Tuckerman Ravine NH – July 2, 2011 : TGT … Don’t Panic!!!

Patrick

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Tuckerman Ravine NH – July 2, 2011 : TGT … Don’t Panic!!!

Don’t Panic…Breath deeply and everything is going to be all right.

Crazy about skiing? Don’t Panic!!! TGT (Tuckerman Group Therapy) is here to help.

This long weekend wasn’t for the people that we’re afraid of crowds.

Canada Day in Ottawa with Will and Kate show joining the celebrations. It’s generally crazy on this day without the young Royalty. I left Ottawa as I was hearing talk of 500,000 people near Parliament Hill.

Let's go skiing!!!

To be continued...

Plus a bunch of pictures - none of them mine. Things are forgotten when you go skiing in July ...things like a windbreaker, gloves, camera or helmet.

There is also some text and the answer to life...click the link for more.
http://madpatski.wordpress.com/2011/07/ ... ont-panic/

:ski:

 
Clearly, it was a terrible year here on the EC for snow. Normally the only skiing you hear of on the EC on July 2nd is the water variety.
 
rfarren":2cvhlsr1 said:
Clearly, it was a terrible year here on the EC for snow. Normally the only skiing you hear of on the EC on July 2nd is the water variety.

If you search, you'll find that there have been July turns happening every year in Tuckerman. Lftgly and Chromer (name that we don't see anymore) even made it to August about ten years ago.
 
rfarren":s3eir0qw said:
Normally the only skiing you hear of on the EC on July 2nd is the water variety.
I have to go with Patrick on this one. Mt. Washington has a very independent microclimate, doesn't necessarily correlate with Northeast lift served skiing, at least in terms of snowfall. And the Observatory snowfall measurements do not strike me as particularly credible in view of the consistent huge winds. The Observatory recorded 237 inches from October-May in 2010-11, a well below average total.

Patrick's report is distinctly above average, as the snow patch was about double the vertical of the other July report I remember him posting a few years back. The aspect of Northeast lift service skiing that probably does relate to Tucks is the cool spring in 2011, which presumably slowed the meltdown relative to most seasons.
 
July 5, 2009:
about 30 meters
(I would have it on my watch)

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8077

July 2, 2008:
Greatest vertical which was my last run on Wednesday was 70 meters, not necessarily the safest route.
. Biggest coverage of my 4 July visits (2007, 08, 09 and 11). We were skiing that small snow patch that snowcrazy was making 3 turns on and didn't check out Sluice on that day.

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6893

July 1, 2007:
I just know off the top of my head that the vertical skied per run was 20 meters (66ft). The whole patch was probably close to 50-60 meters vert (164-197ft).
Snow was serious undermined. Patch was longer ... but "riskier"...unless our tolerance level for danger was greater this year? It was raining in 2007 and we were alone.

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3251

So at 42...snow was great...but probably average vert.

PS. It is my goal to get all my ski-related TR concentrated on my blog (easier to find), eventually. 8-[

Here are FTO TR's July and beyond posts. (pictures and formatting disappear in the great mixup).

Ski Pics of Tuckerman Ravine on may/june/july/august 1997
Lftgly":eiqyz9gq said:
Frank-Yes, 1997 was a great year. I skied the East Snowfields via the Mt Washington Auto Road on Jun 15, Left Gully on July 6, and the last remaining snow in the Bowl on August 6. My photos from that year are all "analog" - nice to see the digital photo archive!
Frank had to put up a link from Wolverine of Zski.

Lftgly: July 1, 2001
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4362

Lftgly: August 1, 2001
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4364

Chromer: August 4, 2001
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4366

Rivec0il: July 2, 2005:
9) maybe ~150 vertical feet?

I know that Pwdr8 and Harkin Banks from T4T skied on July 4, 2006 which I featured on my Friday Video segments (it would seem as the more pathetic year). It reminds me, I still need to finish this Friday's feature. 8-[
http://madpatski.wordpress.com/2011/07/ ... -silliest/
 
I spent ~20 minutes cleaning up the 3 reports from 2001 so that the pictures are now viewable. Every report before the summer of 2004 is like this unless someone goes in and fixes it manually, which I did for my own reports back then. Has admin given any consideration to a global fix here? Even an edit/replace all function would speed up the process of fixing individual reports.

