Heh. Yes one can definitely connect the dots on that one. There is also a photo circulating about the internet of the same rope-coiled-cover-character ascending the Trap Dike with skis on his back. It certainly isn't a difficult line of reasoning to continue that it was then skied by said character after that. That's hardly a trip report though. Just (as I mentioned earlier [self Jimski?]), a whisper from the notoriously secretive ADK BC skiing community about their ski accomplishments. On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Nathan Bryant <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > > The cover photo of Drew Haas' much-maligned book is, I believe, of a dude > carrying a rope on the summit of Colden... make of that what you will. > > I know Jan has at least done some recon up there. > > > On 2/18/2011 12:24 PM, Greg Petrics wrote: > >> Yeah. I saw that. Not to be too snobby, but that one doesn't get above the >> waterfall. To me that's an important distinction. I'm sure it was still fun. >> >> On Feb 18, 2011, at 9:21 AM, Marc Chrusch<[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> At 05:57 AM 2/18/2011, Greg Petrics wrote: >>> >>> Thanks all for the link to FIS Alex, and thanks for all the compliments. >>>> In addition thanks for that link and comment Matt! I agree with your >>>> sentiment, but also was not aware of that report by Nick. >>>> <snip> >>>> The main accomplishment (I'll go out on a limb and speak for Ben here) >>>> we take away from this was that although we were 100% sure it had been >>>> skied, we had not really ever seen anything concrete about it. Before seeing >>>> the link to the TR from Nick, I had never seen a report or even so much as a >>>> picture of anyone skiing in there. >>>> >>> Here's another one I was able to find: >>> http://www.adkforum.com/showthread.php?t=15049 >>> >>> -marc >>> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >>> 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 >> >> > -- "I'm a simple man, Hobbes." "You?? Yesterday you wanted a nuclear powered car that could turn into a jet with laser-guided heat-seeking missiles!" "I'm a simple man with complex tastes." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SkiVt-L is brought to you by the University of Vermont. To unsubscribe, visit http://list.uvm.edu/archives/skivt-l.html