snowmonster
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Date(s) Skied: June 4, 2011
Resort or Ski Area: Tuckerman Ravine, NH
Conditions: Temps in the 40s, minimal wind, corn and rotten snow; sunny and bluebird; black fly season in full swing.
Trip Report: When I pulled into the parking lot, the first person I saw was rivercoil. I only see him at the beginning of my ski season so seeing him last Saturday probably means I'm nearing the end of the season. He was with madpatski (from T4T) who had driven all the way from Ottawa. Madpadraic was supposed to join me for the ride but an injury prevented that. We got to the floor of the Bowl at around lunch time. Sluice, the lower part of the Headwall and Chute were still skiable. There was a good ribbon of snow on Left Gully but it was separated from the Bowl by a substantial bushwack.
I first hit Sluice then traversed to skiers' left of Center Headwall and hiked up to just beneath a rock then skied down from there. There was a group near the base of Chute doing a snow science course and they were digging a pit. Because of the crevassing on Headwall, I headed back to Sluice and did some laps there. Madpatski told me that there was about 450 feet of vert in Sluice. There was a small shelf just about where the snow was separating from the rocks which made it convenient to put on skis. Conditions were great (compared to the fog and mist from my last trip) but the snow is slowly going away. The snow line was much higher in the Bowl than two weeks ago. All in all, it was a superb and relaxed day at Tux.
This trip became memorable because of the people on the trail and in the Bowl. Aside from the pros like madpatski and riv, there was the Scottish guy hiking in complete kilt and tam, the Montrealers who took a swim in the Cutler River (by choice), the snowblader who bounced all over Sluice, the TGR maggot who skied switch and mooned us and the first-time boarder who called himself Tigger then spent thirty minutes at the top working up the courage to get down since he had never seen anything so steep in his life. But, the prize for most interesting person in the Bowl goes to the girl who cracked bones in her neck in December then managed to ride 40 days this season as soon as her neck brace came off. She had some funny stories and adventures. She kept the hike down entertaining and made us forget about the g*d-d@mn*d black flies!
The snow is disappearing fast but it's still a great time to be skiing at Tux! Get at it!
Two views of the Bowl -- hikers' right then left:
Top of Sluice looking down:
Top of Sluice looking across the Bowl:
Center Headwall looking at the floor of the Bowl. Notice how high the snow line has crept up:
Rivercoil in top form on Sluice:
Great meeting you, madpatski!
The girl with the neck brace:
Bottom of the Bowl where the snow begins:
Two views of the Tux at dusk (the first may interest the camera-philes among you):
Resort or Ski Area: Tuckerman Ravine, NH
Conditions: Temps in the 40s, minimal wind, corn and rotten snow; sunny and bluebird; black fly season in full swing.
Trip Report: When I pulled into the parking lot, the first person I saw was rivercoil. I only see him at the beginning of my ski season so seeing him last Saturday probably means I'm nearing the end of the season. He was with madpatski (from T4T) who had driven all the way from Ottawa. Madpadraic was supposed to join me for the ride but an injury prevented that. We got to the floor of the Bowl at around lunch time. Sluice, the lower part of the Headwall and Chute were still skiable. There was a good ribbon of snow on Left Gully but it was separated from the Bowl by a substantial bushwack.
I first hit Sluice then traversed to skiers' left of Center Headwall and hiked up to just beneath a rock then skied down from there. There was a group near the base of Chute doing a snow science course and they were digging a pit. Because of the crevassing on Headwall, I headed back to Sluice and did some laps there. Madpatski told me that there was about 450 feet of vert in Sluice. There was a small shelf just about where the snow was separating from the rocks which made it convenient to put on skis. Conditions were great (compared to the fog and mist from my last trip) but the snow is slowly going away. The snow line was much higher in the Bowl than two weeks ago. All in all, it was a superb and relaxed day at Tux.
This trip became memorable because of the people on the trail and in the Bowl. Aside from the pros like madpatski and riv, there was the Scottish guy hiking in complete kilt and tam, the Montrealers who took a swim in the Cutler River (by choice), the snowblader who bounced all over Sluice, the TGR maggot who skied switch and mooned us and the first-time boarder who called himself Tigger then spent thirty minutes at the top working up the courage to get down since he had never seen anything so steep in his life. But, the prize for most interesting person in the Bowl goes to the girl who cracked bones in her neck in December then managed to ride 40 days this season as soon as her neck brace came off. She had some funny stories and adventures. She kept the hike down entertaining and made us forget about the g*d-d@mn*d black flies!
The snow is disappearing fast but it's still a great time to be skiing at Tux! Get at it!
Two views of the Bowl -- hikers' right then left:
Top of Sluice looking down:
Top of Sluice looking across the Bowl:
Center Headwall looking at the floor of the Bowl. Notice how high the snow line has crept up:
Rivercoil in top form on Sluice:
Great meeting you, madpatski!
The girl with the neck brace:
Bottom of the Bowl where the snow begins:
Two views of the Tux at dusk (the first may interest the camera-philes among you):
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