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East Branch Croton River-4/22 Checked out our fleet of rowboats and trimmed up access trails to my favorite spots on the river on Sunday so figured I'd fish for trout yesterday. Beautiful spring day, sunny and bluebird. Water was clear and fast. Enticed many hits and bites on a variety of small...

4/14/23-East Branch Reservoir Since the weather was like summer I figured it would be nice to take a row. It was sunny and hot but also breezy and dry so it was very pleasant. Did a bunch of trolling and Rich G. threw a ton of casts. I did not expect to catch anything so I was not surprised we...

Bog Brook 4/22/22-So I had planned on going fishing with my friends Richard and Steve on Friday 4/22 but Belleayre blew my mind and reopened so I went skiing instead. Richard and Steve went to Bog Brook in search of early season bass. Great weather but It was a tough day fishing and no bass...

This is also in my ski season thread I decided to repost this in trip reports to give Plattekill richly deserved publicity. My last day at Platty was on 2/24 and things looked grim; you can see that Freefall in the middle of the shot is essentially dirt: I thought yesterday might be my last...

A lot of cranky east coast skiers in here.

Good day at K yesterday. Parking lots were pretty full when I slogged in at 9:45. Rumor was top to bottom by noon. When I got up top people were still using the walkway. That was about 10:30. When I got to Rime there was a pack of skiers waiting for Great Northern to open. Before I could get to...

Good day at K yesterday. Parking lots were pretty full when I slogged in at 9:45. Rumor was top to bottom by noon. When I got up top people were still using the walkway. That was about 10:30. When I got to Rime there was a pack of skiers waiting for Great Northern to open. Before I could get to...

Use this thread to track your ski days for 2021-22. 1) 11/9/21-Killington

So my last day of skiing was Tuesday 4/6. Went to the East Branch on 4/8 for my first day of trout fishing. Got to Brady's Bend and was happy to see the water was clear and not running too fast. But a quick temperature check showed the water was still very cold. So my strategy was to go...

dblskifanatic had a good idea in my Timid Teddy thread. Post your pups here.

We have been searching for a dog to adopt for a few months. We have been pretty set on getting a beagle. Then we saw Timid Teddy and fell in love. Yesterday we found out we have been chosen to be his new family. He is very shy and has not had an easy life so far but he warmed up to us when we...

If you mention COVID-19 to me at any time during a lift ride I will push you off the lift. If you mention COVID-19 to me at any time while skiing I will ski you into the trees. Not really but I'm pretty fed up with all the yack yack.

So since ski season 19-20 got shut down I decided to do some wading and fishing on 3/21. After passing the main parking area which was packed and seeing fly fishermen fishing shoulder to shoulder near the spillway of the East Branch in the bathtub I drove to my more secluded spot at Brady's...

Got off to a late start on 3/8 partly because of time change. Got to K at 10, good timing since it was a cold morning. When I hit snow at 10:30 sun came out and it was a classic spring day temps in upper 40's. Things were softening rapidly. Hit all the Snowdon trees and bumps. Everything was...

Awesome conditions at K Wed Thurs. Packed powder conditions for the base with 3-4" fresh on top both days. Didn't get out on snow until about 10:30 Wed or I would have called it a powder day. Thurs I got out at 9 and took advantage of the fresh. Great 2 days! Growler: Low Rider...

Pretty crazy 2 days of skiing. 2/5 was sunny and cold. Groomers were fast and firm and a lot of fun. Not so much for naturals and trees. Frozen coral reef in trees but a good base. Naturals frozen also, skiable but not great. Southridge was the place to be, some decent bumps there and a bonus...

I'm going to Stratton tomorrow, first time in 35 years. Meeting my son's high school ski club there and I'm wondering which base lodge they park the bus at. Is it the Sun Bowl lodge? I called Stratton who amazingly (to me) could not tell me this information. I asked our trip coordinator who did...

Snowed all day on Monday, 2-3" accumulation on top of a firm and icy base. Highline and Wildfire were trails of the day, both had snowmaking going full blast and Wildfire had some nice bump lines. Trees were tricky, low angle stuff OK but steeper trees were a little scary with plenty of firm...

Third powder day of this week. More snow overnight and snowing still when we arrived. Easily over 30" for the week: Peekamoose was the trail of the day. Soft powder bumps leading down to untracked powder after the first pitch: Still fresh tracks to be had at 3:00: Trees are almost...

And the sun has set on eastern ski season 2018-19 Time to fish. April and early May were pretty brutal; lots of rain and out of control flow rates on rivers and streams made any trout fishing with waders almost impossible. Tried on 5/17 but the Esopus Creek had other ideas. Even with a 4.5...