Ughhh! YET ANOTHER East Coast TR?!

By:  Greg
January 18, 2011


After a pleasant round of meadow skipping up north, we headed to Pico Mountain for a dawn patrol on Thursday morning. The lifts had been closed there during a huge storm, and we all had real work to do, so an early start was necessitated. Here’s a crappy photo in the pre-dawn gray from the summit.
crappy low light photo of the summit trail map

If that shot of a cold gray windy summit isn’t enough to get you out of bed for a dawn patrol at your local closed ski mountain, maybe this will do the trick:
closed ski area rewards

Of maybe this might work too:
Skiing powder on A Slope at Pico Mountain

Best run down A Slope at Pico Mountain… ever.
A Slope at Pico Mountain

After a most profitable dawn patrol at Pico, as the weekend drew near we lapped up a few leftovers up around Jay Peak between work. A fresh storm was coming for the weekend, and we weren’t afraid to leave a few tracks to our favorite spots.
some powder chutes near Jay Peak

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17 Comments

  1. Ben
    wrote on January 18th, 2011 at 3:05 pm  
    1

    FKNA good work with all those shots Greg!

    This past week was FANTASTIC!

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    • Greg
      wrote on January 20th, 2011 at 8:42 am  
      2

      thanks dude… you know some of them ARE yours :P

  2. K_C
    wrote on January 18th, 2011 at 4:16 pm  
    3

    There is an obvious lack of camera pointing compared to Sam’s TR. Sorry to call you out G. Besides that – WELL DONE!

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    • Greg
      wrote on January 20th, 2011 at 8:42 am  
      4

      DULY noted… hmmm… we are still just students of the master?

  3. coltrain
    wrote on January 18th, 2011 at 4:19 pm  
    5

    looks like you guys had a blast. this past week was awesome and looks like it will continue on.

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  4. Skimohr
    wrote on January 18th, 2011 at 6:22 pm  
    6

    Nice shots you guys! Thanks!

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    • Greg
      wrote on January 20th, 2011 at 8:43 am  
      7

      Brian and Emily: thanks! I feel like there’s a great divide between us all schussing together… oh wait there is! route 2! the impenetrable fortress!!

      seriously… we should all get together sometime soon

  5. icelanticskier
    wrote on January 18th, 2011 at 7:59 pm  
    8

    POW WOW!

    deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.

    rog

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  6. BCFresh
    wrote on January 18th, 2011 at 8:18 pm  
    9

    Great Photos – Now I know why you guys are Famous!

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    • Greg
      wrote on January 20th, 2011 at 8:44 am  
      10

      only for skiing the internet. whatever that means ;)

  7. sbr
    wrote on January 20th, 2011 at 1:11 am  
    11

    Great TR, as usual. I read it at breakfast then heard this song on the way to work (thank you CBC Radio 2). Thought I: this is the perfect soundtrack for those images. The video is a bit dorky but the words and music are right on.

    Great Lakes Swimmers: Your Rocky Spine
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ6W_cq-zQ0

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    • Greg
      wrote on January 20th, 2011 at 8:48 am  
      12

      wow. cool band. hadn’t heard of those guys. a little soft (at least the vocals) for my tastes, but i can hear how it works!

      in the same vein that i often think about for a “long duration partially linear schmorgasborge TR” like this one is stuff from Vedder’s into the wild sound track. e.g:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwxxOu5ixAM

  8. Harvey44
    wrote on January 20th, 2011 at 5:45 pm  
    13

    The frozen waterfall hucks are incredible. Love the BIG old trees too. GP – hard for me to separate the Into The Wild music from the sad story. NICE TR.

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    • Greg
      wrote on February 1st, 2011 at 10:49 am  
      14

      Hey Harv… just saw this now. Interesting comment. I hear what you’re saying, and I know the ending is tragic, but Mcandless’ MO was interesting and somewhat inspiring to me. I’ve never been depressed by that movie.

  9. Sam
    wrote on April 26th, 2011 at 1:12 pm  
    15

    ben broke his pole here, eh?

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    • Greg
      wrote on April 26th, 2011 at 1:13 pm  
      16

      well… Ben did break his pole somewhere…not sure where though. that one pole that is visible sure is goofy though

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