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

**2nd mate** · 01-28-2023, 02:09 PM

Originally Posted by teleee

Ha!! Those were the good old days!! That may have been me alright. I just happened to pull up TGR and saw my name on here! Would love to get back and hang with you all for a game.

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Could have been tuckerman too??? I still owe you a day striper fishing on the flats.

**teleee** · 01-28-2023, 02:21 PM

Originally Posted by 2nd mate

Could have been tuckerman too??? I still owe you a day striper fishing on the flats.

I have a feeling it was probably me. And hell yes we need to get that striper trip taken care of!

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**Brock Landers** · 01-28-2023, 02:38 PM

Originally Posted by teleee

Ha!! Those were the good old days!! That may have been me alright. I just happened to pull up TGR and saw my name on here! Would love to get back and hang with you all for a game.

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Get back in the spring/summer for Red Sox and fishing

**anotherVTskibum** · 01-28-2023, 03:12 PM

Originally Posted by riser4

Holy shit. It was backed up all the way to there? Fucking brutal.

This weekend and last weekend. I'm not going to be surprised if that's a trend. Trying to park at Barker around noon on Friday felt more like a weekend then a weekday, too.

The third-hand report was that the skier count was in the neighborhood of 12k last weekend, which is well below the numbers Kirchner mentioned on a podcast on reference to peak days in 2021, so the traffic situation may just be the new normal for a while.

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**Fenris** · 01-28-2023, 03:16 PM

Originally Posted by riser4

Holy shit. It was backed up all the way to there? Fucking brutal.

It was backed up to roughly the Mt Abram access road last weekend. This weekend staff are parked at Telstar and elsewhere and they still filled the parking lots by 10 or 11.

**teleee** · 01-28-2023, 03:43 PM

Originally Posted by Brock Landers

Get back in the spring/summer for Red Sox and fishing

I need to! When’s the wedding? And more importantly- the bachelor party.

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**Brock Landers** · 01-28-2023, 03:55 PM

I haven’t given more than 10 seconds of thought/post on TGR about the ring never mind actually asking her yet!

Prob cape cod 2024 (wedding) provided I live through the bach party (Miami? Austin? Vegas? Newfoundland?)

**teleee** · 01-28-2023, 03:56 PM

Originally Posted by Brock Landers

I haven’t given more than 10 seconds of thought/post on TGR about the ring never mind actually asking her yet!

Prob cape cod 2024 (wedding) provided I live through the bach party (Miami? Austin? Vegas? Newfoundland?)

Either way I am in order to participate in your survival or demise!

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**Aldo** · 01-28-2023, 04:12 PM

Originally Posted by Peruvian

Based on our date night to a new “listening lounge” in Burly last night - PBR and UC are out as the hip cheap beer and Miller High Life is in. I saw it creeping onto menus but didn’t think it would catch the wave.

Ok - just was in a friend’s liquor store - usually some sort of Saturday tasting going on - was handed a high life. You’re right, it’s in. Tasty brew.

**spanky** · 01-28-2023, 04:41 PM

Platty today was the right call (over Hunter - see up thread). Sunshine and soft snow ruled most of the day.

Blockbuster at the open. Wound up it was worthy of 9 repeat laps.

We didn’t venture into the trees as there was a pretty significant crust on anything that didn’t get much traffic (and the snowpack is quite thin). For example, Freefall early was survival skiing but once it got more traffic, it was much better.

It's a pretty good crowd for a Saturday
And the manager gives me a smile
'Cause he knows that it's me they've been comin' to see
To forget about life for a while

Good sized crowd. All lots filled and cars parked down the road past the employee lot entrance. A little bit of a line for the triple, but the double was a couple of chair wait at the worst. Even with both lifts filled to capacity for most of the day the trails were never crowded. Awesome for a beautiful Saturday!

Chili and cheesesteak quesadilla made for an interesting afternoon.

**SoVT Joey** · 01-28-2023, 04:52 PM

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Stratton was really good til 10am

**SoVT Joey** · 01-28-2023, 04:55 PM

Bromley was great after

**geomorph** · 01-28-2023, 07:03 PM

Finally made it to a local little hill I'd been meaning to hit, Veteran's Memorial. Tiny little hill at like 240' vert but a fun scene with T-bar and rope tow. Snow was proper fucked from the rain event, with a good 1/4" of crust on top of mashed potatoes. The one run I did on an ungroomed trail was unpleasant but survivable. Groomed surface was nice spring-like conditions. Also, soda/chips/candy was a buck each and the ticket was free for everyone, so that was a bonus.

