Mount Snow 2009/2010

[Beetlenut]

[SIZE=-2] the MOST important note to take is that Vcunning's place and his beertender is at a ski up to location this season![/SIZE]

Sounds like the makings for an AZ event! :flag:

 

[Glenn]

I'll say it again...we need an AZ Mt. Snow crew gathering this season.

 

[Beetlenut]

I'll say it again...we need an AZ Mt. Snow crew gathering this season.

I'm down. I vote Reefer as tour guide!

 

[ta&idaho]

I'm down. I vote Reefer as tour guide!

I'm in for that.

 

[vcunning]

[size=-2] the MOST important note to take is that Vcunning's place and his beertender is at a ski up to location this season![/size]

Sounds like the makings for an AZ event! :flag:

It's not too fancy of a place, but you can ski to beer (heck, I'll even provide some food) while the AZers terrorize Grommet

 

[drjeff]

It's not too fancy of a place, but you can ski to beer (heck, I'll even provide some food) while the AZers terrorize Grommet

V, I'll have to bring the pop up tent one weekend, and I'm sure we can find a banner or two of Mount Snow's mythical snowmaking super hero to hang on the tent! :lol:

Sounds like we'll need to atleast once this winter have a glorified slopeside "tailgating" session! :beer:

 

[Highway Star]

Just looking at google maps, it seems there are some pretty good sidecounty options available.....

 

[Beetlenut]

It's not too fancy of a place, but you can ski to beer (heck, I'll even provide some food) while the AZers terrorize Grommet

That's ok, we're not too fancy of a group. Access to Beer and,.. well no that should about do it!

 

[Tin Woodsman]

Agree with Newpylong, and if your not real carefull out there, you can quickly end up with a LONG hike up and out of the drainage gully that the basin there feeds into

If that's the case, then lousy job by the Mt. Snow locals. It's a pretty obvious option with everything you're looking for. Somewhat out of the way entrance and an exit onto a run that doesn't see much traffic. Further you go out, the longer you're run, but the longer your traverse/hike back.

 

[reefer]

I'm there. Let me know when. If anyone was interested, I'm in on a house on Route 100 less than (10) minutes away and guests can stay for $30.00. Ski bum type of place with singles and bunk beds, couple bathrooms, huge kitchen, bar with dartboard, living room with wood stove, and a grill on the deck.
Pretty much always plenty of room.
Oh and four refrigerators. One for food, three for beer.

 

[Beetlenut]

I'm there. Let me know when. If anyone was interested, I'm in on a house on Route 100 less than (10) minutes away and guests can stay for $30.00. Ski bum type of place with singles and bunk beds, couple bathrooms, huge kitchen, bar with dartboard, living room with wood stove, and a grill on the deck.
Pretty much always plenty of room.
Oh and four refrigerators. One for food, three for beer.

I'll have to keep that in mind as a "drive up the night before" option. Good ratio on the refrigerators!

 

[Newpylong]

If that's the case, then lousy job by the Mt. Snow locals. It's a pretty obvious option with everything you're looking for. Somewhat out of the way entrance and an exit onto a run that doesn't see much traffic. Further you go out, the longer you're run, but the longer your traverse/hike back.

How is it a lousy job? They would be all over you like flies on a turd if you went up there with any type of saw that would make a difference. A small handsaw aint gonna do anything with the amount of growth out there... The mountain itself if severely restricted in what they can cut/clean up inbounds. When they do a tree cleanup a member of the Forest service has to be with them.

Re: Highwaystar's post - yes, the terrain definitely looks tasty riding up the Sunbrook chair.

 

[Tin Woodsman]

How is it a lousy job? They would be all over you like flies on a turd if you went up there with any type of saw that would make a difference. A small handsaw aint gonna do anything with the amount of growth out there... The mountain itself if severely restricted in what they can cut/clean up inbounds. When they do a tree cleanup a member of the Forest service has to be with them.

Re: Highwaystar's post - yes, the terrain definitely looks tasty riding up the Sunbrook chair.

You're kidding me, right? There are areas 3 and 4x the times the size of that zone that have been thinned over years at Stowe, Smuggs, SB, Jay, Bolton, Wildcat, Cannon, and numerous other mountains. I said locals not b/c of some official foray alone with the USFS. It's pretty easy to hike up there in the summer completely out of sight and you certainly don't need a chain saw or anything silly like that.

