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grayson
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Location: Burlington USA (just west of Vermont)
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So can we hear from anybody who got out there for turns in that WV three inches? Got nothin' but rain here. If you got first EC turns before anybody in NY/VT/NH/ME then claim 'em!  Also, it'd help justify this becoming THE tread.  |
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rsireland3
Joined: 21 Sep 2007
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Location: EL/R -6.12, SL/A -8.15 in NW VT and slightly south of the Poutine Curtain
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| Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 12:18 am Post subject: |
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| Carbo wrote: | | Rick Cronk wrote: | | Three inches of WV slush isn't all that exciting. |
Speak for yourself I got pretty excited when I heard, something along the lines of, "Damn! those lucky bastards in WV are going to scrape out a few first turns before me. Git Sum!"  |
Ya, but it doesn't seem like they got the same illness down there as some folks do up here. There's something delightfully wrong in the head with someone who skis junkboards on rime ice and fast grass.
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Rick Cronk
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Location: Gunks
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| Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 10:15 am Post subject: |
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I'm about that desperate. After all this rain and flooding, the first frost is going to see me sliding out the door with my boards on.
Our local ski swap this weekend was very busy, I sold out two pairs of teles which is unusual in that all the used tele skis sold. Folks are very ready.
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sdswingr
Joined: 10 Dec 2009
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Location: Essex Junction, VT
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Hiking mansfield today...snow probably all melted by now...oh well
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Turnchaser
Joined: 31 Jan 2011
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Location: Almost Heaven
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| Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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Snowshoe ended up getting 9"
To bad we don't have the same illness as everyone else.
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ATScott
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Gunks Ray
Joined: 30 Dec 2004
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Location: New Paltz
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| Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Rick Cronk wrote: | I'm about that desperate. After all this rain and flooding, the first frost is going to see me sliding out the door with my boards on.
Our local ski swap this weekend was very busy, I sold out two pairs of teles which is unusual in that all the used tele skis sold. Folks are very ready. |
That desperate? You quit skiing last year when the season was only half done to go windsurfing  and missed out on some of the best spring skiing we had in years, NOW your desperate to go skiing  Just when the climbing should be getting as good as it gets? |
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webby
Joined: 06 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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there aren't rules for these types of things and I am no authority but I personally would not have started something like this without being the first to post pictures of my friends skiing in the (north)east
In the recent past the OP of "the thread" has been someone who left their northcountry campus/home to drive to the Whiteface toll road in the middle of the night to grab photos to prove that they got the first tracks of the season before the snow melted
it doesn't have to be the northcountry but you should have to go outside |
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Craig B
Joined: 06 Dec 2004
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Location: Just a little south of the Blue Line...
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| Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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| webby wrote: | | it doesn't have to be the northcountry but you should have to go outside |
Don't want to demean the thread, but I think that's the money quote for this year. |
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Dirk
Joined: 06 Dec 2004
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Location: Vermont
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| Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:43 pm Post subject: |
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Whether there was any skiing done or not, I think the fact that West Virginia got nine inches before we so much as saw a dusting is reason enough to make this the official east coast thread.
That, and the absence of bacon, which delicious as it may be, has been way overdone around here.
Finally, by starting the thread now, we're creating a disincentive for anyone to climb Whiteface in the middle of the night to "ski" a half inch of hoarfrost, which is just silly. |
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rsireland3
Joined: 21 Sep 2007
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Location: EL/R -6.12, SL/A -8.15 in NW VT and slightly south of the Poutine Curtain
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| Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Dirk wrote: | Whether there was any skiing done or not, I think the fact that West Virginia got nine inches before we so much as saw a dusting is reason enough to make this the official thread.
That, and the absence of bacon, which delicious as it may be, has been way overdone around here. |
What else floats?
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Craig B
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Location: Just a little south of the Blue Line...
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| Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Dirk wrote: | | Finally, by starting the thread now, we're creating a disincentive for anyone to climb Whiteface in the middle of the night to "ski" a half inch of hoarfrost, which is just silly. |
Silly, you say? You're just spoiled from all that Vermont powder |
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woodi7259
Joined: 06 Dec 2004
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Location: Alden, NY
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| Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:58 pm Post subject: |
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| webby wrote: | there aren't rules for these types of things and I am no authority but I personally would not have started something like this without being the first to post pictures of my friends skiing in the (north)east
In the recent past the OP of "the thread" has been someone who left their northcountry campus/home to drive to the Whiteface toll road in the middle of the night to grab photos to prove that they got the first tracks of the season before the snow melted
it doesn't have to be the northcountry but you should have to go outside |
Pictures on whitegrass site prove that skiing was in fact done...but for the sake of getting the first documented ttips turns of the year I say that prize is still waiting to be claimed (unless someone from WV chimes in). I'm rooting for my Clarkson Outing Club Bretheren... We've had a pretty good run going since my junior year (as far back as I could find) it looks like someone from CUOC may have taken the title all the way back to the 06/07 season. Others may have beat us to snow but we were the first ttipsters to do it and run back to our computer to post pictures... Aren't we so cool?
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Dr. T. Elemark
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Where are the pics?
Strike 'The Thread' from the record!!
First tracks = first post.
And everyone knows I'm gonna get 'em.
Possible thread names :
-East Fkn' Coast '11-12
-EC: Only D-bags live out West
-East Infection
-IC EC
-Gnar is where you find it.
-Who needs glaciers?
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rsireland3
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Location: EL/R -6.12, SL/A -8.15 in NW VT and slightly south of the Poutine Curtain
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Despite what some posters believe, there are rules. Please follow them. 
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