Back on topic: Do the Chic-Chocs hold snow in the summer any longer than Tucks?
 
Tony Crocker":94192v26 said:
Back on topic: Do the Chic-Chocs hold snow in the summer any longer than Tucks?
Hard to say. I know for a fact that there is still snow on Mont Albert last week, as my work colleague in the next cubical is involved with the scouts and organized a one week camp last week. He told me on Monday that they encountered snow a fairly large patch (but not necessarily steep) on their 17km tour of Mont Albert. I've seen one TR of the Mines area and it didn't better than Tuck.

Mount Washington is by far, the easiest accessible July skiable snow in the East. Of course, Frankontour skied Mont Avila this Monday. He mentioned sometimes like 30meter vert, but the TR is in the Extreme Zone (reserved for non-ski area skiing) on Zoneski. He skied the leftover from Camp AKAMP again this year.
http://akamp.ca/

I didn't follow much of it, but the snow is covered and/or stored somewhere until the first week of camp. IMHO, Tuckerman was 100 more fun for myself even if it required a long hike. I was really able to crank some good turns with my slalom. The lack of steepness wouldn't have been so much fun for myself...I had issues skiing at Avila in Winter back in my university years.

PS. Still haven't finish my Friday Night feature on Ski Mad World. Almost done....

PPS. Thanks for the cleanup of the old posts Tony. I've clean my post here in FTO prior to copying them over to my blog.
 
Tony Crocker":3nuwzx7a said:
I spent ~20 minutes cleaning up the 3 reports from 2001 so that the pictures are now viewable. Every report before the summer of 2004 is like this unless someone goes in and fixes it manually, ...
Fixing reports prior to 2004...7.5 years ago???? Are you serious??? Who the f*ck cares? That's ancient history....the snow anyone skied on is long part of either the oceans or evaporation.
 
Marc_C":ji1257v1 said:
Tony Crocker":ji1257v1 said:
I spent ~20 minutes cleaning up the 3 reports from 2001 so that the pictures are now viewable. Every report before the summer of 2004 is like this unless someone goes in and fixes it manually, ...
Fixing reports prior to 2004...7.5 years ago???? Are you serious??? Who the f*ck cares? That's ancient history....the snow anyone skied on is long part of either the oceans or evaporation.

I guess that is why ski museums are having a hard time. People don't care about visual and written history of skiing which would include for FTO exceptional reports that are still relevant to the current topic. Two TRs from skiing in Tuckerman in August. Happy that Tony got the pictures back up. \:D/

The one that I would love to have more info is this TR from Ireland: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4059

Oh BTW, here is my later than usual Friday Night Video post on Marc G:
http://madpatski.wordpress.com/2011/07/ ... irardelli/
 
Patrick presumably put up those links to compare Tuckerman conditions in various seasons.
But that exercise: :worthless:
So I did remember fixing those problems on my own posts and decided to do that here. But on a global scale it's way too tedious.
 
Tony Crocker":19pzu3lu said:
Patrick presumably put up those links to compare Tuckerman conditions in various seasons.
But that exercise: :worthless:
I believe that they are pics associated with each of these posts, sometimes to second hand through a link with T4T.
 
The 3 Tuckerman posts from 2001 posted pics to FTO, not second hand.

For any old post with pics, the following changes need to be made:
1) Replace <IMG SRC=" with
2) Replace /discus2/messages/8/[i]picturenumber.jpg[/i] with /boards/files/discus/[i]picturenumber.jpg[/i]
3) " ALT=" with and delete the trailing " and > marks
 
Marc_C":2wp99t3x said:
Tony Crocker":2wp99t3x said:
I spent ~20 minutes cleaning up the 3 reports from 2001 so that the pictures are now viewable. Every report before the summer of 2004 is like this unless someone goes in and fixes it manually, ...
Fixing reports prior to 2004...7.5 years ago???? Are you serious??? Who the f*ck cares? That's ancient history....the snow anyone skied on is long part of either the oceans or evaporation.

I mean I see your point, but IMO it's a little arbitrary for a guy with 1000 posts in a ski forum who's following it in July to say that another guy's obsession with skiing is over the line.

Don't misunderstand - I'm the worst offender...

Just sayin.
 
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