awf170
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Tuckerman Ravine: 3-31-06
Finally got it. Scroll down for trip report and pics.
Finally got it. Scroll down for trip report and pics.
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Tuckermans Ravine: 3-31-06
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roark
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Awesome!
awf170
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So finally I convinced my dad to go up Tuckermans and what a great day it was for it.
We started out at about 8:20 from pinkham notch and it was already extremely warm. I decided to skin all the way from the base and only had to take my skis off twice(though I did skin over a lot of rocks and dirt).
About halfway up a figured out skinning was absoluty useless and I would have went the same speed hiking and wouldn't have had so many blisters. If I had touring boots it probably would have been faster and easier then hiking but without them it is just a pain. I was starting to think I would have been better off with NHPH over at Wildcat right now, until I got the first few views:
Finally after about 2 hours of pure torture and sweating we were at the bowl.
We started out at about 8:20 from pinkham notch and it was already extremely warm. I decided to skin all the way from the base and only had to take my skis off twice(though I did skin over a lot of rocks and dirt).
About halfway up a figured out skinning was absoluty useless and I would have went the same speed hiking and wouldn't have had so many blisters. If I had touring boots it probably would have been faster and easier then hiking but without them it is just a pain. I was starting to think I would have been better off with NHPH over at Wildcat right now, until I got the first few views:
Finally after about 2 hours of pure torture and sweating we were at the bowl.
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countinued...
After the hike my dad was pretty much totally dead and feeling kind of sick from the heat, so I decided to try the lip for my first run. Wow that bootpack was scary, defiantly a lot scarier than skiing down. I really should have warmed up on something easier because after about 3 horrible turns I was the steepest part of the lip. I survived it, but probably looked like the biggest gaper ever to everyone at lunch rocks(luckily there weren't too many). Here are some pics from the top of the lip:
I decided to ski all the way to the bottom of the bowl to actually get some warm up turns in:
My dad ended up going up the lip after about 20 minutes so he was about halfway by the time I was coming down. After about an hour break I decided to go for another run, it looked like it was going to get shady soon on the lookers left side of the bowl so I decided to do right gully. Here are a few pics from the top of right gully.
After the hike my dad was pretty much totally dead and feeling kind of sick from the heat, so I decided to try the lip for my first run. Wow that bootpack was scary, defiantly a lot scarier than skiing down. I really should have warmed up on something easier because after about 3 horrible turns I was the steepest part of the lip. I survived it, but probably looked like the biggest gaper ever to everyone at lunch rocks(luckily there weren't too many). Here are some pics from the top of the lip:
I decided to ski all the way to the bottom of the bowl to actually get some warm up turns in:
My dad ended up going up the lip after about 20 minutes so he was about halfway by the time I was coming down. After about an hour break I decided to go for another run, it looked like it was going to get shady soon on the lookers left side of the bowl so I decided to do right gully. Here are a few pics from the top of right gully.
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The top of right gully was really steep and had no warm up turns what so ever so I decided to go into the upper snowfields to get some warm up turns. Man were those turns awsome, had a bunch of nice low angled totally untracked corn turns. I would have went further up the summit cone, but being by myself and my dad already wondering were I was I decided to go down. Pics from upper snow fields area:
Holy crap. Right gully absolutely rocked, nice deep corn, probably one of my best runs ever! Now the hell begins: After asking a bunch of people about the condition of the lower headwall and getting no real answers I decided to start hiking down, but after a little hike a saw a few snowboarders who looked like they knew were they going so a followed them. Wrong idea. After cutting across the cutler river I knew I was trapped on the wrong side because there was no way I walking across a think layer of snow over a open river and screwed. Luckily I yelled back to my dad and told him not to follow me. Heres were the fun began. This group of snowboarders I followed obviosly had mental problems because they were going down little headwall then just sitting there next to open water! I decided that there was no way that was safe, so I started bushwacking around it. I finally got back on the river at a lower spot and went as fast as I possibly could just to get off that death trap. Finally I got back to hojo's and waited for my dad. Now back to good skiing. The sherbie absolutey rocked for the first half, nice soft moguls, awsome corn, and some extremely nice glades of to the edges. The next 1/4 was okay but a little bare and required some grass skiing. And the bottom 1/4 was closed.
Anyway despite the mess of little headwall and hiking through mud and ice in ski boots at the bottom of the tucks trail it was an awsome day, defiantly want to get up there again this season.
Holy crap. Right gully absolutely rocked, nice deep corn, probably one of my best runs ever! Now the hell begins: After asking a bunch of people about the condition of the lower headwall and getting no real answers I decided to start hiking down, but after a little hike a saw a few snowboarders who looked like they knew were they going so a followed them. Wrong idea. After cutting across the cutler river I knew I was trapped on the wrong side because there was no way I walking across a think layer of snow over a open river and screwed. Luckily I yelled back to my dad and told him not to follow me. Heres were the fun began. This group of snowboarders I followed obviosly had mental problems because they were going down little headwall then just sitting there next to open water! I decided that there was no way that was safe, so I started bushwacking around it. I finally got back on the river at a lower spot and went as fast as I possibly could just to get off that death trap. Finally I got back to hojo's and waited for my dad. Now back to good skiing. The sherbie absolutey rocked for the first half, nice soft moguls, awsome corn, and some extremely nice glades of to the edges. The next 1/4 was okay but a little bare and required some grass skiing. And the bottom 1/4 was closed.
Anyway despite the mess of little headwall and hiking through mud and ice in ski boots at the bottom of the tucks trail it was an awsome day, defiantly want to get up there again this season.
NICE pics. How deep is that cover? Looks kinda thin in spots for this time of year.
awf170
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thetrailboss said:
Everything isn't as deep as normal this year. But the bowl still has real good coverage, not as good as last year but it is fairing a lot better than lower elavations.
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Great report man! I'm heading up there next week so it looks like there will be at least SOME snow there.
I went May 15th last year and there was still so good snow but it looks like the next week or two will be prime.
I went May 15th last year and there was still so good snow but it looks like the next week or two will be prime.
Terry
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Awesome pics AWF. Looks like you had a great trip!
ga2ski
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Awesome trail report. Glad you had fun. i plan to go the next warm weekend day we have.
andyzee
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Well good for you. Thanks for the great pics and report!
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Awesome pics. Great use of the new gallery!
kickstand
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y'know, a couple of weeks ago, I thought Tuck's looked like it was in rough shape. After seeing these pics - and the ones on tuckerman.org - I stand corrected! Awesome pics, Austin. I'm super-jealous. I had been hitting the gym quite frequently all winter with hopes of doing Tuck's this season. With my upcoming schedule, that looks like a dream, unless I want to hit it with the masses on a Saturday in late April or early May. Probably not my best option.
btw, nice to see the youth of America putting their school days to good use......
btw, nice to see the youth of America putting their school days to good use......
lftgly
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Great report! Great pictures! And you hit it before the rain!
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