Recent content by noreasterbackcountry

It looked like a couple other people had skied it before the last storm, and there was one other person who was skiing it the day we were there. I don't know how much traffic it has seen since then. Also, I'm curious as to how skiable the hiking trails would be... and whether there are...

And we hit the refresh button down here last night! More freshies for the 617. :) Go get it! BTW... Apologies to the admin. I meant to post this in Trip Reports. Not sure what happened.

I believe I've hiked through that area, but haven't been there in a while. I will definitely have to go check it out. Thanks for the heads-up. With that snow last night I'm sure there are fresh lines all around. Hopefully I can get to it before it gets rained on and freezes up Wednesday.

I've been thinking about trying to ski Kearsarge for a while now. It seems like the powerline stares me down everytime I'm driving south on 89. It was COLD last Friday and pretty windy, but we sucked it up and finally crossed this one off the list. There's alot to like about this place...

Wow. Just wow.

I think it is mostly due to the fact that when I want to travel 2.5+ hours for resort skiing I go back home to Burke, and when I'm in the area for BC skiing, there's just so much fun stuff across the road. But I've definitely been missing out. Looks like a great place to spend a powder day.

This was my first trip to Wildcat (for backcountry or resort skiing), despite the fact I've been across the road a number of times for Sherbie and the Gulf of Slides trails. I was pretty impressed by the glades on skier's right on the skin up the mountain, as well as the sustained vertical at...

Not mine. Although, I was impressed with that line as well. I was way too busy tracking up the glades in there. It was amazing that even on Saturday afternoon there were still a lot of untracked lines in the trees. It seemed like most of the folks who ventured in there stuck to the hiking...

I only skied down to the road that runs along the southern edge. I think that 128 may have been re-routed at some point. I remember biking over near the pond and seeing an abandoned section of highway in the woods. I wonder if they were referring to skiing down to that part. This may be the...

Here's an interesting and fairly plausible take on what might have gone wrong from one of the climbing guides on Mt. Washington. http://nealpinestart.com/2015/02/18/a-young-climber-perishes-on-mt-adams/ He indicates he has guided groups to the top in similar conditions and that a trip up...

Those of us living in Boston don't have to drive too far to find some great fresh powder runs this year. I did some exploring around Blue Hills in the last week after having avoided the place for a few years. There are some great glade runs in there- steep, powdery, challenging (albeit short)...

This site has the AMC hut conditions and is updated daily: http://www.outdoors.org/recreation/tripplanner/go/backcountry-weather.cfm

Magua will wipe the seed from the Earth of the next Whitehair who claims colonials "discovered" mountains.

Being in the top 2% in I-829 approvals probably didn't hurt either.