What AZers do you want to ski with.

[highpeaksdrifter]

Will that Apple Butter comp most likely be on 3/29? As long as it doesn't conflict with the Sundown comp on 3/22, I'm down.

I don't think it's set yet. I'll find out.

 

[andyzee]

Great idea. Same end of march weekend you came last year. Slides, new terrain on Lookout Mountain, plus the Apple Butter mogul competition. Now is that a weekend the C.L.I.T.S. could love or what?

I'm in

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

You and me - NASTAR - best 2 out of 3 - loser can not post here for a month.

I suck at Nastar...and I like your posts...I like to ski fast..NASTAR has to many turns..lol..I've never done better than Silver and usually I'm bronze..

 

[BeanoNYC]

And what a show it was!

Totally...by the way that jam after wharfat was called elevator...it's a particle song. Heard it on "jam on" the other day.

Back on topic:

1) everyone I've met but haven't skied with
2) Wa, Warp-Daddy, DHS, OldSnowMaine, CKoffer, GSS, Markski, Quattro, Moe, Trek, Sev, Hart, JD, ....if I missed any during this coffee infused morning call me out on it.

 

[madskier6]

Great idea. Same end of march weekend you came last year. Slides, new terrain on Lookout Mountain, plus the Apple Butter mogul competition. Now is that a weekend the C.L.I.T.S. could love or what?

Brilliant! Sounds like a great plan. I'm definitely in.

Now we just need to convince the eastern New England skeptics who say they want to ski WF but claim it's too difficult to drive past all the good terrain in NH & VT to go to WF. I don't necessarily blame them for their viewpoint but nevertheless, at some point you've gotta sack up & experience WF at least once. Don't you agree?

Especially if the Slides are open. Apart from Mt. Washington, I don't imagine there's anything similar terrain wise in New England. I'm sure I'll get an argument from Mansfield loyalists about the backcountry there but to be a complete Eastern skier, shouldn't one experience it all, especially the Slides? :lol:

 

[JD]

Ok, you got me. I would argue there is nothing in NE short of Mt. Washington that rivals the chutes in Smugglers Notch. I agree though, that the slides on whiteface look great....
but what about this terrain????Certainly nothing on WF that ends with 500 foot cliffs of death is you get sloughed...the Stuff on WF is not nearly as committing as attempting to get into some of the stuff that fills in late winter over here...

 

[skimore]

High Peaks

Plenty of gnarly terrain in the high peaks

 

[takeahike46er]

Ok, you got me. I would argue there is nothing in NE short of Mt. Washington that rivals the chutes in Smugglers Notch. I agree though, that the slides on whiteface look great....
but what about this terrain????Certainly nothing on WF that ends with 500 foot cliffs of death is you get sloughed...the Stuff on WF is not nearly as committing as attempting to get into some of the stuff that fills in late winter over here...

Otis Gully says hi! It ends with a rapel down a cliff face into avalanche pass. Check out these great photos from a bc adk skier here:

http://www.byates1.smugmug.com/gallery/4683027_QjgTz#276881956_45MTW

Mount Colden face (where Otis Gully is located):

http://www.byates1.smugmug.com/gallery/4683027_QjgTz#276877561_vg8EM

 

[JD]

Well, yea. Obviously the 'dacks have a ton of Gnar. I was talking about what was accessable from the area. Is that resort side country?
AND....what the average annual snow fall for WF?(200" vs 333" for Northern Greens(thanks lake Champlain))
Greens are a great mix of snow, terrain and accessability.
All that crap aside, that book of areial photos of the slides in the 'dacks gives me a major hard on.

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

I suck at Nastar...and I like your posts...I like to ski fast..NASTAR has to many turns..lol..I've never done better than Silver and usually I'm bronze..

You crack me up. If I wanted to bet you money you'd probably be down with that, but no way you'll risk not posting for a month. :lol::wink:

 

[skimore]

Well, yea. Obviously the 'dacks have a ton of Gnar. I was talking about what was accessable from the area. Is that resort side country?

