TR - 4/16 - The Lip & Sherby

[drozdb]

I've been reading the site for quite a while, but never posted before. I headed up to Tucks this morning - my third trip in the last two years. I figured I'd let everyone know how prime the conditions were today...

I got up to the bowl around 1:00, to an enormous crowd at the lunch rocks. It was rumored that Glenn Plake was even there (I didn't see him, but heard several people talking about him). The snow was slushy soft corn. The temperature hovered right around 60. There wasn't a cloud in the sky, and not a breeze in the air. I wore shorts and a t-shirt, and didn't even put on a long sleeve shirt until I hit the Sherburne on the way down. What a show in the bowl today - I didn't bring my camera (forgot it in the damn car!), but I bet that some people have AMAZING pics of today. There were some crazy falls off the headwall/waterfall, and I'm amazed that more people weren't hurt. We probably watched 20 people hit it before we hit the boot ladder. The drop was enormous today - it must have been somewhere around 20 feet or even more. Saw a few tumble the entire way down, and you could practically hear the crowd cheering in the bowl from Hojos.

We hit the boot ladder on the right side of the Lip at about 2:00. Damn that's steep! While on the ascent I hear the loudest roar of the day. I looked over, and there was a large breasted topless female, skiing the Lip! She didn't fall, and even did it with style!

We got up to the snowfields, and hit the lip. The snow was soft, forgiving, and slow. Both my girlfriend and I made it over the lip and down to the lunch rocks. Damn what a rush that was to hit the lip for the first time! We headed back to the lunch rocks, threw down a couple of Long Trail Blackberry Wheats, and hit the Sherburne trail soon thereafter.

The cover on the sherburne was very sketchy at spots, and very bumpy everywhere. I'd be surprised it were open past next week. Saw some fool try to skim across 30 feel of mud on one of the last descents before the parking lot. He hit it with his tele skis on, and damn was it funny to watch his body bend in the directions that it did! Top coverage wasn't that bad, just extremely bumpy. The upper half should be able to make it a few weeks.

We got back to the Notch, threw down another few beers, and hit the road.

Great trip, great day. I couldn't imagine there being better weather than there was today!

[skituxnoob]

me and my buddy hit the shurburne on the way down sat. with 40 lb packs and it was a thrill, although skiing down shurburnes' end with crappy skis allows you to go over mud

[dcarbs]

I skied sown the Sherby yesterday, Had my nice skiis so I had to take them off for the mud and the rocks.

[loafnut]

I heard that glenn plake was up there on saturday too. I didn't see him but somebody said that one of guys that hucked the icefall was plake. Saturday was real nice and warm. I had hoped that you might have caught my friends or I on the icefall but its not.

[cfrac]

It was the busiest I've ever seen Tucks and I've never seen so many people huck the biggest cliff so many times in one day. The craziest thing we witnessed was the guy who lost it right before one of the smaller ice cliffs, then he sort of fell off sideways. It looked like he landed hard but after sliding to the bottom a double thumbs up sent the crowd reeling. I didn't know the topless girls came down the lip, we only saw them cruise into the bowl below when some guys started chanting, "ONE MORE RUN, ONE MORE RUN!!"

[PWDR8S]

Nice TR... wish I was there for the show! But I was on a river in the middle of nowhere....

Yup the Sure-Burn trail is a fun one at the end of a good day up there!

[First Chair]

I had the video camera out a lot Saturday, all headwall stuff. I have 2 or 3 good shots of people hucking icefall (one of a guy who looked similar to 'loafnut's' avatar, for the split second I saw him before dropping into centerline, mostly black gear, possibly green bandana?, cut in behind me and over to the icefall route, almost stuck it). I also have some footage of someone crashing sideways off the skier's right side of the centerline final drop, sounds like what cfrac is referring too. The sound of the lunch rocks is insane in all shots, gave me chills when re-watching it last night.

I should have the video edited and up later in the week. What an epic day.