Eastcoast Roll Call TwoTwo/TwoThree A Slow Start to a Big Finish

[byates1]

Was finally going to ski snow ridge this season. Fak..

[Vt-Freeheel]

Smoke smell was bad yesterday, a couple times at work and home was worried momentarily when I smelt it until I remembered it was our gift from Canada. Thanks!

We always wonder......

[cat in january]

More on the way in the next week too

[Peruvian]

Season passes and Bash Badges have gone on sale at Smugglers Notch. $599 full season pass, $199 for Bash Badge Plus, and $109 for Bash Badge. Considering weekend tickets are up to $95, that's pretty good deal.

[buckethead]

^^ damn that's a nice price i'd jump on if smuggs was 1.5 hours closer.
had my deepest day ever there and several runner ups.

[T-dub]

Smuggs is great, just as well it's a bit harder to get to in winter. the year(s) when stowe allowed for a traverse on over and down
were fun, skating over the pond. great pass pricing and awesome terrain.

[m2711c]

[ex-powderbroker]

looks like one could have fun there.

[cat in january]

Mountain I grew up skiing at. Lift on upper mountain has been shuttered twenty years, but this summer the volunteer group has cleared all the old trails. Looking forward to going back.

[paulster2626]

Mountain I grew up skiing at. Lift on upper mountain has been shuttered twenty years, but this summer the volunteer group has cleared all the old trails. Looking forward to going back.

Man, imagine 20 years of fresh pow just sitting there waiting. That's gonna be epic.

[m2711c]

Mountain I grew up skiing at. Lift on upper mountain has been shuttered twenty years, but this summer the volunteer group has cleared all the old trails. Looking forward to going back.

they are getting the trails cleared, but they still don’t have enough money to pay for clearing the trails. If anybody’s looking to help them out, here’s a link to their fundraising.


https://www.gofundme.com/f/ac6bq-60-...kiing-the-view

[buckethead]

finally scoped out a local ski trail today
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[byates1]

you've never run the bolt?

[buckethead]

never

i take it you have?

[cat in january]

they are getting the trails cleared, but they still don’t have enough money to pay for clearing the trails. If anybody’s looking to help them out, here’s a link to their fundraising.


https://www.gofundme.com/f/ac6bq-60-...kiing-the-view

The friends of the mountain is a great group. I threw them money in this fundraiser and have thrown money to them in the past. Great place to give some couch cushion money

If you look close you can see the equipment cleaning the center trail. The lookers right trail is the Piscataquis or as it was often called the Cat. My screen name comes from skiing the Cat in January as a child when it typically filled in enough to ski.

[Core Shot]

Soooooo

Chatting with a friend. His kids were in Germany training slalom indoors.
He’s thinking about a new England indoor facility. But built on an existing 800 vert hill.

Anyone know of a barely functioning or defunct ski area that would work for that?

Southern nh or vt makes sense

[singlecross]

^^^ Killington?

edit in an attempt to be serious:
Granite Gorge outside Keene, NH.

[Peruvian]

Soooooo

Chatting with a friend. His kids were in Germany training slalom indoors.
He’s thinking about a new England indoor facility. But built on an existing 800 vert hill.

Anyone know of a barely functioning or defunct ski area that would work for that?

Southern nh or vt makes sense

If Vermont is chosen, your friends attorney better become very familiar with Act 250.

Oh and who is going to drive to VT when they can take the train to that fake hill in NJ to ski?

[danmelon]

If Vermont is chosen, your friends attorney better become very familiar with Act 250.

Oh and who is going to drive to VT when they can take the train to that fake hill in NJ to ski?

cool! you can take a train there? That's pretty chill.

[anotherVTskibum]

If Vermont is chosen, your friends attorney better become very familiar with Act 250.

Oh and who is going to drive to VT when they can take the train to that fake hill in NJ to ski?

Big Snow in Jersey is not a good setup for training. Between the cost to stay locally and that they don't have a good lane rental setup (as I understand, you basically have to rent the whole facility), it's not nearly as helpful as one might think. It's also only a 49-meter vertical drop, which is half of the minimum for a regulation scored slalom.

I'd think somewhere near Massachusetts suburbia would probably be ideal for a business model perspective, but southern Vermont or New Hampshire would be in easy reach of a lot of ski racers.

[Master of Energy]

Soooooo

Chatting with a friend. His kids were in Germany training slalom indoors.
He’s thinking about a new England indoor facility. But built on an existing 800 vert hill.

Anyone know of a barely functioning or defunct ski area that would work for that?

Southern nh or vt makes sense

Snow Valley is still for sale. 900 vert. Consistent pitch more or less

[avacadotoast]

Hey all, any interest in some cheap skis? Moving to a condo with less space so need to pare down. Not mention I don't have much use for giant skis being 170lb and ski tight NE trees now. Don't want to ship. I'm in the seacoast but don't mind a moderate jaunt to help deliver.


