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I also wrote: > Tuckerman Lunch Rocks 10:27AM: Stopped to put on ski boots & crampons >and have a snack. Was a bit sweaty, hard to see with salt in the eyes, but >feeling considerably better. Took time to see if I could confirm or deny >the rumor I read on telemarktips.com that there was nothing actually steep >in “the east”, or at least nothing exposed. http://www.uvm.edu/skivt->l/image_upload/World/Terrain_Search-II.AVI Results inconclusive. Damnation! That digicam vidi link shoulda been: http://www.uvm.edu/skivt-l/image_upload/World/Terrain_Search_-I.AVI (OK, that does it- gotta get more sleep tonight!) dana _____________ ________ __ __ /________ ________ ___ __( Tele till you drop! ___\ ________ ________ __ ____) ______ __________ _ ___/ ______ ___________ _ __( o ____ __________ __ __ \(|\.____ _______ ____ ___`\>/______ ____ ______ ____ \` ______ __ _______ ______`________ _ _______ _______________ __ ______ -----Original Message----- From: Vermont Skiing Discussion and Snow Reports [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dana Dorsett Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 11:17 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [SKIVT-L] Cure for the common cold (no VT content) Worcester, MA 4:00AM 10 May 2005 Woke up with the worst kind of cold- achey, stuffy head, no way was I going to work that day! 4:44AM Two cups of coffee and a bowl of oatmeal later, it wasn’t getting any better… Time for a road trip. Pinkham Notch, NH 8:03AM: Turned the motor off under a cloudless sky, 60F+ temps. Feeling slightly better- maybe a hike would help. Tuckerman Lunch Rocks 10:27AM: Stopped to put on ski boots & crampons and have a snack. Was a bit sweaty, hard to see with salt in the eyes, but feeling considerably better. Took time to see if I could confirm or deny the rumor I read on telemarktips.com that there was nothing actually steep in “the east”, or at least nothing exposed. http://www.uvm.edu/skivt-l/image_upload/World/Terrain_Search-II.AVI Results inconclusive. Top of the Right Gully, 10:58AM: Ready to point ‘em down, waited for a couple of other cold sufferers to climb up before making my run- DEFINITELY feeling the cure starting to work! http://www.uvm.edu/skivt-l/image_upload/World/View_from_Left_Gully.JPG Top of Left Gully, 12:15PM: Second attempt at figuring out that rumor, results still inconclusive. http://www.uvm.edu/skivt-l/image_upload/World/Terrain_Search-II.AVI Time to have some lunch and a short nap while waiting for the handful of climbers to clear the run- temps above 70F, NO WIND! I could even hear people talking in the middle of the bowl ¼ mile away (but not clearly enough to eavesdrop, ‘xactly.) Top of Left Gully, 1:00: Out of water from the sweaty hike in the summer heat, time to point ‘em down. Feeling much better, thanks! http://www.uvm.edu/skivt-l/image_upload/World/View_from_Left_Gully.JPG Hermit Lake Hut, 1:38: Word has it that the upper Sherburne is still “skiable” (as in, “on your brother’s rock skis, at least it’s not closed yet.” Pinkham Notch, 3:05: Finished off the smushed PB& J, gulped a liter of H2O and hit the road. Worcester, MA, 6:35: Home in time for dinner- hardly a sniffle left! For the record: They got something like 6” of snow over the weekend on a NE-NNE wind, which loaded up the Right Gully very nicely- it was 3-12” of fine grained syrupy cornmeal mush- a bit sloughy, but wicked fun. It’s undermined quite a bit on the uppermost part but there’s more than 90% available to ski. The Right-Right Gully/Lobster Claw looked more acutely undermined but still skiable (but I didn’t). Chute has an all-too interesting horizontal line in the funnel above- couldn’t tell if it was a slide crack or a crown face, but it looks skiable without a vanishingly small brains/gonads size ration (but smaller ratios would help :-) ) Did not see anyone ski it from above the narrows. The north flank of the funnel on the Left Gully loaded up considerably- deep not-too-dense corn, but (big surprise?) very sloughy- had to stop a couple of times to let the slurry run by rather than risk getting tripped up by it. YMMD. According to a couple of sources Hillman's is still skiable top to bottom (looked it), but has a wall-to-wall widening slide crack on the upper part, and is getting considerably undermined lower down- probably won't be nearly as nice in a coupla weeks. If anybody feels a sniffle coming on, the weather for Th/Fr looks better than weekend- might be worth taking the cure before it gets any worse, eh? http://www.erh.noaa.gov/ifps/MapClick.php?CityName=Conway&state=NH&site= GYX dana _____________ ________ __ __ /________ ________ ___ __( Tele till you drop! ___\ ________ ________ __ ____) ______ __________ _ ___/ ______ ___________ _ __( o ____ __________ __ __ \(|\.____ _______ ____ ___`\>/______ ____ ______ ____ \` ______ __ _______ ______`________ _ _______ _______________ __ ______ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SkiVt-L is brought to you by the University of Vermont. To unsubscribe, visit http://list.uvm.edu/archives/skivt-l.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SkiVt-L is brought to you by the University of Vermont. To unsubscribe, visit http://list.uvm.edu/archives/skivt-l.html