Jay Peak: 11-05-2006

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BigJay

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I posted a complete report on our website:
http://www.clubveloepic.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=10592

Here's some of the stuff we had the pleasure of riding:¸

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Well, the snow season started 2 weeks ago... and after last weekend's rain, i had to check out what was left! I heard that Jay fired up their snowguns... so at least, the Jet and Haynes would be skiable...

So Karine, Celine, Seb, Marc and I decided to take a little drive to Jay...

There was no snow on the ground before we got to the parking lot...
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We climbed to the top:
1_ Down the Jet
2_ Derreck Hot Shot
3_ Jet again

We saw plenty of jibbers climbing painfully up the Jet and Haynes under the snowguns... Look splippery and hard... We took the U.N. all on natural soft snow...

Here's Celine going real low:
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Paul carving some turns with his retro rear-entry boots:
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Celine:
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Paul:
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I had to step on that bike... but i needed the "snowboard" attitude :lol: :
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Oh and yeah... just so you know, Paul and I didn't feel like walking... we made it all the way down to the bottom of the Jet...



... there was a good 20 people on the mountain... Guess everyone figured out that it would be worth it... We climbed 3600ft yesterday... Felt goog!

:cool:
(Now pray for snow... HARD!)

 
3600' on half the jet is a lot of runs! bravo. i'll probably be back up there next weekend for a pair of days.
 
riverc0il":1e353ryh said:
3600' on half the jet is a lot of runs! bravo. i'll probably be back up there next weekend for a pair of days.
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Well, base area to top of Jet is 1600ft vertical. Then, each "run" is about 2/3 of the climb in terms of vertical feet so 1000 ft/run. We did 3 runs... so 3600ft seemed ok... My GPS died so i had to approximate what we did... Am i totally off?
 
Nice report...:P
Less snow...:(

My watch from October 25th shows the vertical of Stateside at 381 meters (1250ft).

I skied on half a Haynes and most of Derrick (except the top 65meters) all the way back to the car: total for the day: 642m / 2106ft

I'm estimating that Lucky SQ Luke who did 2 more runs (1 short pitch prior to Hell's crossing and half of Derrick) did 980m / 3215ft in 4:25 (including 45 minutes lunch) with his trekkers. No wonder he was tired at the end of the day. :oops:

Keep the reports them coming... :P
 
Jay management has overstated Stateside vertical as 1,600 feet for as long as I can remember. From my recollection of a topo map, River's estimate is about right.
 
the jet lift is about 610m base to 967m summit for a total of 357m. looking at a topo map, the upper steep section and lower flat section are almost split in half in terms of distance, upper section looks a tad longer. let's be generous and call the upper section 190m. that would be 623 vert feet which soulds about right for the upper jet. i don't know how jay management gets 1600 feet (fwiw, i got my numbers from terraserver, the summit was marked and i estimated on the base).

the jet area is actually a great place for turn earning because it is so short. you can lap up a lot of runs in a short period of time on a decent pitch. unfortunately the pitch is not ideal for skinning and taking northway to montrealer is too long of a haul just to avoid the steeps.

if you guys skied down below the heaven's road to the very end of the snow, you probably got in 3k-ish depending how far you went down. it was possible to ride out the last patch of snow to within 100 vertical feet of the lift if you were truly desperte! :lol:
 
Like i said, my GPS died... i normally have the exact number... i just remember Jay Peak saying that the Jet was 1600ft vertical... So we did a lot less then... Something more like in 2200-2600ft? Anyways... doesn't matter: Great riding, great snow! All that really matters!

@river: check out the video... we made it all the way down...
 
As a matter of fact, Jay for as long as I can remember has advertised an overall vertical of 2150', but break out a topo -- I defy you to find 2150 anywhere there. Even down to the very bottom parking lot won't give you 2150. Even if you include the mountain's original summit and not the reduced summit blasted away to build the Sky Haus.

The old tram cabins had a sign in the ceiling that recorded the lift's vertical ascent as 1950', which is about right.
 
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