4fnt Kye 120's 189cm (124 waist). Heavy and damp yet not really difficult to ski. Not great float in super deep but were my cold snow dust on crust destroyers (up to say 8-10") because they make it wicked fun and don't do anything weird when they hit bottom...at least until bottom became concrete moguls at Jay Would like to include the PX racing 15s (8-15 din) just know they have a 4mm plate under one to help with leg length discrepancy. One mount (@ -0.5 I think) 306mm.

Volkl Attivas 154cm 72 waist -- Free

Stay tuned for the QST Lux 93, may have a friend interested.

Debating keeping the BD Amperages but let me know if interested. 185cm 115 under foot. Nice light versatile pow ski made and hand delivered by RaccoonFace himself. He also repaired the biggest base shot I ever got that went through the core Would be a great EC pow touring rig, I think. Currently have old solly demos which will be included; use or not.

Blizzard Rustler teams are accounted for.

Skis in the plastic are skinepenem's Declivity 108s that he needs to get and pay me for


Liberty Genesis 116 166cm. Nice easy pow ski for a lady that can handle the width...or guy I suppose, I don't judge Fairly light so maybe a good touring rig? One mount PX/Axial2 266mm

Underneath the Liberties, K2 what are essentially the 80mm public enemies that were around in various names for like 15 years or more. 159cm.

Head Collective 105 (blue tips). 191cm. These supplanted by beloved Rossi Axioms as my favorite West Coast daily driver. At least in maritime snow they crush. Heavy-ish supple tips/tails, stiffer under foot. Little sidecut underfoot makes them stable, surfy & easy to pivot -- sidecut increases as it gets toward and especially after the rocker points, so with more angle you can tighten the turns up. They did it all with aplomb (for me). Alas, I tried them a few times at Jay this past season and they just didn't work here and they're a wee bit long for those trees. Would keep the bindings - one mount PX/axial2 306mm @ -1 (where you want to be trust me). 2nd pair, so only one season of use.

Think I'm going to keep the Head Cyclic 115s. Was going to sell but I actually enjoyed the 191s a few times this year (they're lighter and easier than the 105s) -- and I just had the bright idea that my ex-wife's 171s might be a hoot for me in the trees, so going to give them a shot.

Just PM if any interest and we can discuss condition and whatnot and I'll work out a good deal for ya.

[MyNameIsAugustWest]

^^^ Killington?

edit in an attempt to be serious:
Granite Gorge outside Keene, NH.

The Gorge is open! They have lift served MTB now also. Smaller but similar to Whaleback as in steep AF. If we had gotten any snow in the last 3 winters I would have skinned it but there was never enough natural snow and I ski some pretty sketchy stuf.

Snow Valley is still for sale. 900 vert. Consistent pitch more or less

I used to skin there a fair bit...not so much since Peruvian moved away. Pretty spendy at north of $6M. I'd offer up Maple Valley as it's closer to I-91 and in the $3M neighborhood.

[T-dub]

Good call MNIAW, would need some vert for proper ski race training. holy shit, the mtn bike vid on this first page is just crazy, to me anyway: https://granitegorge.com/ that some of former mountain bike crazies who narrated it were walking with canes indicates the hazards well enough.

[Jonathan S.]

Soooooo

Chatting with a friend. His kids were in Germany training slalom indoors.
He’s thinking about a new England indoor facility. But built on an existing 800 vert hill.

Anyone know of a barely functioning or defunct ski area that would work for that?

Southern nh or vt makes sense

I was thinking exactly the same thing after skiing there earlier this month for the first time…

Pluses were that it was a clinic that fulfilled my PSIA continuing education requirement, combined with an inline skating clinic that same morning in a closed-off section of the parking garage.
Then that evening I went road biking with a friend in Greenwich, and the next morning had lunch with a friend in Manhattan.
Also hit up the Pick A Brick walls at the Lego stores in both the mall and Rockefeller Center for our daughter’s massive Lego city.
The mall was also a wonderfully overwhelming shock to the senses. Quite busy on a Sunday. The two most easily identically subgroups were Metallica fans (in identical tshirts) and Orthodox Jews (no Charedi, but still obvious to any secular Jew).

Minuses are that the pluses from this visit are almost entirely unrelated to the actual skiing as per the above write up.
The claimed vertical of 160’ might be realistic given that it seemed about two thirds of my memories of coaching college teams at 240’ Nashoba.
My Garmin watch recorded laps somehow but wouldn’t record vertical or position:
https://strava.app.link/CNrgqmTFmCb

However, nothing like two thirds as worthwhile as Nashoba. And Nashoba was marginal, although I could set a useful slalom training course there.
By poaching the far left of the trauma park, underneath the dormant poma, ducking occasionally, and snug up against the wall, where the snow wasn’t pulverized noncohesiveness, I felt like I got about six good turns on my slalom skis. The flatter runout at the bottom was worthlessly slow given the loose snow. And watch out for the partly buried orb. And the metal support corners of the lift line corral.

Even just a 300’ vertical hill in Connecticut would be far better. Doesn’t have to be a former ski area. Could even face south. Seems like being on a hill would be so less costly to construct and to refrigerate.
The new one in Norway is like that. Video of slalom training there looked decent.