Altarondacks — Episode 1

By:  Peter
March 26, 2011


With the short time we had we barely touched a fraction of this immense area, we’ll be back to explore more soon.
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We hopped back into Clifford and left the NEK.
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We were headed “out West”, to bigger peaks. We dropped off Carter the Powderhound in Burlington and picked up Jake the Powderhound for the dawn ferry across the pond.
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Just a few hours later Jake was busting out a skin track en route to our first objective.
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The snow was fresh, cold, stable, and allowed for some seriously steep ascending.
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7 Comments

  1. TSQ
    wrote on March 27th, 2011 at 7:14 am  
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    Looking out my front window I thought I saw you guys up there. Yep, there’s no steep skiing in the east….great photos!

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  2. joshg
    wrote on March 27th, 2011 at 7:31 am  
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    Nice report Peter & Crew.

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  3. dave
    wrote on March 27th, 2011 at 8:30 am  
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    sweet photos.. marcy?

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  4. efoxx
    wrote on March 27th, 2011 at 3:52 pm  
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    Looks great! Was that Algonquin snowfields? Coverage looks great. I plan on getting out there next weekend. Nice TR.

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  5. jake
    wrote on March 27th, 2011 at 9:45 pm  
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    yeahh Peter. Sweet TR. I am glad I stopped in to FIS while away in Telluride to find this. I hope the new snow back east is keeping things fun.

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  6. powhounddd
    wrote on March 28th, 2011 at 8:51 pm  
  7. Hodess
    wrote on March 29th, 2011 at 1:46 pm  
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