RidgeRacer

Day 2...The empire strikes back. Dan and I got a late start this morning. We started off around 9am and took the clousplitter to little whiteface. We skied approach and were ecstatic to find that upper Empire was open! I immediately hoped in. Empire is about 12 feet wide and steep. On the way down i noticed that cloudsplitter glades were open. I continued skiing empire the whole way. We then hit the summit for a leg burning 3100 vertical. We decided to hit lookout mt. where the stoke levels jumped when we found out that the sugar valley glades were open. sugar valley in the definition of eastern skiing. we got lost in the woods for a solid 20 minutes...more to come.

lol... Day 2 coming up. Dan the man woke me up late this morning with a text message that read that coffee there was waiting for me. Getting ready to leave in a few. It's kinda cloudy and overcast here in town but the sun is supposed to come out and brighten things up like yesterday. The rain is supposed to roll in tomorrow through the weekend

Just riding the shuttle back to lake placid. We pulled up to the mt arpund 8:20. The clear sky and bright sunshine remained throughout the day. This was JfskiDans first time skiing WF. His face when we pulled into the lot and the mt became visible was priceless. The snow was a packed powder in the morning but loosened up as the day went on. we took our first run off of the gondola...excelsior to past the mid station to the bottom. we flew down as the snow was perfect for speed. we then hit the summit...skyward to switchback to lower cloudspin. cloudspin is a natural snow trail so there were a number of rocks that we needed to dodge. After a leg burning run on mountain run we hit lookout mt. Lookout below had nobody on it. As we were skiing down the wilmington trail a patroller stopped and i asked if lb was opening. He was just on his way over to drop the rope on it...perfect timing. lookout below is a beast of a trail. it makes outer limits seem tame. We made our way back to the summit to ski upper skyward and a bumped up lower skyward. i cut over to blazers bluff where some one yelled "go for it" from the lift...so I did. Blazers is almost like the elevator but a lot narrower. i finished my day with a 3 mile run down wilmington. there was plenty of runs in between which i'm sure Im missing but today was absolutely stellar. Pictures are forthcoming.

just ate a brownie from the lookout cafe. riding the clousplitter with dan now with bright sunshine and clear blue skies...just missed the first civilian gondola.

There is actually. from exit 30 to lake placid, roadsides and sidewalks are pretty much covered but you can tell it hasnt snowed in a few days. The surrounding peaks are snowcapped.

just rolled into LP not long ago. Our hotel is up on a hill with a sweet view of the surrounding high peaks,whiteface and the bob sled track!

lol...I'll try; or maybe it should be other way around (remember it was my idea to venture into the Jack Frost wilderness )

Tomorrow at this time JFSkiDan and myself will be skiing what is in my opinion the true beast of the east...Whiteface Mt. It looks like we'll have a few bluebird days on tap with highs in the 40s. The Slides are listed as closed (looks like we missed them by 3 days ) but Cloudspin and Lookout Below are listed as open as of today. The spring bumps on Lookout Below should be choice Stay tuned for complete TR's are photos. And for stoke...

I'll take that, plus BB is good to go well into April.

As always, excellent shots bro.

crazy. glad the dude made it out.

I met JFDan just after opening and skied Frost until 10:30 or so. C1er we saw you coming off the East Mt. lift. We also ran into Barb. Conditions were fast in the morning. The wind did have a tendency to blow uphill and slow you down at times though. Floyd's is in all of it's bumped up glory and was so much fun to ski this morning. Bumped up Floyd's Folly = IMO. Challenge glade was also the run of the morning. The snow has definitely firmed up over the past few days but is still easy to edge for the most part. JADIP at Jackson Frost.

have fun man. looking forward to your pics.

agreed Also agreed. Welcome back Bigdaddyk. I haven't seen you post in a while.

wait...you mean "alien" really is part of the official title for the program. lol.

