Thinking.

What to do? Lots of snow up north. Lots of wind too. 84.3 MPH from the NW at the MT W summit right now. Tomorrow expected to be "Strong and damaging winds, with a northwest wind 85 to 90 mph." Travel up high won't be fun. Travel in the lee won't be too fun either "TUCKERMAN RAVINE HAS EXTREME AVALANCHE DANGER TODAY. WIDESPREAD AVALANCHE ACTIVITY IS CERTAIN. EXTREMELY UNSTABLE SLABS ARE CERTAIN ON MOST ASPECTS AND SLOPE ANGLES, LARGE DESTRUCTIVE AVALANCHES ARE POSSIBLE. AVOID AVALANCHE TERRAIN INCLUDING RUNOUT PATHS IN THE FLATS."

hmmm

Bottle up the Sauce

Last night's show was really, really good. I'm sure you can find a well crafted review with better adjectives somewhere. I'll leave it at this - if Mike and Scrap come to to a living room near you BE THERE to hear it.

Air Time

Another cross-post swiped from JRWA's blogstream www.jonesriver.org

WATD did a little live interview with me today. Thought it would make good narration for these fish I saw heading up the river on Monday.

Tuckermans: Winter in spring

(updated 4-20-2010)

This weekend we turned the clock back a few months. Our expectation for this trip was late spring conditions. In the week leading up to the trip we were expecting to find minimal snowpack, lots of down hiking, and crazy crowds associated with the Inferno race. In the last few days leading into the trip crowds seemed like less of a problem. That was because the forecast was calling for rain, sleet, and some snow. What we got instead was a full return to winter. North Conway picked up 2-3", Pinkham Notch snagged 6-8", and the higher elevations were reporting 10-15"+.

The race was cancelled. So that left the parking lot fairly empty except for hundred or so cars that had been left overnight for the racers.

TK, MD, and I hooked up with an extended party of T's friends and 7 of us hit the trail by 8:45. The trail was only somewhat packed out but the hiking was good and the pace was brisk. I almost immediately wished I had opted for snowboard over skis as my pack weighed many pounds more than in recent years.

HoJo's was a ghost town. Our group nearly doubled the population there. But the rangers were out in force and were jazzed up to discuss the avy conditions. After listening to reports and recommendations our group of 3 decided to lay low and stay low. The other 4 included three newbies to Tucks and one well seasoned vet. As a result they had both the motivation and the confidence to head a little higher. They knocked off some nice turns on the lower half of Hillman's while we had lunch and contemplated afternoon plans elsewhere. Freshies on the Sherburne made it all worthwhile. The snow was like honey - sticky but sweet! What had been dirt and rocks the day before was now a plush carpet and we cruised straight into the parking lot.

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C-Dog leading from behind

Just another MTB clip. With some new angles and M Doughty helping out. (Music unauthorized so go buy Sad Man Happy Man and make us all feel better).

Chilly Day at the beach

Chilly decided we should hit the beach for a bit today.

Fish in the river.

Had to co-opt this clip from my Jones River site. Cool to see the herring moving up river early this year.

What: Quick morning ride with Chilly-D

What: Quick morning ride with Chilly-D
Where: Carolina Hill
When: Morning (didn't I already say that?)
How: How!
Who: Me and Chillster (said that too)
Why: Honestly? Because I want to play with this new camera toy. And it's a last ditch attempt to get some legs for Tuckerman's

(video updated for improved quality)

Easter Slush Fest

Put it all together and what do you get?

Still working out the editing bugs to make the video quality better. I'll get there eventually.....

Shnoz Cam

Birds eye view from the best beak in the biz
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A river runs through it

I'm not talking some metaphor for father/son relationships as told through fly-fishing and cheezy actors. I'm talking about about water literally running through what should be ski trails.

Here's a shot of ski patrol using their poles to help dig a trench so some kids could pond skim under the Heaven's gate chair. Seriously.

Slushboarding paradise

Spring skiing has turned into summer skiing. It is HOT at Sugarbush. At least 75 on Friday and should hit 80 Saturday. The limitations of the Claybrook internet connection are only exceeded by my interest in computer time while here. But anyway I thought I'd throw up a quick look at the soft bumps, blazing sun, (and dirt) found on Paradise.

Obviously I need to revise the camera mounting location so viewers don't hurl (this was my on my ankle). But this was the first attempt and not too bad.




Bluebird (and clear skies)


Lunch by the river (of melting slopes)


Location, location, location