for sharing the EC/BC stoke.

[east or bust]

Awesome shots, definitely in need of a fix.

Thanks for posting.

[icelanticskier]

VERY VERY NICE WORK GUYS!

welcome back

rog

[1thenaton1]

This is rad, good work mang!

[gravitylover]

As much as I want to ski, skinning through a quiet forest right now would do it for me. Freaking brown-town over here. And don't even think about telling me to get a Fat-bike.

I told you to head that way

psst ... there's a fatty that would fit you perfectly displayed right in the center of my shop. It's a matte green, carbon fork fun machine but I didn't tell you to get it...

[LightRanger]

Beautiful shots man. Glad to see you out and about.

Super jealous out here in no-snow California.

[gpcharles]

Nice job sneaking over midweek and grabbing that before the rain DH! Lucky dawgz... Looks sick!

[neufox47]

Awesome shots TC! That looks sick. Love those pics.

[VTColdSmoke]

Sick TC!!

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[Shadam]

aint nuffink flat about that place ...

nice stokage factor !!!

[VTColdSmoke]

[VTColdSmoke]

My fav^
I wanna powsurf there real bad... so awesome