Sugarloaf 3/10/10

[LobsterTeleGrrrl]

I decided to spend a day at the Loaf since it had snowed 5 feet while I was in Utah. Interesting how it waited until I was away to snow :-s
I started out in King Pine bowl where I was able get a good view of the front facing snowfields. I decided that the coverage looked good, and since it was a bluebird day with no wind (rare) that I would make a few runs then head over to Timberline and boot up to the summit. Haulback, Widowmaker, and Ram Down were in pretty good shape as long as you stayed to one side and avoided the middle. Bubblecuffer had some fairly scraped off frozen bumps. I finally made it over to Timberline, no traversing needed, where there was no one in line for the chair except me \/

I rode to the top and unloaded. Seeing how I still had a few extra red blood cells from my week at elevation in Utah, I was able to breeze past all the younger folks huffing and puffing their way to the summit O

The backside had fabulous coverage and some great lines, but the front snowfields turned out to be quite rocky. You really had to pick your line carefully.

Overall conditions are better than they were two weeks ago, but most trails have lots of scraped off ice patches. When it finally corns up though, things should be really nice.

lg

 

[icelanticskier]

while you were in utah, i was at the loaf for the last 3 days of the storm. unreal. 64 inches and you could go anywhere you wanted. unlike vermont, the loaf never went above freezing or got rain and the snow stayed nice and dry.

i can't wait till april to ski there into may. will be sweet!

rog

 

[LobsterTeleGrrrl]

When it corns up things will be sweet :-D You should try and make it for Reggae Weekend, that's always a good time (insert beer drinking smiley here).

lg

 

[icelanticskier]

When it corns up things will be sweet :-D You should try and make it for Reggae Weekend, that's always a good time (insert beer drinking smiley here).

lg

is that an invite? :-$ 8-[

rog

 

[Patrick]

When it corns up things will be sweet :-D You should try and make it for Reggae Weekend, that's always a good time (insert beer drinking smiley here).

lg

is that an invite? :-$ 8-[

rog

I'd be careful Rog, there is a Lange Girl that might read the ski forum. One member FTO dealing with a stalker/gf on-line is enough.

Oh, BTW... welcome back Nadine.

 

[Admin]

Oh, BTW... welcome back Nadine.

Hear, hear! Hope that this will become a regular thing.

 

[icelanticskier]

When it corns up things will be sweet :-D You should try and make it for Reggae Weekend, that's always a good time (insert beer drinking smiley here).

lg

is that an invite? :-$ 8-[

rog

I'd be careful Rog, there is a Lange Girl that might read the ski forum. One member FTO dealing with a stalker/gf on-line is enough.

Oh, BTW... welcome back Nadine.

funny, and here i thought patrick was screwing up someones name with his english. nodine is em's last name and here we have nadine. hmmm O emily would punish me severely if she read this 8-[

not to hijak here, but there's somthing about that backside snowfield with the tower at the loaf that reminds me of a little dawn patrol run i had on mt washington b4 work yesterday. from this tower it's 2800 vert of treeless open alpine terrain with pitches up to 45 degrees b4 another 900 vert on trail back to the car. 3700 vert, a bit less than the east side, but not too shabby for the east. the top 2800 felt almost like the southeast face of superior, but on superior the flatter terrain is at the bottom, here it's at the top. well, superior does beat this by a couple hundred vert. big place, where is everyone?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oee4j4kag_U

april at the loaf, can't wait! nice pics and words nadine!

rog

 

[LobsterTeleGrrrl]

When it corns up things will be sweet :-D You should try and make it for Reggae Weekend, that's always a good time (insert beer drinking smiley here).

lg

is that an invite? :-$ 8-[

rog

I'd be careful Rog, there is a Lange Girl that might read the ski forum. One member FTO dealing with a stalker/gf on-line is enough.

Oh, BTW... welcome back Nadine.

An online stalker :shock: :shock: :shock: Maybe I should have a gender neutral name instead. I'll have to think of something :wink:

I'm planning on going to Reggae weekend. We should have a meeting place for all of us to hook up. Let's say top of King Pine Bowl at 10:30 Saturday? And no stalking permitted

Glad to be back on the board :-D

lg

 

[LobsterTeleGrrrl]

rog[/quote]

I'd be careful Rog, there is a Lange Girl that might read the ski forum. One member FTO dealing with a stalker/gf on-line is enough.

Oh, BTW... welcome back Nadine.[/quote]

funny, and here i thought patrick was screwing up someones name with his english. nodine is em's last name and here we have nadine. hmmm O emily would punish me severely if she read this 8-[

not to hijak here, but there's somthing about that backside snowfield with the tower at the loaf that reminds me of a little dawn patrol run i had on mt washington b4 work yesterday. from this tower it's 2800 vert of treeless open alpine terrain with pitches up to 45 degrees b4 another 900 vert on trail back to the car. 3700 vert, a bit less than the east side, but not too shabby for the east. the top 2800 felt almost like the southeast face of superior, but on superior the flatter terrain is at the bottom, here it's at the top. well, superior does beat this by a couple hundred vert. big place, where is everyone?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oee4j4kag_U

april at the loaf, can't wait! nice pics and words nadine!

rog[/quote]

Nice video! Conditions look schweet!
Before work??? You climbed Washington before work and skied from the summit? Do you work the night shift :mrgreen: When I climb Washington it's an all day event! I'd have to call in sick if I were working that day :lol: :lol:
How is the Sherburne trail holding up? I'm thinking of heading over that way sometime in the next couple of weeks.

