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dragonstail

02-11-2009, 10:10 PM

I am new to this forum.. am 17 and love freeskiing.. i Have the luxury to lbe in a family that lives for skiiing.. I come from a skii racing background. but always loved the bumps and steeps which is what drew me to tucks i have skiid there once. Drawn me to the big mtn skiing of the east side of the country

I have skiid at many big mtns out west. Big sky, J.H. Mammoth, A basin ( i love the east wall) Crested Butte etc...

Was wondering if it is possible to camp somewhere for an overnight in spring so you can ski saturday.. camp that night and ski sunday? do you need a permit?

Kind of bummed about the upcoming conditions was suppose to be at stowe and ski the chin and benches all week with my friend and hit up MRG for a day or two but doesnt look like it will be much fun unless the surfaces get refreshened..

cant wait for march.. i will be at canon for a weekend then out to COlorado to ski for a few days and look at colleges before i make my final decision and then mammoth again in april :happyhiker:

btw.. i ski Icelantic... sweet skis.. i also have a few random pairs including scott missions and p3's
and some old head's

02-11-2009, 10:31 PM

Welcome!

Camping, yes! There are shelters and tent platforms at Hermit Lake, an half-hour's or tewnty minute hike from the Tuckerman Ravine floor. First come first served, no reservations.

Check in and pay at Pinkham Notch Visitor Center. They coordinate with the Hermit Lake Caretaker on available space. If you arrive late on a Friday night, go right up the Tuckerman Ravine Trail with all your stuff and find a shelter with room in it. Check in and pay with the Caretaker in the morning. Chances are the Caretaker will be up and doing rounds about the time you are making breakfast.

If you prefer tenting check with the Caretaker on the platform locations at that time as they are a pain to find at night unless you know where they are.

You should bring a shovel for campsite/shelter prep as it's pretty windy and the drifts can be amazing.

Bring an extra dollar or two for donations to the Mount Washington Volunteer Ski Patrol donation box. It's bolted to the exterior of the Caretaker's Hut, by the sun-deck with the best damned views :cool:

Before you go up to the Ravine, spend a moment or two listening to the Rangers and Patrollers and if you have a question they have't heard it'll be a real suprise to everybody, but they are great and will make sure to answer even if it's one they have heard before.

Make Trax!

dragonstail

02-11-2009, 10:38 PM

thanks for the response man.

last time i hike mt washington was awhile ago back when i was in the boy scouts.. i forget about the little huts? I though there was only one at the base of the ravine?

davidhowland14

02-12-2009, 08:29 AM

a fellow boy scout :P

as far as colleges go, have you applied to montana state bozeman? I'm locked in there for next year, mainly because of skiing.

This page talks about the hermit lake shelters which are as close to the base of the ravine as you can sleep:

http://www.timefortuckerman.com/hermitlake.html

PwdrHound

02-12-2009, 09:51 AM

last time i hike mt washington was awhile ago back when i was in the boy scouts.

Hmmmmmm........You're only 17.....they had to kick-me out but, I still hung around until high school graduation, which wasn't too long after I earned my Eagle....HeHe. We had a very small Troop. We were total renegades but, we knew our **** better then anyone around. Adult leadership made sure of it...they rode us hard and kept high expectations! The older I get, the more I appreciate the time they took and the demands they maintained! I don't think the average Troop was held to such standards, not then and definitely not now. Obviously, the program is very dear to me but, it is no longer what it was intended to be...it is sad! Hell, when I moved to Utah, I thought Scouting would be out of this World awesome but, it was still more of the same.....it's too bad! I've often thought about starting a new program, one with real Scout values and traditions but, hell, I'm having too much fun myself and I'm too selfish to take the time...some day, someday....

02-12-2009, 11:44 AM

I never made it past the cub scouts...got kicked out for climbing the church to get to the pigeon nests so I could fill a gunny sack with baby pigeons. Sold all of them to a few restaraunts in the city. 10 is such a rambunctious age!

