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    BC/XC anything but resort skiing.

    in Other Mountains

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    A friend and I had been talking last year about doing Mt Washington / Tucks.  Schedules and weather aligned for a day trip.  We were wheels up 7:50am, touched down around 9:15am in Berlin, NH.  Grabbed the "rental" (aka the town's old cop caar) and we drove the 35 minutes to the trailhead.  We were on our way up by 10:30am.  Similar to the last time I did Tucks with @GSSucks and @Justo8484, the Sherbie cross over was ~1.5 miles in.  In reality, probably could have started skinning before that as there was snow, but we donned our boots at the cross over, ditched our shoes in the woods, and were on our way to the Hojo's.  Got there around 12pm, quick snack, and then we were on our way up to the ravine floor.  

    I was surprise to see how little snow there was compared to my previous visit, so we decided to boot up Left Gully with the option to either ski down, head back up, and then over to Hillman's for the descent.  After an easy boot up, we reached the top of the ravine ~1:25pm with no wind under mostly cloudy skies (as forecasted).  

    We decided in the interest of time, weather, and energy, we'd head over to Hillman's as there was some rain and lower clouds in the area.  Quick rock scramble over and we were on our way down.  Some sporty Sherbie sections always makes for a fun end to the day.  Back at the crossover, on went the shoes, and in came some rain which lasted for about 20 minutes or so.  It was semi-refreshing as temps were well into the 60s.

    We got back to the car at 4pm after an elapsed 5h30m.  Unfortunately, no celebratory beer as there was still work left to be done.  We enjoyed the feeling of putting on flip flops, packed up, and got to the airport around 5pm.  Packed up the plane, fueled it up, chatted with an old timer for a little, and we were in the air at 5:40pm with some weather between us and our destination.  We climbed to 18,000 and we were in and out of the clouds and icing conditions for most of the flight.  I flew the return leg, and I managed to have a decent landing at 7:30pm despite never landing that type of plane before to finish off an awesome day.

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  11. Vail Stoke Thread... 2025!

    in Other Mountains

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    1 hour ago, indiggio said:

    Here we go!
    We ran into the same issue in Philly going out to Denver last week.
    United baggage UI software royally sucks donkey dick!
    There's no indication on the page that says you have to do anything special for ski and boot bags, so I just went on my merry way checking 1 bag, expecting it to ask me later whether they're skis/boot, but no.  It never asked and never printed out a second luggage ticket.   When I went to drop the bag off, they guy said there's an exception button at the bottom of the page.   Can you make it any LESS obvious?   He printed out a second bag ticket for boot bag.

    On the way back we thought we had it figured out.   1 bag checked, pushed the exception button, no I don't want free check my carry on.  Kiosk starts flashing for attendant, probably for weight, as there's a scale right there).   Attendant comes over, scans badge, pushes some button and walks away.  One ticket gets printed!  WTF???  Fight through crowd to get attendant back to get second ticket printed.  How is this saving any time?  Absolutely stupid!

    Get into Philly awaiting ski bag.   Carousel comes to stop, ask attendant, no more bags.   Slim & my ski bags nowhere to be found.  Get in line with like 20 others from flight who also didn't get their skis.   Go into office and attendant has a list of all our bags and checks off my name on the list, I see Slim's name there too.  WTF? 

    Skis end up being delivered next day at 11pm.

    Off to X to complain.  Got $40 luggage fee refunded.

    Doesn't happen at the Premier counter 🤷‍♂️

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  15. Jackson Hole 2025…A-Holes in JHole..

    in Other Mountains

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    People like @mute1080 ask why we keep coming to JH.  It’s because when it snows, it doesn’t get any better.  The hobacks were bottomless right to the cat track.  That’s 2600 vertical feet of amazing skiing.  Today was a top 3 hobacks run for me, and I love sharing it with people.  I’ve had some amazing days at JH, but watching other people experience it is so much fun.  

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  21. 12/27…Groundhogs day

    in Blue Mountain

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    Nothing remarkable about today.  Razors was 11/10 on the first run, but the glacial ice popped up on the second run.  Everything else was a little chunky.  Shouldn't be complaining since it's not even Jan 1 and they're going to be 100% but conditions were better on Monday than they were today, despite the low temps.

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