Not that I'm advocating such illegal trimming on USFS land, but rather am just surprised that there isn't a lot out there. It's one of the first places you'd think of, especially after all the woods that were brought on map over the last decade or so.

 

[tylerjames]

You're kidding me, right? There are areas 3 and 4x the times the size of that zone that have been thinned over years at Stowe, Smuggs, SB, Jay, Bolton, Wildcat, Cannon, and numerous other mountains. I said locals not b/c of some official foray alone with the USFS. It's pretty easy to hike up there in the summer completely out of sight and you certainly don't need a chain saw or anything silly like that.

Not that I'm advocating such illegal trimming on USFS land, but rather am just surprised that there isn't a lot out there. It's one of the first places you'd think of, especially after all the woods that were brought on map over the last decade or so.

never heard about the idiots up at jay who illegally cut 800 trees and now big jay is off limits?
Illegal Cutting

 

[Tin Woodsman]

never heard about the idiots up at jay who illegally cut 800 trees and now big jay is off limits?
Illegal Cutting

No - never heard of that story. Must have been way off the radar. :blink:

Of course, that's a great parallel for what I'm referring to....not.

 

[tylerjames]

No - never heard of that story. Must have been way off the radar. :blink:

Of course, that's a great parallel for what I'm referring to....not.

its cutting down trees in a US forest, what don't you get?

firstly its illegal and secondly why if someone did cut would tell everyone from new york where those trails are just so they can say what a lousy job they did? those guys up at jay were doing the same thing your faulting the mount snow locals for not doing.

 

[Tin Woodsman]

its cutting down trees in a US forest, what don't you get?

firstly its illegal and secondly why if someone did cut would tell everyone from new york where those trails are just so they can say what a lousy job they did? those guys up at jay were doing the same thing your faulting the mount snow locals for not doing.

No - you have zero idea what you're talking about. Zero.

Those guys at Jay were absolute maroons who went up to protected state land and started mowing down a wide boulevard with a chainsaw. Aside from the stupidity of this from a pure skiing department (the trees were widely enough spaced as it was), this was wrong on so many levels.

I'm surely not advocating cutting down trees on USFS land, let alone with a chainsaw. I'm simply expressing surprise that it hasn't been done before (if this is in fact true - which I doubt), as MUCH larger swathes have been pruned in similarly protected areas (both USFS and State lands) at SB, Stowe, Burke, Wildcat and many other resorts that receive enough snow for it to be worth it. What part of this remedial discussion do you not understand?

 

[Newpylong]

At the end of the day it's just as easy to go into the Trials and keep going until you're worried you're going to come out in New Hampshire - effectively giving you a 1000 vert of uninterrupted excellent tree skiing.

 

[drjeff]

At the end of the day it's just as easy to go into the Trials and keep going until you're worried you're going to come out in New Hampshire - effectively giving you a 1000 vert of uninterrupted excellent tree skiing.

Bingo! Mount Snow has just as good, if not better both inbounds and maybe slightly out of bounds tree skiing with much easier "escape routes" than the area of The Ridge trail. And a lot of the other stiff doesn't have they East/Southeast exposure that the stuff off the Ridge Trail has (and I'm honestly not just saying that to keep some goods for myself)

 

[Vinny]

No - you have zero idea what you're talking about. Zero.

Those guys at Jay were absolute maroons who went up to protected state land and started mowing down a wide boulevard with a chainsaw. Aside from the stupidity of this from a pure skiing department (the trees were widely enough spaced as it was), this was wrong on so many levels.

I'm surely not advocating cutting down trees on USFS land, let alone with a chainsaw. I'm simply expressing surprise that it hasn't been done before (if this is in fact true - which I doubt), as MUCH larger swathes have been pruned in similarly protected areas (both USFS and State lands) at SB, Stowe, Burke, Wildcat and many other resorts that receive enough snow for it to be worth it. What part of this remedial discussion do you not understand?

"What part of this remedial discussion do you not understand?"

Ummm, I'm not really getting your "absolute maroons" comment? Do you not like that color?