Gore Mountain, NY: 12/16 - 12/17/17

Arrived in the dark Friday night, cranked a fire and headed out to check the snow.



Still haven't put the MTB in winter storage so space is tight inside.

Up early and over to the mountain.  Often I seem to share first gondi with the friendly (but maybe shy?) woman in the green coat. Seems like we both head for Sunway when there is fresh cord, so I pulled up quick to get a shot of her.


Sublime

Plan was to connect with Square Eddy and to do that I should have waited at the bottom. BUT, I didn't.  Off to the top.



Nice morning. Hawkeye was scratchy so I lapped Headwaters which was fantastic. Some sweet fresh and untracked down skiers right.  I kept lapping it hoping for a shot at Open Pit. I dig get one on the third time back and repeated it for another. Funky chalk whales could be a name for a band.



The new summit lodge was nice.



Eventually I came back down to find Eddy working with NYSEF.  He finished drilling his gates and then we made some turns.


Eddy




Eric rips!

In the afternoon I headed back to the cabin to lay tracks on all our trails, and then headed out to Square Eddy's Casey Mountain Camp for a fantastic meal.

Sunday I got a super early start and skied with Freeheeln and eventually tBatt.  Even thought it snowed all day on Saturday I thought the skiing was better on Sunday...


freeheeln


tBatt

tBatt... well I was stunned. 10 days on tele and he looks good to me.

After I hit the road around 1, they dropped the rope on Lies. Who got it?

Looks like Gore was skiing really well.  Need to make it over there more this year hopefully

conditions look pretty good

I thought conditions were great. I was kind of singing on Sunday.  

I really like this post.

Look at the rear leg of the experienced tele skiers, then look at the rear leg for tbatt.

Ted, get that rear shin a bit more parallel to the ground, separate the knees a little (fore/aft), and sink down into a stronger tele stance. This will have the natural effect of putting more weight on that rear foot without you having to stomp on it.

/tele tip

Obviously you know way more than I do about this. I'm saying he is better than any 10 day teleskier I have seen.

I bet he'll fix those things you point out quick if he stays at it.

Gore looks really nice.


MC, feel free and don't be shy with more tele tips.  

I still try to focus on weighting my rear ski...when I hit it right, its like surfing, so cool. But, I need to get it more consistently.  

The "zone" is more the exception than the rule for me.  When you are properly weighing without working hard...

I felt like I was there for a while on Sunday.  Man it was fun.

Do you still hold your poles half way down?  To me you look like a safe skier, solid, but that pole thing kinda weirded me out. Me I am a croucher.  When I get in trouble I go into Ninja turtle mode.

MC2 5678F589 wrote

Look at the rear leg of the experienced tele skiers, then look at the rear leg for tbatt.

Ted, get that rear shin a bit more parallel to the ground, separate the knees a little (fore/aft), and sink down into a stronger tele stance. This will have the natural effect of putting more weight on that rear foot without you having to stomp on it.

/tele tip

I believe that is unsolicited advice. Just sayin...

tjf1967 wrote

Do you still hold your poles half way down?  To me you look like a safe skier, solid, but that pole thing kinda weirded me out. Me I am a croucher.  When I get in trouble I go into Ninja turtle mode.

Im also croucher when in over my head. It works for me.

That poles thing, I do do it when "most of the day" you want longer poles.

On that slides day I probably NEEDED the longer poles to keep up with you guys on the climb in.

Some day soon I'd like to ski the slides with you guys again.

Brownski wrote

conditions look pretty good

EdZachary what I was thinking!