No

I would argue there is nothing in NE short of Mt. Washington that rivals the chutes in Smugglers Notch

I was just refering to this

 

[Paul]

beswift




oh... and Ctenadae

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

You crack me up. If I wanted to bet you money you'd probably be down with that, but no way you'll risk not posting for a month. :lol::wink:

Yeah because I like to post on here. I would have to be given a large sum of money to go a month without posting on AlpineZone...definitely more than a thousand.

 

[jimskime]

I'll ski with any of you if you come up to the Loaf Monday-Wednesday. I don't get out much in the East. Join me out west in Utah or BC or Alberta. I'll try to keep up.

 

[JD]

Brilliant! Sounds like a great plan. I'm definitely in.

Now we just need to convince the eastern New England skeptics who say they want to ski WF but claim it's too difficult to drive past all the good terrain in NH & VT to go to WF. I don't necessarily blame them for their viewpoint but nevertheless, at some point you've gotta sack up & experience WF at least once. Don't you agree?

Especially if the Slides are open. Apart from Mt. Washington, I don't imagine there's anything similar terrain wise in New England. I'm sure I'll get an argument from Mansfield loyalists about the backcountry there but to be a complete Eastern skier, shouldn't one experience it all, especially the Slides? :lol:

I thought we were talking about WF vs. other resort Mtns., specifically in VT.

 

[hardline]

Brilliant! Sounds like a great plan. I'm definitely in.

Now we just need to convince the eastern New England skeptics who say they want to ski WF but claim it's too difficult to drive past all the good terrain in NH & VT to go to WF. I don't necessarily blame them for their viewpoint but nevertheless, at some point you've gotta sack up & experience WF at least once. Don't you agree?

Especially if the Slides are open. Apart from Mt. Washington, I don't imagine there's anything similar terrain wise in New England. I'm sure I'll get an argument from Mansfield loyalists about the backcountry there but to be a complete Eastern skier, shouldn't one experience it all, especially the Slides? :lol:

you absolutly right whiteface should be experienced but whiteface just does not have the terrain that i like. plus whiteface does not get the snow that stowe gets. i get over 25 powder days out of the 30 days that i am there. i might go to whiteface for trip with other friends but its not the terrain the that would be the reason for me going.

 

[deadheadskier]

I would love to ski Whiteface, but its an awful long way from here. It'd have to go for a four day weekend or be near there for some other reason. 6 hours is a haul for just a weekend.

 

[hardline]

I would love to ski Whiteface, but its an awful long way from here. It'd have to go for a four day weekend or be near there for some other reason. 6 hours is a haul for just a weekend.

i do overnight trips to stowe for powder days. so 6 hours to me tain't a big deal. i can work a full day leave the city and get to stowe right around the normal time i would go to sleep anyway. if white face got a foot stowe is going to have more because the moisture the storm picks up off the lake and when i slams in the backside of mani it drops its load. upslope is cool.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

i do overnight trips to stowe for powder days. so 6 hours to me tain't a big deal. i can work a full day leave the city and get to stowe right around the normal time i would go to sleep anyway. if white face got a foot stowe is going to have more because the moisture the storm picks up off the lake and when i slams in the backside of mani it drops its load. upslope is cool.

Sometimes Champlain powder is as light and dry as the cold smoke powder out west..more cushion for the pushin..

 

[deadheadskier]

i do overnight trips to stowe for powder days. so 6 hours to me tain't a big deal. i can work a full day leave the city and get to stowe right around the normal time i would go to sleep anyway. if white face got a foot stowe is going to have more because the moisture the storm picks up off the lake and when i slams in the backside of mani it drops its load. upslope is cool.

Six hours would be nothing, but Mansfield is 3 hours....if Placid was say 4.5 hours, I'd be a bit more tempted.

I spend 6 hours a day in a car for work....over 50K miles per year just for work, last thing I want to be doing is spending more time than I need to to get to great areas like Stowe, Sugarbush, et al