The Den parents were on the board at the church....

ooops!

davidhowland14

02-12-2009, 11:57 AM

i agree with pwdr. scouts is sorta concentrating on the wrong things these days. So many of the kids we see coming through the troop are wimps who have been told all their lives that everyone is right, no one should lose (i.e. no tag at recess, no high fives because the people who are "too slow" lose out), and everyone's ideas are valid. My troop has generally been able to do harder trips because any wimpy kids we got left quickly after joining. We go up to tuckerman ravine as a troop every year, and last year we had issues where one kid took about 6 hours to hike up to hojos.

Seems to me like scouts nowadays is less about the outdoors, more about making people feel better about themselves by telling them that they are better, not by giving them the chance to prove themselves and feel better because they've proven that they can do things.

dragonstail

02-12-2009, 12:45 PM

Yea i have been out of the scouts since i really got into racing .. maybe left at the age of 13..
Guess it is just the liberal effect spreading through and the feeling that everyone should be winners spread the wealth etc.

anyways forget about boy scouts

i checked out MSU a over the summer when i hit up yellowstone for some flyfishing... Real nice school my parents wouldnt apply ( or mym mom wouldnt) because she thinks i would flunk out and move to jackson hole haha.
I am waiting to hear back from university of denver... if i dont get in i will be going to UNH

davidhowland14

02-12-2009, 01:15 PM

i didn't really let my parents have a say (other than financially, and even then there was always the assumption that I could just take students loans and pay for myself) in my college decision. They're happy with my choice of MSU.

Isn't Denver a long ways from skiing? I looked at CU Boulder and it was still a couple hours from the big skiing.

dragonstail

02-12-2009, 01:20 PM

it depends on what you consider big skiing. have you ever been out to colorado? Abasin and loveland are about 1.5 hours from denver.

You also have access to the continental divide which has some great back country oppurtunites " The Professor is a blast"

Also abasin has the entire east wall. which they dont consider part of the mtn.. has plenty of chutes and a big snow field..
but not much else

surfsnowywaves

02-12-2009, 03:31 PM

pulverschwein

02-12-2009, 04:06 PM

I was a scout

for a week

first camping trip they gave me the boot for bringing along some Yukon Jack and impermissible combustibles. :rolleyes: Sheesh - I was just trying to be prepared.

RR hawking sancified squab? That there's some avian irony from a herbivore.

Welcome aboard, dragonstail. You're spot on about Loveland and the Basin (divide's right 'tween them two). Eldora's a half hour from Boulder, double that from Denver. Berthoud and RMNP are each about 1.5 for world class BC, Winter park's around 2 by car or ski train from Denver.

But Bozeman, DHowland, seriously? Just 2 words - you suck. :envy: That and you better post pitchers and TRs frequently.

PWDR8S

02-12-2009, 04:25 PM

I was a scout too.... got kicked out for eating a brownie. :rolleyes: Not THAT kind of brownie! :p I out did everyone far beyond anyone's expectations and that kinda put a cloud over the group that didn't too so well. So I went away, much to their delight. I've been 'the outsider' ever since. :cool:

dragonstail

02-12-2009, 05:07 PM

yea i have spent a week at winter park. And spend some time at eldora last year.. which is the closest to boulder and denver... skiing there is great i love that little back bowl they have

Winter park is nice but that Backcountry thing they have is too much for to little for me if anyone has ever done that.. some nice turns and then a huge run out...

Berthoud is great.. some good BC skiing for sure. I think i will just be skiing the divide with my friend and have his dad drive up and wait for us at the bottom.. only prblem is i dont really have th room to bring extra gear for other BC encounters

dragonstail

02-12-2009, 05:08 PM

I hear Colorado's pretty flat and their mountains aren't steep and they don't get too much snow. You should check out Belize!!!

lol..

dragonstail

02-12-2009, 06:34 PM

no hating on ABASIN LOL!

darn wont let me upload pictures

do i need a certain amount of posts before i can?

PWDR8S

02-12-2009, 07:09 PM

no hating on ABASIN LOL!

darn wont let me upload pictures

do i need a certain amount of posts before i can?

Nope... the bossman here disabled the photo feature a couple years ago because it ate up sooo much memory.

