Possible ski of the Upper Auto Road tomorrow, who's down?

riverc0il

riverc0il

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after reading JS's TR earlier in the week, seems like crossing october off my to do list might be in order. i am currently assessing weather and looks like tomorrow morning could be a decent window weather wise (today would have been perfect, but no way was i blowing off a vacation day for this!).

any one else interested? would prefer to take on this trek with company. right now i am at 75% on at least heading over to pinkham and reassessing at the base depending on weather.
 
thanks to salida, we have some up to date info. apparently, the auto road company tried to plow the road because some maintainence still needed to be done up high. so skiing the auto road seems unlikely. word is the east snowfields look skiable, but no one has done it yet and given conditions up there who knows what condition that snow is in. looks like it may be slim pickings...

...but the other half of me says we'll never know unless we check it out! :lol:
 
riverc0il":atdiiu84 said:
east snowfields look skiable, but no one has done it yet and given conditions up there who knows what condition that snow is in. looks like it may be slim pickings...
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Great...but don't forget your rock skis.

I have walk up to the top of Mont Washington in a october snowstorm, is not like skiing on grass you know. Pretty rugged rocks up there, not should that 34 inches would make it very skiable.

Good luck if you go. :o
 
i am unfortunately bailing on this one. got too excited and have everything in the ready position downstairs. gonna be hard by passing the skis and just going out the door with hiking gear today. here is the TR from yesterday from T4T:
http://timefortuckerman.com/forums/show ... php?t=5240

apparently, the auto road folks hassled these guys it seems like they almost weren't allowed to proceed above the 4.5 marker were cars are going up to. i wouldn't mind heading up and getting turned around by wind, but heading up and getting turned around by a person in site of snow would seem rather cruel and unusual. that said, i just read on the auto road site that saturns with auto trannies and no low or 1 gear shift are not allowed on the auto road. craptastic! i would hike, but the snow conditions from that TR seem marginal at best and the combination of marginal snow conditions for a 5+ mile hike with good likelihood of getting turned around at site of the goods doesn't add up. couldn't find a partner either, so i wouldn't feel comfortable venturing towards the snow fields any ways and the TR above seems to indicate snow wasn't good for turning near the auto road.

ah well, it was a desperate thought, but looks like i will have to hold out another few weeks for kmart to blow some snow (pending wilma doesn't contribute to a freak snow event which seems unlikely at this point). there's always next year for october. :lol:
 
Oh my...I'm surprise how skiable the snow looks. I would have though that it would have rocks everywhere. I recall that the surface around the summit is pretty rugged.
 
riverc0il":1s0j3lb7 said:
(pending wilma doesn't contribute to a freak snow event which seems unlikely at this point)
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Come'on Is crappuweather ever wrong? :wink: :roll:
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