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Bill, Dave, and I were up there today.

I broke a skin tip loop.

Then Dave hauled a$$ up the snowfield.

Then my boots were really really painful.

Then we skied wind-affected fresh and had fun.

Then my finger went numb and had to be rewarmed in my armpit. Mmmmm.

Then we skied rocks in a whiteout, until we gave up and walked down.

Then we ate burgers and drove home.

Winter is coming.  :)

this hurts me.  >:(

nice photos though!

does that make you a Super SheMan?

I think a Super Schier, once we get her a proper AT rig!

I skied sweep on the snowfields yesterday, following all other homeward bound skiers by a couple of hours.  Probably, I should have set my alarm the night before...but in the end I left the Paradise parking lot at 1:30 in the afternoon, by which point other skiers, more attuned to seasonal variations in available daylight, were already thinking about heading down.  I skinned directly from the parking lot into typical murk, with intermittent light snow, flat light and fog.

On the plus sid...

Luckily, it took us a lot longer than everybody else to get up and down... because we were in and out of the sun all the way to Pebble Creek!



Happy Halloween!

5" new (yippee!) at the parking lot with drifts up to a couple feet in places.  Blustery. Snowed lightly most of the day. Vis in and out, mostly out.  The many rocks still showing made up for some of the poor vis.  Saw that most started hiking down from Pebble Creek.  Skied down all the way to the parking lot  :D   Stay light!  (easy to say for us fairies)


We've come here to call for a season of snow.
We have wishes and hopes, Let's do it, here we go!

Don't treat our sp...

Yeah, how was the snow??  and visibility?  wind?  etc.  I'm aiming for tommorrow to complete my first turns all year.  Yep,yep,yep.

*zoom*

Great.
That's what we like to see.
Should get some more snow over the weekend.

Zap,

Well executed 007 on the Ski Pass, and pleasant journeys to the south.  

So what did you miss at the top?  Well, you really can see bubbling lava splattering the walls of the crater - suddenly seeming very close on the precipice overlooking the sputtering red hole.  The lava was cool, but the sound was scary.  Deep angry groins and rumbles - if you've ever been in an earthquake you know the sound, and it's unsettling.  

And gas mask is right on.  By the end of a 15 min...

here's the video:

http://web.mit.edu/jlcrowle/www/Sheffy/Bob%20on%20Royal%20Flush.AVI

http://web.mit.edu/jlcrowle/www/Sheffy/Bob%20on%20lower%20East%20Fall%20+%20alpine%20day%20wreckee.AVI

thats great news, thanks for sharing.

Crazy . . .

They have yet to even turn on the snowguns anywhere.
I didn't hit up that area of the mtn - lower elevation, and very exposed to wind.  Upper Killington Peak, Glades area, upper Snowdown, all completely "in" even though only October.
Driving back home, 3000' lower by the gondola base, completely bare.

I grew up skiing Killington and Mt. Snow. Never thought I'd see reference to them here on TAY. Thanks for the memory trip. Way to get some snow!

You know why they call it Royal Flush?  Because that's where all the poop goes from the summit lodge..or at least it did back in the day.  Go East Coast, Yeah!

Your memory of the upper slopes is still very applicable.  The rim covered ridge is still there.  I used the binoculars to get a closer view of the surface on the upper slopes and it did not appear skier friendly. The lower slopes were perfect.

Zap

Verrry nice. The 'friends' pic is particularly heartwarming.  :)

After reading your report I'm inclined to think the upper slopes of the mountain are in perpetual bad form.

On our tour of the mountain we found the upper 1,000 VF to be some of the most technical skiing of our whole tour.  Huge cauliflowers and mushrooms made simple skiing impossible and survival turns where the name of the game on the rime-covered upper pitches.  It was not very pleasant skiing, but it was doable.

The reward?  The view down into the cauldron from t...

Wow, so many memories coming back, Zap, this is so fun reading your report...some thoughts:

When we skied there, we camped in the Paragua (your "Monkey Puzzle" trees I assume) forest and were serenaded by the wildest screams I've ever heard while camping.  Scared the shit out of us as we tried to sleep for the night.  Turned out to be a version of a fox (or so we deduced from the fuana section of one of our guidebooks). But in that surreal forest, in the dead of night, it could...

Skiing among monkey puzzle trees is rather memorable.

MY OH MY!!
snow, skiing, mountains, and one of my favorite trees!!
you've just got to share photos of this!

best for safe travels,
jessica

Hmm... Which photoshop effect did you use to get all that whitestuff in the photo?

RAD!!

I was through that way a few weeks ago on my way to the ferry, carrying skis (but without maps, knowlege of local terrain, or visibility).  Looked like lots of good touring whenever the low cloudcover parted, but the closest I came was a quick hike partway up the glacier on Hudson's Bay Mountain, which would have been totally skiable were I able to see farther than fifty meters or so.  I slept overnight in the parking lot at Shames, surrounded by spectacular ski terrain (again subject...

It was great to meet a bunch of TAYers. I planned to wait to ski down with the posse, but the call of the corn was just too strong. Next time! ;)

Since probably no one else on this board is familiar with those mountains, how about some pics, so we can enjoy some stoke?  :)