Weekend
Two words for skiing sunday...fuck yeah!!
An epic day all in all. It all started at midnight, Sunday morning in Boston Harbor, at a bar post Jon Engel/Jen Bubrick's wedding. Stumbled back to my hotel at 2:00 am. Awake at 5:30 to a crying baby who I consoled and hung out with for the next hour and a half. By 7:00 I was situated over the toilet bowl chanting the ever familiar "I will never drink again" hung-over slogan.
On the road back to Vermont by 11:00 when the room stopped spinning. Picked up the dog, grabbed my sticks and was hiking my favorite bc woods shot in Merck Forest by 4:30. Conditions were incredible, despite its low elevation and despite the 60 degree temps and rainstorm we received last week, there was still an 18" firm base. Add an extra 15" of fluff on top of that (10" of moist snow from friday night and 5" of blower from saturday night) and the settings were perfect for a some of the best turns of the year.
The woods in certain sections of Merck are situated on slate rock, which for some reason doesn't support an understory. Therefore there are just canopy trees with a low sapling count and no shrubs. Unfortunately because of low elevation and the fact that it's west of the Greens, it commonly has subpar snow accumulations. Pretty psyched to finally be able to get out and ski the hills. Got two runs in before the dinner bell started to ring and the sun dipped over the horizon. Both runs, I couldn't help but give battle cry whoops several times.
All I can say is that damn it feels good to finally over a month of excellent powder skiing. More snow in the forecast tonight!!
Hope ya'll are doing well.
An epic day all in all. It all started at midnight, Sunday morning in Boston Harbor, at a bar post Jon Engel/Jen Bubrick's wedding. Stumbled back to my hotel at 2:00 am. Awake at 5:30 to a crying baby who I consoled and hung out with for the next hour and a half. By 7:00 I was situated over the toilet bowl chanting the ever familiar "I will never drink again" hung-over slogan.
On the road back to Vermont by 11:00 when the room stopped spinning. Picked up the dog, grabbed my sticks and was hiking my favorite bc woods shot in Merck Forest by 4:30. Conditions were incredible, despite its low elevation and despite the 60 degree temps and rainstorm we received last week, there was still an 18" firm base. Add an extra 15" of fluff on top of that (10" of moist snow from friday night and 5" of blower from saturday night) and the settings were perfect for a some of the best turns of the year.
The woods in certain sections of Merck are situated on slate rock, which for some reason doesn't support an understory. Therefore there are just canopy trees with a low sapling count and no shrubs. Unfortunately because of low elevation and the fact that it's west of the Greens, it commonly has subpar snow accumulations. Pretty psyched to finally be able to get out and ski the hills. Got two runs in before the dinner bell started to ring and the sun dipped over the horizon. Both runs, I couldn't help but give battle cry whoops several times.
All I can say is that damn it feels good to finally over a month of excellent powder skiing. More snow in the forecast tonight!!
Hope ya'll are doing well.
posted by More Cowbells at 1:35 PM
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No snow in Colorado. Spring slush skiing while it pukes in New England. Sweet. Went rock climbing today, made it up a good part of a 5.12a. So I'm happy.
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