Went up to Mount Snow on Thursday night with my buddy Josh from work. This is the second time we've skied together. I like skiing with Josh not only because he is a fun and funny dude but also because we're pretty similar in ability and comfort levels out on the slopes.
Our plans kind of came together at the last minute. Mount Snow was projected to get something like 10 inches of snow throughout the course of last week. Late in the week, however, the storm trended a little warmer, dropping mixed precipitation and even some rain showers followed by snow. So we weren't quite sure what we were going to get.
As it happened, we wound up with maybe 4 to 6 inches of heavy, wet powder, which was fine -- and basically unnoticeable -- on the groomed trails, but a
Hell of a lot fun throughout the ungroomed trails and natural snow areas off to the side of the North Face. In particular,
PDF and
Plummet were in
great shape, and when we hit
Challenger early yesterday morning, I think we might've cut first tracks through some fairly deep pow.
Not an experience I'd ever had in Vermont. It was fun as anything.
Pics are past the jump.
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| At the lodge Thursday night. |
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| Obligatory selfie at Carinthia before heading out Friday morning. |
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| Hey, that's me! |
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| Josh works his way down Plummet. |
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| Josh on Challenger. |
This video is Josh skiing down Challenger. I posted the one of my on Twitter, which might make it a little easier to see.
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| Overlooking the North Face |
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| Gettin' bumpy out there. Not sure if this is PDF or Plummet. |
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| Lunch at the Bullwheel Summit Lodge. |
The cadet Ski Instructors Club had a trip section out to Mount Snow on Friday. We wound up having lunch with Andrew, a TAC up at West Point, and one of his cadets. If Andrew told us which company he advises, I don't remember it.
We skied with Andrew (but not the cadets) all afternoon, but I somehow managed not to get a picture of him. To be fair, he was wearing a Blue & Gold ski jacket, so maybe it's best that there's no record of that.
Good dude, though, beside that Navy-style jacket.
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| Josh has delusions about dating one of my friends. He aspires to be her Man Toy. Alas, that kind of fell through, but we took this picture of him on Plummet by way of showing off his skiing prowess. We'll see how that goes. |
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