ADK the Hard Way

By:  Peter
April 1, 2014 7:52 am | Category: Quick Update, Skiing

All good things must end, though, and eventually we couldn’t “approach” anything anymore and we had to ski away from it.

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Jake did in-depth studies of the performance characteristics of his new skis….look for a review sometime later, when he’s not skiing.

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We schussed that line all the way back to the valley…

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…so we could put skins back on and start approaching the summit once again.

2nd (3d?) approach complete, we were forced to turn around and ski away again.

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Off on the horizon we could see the entire Green Mountain Spine, and think about how short and unfulfilling the approaches to those gladed snow-capped mountains must have been that sunny day.

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We tried not to think too much about that, and it wasn’t hard really, as we skied another line back to the valley…

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…no, the thing that weighed on our minds was: How can we make get just a little bit more skinning-approach into this day?
I know!!  It’s still 6.5miles rolling miles and 2 river crossings to get back to the car.
Ski on friends, £thehardway

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3 Comments

  1. Peter W
    wrote on April 1st, 2014 at 8:05 am  
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    I didn’t work a single April Fools’ reference into this TR #fayle

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  2. jake
    wrote on April 1st, 2014 at 8:31 am  
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    I think we were the April fools just a tad to early.

    pounddoublefail

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  3. Harvey
    wrote on April 3rd, 2014 at 10:01 am  
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