[RNOtele]

So I am hanging them up for the season. Killington is closing Sunday so no more lift served for me. Had a great day in Tucks on Wed., still plenty of snow up there (Left Gully skied very nicely), but having to hike all the way to the road is something I can only do once a year. Well worth the trip though, there were only about 15 people skiing there all day and that is with beautiful weather. So for those who avoid the ravine due to crowds, it should be ok this year, most people seem to have lost interest. The ranger told us there were only about 50 people in the bowl the previous Sat. with great weather, and even less on Sun.

Here are a couple of pics:

https://picasaweb.google.com/marcrubenson/TuckermanRavine2012?authkey=Gv1sRgCKrry6KOn6bCzgE&feat=email#5733279026910938242


https://picasaweb.google.com/marcrubenson/TuckermanRavine2012?authkey=Gv1sRgCKrry6KOn6bCzgE&feat=email#5733278932230941970

TT

[edgeworker]

nice grab

[robrox]

Day 4, less than 6 months after TKR. We went to Jay Peak. Nothing spectacular or funny to report. Got some pix.

Not much snow.

Patrol was around and working, but there were more people in the water park or skating in the rink than on the slopes

Why is it that on such an empty day I get a crowd shot while Mrs RR lets them run?

Getting a view.

Shall we do lunch and see if those clouds go away?


The rains did come after lunch so we went to the Alchemist brewery to return some empties and get more Heady Topper and then did the tour at Ben & Jerry's
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"Moderate is not the new Low" - Chris Joosen, USFS Lead Snow Ranger (Tuckerman Ravine, White Mountains National Forest)

[rsireland3]

d00d. Down to just Jet and Haynes?
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[robrox]

[Dirk]

I'm done. The rain held off yesterday, so I skinned Stowe. As Carbo said, Lord/North Slope was continuous all the way to Crossover, but barely. Snow is very dirty and, without any sun, it didn't corn up any. All in all, a pretty uninspiring end to the season. On the plus side, I found a quarter. That brings my post-season haul to sixty cents, a bic lighter, and a PSIA pin. Whee!

Good to see Rob back on snow so soon after a knee replacement.

[patonbike]

i am assuming all of the precipitation last night was of the wrong form? bored here... but can't figure out what to do this afternoon.

[robrox]

[Carbo]

[Telemarkian]

thanks for everyone for all the great 2011 - 2012 posts on our pretty horrid NE winter. Lets hope 2012 - 2013 balances out the equation and we get a real winter with lots of snow - from CT to MAINE, from November to April.

My abysmal 2011-12 totals:

Cannon Day trips: 6
Mad River Total Days: 6
Wa-Wa Chusset: 1 day
Great Brook Farm: 1 day, October 29 I think
XC at the Essex County Club - 3 tours, about 5 hours total XC all winter....and my waistline shows it......
Manchester/Essex Woods: 0 days

hope to see you all down river or up in the hills.

[Grampatele]

Also done wanted to get to stowe but.......it being the worst year in decades, well let it die. 95 days or so mostly skiing BC crust and one of he best was a day after spme decent powder where rains came and crusted up. Headed up and the crust wasn't yet set and the skiing was head em down the crust being resistance kept in control and blew up the crust really kinda easy laid back skiing, strange. Anyway 2012 will be in the memory banks. Teleman
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[patonbike]

I ended up going up Mt Ellen on foot when in doubt i can always go for a hike. It is just not as fun or as nice on the knees having to walk down.

I did manage to find about .45 mile of continuous snow, about 470 vertical feet. maybe tomorrow.

Lots of frost up there, but no new snow.. a few pics
http://www.flickr.com/photos/55221170@N07/sets/72157629876395977/

[Highland Sport]

It has to be sn*wing up in the daks/whites/greens cuz it is 36F here in sussex county nj.

[edgeworker]

From the MWAC this morning

As you sit in your warm dry space today, thinking of the mountains and how they will react to the rain, here are some thoughts to ponder. So far, the mountain has received about 1.6″ of rain since precipitation began Saturday evening. There is potential for another couple inches, or, if we’re in a “localized area of higher amounts,” then maybe even more. First, think about what it would be like if temperatures were 20 or 30 degrees colder. This would be a great nor’easter dumping huge snowfalls across all of New England. But sadly it’s not. So instead think about water percolating down through the snowpack, collecting and channeling into little streamlets. These combine and form bigger streams that run beneath the snow and ice. As rain becomes heavy today, picture the water level in these streams rising, possibly exceeding the capacity of the drainage channels and pushing the overflow upward onto the snowpack. Historically, we’ve had some pretty exceptional wet snow avalanches as a result of heavy spring rains. I think the probability is low for this to happen today, mainly because the drainage channels are already well established and large. But, if this unlikely event did take place, I would want to be nowhere near Tuckerman Ravine when it happened. Since the thought did enter my mind this morning, I figured I’d give you something to think about, whether you’re in your cubicle or actually headed up onto the mountain. A much more likely scenario today is the worsening of the usual springtime hazards of falling ice, crevasses, and undermining. Low visibility will make all of these hazards difficult to assess.

[rsireland3]