Transition Time

Time to transition between skiing and climbing. February, March and April have been incredible months of skiing but the sun is getting too strong and the snow is melting rapidly.




We tried to get out Thursday night. Unconsolidated mush. The sun is setting on winter.


I tried again to go out on Saturday morning. 60* at 9:00 in the morning near Piseco. There was two feet of base that was completely rotten. There hadn't been a refreeze the night before. I headed home to enjoy the sun and get some yard work done.

We went down to Moss Island on Sunday. The island was jammed with people climbing so we went to the Wind Wall to try some sport routes. We tried a route that was over our heads and we didn't make it far but it was fun to climb again. Katie solved the first problem on the wall and climbed up to that point cleanly on her first try after I had flailed away at it three different times. Nothing leaves every muscles in your body shaking like rock climbing, even telemark skiing all out. Unfortunately, I forgot to get the camera out as Kate climbed so just a few of me. Kate always does an excellent job of photo documentation. The remains of some of the commercial signs painted on this cliff in the early 1900's that were visible from the railroad tracks below can be seen in the section I'm climbing.




First blood of the climbing season


We are not acclimated to 80* heat. Katie's umbrella is her friend in the summer.

We'll see what next weekend brings; snow? sun? skiing? climbing?

Easter Bunny Brings Snow!

Spring break turned out to be an incredible week of powder skiing. Yet another holiday storm comes through. President's weekend, St. Patty's Day, and now Easter Sunday brought huge snowfalls this year.




We skied a nearby ridgeline with views of Jay


With all the new snow, I got to try out my new BD Verdicts - crazy fun ski!!!


We skied the Easter Sunday storm at Jay. We had the snow and lifts to ourselves. The rest of the week we BC skied a perfect VT spruce/birch glade that we frequent often. I can't believe that it isn't overrun by skiers. We saw 4 others during the course of the week including an ATer, Patrick, who joined us in putting a skin track up to the ridgeline on Monday. The only other signs of life were an out of place robin in a world of white and the tracks from a moose that had been meandering around the area we skied all week.

This is April!?




The skintrack. Better than any ski resort lift.




Kate hiking up the pass back to the car


Random pictures of powder bliss


































48 days to date for me and 44 for Kate. With all the new snow last week in the northern mountains of NY, VT, NH and ME, it is going to be a good spring season. Mt. Mansfield's snow stake is recording the deepest snowpack since 1993.

Corn and Mashed Potatoes

A great weekend of spring corn and mashed potatoes! Saturday we skied this slide

The beautiful sun had Katie smiling. Grinnin' and skinnin'

Grinnin' and bootin'

Just grinnin', the slide goes from top to bottom

Making friends

The stairway to fun

The fun part

On Sunday we explored Sugarbush for the first time. Another great day in the sun!

Here are links to a few poor quality digital camera videos. One of me on Organgrinder http://s112.photobucket.com/albums/n169/dmosny/Ski%2006-07/?action=view&current=P4010177.flv and another of me http://s112.photobucket.com/albums/n169/dmosny/Ski%2006-07/March%2007/?action=view&current=P4010176.flv and one of Katie http://s112.photobucket.com/albums/n169/dmosny/Ski%2006-07/March%2007/?action=view&current=P4020187.flv Again, pretty low quality video and skiing but I'm figuring out how to upload and link videos. Next trick is video editing. 42 days to date for me and 38 for Katie.