Greek Peak 02.02.2020

[mbike-ski]

Yesterday I made somewhat ambitious plans for my own little "super bowl of skiing" at Greek Peak, the  plan was to try out my tele skins, hit Kennedy Sf for some bcXcd, then pop over to see some  GP A18/nyskiblog friends at their Super Bowl tailgate in the chair 5 lot.

I set out a O’dark thirty through intermittent snow showers to get started  before the lifts started running at 8:30 as required by Greek’s uphill policy. I booted up just after 7:30. The root up Alpha/Castor was smooth cord with a dusting of fresh snow with gentle flurries for stoke. About a third of the way up a patroller on a sled came by and asked how far I was going, “Sounds like a loaded question” I laughed and he said I need to be down before the lifts started and agreed I had about 15 -20 minutes to go.  About 2/3 of the way up I heard his sled approaching again and gave a wristwatch/thumbs up signal, he stopped and said not to worry about it that chair #2 doesn’t run until 11 and just don't go past the lift.

At the top I chatted with a hiker who had come in from the Finger Lakes Trail, he said he hadn’t been to Greek in 50 years and that it looked the same except for a little more rust, lol. My original plan was to ski Aesops Glades but it looked a little bony and being alone decided to take my same root down the fresh chord. Since the second quarter of my game was contingent on lift #2 running I did 5-6 tele runs. Nice snow, both groomed and ungroomed on Iliad, Elysian and Trojan. Ran into one of the A18 guys and rode up chair #4 with him  but it was close to 11:00 by that point and needed to hit the tailgate locker room for an equipment change.

A quick coffee stout and soft pretzel break at the Trunk and Tire and I was off to chair #2 with the XCD setup for a ski in Kennedy SF. The  snowmobile /ski trail runs parallel to Pollux so I ducked in and bushwacked the 20 or so yards and was on my way.  I ski’d the multi use trail to the Cook Rd XC ski trailhead for about a 6.9 mile loop including the harrowing ski back down Castor to the base. Even with cable bindings I can’t drive those skis, especially on warm days, those boot soles are just way to floppy.

(FYI my skin track is the same root as the finish to start on the track below)

It was about 2:30 when I got back to the truck. I was pretty beat but the snow was really coming down so I threw on a dry shirt, grabbed a couple of  pocket beers, locked down my heals and headed over to chair #5 area to see if the A18  crew were still around. Had a fun cruise over laying down some big arcs after the morning’s work. Chair 5 lot is an unimproved lot with a tailgating scene that may even rival our row. I got there late and missed the venison spedies though...

Caught one of the last chairs back over to the base so I had a burger at tracks before heading out for the snowy ride home. Legs are cooked today

 

A great day a Greek with good snow, all the lifts running (smoothly but slowly!) and a lot of nice folks. Reminded me how much I miss the place. Hopefully this is the start of winter there and I get back up soon.

 

Oh, and I’m more of a hockey guy than football so my Super Bowl of skiing only has 3 quarters!!

 

 

 

 

Edited February 3, 2020 by mbike-ski

[Shadows]

Dope

[Johnny Law]

That's a super adventure and in a low tide season a big accomplishment.

Way to kill it and back yard adventures get extra cool points for sure

[Mixilplix]

That's an awesome day on the snow!

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Nice report!!  Any timeshares for sale at GP??

[mbike-ski]

2 hours ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

Nice report!!  Any timeshares for sale at GP??

Yea I heard JFDan is checking one out as we speak

[skiincy]

Awesome trip report. Way to get after it, @mbike-ski

I've done laps skinning up camelback while echos of people yell "you're going the wrong way." You're trip looks way more rad than my most recent skinning adventures...

[theprogram4]

good to see greek peak still has the oil rig lift

[toast21602]

TFTI

[mbike-ski]

55 minutes ago, toast21602 said:

TFTI

I talked about it saturday

oh wait you bolted when you saw me 😏 lol