Stowe jan 14 - 17

[hardline]

Stowe jan 14 - 17, pics now up

so im just getting out of the hot tub with two girls and i will do this proper after i cook carrie's birthday dinner. the quick and the dirty. car broke down on the way from the condo to mani, cold, windblown, hot spiced cider at fireside, new tree shot on spruce, no notch action. hitting it tommorrow, pics and full TR will be up in 2 hours.

 

[powbmps]

Alright, its been like 10 hours. Did something better come up ?

 

[billski]

At -14 the bits move slower

I'll find Hardline when I get up there tomorrow. If something better comes up, I'm not telling

 

[Beetlenut]

Maybe the cable came unplugged from the back of his laptop! Now he has 1's and 0's all over the floor!

 

[billski]

Maybe the cable came unplugged from the back of his laptop! Now he has 1's and 0's all over the floor!

Yep, that's an ugly mess. Especially if you don't own a bitsweeper. :flag:

 

[Marc]

Weak sauce, 18 hours+ and no pics yet...

 

[Beetlenut]

Yep, that's an ugly mess. Especially if you don't own a bitsweeper. :flag:

Word! That bytes!

 

[hardline]

so didn't get out of the city till 8:45. hauled ass and got into town around 1:45. too many shots of jamesons and a bottle of red wine later im setting up 2 boards/ bindings.
8:45 rolls around way to fast. at 1pm on the gondi i realize my friend carrie was kicking me to get up. on the the way to the hill my car overheats. whaaaat, the exit hose on the radiator frooze. so nothing was flowing into the block.pulled off at muigels and figured at what was what. a verry nice amn from MA in a subbie gave my luigi a ride down to ags station to get some antifreeze. load the pupie up and we are rollim
drop the kidies off at lessons. (kiddies are the never evers that where with us) we head up the quad as the gondi aint spinning. we go up and take a ridge/sunrise/standard run. then after our the rise up the quad we ducked in to chapel woods. came out to far over and end up going down over to the tollhouse.then my freind was frozed

so we poped into the fireside, she had a jamesons and coffee while i had a spiced cider with rum. once we had those we decided to have some food. she got the chowdaa i got the beef stew, not bad. jumped on the double after i had the lady at fireside call to make sure the gondi was spinning.

there are more moose tracks on the trail than skiers

traversed over to the gondi.

rode up and did chin to switchback to some woods to lower chin. tracked but fun. did that bunch more times as my friend didn't really want to go out into the notch. at 2:30 we took cliff trail over tot the over easy to go meet up with the kids at their lesson. some rasta kid blow out of bypass and nearly pancakes me. neither of us misses a beat and he gives me a my bad as we are still bombing down the trail. then the dumbass crashes into a tree at the entrance to nosedive.

went over to spruce there where a bunch of people sleeping by the lockers at spruce camp. the girls decided to have a burger. i have to say the food they over at spruce is pretty damn impressive. the great room is cool if not a little souless.

bathrooms are big

bar sucks feel more home at the ghetto.
decided to do do a few laps on spruc eas the sun was over there now.

we did a bunch of laps on sterrling. found a few new woods shots over there.

last time up it was cold so we did an upper smugs run

back down to spruce to collect the kids.

looks like tomorrow might be an off day as its just that cold but i might slowshoe it up the LT later in the day.

 

[hardline]

Weak sauce, 18 hours+ and no pics yet...

so hiked into the notch and did the tourist thing on 100 to waterbury. drinking mulled wine. going to be out early tomorrow. going to the sunset for some pool and beers then take the buss to the market.

 

[roark]

After this:

so im just getting out of the hot tub with two girls

the rest was a disappointment.

 

[RISkier]

The new lodge at Spruce is nice. Very different than the old Spruce lodge or the temporary they've been using the last few years. The food is tasty but they are really proud of it; at half price it would be a decent value. I love Stowe but the whole Spruce development is targeting a clientele that's outside the circles in which I normally run.

 

[hardline]

After this:

the rest was a disappointment.

unfortunatly the the cam was left at the condo but my girl carrie has pics ill have to get them when i get back to the city

 

[billski]

The new lodge at Spruce is nice. Very different than the old Spruce lodge or the temporary they've been using the last few years. The food is tasty but they are really proud of it; at half price it would be a decent value. I love Stowe but the whole Spruce development is targeting a clientele that's outside the circles in which I normally run.

