On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 21:34:40 -0500, allen taylor <[log in to unmask]> 
wrote:

>I was up on the chin on saturday and i got first tracks down
>hourglass/hellbrook. First of all it was insane total whiteroom in
>spots just totally bottomless. I did however get to wittiness a good
>deal of avey activity. I was with fellow lister Christean a
>snowboarder from stowe and we had broken trail up the chin and
>basically had to race a group of ssaholes behind us who were
>constantly trying to overtake us after we set the bootpack and busted
>the traverses. 

Sweet!  Dave and I were talking about when you would have to go up there 
to get first tracks on some of the lines right now...and we guessed it 
would have to be during the storm.  Did you guys skin or hike and from 
where?  All the way from the bottom or take the double up and traverse 
over and then up Rim Rock?  I bet conditions were absolutely unbelievable 
up there as far as snow depth and quality during the storm.  Avalanche 
activity must've been high too, with a few feet of dust on top of another 
couple feet on top of the last solid rain crust.

What boggles my mind even more so, is that how as the season reaches 
March, everyone starts hiking the Chin.  If some of you have been 
following my reports, we could hike up there, ski powder all day, and not 
see another soul; its hard not to get attached to that.  Everyone we 
talked to kept saying, nah there's not enough snow up there...and I kind 
of enjoyed it.  I completely agree with your complaints about ssaholes 
staying right on your heels and the race makes it lose some of its 
appeal.  Allen, if we get a big storm again this winter...we should get a 
group together of a couple and do a relaxed dawn assult of Mansfield's 
main lines.  Or do what other on here do and just find our own nmad 
mountain ;)

Congrats on the first tracks!!  Impressive.

-Scott

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