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Gore Mtn, NY: 12/21/08

Posted on by Harvey

It never really totally stopped snowing last night. Ultralight flurries fell overnight adding up to maybe an inch. I was up about 5am. At 6:30 the wind picked up and it started to snow. It was about 5 degrees when I headed toward the mountain at 7:30. In the parking lot everyone was expecting snow:

In the time it took me to walk from the parking lot to the lodge it started to dump bigtime. And it dumped pretty much all day:

gondola

I went in and got my gear on. It was about 8:10, and I was yammerin on about something to some poor soul. The Gondi light went green, I excused myself and got my self into a cabin.

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Gore Mountain, NY: 12/20/08

Posted on by Harvey

Today was a top 10 day. Fantastic. Real powder tree skiing doesn’t happen every week at Gore. No surprise, I couldn’t sleep last night. When it’s dumping, I just keep waking up to look out the window. I crashed about midnight and final got out of bed around 4:30.

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Conservatively we got 14″ overnight and another inch today. The snow that fell after midnight last night…maybe the last 5 inches was total blower. It snowed lightly all day, even when the sun was out.

It was 10 degrees when I started the car and headed to the mountain. My new plow guy was nowhere to be found, last night or today before I left for the mountain. I left the car at the top of the hill, and blasted my way down.

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Burnt Ridge Mountain

Posted on by Harvey

Burnt Ridge MountainI wanted to see how hard it really was to get over to Burnt Ridge Mountain. I did the now well-known routine: Twister to Twister Glade to Echo and Gully, then bomb it.

I counted my skating strokes. Twenty to get over the first rise and 20 to get over the second. I think I had 5 double polls too. I put another 20 skates in on the way down to the chair…but it wasn’t mandatory. 40 skate strokes and I was there.

And it turns out coming back is really easy. Hedges, into the trees and up the North. No skating at all if you find the right spot.

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