My bud says the prices for food at "spruce camp" about 1.5x the regular high prices (burgers are 13(no chips) vs 7-8 at the other Stowe concessions.
Since I'm not a brown bagged, guess I'll be eating at the Mani ghetto.

 

[hardline]

i really like the food. it is also ten times better than over at the ghetto.

 

[hardline]

well today started off kinde late as the power went off and we got smashed from doing sunset/picaso/the shed. the walk back to the condo was a little hazey.
got to the hill at 10:30 got right on the gondi. called billski and said i was going to do a bench run. took chin clip down

the snow was so damn sticky i just unstraped and booted it out there.

the bench needs some love.

i didnt have my real pack with me so i had no cord to fix the downed side and it needs to raised. come on people.
looking over the ridge back to the resort

passed angel

and decided i was going out further into the notch snd i was rewarded with some damn fine blow-in

missed the traverse back to the maintenance shed so i just went with it down to 108. there is still a lot of pucker bush down low. snow was still really light and just slightly wind affected. the run took me a little under an hour as i was taking my time and scouting some things.

poped in to midway for a juice called billski. he said he was just getting off at the top of the gondi. said i would wait for him. meet up with him and we took the gondi up and did a screamin run down cliff trail and over to the quad. it too the boys over to upper chapel. bill had never been in there. the traverse is still a little boney and i took nice shit to my knee. bailled on the lower part and traversed back to the quad. the second run we jumped into the woods lower down.

billski comming through lower chapel.

then we had a little in run in with the waterbar on the sideov the trail. i first went off smashed into the far side. then i yelled up for bill to watch out. he landed right in the middle. then bills friend hit it sideways and well got a little stuck

we then went over to the gondi and went down chin clip and did the woods over there. kinda tracked but fun to be out. at 2:30 had to bail and go ever to spruce to meet my friend. sorry i didn't get back bill but i did a few upper smugs laps. then found my friend.

i got the sausage sandwich and a few swichbacks.

this isn't the stowe of yeasteryear

was goin to stay and watch the movie claim they where showing but i was pretty tired. so i decided to just go back to the condo so i could nap.
pretty notch

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

great pictures..food looks good..

 

[hardline]

great pictures..food looks good..

actually wasnt in food was bit futher out but up top it was nice but the pucker bush sucks ballz.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

actually wasnt in food was bit futher out but up top it was nice but the pucker bush sucks ballz.

I don't mean Angel Food..I mean the sausage..

 

[hardline]

I don't mean Angel Food..I mean the sausage..

haha easy to see the mix up. the burgers there are really good. its like having a new york nieborhood in the lodge. anything you want.

 

[deadheadskier]

well today started off kinde late as the power went off and we got smashed from doing sunset/picaso/the shed. the walk back to the condo was a little hazey.
got to the hill at 10:30 got right on the gondi. called billski and said i was going to do a bench run. took chin clip down

the snow was so damn sticky i just unstraped and booted it out there.

the bench needs some love.

i didnt have my real pack with me so i had no cord to fix the downed side and it needs to raised. come on people.
looking over the ridge back to the resort

passed angel

and decided i was going out further into the notch snd i was rewarded with some damn fine blow-in

missed the traverse back to the maintenance shed so i just went with it down to 108. there is still a lot of pucker bush down low. snow was still really light and just slightly wind affected. the run took me a little under an hour as i was taking my time and scouting some things.

poped in to midway for a juice called billski. he said he was just getting off at the top of the gondi. said i would wait for him. meet up with him and we took the gondi up and did a screamin run down cliff trail and over to the quad. it too the boys over to upper chapel. bill had never been in there. the traverse is still a little boney and i took nice shit to my knee. bailled on the lower part and traversed back to the quad. the second run we jumped into the woods lower down.

billski comming through lower chapel.

then we had a little in run in with the waterbar on the sideov the trail. i first went off smashed into the far side. then i yelled up for bill to watch out. he landed right in the middle. then bills friend hit it sideways and well got a little stuck

we then went over to the gondi and went down chin clip and did the woods over there. kinda tracked but fun to be out. at 2:30 had to bail and go ever to spruce to meet my friend. sorry i didn't get back bill but i did a few upper smugs laps. then found my friend.

i got the sausage sandwich and a few swichbacks.

this isn't the stowe of yeasteryear

was goin to stay and watch the movie claim they where showing but i was pretty tired. so i decided to just go back to the condo so i could nap.
pretty notch

sahweet

man I can't wait to get up there. How's the place?