Ughhh! YET ANOTHER East Coast TR?!
After a pleasant round of meadow skipping up north, we headed to Pico Mountain for a dawn patrol on Thursday morning. The lifts had been closed there during a huge storm, and we all had real work to do, so an early start was necessitated. Here’s a crappy photo in the pre-dawn gray from the summit.
If that shot of a cold gray windy summit isn’t enough to get you out of bed for a dawn patrol at your local closed ski mountain, maybe this will do the trick:
Of maybe this might work too:
Best run down A Slope at Pico Mountain… ever.
After a most profitable dawn patrol at Pico, as the weekend drew near we lapped up a few leftovers up around Jay Peak between work. A fresh storm was coming for the weekend, and we weren’t afraid to leave a few tracks to our favorite spots.
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17 Comments
Ben
wrote on January 18th, 2011 at 3:05 pmFKNA good work with all those shots Greg!
This past week was FANTASTIC!
Greg
wrote on January 20th, 2011 at 8:42 amthanks dude… you know some of them ARE yours :P
K_C
wrote on January 18th, 2011 at 4:16 pmThere is an obvious lack of camera pointing compared to Sam’s TR. Sorry to call you out G. Besides that – WELL DONE!
Greg
wrote on January 20th, 2011 at 8:42 amDULY noted… hmmm… we are still just students of the master?
coltrain
wrote on January 18th, 2011 at 4:19 pmlooks like you guys had a blast. this past week was awesome and looks like it will continue on.
Skimohr
wrote on January 18th, 2011 at 6:22 pmNice shots you guys! Thanks!
Greg
wrote on January 20th, 2011 at 8:43 amBrian and Emily: thanks! I feel like there’s a great divide between us all schussing together… oh wait there is! route 2! the impenetrable fortress!!
seriously… we should all get together sometime soon
icelanticskier
wrote on January 18th, 2011 at 7:59 pmPOW WOW!
deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.
rog
BCFresh
wrote on January 18th, 2011 at 8:18 pmGreat Photos – Now I know why you guys are Famous!
Greg
wrote on January 20th, 2011 at 8:44 amonly for skiing the internet. whatever that means ;)
sbr
wrote on January 20th, 2011 at 1:11 amGreat TR, as usual. I read it at breakfast then heard this song on the way to work (thank you CBC Radio 2). Thought I: this is the perfect soundtrack for those images. The video is a bit dorky but the words and music are right on.
Great Lakes Swimmers: Your Rocky Spine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ6W_cq-zQ0
Greg
wrote on January 20th, 2011 at 8:48 amwow. cool band. hadn’t heard of those guys. a little soft (at least the vocals) for my tastes, but i can hear how it works!
in the same vein that i often think about for a “long duration partially linear schmorgasborge TR” like this one is stuff from Vedder’s into the wild sound track. e.g:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwxxOu5ixAM
Harvey44
wrote on January 20th, 2011 at 5:45 pmThe frozen waterfall hucks are incredible. Love the BIG old trees too. GP – hard for me to separate the Into The Wild music from the sad story. NICE TR.
Greg
wrote on February 1st, 2011 at 10:49 amHey Harv… just saw this now. Interesting comment. I hear what you’re saying, and I know the ending is tragic, but Mcandless’ MO was interesting and somewhat inspiring to me. I’ve never been depressed by that movie.
Sam
wrote on April 26th, 2011 at 1:12 pmben broke his pole here, eh?
Greg
wrote on April 26th, 2011 at 1:13 pmwell… Ben did break his pole somewhere…not sure where though. that one pole that is visible sure is goofy though