North Tri-what you ask? North Tripyramid. Where is - no, check that - what is that? North Tripyramid is a 4,000+ foot mountain off of Rte 49 in NH, just down the bend from the well-known Waterville Valley ski area.
On March 23, 2012, North Tripyramid also happened to offer some of the best turns I've ever enjoyed in New England, and I've been skiing here since the Regan administration. Scott, Ryan (first time on skins!) and I met at our usual spot, the Concord Trailways in Concord, NH at 7 a.m. and headed north from there.
26 March 2013
25 March 2013
Mt. Lincoln - March 10, 2013
Happy slide season! With the arrival of March, we had ambitions of checking out a couple of slides that we have been reading about for a while. First up was Lincon's Throat, a slide running down the face of Mt. Lincoln in New Hampshire.
Scott, Justin, Dean and I headed up the morning of March 10, a blue bird day with temperatures over 50 degrees in Lincoln. We were a little nervous at the start as Justin was attempting to make the approach on snow shoes, and Dean was using Scott's newly finished split board. Fortunately both the snow shoes and the split board held up fine and the trip was successful.
We skinned up along the brook, and found the snow cover to be decent, but not spectacular. Slowly, the terrain became steeper, and the climb became fairly challenging, expecially for Justin on snow shoes. Somewhere around 2900 to 3000 vertical, we shouldered the skis and started the boot pack, eventually reaching an bulge (presumably the result of a slide down Lincoln's Throat earlier in the winter). At that point, we were pretty tired, so we stopped for lunch and basked in the sun for a while.
Scott, Justin, Dean and I headed up the morning of March 10, a blue bird day with temperatures over 50 degrees in Lincoln. We were a little nervous at the start as Justin was attempting to make the approach on snow shoes, and Dean was using Scott's newly finished split board. Fortunately both the snow shoes and the split board held up fine and the trip was successful.
We skinned up along the brook, and found the snow cover to be decent, but not spectacular. Slowly, the terrain became steeper, and the climb became fairly challenging, expecially for Justin on snow shoes. Somewhere around 2900 to 3000 vertical, we shouldered the skis and started the boot pack, eventually reaching an bulge (presumably the result of a slide down Lincoln's Throat earlier in the winter). At that point, we were pretty tired, so we stopped for lunch and basked in the sun for a while.
19 March 2013
Jay Peak - March 2nd and 3rd, 2013
Slight delay in getting this post up - but I think it will be worth the wait, pretty confident this is the best video so far. Probably not a coincidence that it is also the first time I've used Pearl Jam for the backing soundtrack.
No pictures to share - this was straight resort skiing action. As much fun as the backcountry can be, sometimes there is nothing better than heading to Jay, finding some trees, and just ripping down with 4-5 friends.
We did attempt to head over to Big Jay on Sunday - but no dice. The weekend also doubled as a bachelor party, so we didn't get up very early on Sunday thinking we could buy a single tram ride pass to the top for $15 (we thought this because customer service told us that it was possible on Saturday). Turns out customer service spoke the truth, but neglected to tell us that you can't carry any of your ski equipment with you. Lame. Anyway, by the time we sorted all of that out, it was after noon, and a bit late in the day to just skin up. So we opted for another half day of resort skiing before heading home.
Enjoy the video. Hope to have pictures and footage from our 3/10/13 trip to Mt. Lincoln up later this week.
No pictures to share - this was straight resort skiing action. As much fun as the backcountry can be, sometimes there is nothing better than heading to Jay, finding some trees, and just ripping down with 4-5 friends.
We did attempt to head over to Big Jay on Sunday - but no dice. The weekend also doubled as a bachelor party, so we didn't get up very early on Sunday thinking we could buy a single tram ride pass to the top for $15 (we thought this because customer service told us that it was possible on Saturday). Turns out customer service spoke the truth, but neglected to tell us that you can't carry any of your ski equipment with you. Lame. Anyway, by the time we sorted all of that out, it was after noon, and a bit late in the day to just skin up. So we opted for another half day of resort skiing before heading home.
Enjoy the video. Hope to have pictures and footage from our 3/10/13 trip to Mt. Lincoln up later this week.
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