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**Brownski** · 01-28-2023, 07:22 PM

As has been attested to by others, Platty is awesome. They did some good business today.

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**m2711c** · 01-28-2023, 07:34 PM

free skiing is still best skiing!

fact.

**JongDoe** · 01-28-2023, 07:45 PM

Originally Posted by SoVT Joey

Stratton was really good til 10am

After 10 was it the conditions that sucked or was it the crowds? Thinking of hitting it on the way home tomorrow, but may opt out if it is an ice rink like the last couple of weekends

**buckethead** · 01-28-2023, 10:10 PM

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platts was fun in crucial sun,
and yes blockbuster!

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(shade crunchy, not so fun)

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last sun...and done!

most crowded i've seen the place in years, lines(!) were steady but mild overall (and compared to recent postings]

welcome back single and congrats on a successful journey

**jhyatt** · 01-29-2023, 06:06 AM

Wow doesn't Sunday river limit ticket sales?
While Cannon isn't perfect it's never that crowded. Zoomer triple down indefinitely so you have to lap the tram to ski some terrain.
Woods are filled in but I only went up. I felt the crust was too sketchy for down so I went down mittersill.
The crust was high risk to twerk a knee and not that fun.
Have a great day!
@singlecross Japan looks sweet. I was really close to doing a trip there this year but decided south Africa instead to volunteer in a rural school and do some surfing and trail running. But your pics... Wow
Feb should be good in New England

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**SoVT Joey** · 01-29-2023, 06:08 AM

Originally Posted by JongDoe

After 10 was it the conditions that sucked or was it the crowds? Thinking of hitting it on the way home tomorrow, but may opt out if it is an ice rink like the last couple of weekends

. Crowds. Snow is great. The place is way less busy today. Snow is great right now. On ursa headed up for another one now. Love first tracks

**spanky** · 01-29-2023, 08:34 AM

Originally Posted by buckethead

platts was fun in crucial sun,
and yes blockbuster!

You should’ve told me you were going to be there! Regardless, how did we not run into each other? Our pics of blockbuster are awfully similar…

Originally Posted by spanky

Blockbuster at the open. Wound up it was worthy of 9 repeat laps.

**Fenris** · 01-29-2023, 10:20 AM

Originally Posted by jhyatt

Wow doesn't Sunday river limit ticket sales?

Nope. It sounds like things weren't EpicLiftLines bad once they could actually get folks on the hill, other than being a little understaffed due to everyone diverted to help out with parking.

Hell, it was probably more disruptive to the mountain earlier in the week when one of the lodges couldn't serve anything but salad.

**buckethead** · 01-29-2023, 10:24 AM

Originally Posted by spanky

You should’ve told me you were going to be there! Regardless, how did we not run into each other? Our pics of blockbuster are awfully similar…

my bad! i was expecting the usual quiet and figured we'd bump into eachother. the upper lot was already closed when pulled in around 9:20.
glad you picked platts. can only imagine what hunter was like yesterday!

**anotherVTskibum** · 01-29-2023, 12:02 PM

Originally Posted by Fenris

Nope. It sounds like things weren't EpicLiftLines bad once they could actually get folks on the hill, other than being a little understaffed due to everyone diverted to help out with parking.

Hell, it was probably more disruptive to the mountain earlier in the week when one of the lodges couldn't serve anything but salad.

I was on the hill until about 11 am this morning. I can't speak to other parts of the mountain, but the Barker quad line never looked to be horrible, and by 10:30 it was under 10 minutes. Took a lap over to check out Merrill Hill with one of the guys I work with, skied onto that lift, and then had a short wait to get onto the South Ridge quad to get back to Barker. Trails had people on them but it wasn't Killington on a weekend crazy, so I'd think the parking and road access is currently the limiting factor for total capacity.

I hadn't heard about the salad issue, when/where was that?

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**ex-powderbroker** · 01-29-2023, 01:14 PM

snowmageddon here. we were looking at 4-8 this morning and it’s gonna be on the high side or surpass it. every road is one lane, parallel parking to the curb abandoned. haven’t check the weather for the northern greens but tomorrow should be good

**Bottleman** · 01-29-2023, 02:25 PM

Originally Posted by ex-powderbroker

snowmageddon here. we were looking at 4-8 this morning and it’s gonna be on the high side or surpass it. every road is one lane, parallel parking to the curb abandoned. haven’t check the weather for the northern greens but tomorrow should be good

Sure. Rub it in

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