 

[icelanticskier]

Nice video! Conditions look schweet!
Before work??? You climbed Washington before work and skied from the summit? Do you work the night shift :mrgreen: When I climb Washington it's an all day event! I'd have to call in sick if I were working that day :lol: :lol:
How is the Sherburne trail holding up? I'm thinking of heading over that way sometime in the next couple of weeks.

Nadine

ya, i do it quite often when conditions warrant in addition to skiing up there on my 2 days off per week. i usually only drive up a 2nd time if i carpooled the 1st time, unless it's storm chasing. yesterday i closed the store at 9pm, rode my bike home (which takes an hour at a good clip. got home drank beer, packed, ate a little. bed at mid night, up at 2:30am, driving at 3am, skinning by 545am, summit by 8am (slow this time due to my touring partners pace). 2 full laps of the east snowfields at 800 vert per lap, then a summit to car run for another 3700 vert, 5300 vert total, done at 10:30am, driving by 11am, back to work in portsmouth at 2pm for an 8 hour shift after a burrito break. easy peasy. great workout, wonderful views (i could see portland harbor and the ocean very clearly from the summit), and some great turns.

i haven't skied the sherby or tux in 6 weeks (been other exotic places), but after the huge dump pretty much everything should be good for some time. gonna be warm for awhile so i'd grab it sooner than later. up high will be fine till june/july per usual. 4 more months of turns i reckon! i'm usually up high somewhere on sun/mon and sometimes thurs or fri. pm me for tour hook up sometime. O

rog

 

[Marc_C]

yesterday i closed the store at 9pm, rode my bike home (which takes an hour at a good clip. got home drank beer, packed, ate a little. bed at mid night, up at 2:30am, driving at 3am, skinning by 545am, summit by 8am (slow this time due to my touring partners pace). 2 full laps of the east snowfields at 800 vert per lap, then a summit to car run for another 3700 vert, 5300 vert total, done at 10:30am, driving by 11am, back to work in portsmouth at 2pm for an 8 hour shift after a burrito break. easy peasy.

Humans cannot do this. 8-[

 

[jamesdeluxe]

Amazing MW report:
http://www.famousinternetskiers.com/tri ... for-kings/

 

[icelanticskier]

yesterday i closed the store at 9pm, rode my bike home (which takes an hour at a good clip. got home drank beer, packed, ate a little. bed at mid night, up at 2:30am, driving at 3am, skinning by 545am, summit by 8am (slow this time due to my touring partners pace). 2 full laps of the east snowfields at 800 vert per lap, then a summit to car run for another 3700 vert, 5300 vert total, done at 10:30am, driving by 11am, back to work in portsmouth at 2pm for an 8 hour shift after a burrito break. easy peasy.

Humans cannot do this. 8-[

do know that i closed the store on wednesday night and skied thursday morning. i wrote it like i did it all in one calendar day, i mean it is still pretty extreme, but i require very little sleep in general and can go hard for long periods of time without tiring on very little food or water, beer helps tho

i get it from my mom, she's a frickin nut! she used to kick my a$$ constantly on very long (for me as a kid) 50+ mile road bike rides when i was pre-teen. she would drag me all over the place giggling the whole time while i suffered not knowing that someday i'd have trouble keeping touring partners cuz easy for me is stupid hard for most. i had this issue this past sunday when i climbed 8000 vert skiing off of mt jefferson, clay, and washington summits with many breaks and s-l-o-w-i-n-g for others and it was still less than an 8 hour day, but i was solo for the final washington summit to car. luckily my touring partners know me well and let me do my thing when conditions are safe and communication is clear.

can't wait to get up there!

rog

 

[icelanticskier]

Amazing MW report:
http://www.famousinternetskiers.com/tri ... for-kings/

ya, great spot to ski and another great report from FIS for sure. mt adams is a very good ski spot and with 4500 vert available, why go west? :stir:

haven't skied in kings in years, so much up there to ski in one relatively small mountain range with so few other skiers it's mind numbing.

p.s. my comment about the not in one calendar day thing in my last post was pretty dumb.

rog

 

[Tony Crocker]

Not surprising ice got into the ironman thing with his mom at an early age. Recall also that JSpin had his kids earning turns on the Mt. Washington snowfield at ages 5 and 3.

 

[LobsterTeleGrrrl]

Not surprising ice got into the ironman thing with his mom at an early age. Recall also that JSpin had his kids earning turns on the Mt. Washington snowfield at ages 5 and 3.

I had forgotten all about JSpin et al on the snowfields. You guys are in a league all your own

lg