The impending end of season depression...

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Hold on a sec, did I miss something here? GSS is the infamous Doogie of SkiVT-l fame? Twas before my time but you don't have to lurk long over there to pick up on some of the culture and history of the list.

That would be me..I'm Doogie of Skivt-l fame..now I won't be able to go to a supermarket without a mob of fans and groupies..lol

I was lucky enough to take part in the 2005 and 2006 ski Vermont Partees and ski with Jumping Jimmy and ScottDanis last April on a big Friday powder day in early April..

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

One of the Frats ran a weekly event called the Friday Afternoon Drinking Club. .

Lamda Iota..lol

Unfortunately I went to UVM when there was a dry campus..and actually got written up twice for underage drinking and had to go to stupid classes where I met people to drink with lol..UVM in the 80s must have been dank..

 

[Greg]

Your call on my answering machine? Sure. Here's the .WAV file of it.

http://www.geoffdevine.com/doogie.wav

For the record, I honored his request and I did remove his last name from the Doogie's Greatest Hits from SkiVT-L page I'd put together back in 1998. It was pretty funny since any Google search on his name turned up that page #1 for quite a few years. I still have an archive of that page with your name on it and I can put it back up if you'd like. A whole bunch of people who ran web sites you were terrorizing at the time got a big kick out of that collection. Your more recent body of work is just plain mean-spirited and isn't worth collecting.

http://www.geoffdevine.com/whose.html

As far as I know from my decade there, you're the only person to ever get kicked off of the SkiVT-L email list. Both SkiVT-L and Usenet's rec.skiing.alpine have archives where your antics will live on forever.

Anyone else a little creeped out by the archiving going on here? Cripes....don't cross Geoff. :-o :roll:

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Geoff has been a GSS groupie for a decade..

 

[severine]

Anyone else a little creeped out by the archiving going on here? Cripes....don't cross Geoff. :-o :roll:

It's like he works for the FBI or something! Goodness, I hope he doesn't find some of my old echo posts. (We're going way back with that, eh?)

 

[Grassi21]

Your call on my answering machine? Sure. Here's the .WAV file of it.

http://www.geoffdevine.com/doogie.wav

For the record, I honored his request and I did remove his last name from the Doogie's Greatest Hits from SkiVT-L page I'd put together back in 1998. It was pretty funny since any Google search on his name turned up that page #1 for quite a few years. I still have an archive of that page with your name on it and I can put it back up if you'd like. A whole bunch of people who ran web sites you were terrorizing at the time got a big kick out of that collection. Your more recent body of work is just plain mean-spirited and isn't worth collecting.

http://www.geoffdevine.com/whose.html

As far as I know from my decade there, you're the only person to ever get kicked off of the SkiVT-L email list. Both SkiVT-L and Usenet's rec.skiing.alpine have archives where your antics will live on forever.

I'm feel let down. I eagerly listened to that sound clip waiting for a "what what" or a mad steezy rhyme. But alas, nothing.... ;-)

 

[Greg]

I'm feel let down. I eagerly listened to that sound clip waiting for a "what what" or a mad steezy rhyme. But alas, nothing.... ;-)

I know. He sounds a bit, dare I say, normal. A little desperate perhaps, but anyway...I never knew we had such a celeb in our midst...

 

[Greg]

BTW, to get back on topic, those thoughts of the impending end of season depression have just about been eradicated from my mind. Radical spring bumps like the ones I crushed with powhunter and jonnypoach this afternoon can have that effect.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

I've skied Blue the past 5 days and had some steller sessions..

 

[riverc0il]

BTW, to get back on topic, those thoughts of the impending end of season depression have just about been eradicated from my mind. Radical spring bumps like the ones I crushed with powhunter and jonnypoach this afternoon can have that effect.

That's more like it! Hard to get depressed on the cusp of the Spring skiing season. Sure, I want a few more really good powder days and a longer season, but I really am itching for the Spring corn season. Always a great reward after months of bundling up.

 

[Geoff]

Anyone else a little creeped out by the archiving going on here? Cripes....don't cross Geoff. :-o :roll:

Damned straight.

Back on-topic:

I'm kinda bummed about the announced early closing at Killington. I'll ski anyways but it's inconvenient and an added expense when I'm already paying for a vacation home at Killington that I bought on the assumption that I'd always have a 7 month ski season.

If Killington really closes on April 13th, I'll drive the 45 miles up to Sugarbush and ski on their $199 spring pass until they close. Inconvenient but not the end of the world. I can also grab the odd day at Mt Sneaux if I'm so inclined but I prefer that place for leisurly floating on midweek powder days rather than for spring skiing where it's too flat. I'm 2-ish hours to Sunday River and have lots o' places to stay there on Saturday nights so I can ski there if they are still standing after Sugarbush closes. Sugarloaf is 3-ish hours so I have that option, too.

I've already booked my Chile flights so I have some August skiing to look forward to. I'm out in Denver a lot and A-Basin looks likely to make it to June this year.

Summer isn't so bad. I have my boat to play with. I can go rowing in my dingy. I ride my bike to work every day. I walk up and down mountains on weekends to keep my legs in shape instead of skiing on them. Tomatoes out of the garden actually taste like tomatoes. Cod caught off my boat at 2pm tastes great on the dinner table at 7pm.