Another Nor'easter squandered
Man, I don't know what we east coasters did to piss off the snow gods, but he really doesn't seem to like us. I think it's time for a human sacrifice! I can think of a couple of racer rats from class that I would gladly offer up as sacrificial lamb.
This is like the umph-teenth coastal storm that has missed us. The last impressive one to actually hit us was in october of '05. Just in the last month I think there have been about 5 that have formed too far out to sea to even graze us. What the F#$*!!! I guess we'll have to make due with another minor clipper and any lake effect that squeezes by the 'dacks.
On the bright side of things closed trail skiing at Stratton is in full-effects, the woods are still pretty sketchy though besides the upper third of the mountain. I currently have a love-hate relationship with the mountain of Stratton. Reasons are as follows
Cons, fairly obvious and well known:
1)The mountain is pretty much all blue square, even most of the blacks are at best a moderate blue.
2)Pretentious crowd (i love it in the gondola when the assholes are debating on whether to buy the porsche or the ferrari for their month long jaunt in Europe)
3)Lack of snow produced via clippers & lake effect. Our major snowmakers are of the coastal variety (see aforementioned gripe)
4)They groom EVERYTHING!!!! besides the trees of course
Pros, less well-known:
1)Excellent tree skiing when it does snow...nicely spaced, reminicent of steamboat on prime days
2)Everybody listens to ski-patrol...aka nobody ducks ropes. I can see my tracks for several days under the lifts and I get fresh tracks whenever I duck a rope. It was knee deep in spots last week and I was the only one to plunder the goods...even the trail under the gondola, Standard, was untouched (until me). The trail would have been ripped to shreds in just about every other major resort in the northeast.
3)You can walk into lost & found and get hooked up with sweet gear like barely touched new poles, gloves, googles etc... and they trust you that its yours.
What is it about great blogging that makes me have to shit
Heeyy-oooo
This is like the umph-teenth coastal storm that has missed us. The last impressive one to actually hit us was in october of '05. Just in the last month I think there have been about 5 that have formed too far out to sea to even graze us. What the F#$*!!! I guess we'll have to make due with another minor clipper and any lake effect that squeezes by the 'dacks.
On the bright side of things closed trail skiing at Stratton is in full-effects, the woods are still pretty sketchy though besides the upper third of the mountain. I currently have a love-hate relationship with the mountain of Stratton. Reasons are as follows
Cons, fairly obvious and well known:
1)The mountain is pretty much all blue square, even most of the blacks are at best a moderate blue.
2)Pretentious crowd (i love it in the gondola when the assholes are debating on whether to buy the porsche or the ferrari for their month long jaunt in Europe)
3)Lack of snow produced via clippers & lake effect. Our major snowmakers are of the coastal variety (see aforementioned gripe)
4)They groom EVERYTHING!!!! besides the trees of course
Pros, less well-known:
1)Excellent tree skiing when it does snow...nicely spaced, reminicent of steamboat on prime days
2)Everybody listens to ski-patrol...aka nobody ducks ropes. I can see my tracks for several days under the lifts and I get fresh tracks whenever I duck a rope. It was knee deep in spots last week and I was the only one to plunder the goods...even the trail under the gondola, Standard, was untouched (until me). The trail would have been ripped to shreds in just about every other major resort in the northeast.
3)You can walk into lost & found and get hooked up with sweet gear like barely touched new poles, gloves, googles etc... and they trust you that its yours.
What is it about great blogging that makes me have to shit
Heeyy-oooo
posted by More Cowbells at 5:07 PM
6 Comments:
that shit is hilarious Greeny! I hope fatherhood is going well! You guys may get some snow by April, yet it seems like the winter is almost washed, considering its Feb already. Maybe you guys will get some Global Cooling next year?
Pros and Cons of having Balls Deep as your blog name.
Pros: Sounds sweet, Quite descriptive, hard to forget.
Cons: We may end up on someone's google porn search.
At some point, i need to tell the TRUE story of the term, "Balls Deep." A rough and tumble logger in Jeffersonville, VT coined it as he was dropping off a 10 cord load of logs at our house. Hilarious.
Looks like we'll be getting a little more snow out of this system than previously expected. I might have to plan a day trip sunday...
4" at the house, 6" at the local closed ski area. Not bad for a clipper system! First dawn patrol turns in a couple years. Hiked up with almost full moon shining bright, no headlamp needed. Sun came up just before reaching the top, had a beautiful sunrise, wish I had the camera. Enough snow to have my thighs submerged in turns. I guess Url liked my jig.
Pro of having Balls Deep as your blog name: Teenagers give you lots of respect when they learn that your part of blog titled "Balls Deep"
Why greenie, are you telling your youngins about our blog? That might be dangerous....
No, just by looking over my shoulder. They have enough of their platter to worry about me
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