I checked the website and there's nothing on there yet. Didn't they post on here the last couple of years as well when they started the freebie thing?

yup.

ugh. can't believe we lost that hockey game. Great Olympics none the less.

So glad the snow gods came through in time for the PASR day at Jack Frost...stoked everyone had a good time. That's a keeper.

Happy Birthday Serch.

Robert2, you're spoiled because you ski mid-week. I don't think there was even half the people there compared to a WMMR day. The one time I went to a WMMR day, the line of traffic was backed up from 940 to the parking lot and I had to park in lot 17 or somehting like that.

I was surprised to see that mine held up fairly well also.

Today was one for the books...so much snow and a good crew. I got to JF just before 8am and got seriously stoked when I saw the Welcome PASR sign. I met JFDan, Phillycore and Serch at the ticket window. We made our way over to the Challenge glade where it was so deep and when I polled at certain points, my poles didn't hit the bottom! We headed over to East and down to the Elevator where we met up with the Blue Crew who were looking for the "escalator" It was really nice to finally meet Toast, Johnny Style, Noxidee and JFBBMom and Barb made me jealous when I asked her about her move to Colorado. It was also nice skiing with with Doug, Jeff and Greg again and of course the JF crew...JFSkiDan, Phillycore Serch and C1er. I wanted to venture into some previously uncharted territory (for me anyway) east of Risk It. If there was ever a time to do it...this was the day since there was so much snow. Doug and Jeff followed me in but I ended up following them out. It basically became a bushwhacking expedition that took us back out to Floyd's. I don't think I'll be heading in there again unless it's cleared out. There's some legit terrain back there. When Greg, Doug, Jeff and Johnny hit the parking lot. Phillycore, Dan, Serch and I made a few more runs on east. The Mad Tree glade was deep and there was even some float going on when skiing though it. Core and I were determined to huck the cliff on Risk it. I manned up and jumped the left side. I didn't land it but it was really soft. Phillycore took the baller route closer to the trees. We skied the C-Glade with Phillycore and Serch before they headed out and Noxidee joined us just around that time. I was mad that I didn't land the jump on Risk It so we went over and I did it again...and again I didn't land it. After a few more runs with Noxidee and JFDan, I hit the road. The challenge glade had my legs screaming by 1pm. Great day guys...thanks to everyone who came up. It was a memorable day for sure.

posting from the east mt lift...lots of PASRs in the house...getting ready to hit risk it with phillycore.

We'll be skiing WF on the 10th and 11th...just in case you're there. For anyone who is planning on heading up to WF. Wednesday lift tickets are only $38 if you bring a Coke product to the ticket window. BTW I just saw on their site that they opened Cloudspin . If the weather keeps going the way it is, the slides may be open for the next few weeks in addition to all of glades. I would love to at least attempt the mighty slides. Speaking of the Slides...I found this stoke inducing thread over on ski ADK posted by "frashdog"... http://forums.skiadk.com/about2668.html "They were open for the first time this year, thursday the 25th, yesterday afternoon. Snow pits were dug and filed through out the season by professional certified avalanche ski patrollers. Obviously the favorable pits were dug wednesday. Around 50 people got to "help pack down the snow"during this seasons grand opening celebratory pow celebration, waist deep i might add in some spots, thus making way for the long anticipated opening of the mighty slides. To be aware this land is of no joke... there are rocks lurking below the surface like mines waiting to explode your skis off above several frozen waterfall/cliffs up to 15'+. Even though the highly trained mountain ski patrollers are completely able to navigate a rescue sled over back country/ungroomed conditions among the rocks, trees and cliffs; rescue for an injured person is not as simple as on a " ski trail". Snow plowing, rental skis, small children, pregnant women, if you may be suffering from a heart condition or panic and urinate uncontrollably you should not attempt the slides. To be frank these are badazz double black diamond baby, maybe triple? Those who might know, some one please tell me of a place on the east coast with lift serve (for the most part) with extreme alpine open bowl terrain that even compares to the slides."