Mt Washington 4/22/2010 Blog Railroad

[skidmarks]

The Time for Tuckerman forum started calling Mt Washington's Cog Railroad the "blog railroad" it's great access to some super skiable ravines. I guess some of the TforT members have a fear that the unclean will start skiing their terrain and pressure is on to keep some of these lines spoken about only in code. Looks like they want to keep the Joey's out!!

So today we skied the Blurt Ravine!! One of the highlights was seeing a Moose up close. It was a long slog up the Blog under blue skies. We had nice creamy soft snow for the ride down.

 

[riverc0il]

Nicely done, sir! Wish I could have joined you up there but perhaps another time.

 

[skidmarks]

Nicely done, sir! Wish I could have joined you up there but perhaps another time.

Thanks! We got very lucky with the weather but that was the plan! Maybe next time we can ski together.
Have you seen the Avi path in Blurt Ravine yet??
Vimeo is slow! So More pictures

 

[skiadikt]

very nice!

 

[skibumm100]

the blog free zone.....

If you've been following this saga, it's not the T4T regulars as a whole trying to keep the "secret" stash to themselves. The major complainers about the blogging have been low post count members/visitors. You know, people who signed up just to post complaints. Most at T4T are pretty willing to share info. Some are less willing than others but, by and large, a pretty open and good group.

Great TR BTW. I plan to head up to Burnt Ravine soon before it disappears. It's all tongue in cheek. Hopefully Saturday afternoon or Sunday, weather dependent. Maybe I'll see you up there sometime. Cheers!

 

[thetrailboss]

Very nice. Is the snowmaking line still in place along the railroad? I take it that there is no more Cog-Skiing available...that was short-lived.

And odd seeing a moose that high up. They generally stay down low but sometimes they will head for the hills.

 

[wa-loaf]

Very nice!

 

[skidmarks]

Very nice. Is the snowmaking line still in place along the railroad? I take it that there is no more Cog-Skiing available...that was short-lived.

And odd seeing a moose that high up. They generally stay down low but sometimes they will head for the hills.

You can still see some snowmaking pipes. It's only one run so I can see why it didn't fly.

 

[thetrailboss]

You can still see some snowmaking pipes. It's only one run so I can see why it didn't fly.

One run and they were charging some exorbiant amount of money for it IIRC.

 

[TheBEast]

Excellent. I've noticed the blog saga going on over there and with the guys from FIS. I'd be interested to see if any of this really leads to more people up there skiing that stuff. Certainly some people who feel that you shouldn't talk about your skiing on the web.

 

[skibumm100]

entertaining

I think most people are entertained by the whole concept of secret lines on MTW. There are a few, and maybe more than a few, that think it shouldn't be talked about. There were a few who got pretty upset at posted GPS tracks. The mountain is plastered with hiking trails. If they want to find a new line, go find one. If people want someplace all to themselves, maybe they shouldn't ski next to the cog? There's probably some nice steep pitches along I-89 or I-93 they could ski. :grin:

 

[dmc]

This whole new school thing on TFT has kinda turned me off and many of the original TFT folks too...

It's no longer a cool thing to just go to the shelters, ski and party with friends..

 

[skidmarks]

This whole new school thing on TFT has kinda turned me off and many of the original TFT folks too...

It's no longer a cool thing to just go to the shelters, ski and party with friends..

I got a chuckle when one guy was ranking on someone for skiing a Great Gulf Gully in "transition snow"

 

[dmc]

I got a chuckle when one guy was ranking on someone for skiing a Great Gulf Gully in "transition snow"

haha...

I'm going to miss going again this year... May do an auto road trip later...

 

[riverc0il]

Excellent. I've noticed the blog saga going on over there and with the guys from FIS. I'd be interested to see if any of this really leads to more people up there skiing that stuff.

It already has led to more people skiing that side of the mountain. Heck, count me as one of them as this was my first season skiing that side of the mountain after reading about it two seasons ago on T4T. Put it this way, the day I summited MW from the west, pretty much every parking space at Marshfield Station was full when I was leaving. Guys who had skied alone over there for years were commenting that they have never seen anything like it.

 

[skidmarks]

West Side Slide

It already has led to more people skiing that side of the mountain. Heck, count me as one of them as this was my first season skiing that side of the mountain after reading about it two seasons ago on T4T. Put it this way, the day I summited MW from the west, pretty much every parking space at Marshfield Station was full when I was leaving. Guys who had skied alone over there for years were commenting that they have never seen anything like it.

Everyone is talking about how much better the snow is on the West Side this season. Even the guy at the Notch Info desk was talking about how much better it was.


On Good Friday my 1st day on the Cog side the weather was perfect and the lot was full. Yesterday the only others were a hiking couple. Monday we met one other group of skiers on the way out. I think Good Friday was the perfect storm.

 

[dmc]

I skied Airplane back when I skied...

We'd do it from the shelters.. Never even thought of the cog...

Everything I know about MW starts at the ravine.. First time in GOS we went from Hillmans... GG from RGully...

 

[skidmarks]

I skied Airplane back when I skied...

We'd do it from the shelters.. Never even thought of the cog...

Everything I know about MW starts at the ravine.. First time in GOS we went from Hillmans... GG from RGully...

You ever Do It in the shelters????

 

[dmc]

You ever Do It in the shelters????

No but we had to ask a couple French Canadians to cut it out....

 

[awf170]

I think most people are entertained by the whole concept of secret lines on MTW. There are a few, and maybe more than a few, that think it shouldn't be talked about. There were a few who got pretty upset at posted GPS tracks. The mountain is plastered with hiking trails. If they want to find a new line, go find one. If people want someplace all to themselves, maybe they shouldn't ski next to the cog? There's probably some nice steep pitches along I-89 or I-93 they could ski. :grin:

Yeah, it quite funny. Even though everything on Washington is visible it is still super easy to find untracked snow since the mountain is so huge. Even on the most crowded weekend of the year I was able to ski three 1,700 ft. runs of completely untracked snow. It really isn't that difficult to get away from the masses... the only problem is that parking runs out, but that can remedied by getting up before the crack of 10am.

I got a chuckle when one guy was ranking on someone for skiing a Great Gulf Gully in "transition snow"

Why? I agree that it sucks that someone would mess the run up by skiing it in mank. Plus, I don't know why you would want to ski it in conditions like that.