How to do it is to go to one our own T4Trs site www.backcountryagenda.com and sign up for an account and post pics there... THEN copy the link here into the little yellow box with the mountains and sun in it at the top of the comment box.

Oh yeah... welcome aboard! :cool:

dragonstail

02-12-2009, 08:52 PM

http://www.techsourceconsultants.com/coppermine/displayimage.php?pid=6542&fullsize=1

http://www.techsourceconsultants.com/coppermine/displayimage.php?pid=6541&fullsize=1

second picture will give you a sense of Abasin and its east wall..
sorry for the awful picture of me down that chute lol... for reference it is the farthest chute to the right on east wall

dragonstail

02-12-2009, 08:55 PM

02-13-2009, 08:17 AM

weird did what you said and still not working 100% you can see it takes you to my gallery on BC agenda

http://www.techsourceconsultants.com/coppermine/displayimage.php?pid=6542&fullsize=1

Hopefully in the future i will be able to get some better shots of me in action.

http://www.techsourceconsultants.com/coppermine/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pos=0After uploading your pix at BCA, open the gallery and view them.

When you are posting pix here, please reserve "Full Size" for those rare pix that just have to be seen that way...even then, please post as a URL link and not an IMG.

For example http://www.techsourceconsultants.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10170/pass1.jpgis your full size image.

here is the link to your "frendly" size photo http://www.techsourceconsultants.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10170/normal_pass1.jpg

You can get the link text to your clipboard by right clicking on the displayed image and viewing the properties window. Then highlight the entire path and press the "Ctrl" and "c" keys.

The so-called link text supplied by various photo hosts do not always work. The above method works fine, all the time. See below for an example.

Your link text was posted as:
http://www.techsourceconsultants.com/coppermine/displayimage.php?pid=6541&fullsize=1
That's designed to work on a webpage and as a link.

The IMG tags work differently. Please note I mispelled the IMG tags in the following...

http://www.techsourceconsultants.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10170/normal_pass1.jpg

the correct spelling will display the image.
http://www.techsourceconsultants.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10170/normal_pass1.jpg

PWDR8S

02-13-2009, 08:59 AM

I should have been more concise or detailed. My bad.

Like RR said... display the pic on the other site, not too big, right click the mouse for a pop up/mini pull down menu and then click on copy image location then go back to T4T site text box... put the cursor where you want picture to display then click on square yellow button above text box which will pop up a small window requesting a url... delete whatever is in the box(erase the http://) and then ctrl+v to paste your link and then click OK.... Ta Da! Your picture show reveal itself in full glory!

Same thing different words so that others may get the gist of it.

dragonstail

02-13-2009, 12:44 PM

thanks for the info guys.. will use this in the future when i give you guys some reports next week

drewvw

02-13-2009, 03:53 PM

good old A-Basin....looking forward to skiing that in a month!

and don't worry about shots of you in action, just be safe and have some fun with it.

dragonstail

02-13-2009, 05:07 PM

good old A-Basin....looking forward to skiing that in a month!

and don't worry about shots of you in action, just be safe and have some fun with it.

i will be out there sometime between the 17th and 21st 22nd

PWDR8S

02-13-2009, 06:48 PM

good old A-Basin....looking forward to skiing that in a month!

and don't worry about shots of you in action, just be safe and have some fun with it.

When you headin out there?

drewvw

02-13-2009, 07:23 PM

Actually around the same time frame. I'll be there from march 13 - 22 approx.

It's going to be a three pronged attack of hanging with friends and family, some tours, and then finishing it off in summit county, in that order....

dragonstail

02-13-2009, 08:35 PM

let me know if you plan to be around the A basin loveland or inbetween area lol. The more the merrier!

Lost Kodiak

02-15-2009, 07:58 PM

Western State College, in Gunnison, Colorado! I graduated in 2000 w/ a BA in Outdoor Recreation. Crested Butte is 30 min away, Monarch Pass is 45 min away with absolutely sick and easy backcountry. Go WEST for your education!
I took classes for white water rafting, climbing, skiing, and living outdoors. It was awesome, and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in skiing thier brains off and getting a cool undergrad. Check it out!

PWDR8S

02-17-2009, 09:57 AM