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  7. The 2022-23 ski season thread.

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    5 hours ago, pcklein31 said:

    Flying United between SFO-Sydney and then Sydney-LAX on the way home... Confirmed for Business upgrade both ways (Thank God for 1K!!!).  

    Flying Virgin Australia inside the county as they partner with United and get reward points/miles, plus they give me priority boarding and lounge access... And stuff with the 1K

     

    Oh... And I'm taking my own gear. I get three free checked bags, so I figured why not.

    My first time as 1K ... so glad they switched to a revenue program, makes 1K easy with the current fares 😁

  10. New Lift for Blue?

    in Blue Mountain

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    3 minutes ago, Schif said:

    That is some wild timing. I doubt they will set them all today so maybe we have a chance. 

    im prety sure they're doing tower removal.  and yes, when it's time to set the new towers, they'll do it in a day most likely.

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  13. New Lift for Blue?

    in Blue Mountain

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    12 minutes ago, RidgeRacer said:

    I'm not paying 12 hundy for a chair unless every time I sat on it Mikaela Shiffrin would appear on the other seat to give me ski tips and compliment my hair.

    Cut your hair.  It's not a good look.

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    Tuckerman Ravine

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    Tucks has always been something I wanted to do if the opportunity came along, but never pulled the trigger.  After seeing the 50 Episode from Tucks, and this report, it quickly moved up my list.  I graciously joined the boys @Justo8484 @GSSucks this year for the adventure and it didn't disappoint.  Due to weather concerns on Saturday, Tucks was moved to Sunday, with a Stratton skin on Friday, Killington on Saturday, and then the big event on Sunday.  It proved to be an awesome decision.

    We did a T2B skin lap at Stratton with great conditions as a gear test.  Did a few beacon searches, crampon tests, etc.  A skiff of fresh snow on top of corn meant you could let it run top to bottom.  Awesome snow.  Killington was skiing great on Saturday with temps in the mid 50s and 22ish trails.  @mbike-ski happened to be camping in the area that weekend so it great to see him at Killington about to enjoy his first May ski day ever.

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    Was pretty hard to sleep in anticipation of Tucks so we were all up pretty early, geared up, and hit the trail a little after 7:30am.  Hiked for about 1.5 miles, switched to skins for another 1+ miles up to Hojos, put the skis on the pack and finished the hike up to the bowl, where we donned helmets, crampons and ice axes for the boot up Right Gulley.  After a steep climb up, we were greeted by low winds, and great looking snow fields up to the summit.  We threw back on the skis and skinned up the summit, climbing over 4000ft from the parking lot to the summit in 4h 45m ish.  Celebratory pictures, beverages, a snack, and we plotted out descent down the snowfields with Hillman's in mind.  

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    The snowfields were very interesting snow.  Super smooth, but I'd call it slippery spring snow.  Fun route down through rocks, where we threw the skis back on the packs, and hiked to the top of Hillmans, stopping to have some charcuterski, and then gear up for the descent down Hillman's.  I dropped in first to perfect spring conditions down through the choke.  We all worked our way to the bottom, rock scrambled to the Sherbie, and then skied down to rope 7, where we put crampons on to descent the slippery Tuckerman's Ravine Trail 1.6 miles back to the car.  The weather was perfect, the snow was great, and the cherry on top was getting up to the summit.

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    No action shots from me, as I really didn't want to be pulling out my phone in some bad places.  Others do, so they may end up here.  Was a great experience and hope I can do it again some day.  Overall, it was 10.5 miles of hiking, booting, skinning, and skiing, climbing ~5000ft in 8.5 hours start to finish.  Rolled out of the visitor's center parking lot just after 5pm with 8+ hours of driving ahead of us.

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  19. New Lift for Blue?

    in Blue Mountain

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    41 minutes ago, Dirtwolf said:

    After a quick peak it looks like both doubles are without chairs at this point.

     

    you fell into the same trap i did ... they're hidden in the early morning light ... but they're still there.

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  20. New Lift for Blue?

    in Blue Mountain

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    Just now, enjoralas said:

    Definitely both. Look at the lift tower in the bottom right, chair on this side of the tower so has to me MS. Can also easily see the one just downhill of the second tower up from the crossover.

    I deleted my post because I just looked at the cam now, and the light shifted again making them more visible.  Both were invisible in this mornings light.

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