Jay Peak, VT: 2/20/10

EDeO, Chuck, Amy, Kelly and I set out this morning to pillage the glades of Jay Peak. It was windy, so the Tram and the Green Mtn Freezer were on hold in the morning. We took the Metro over to the Bonnie and started our skiing from Stateside where the sun broke through the clouds while it continued to snow.

The Dip had the best snow and the most untracked lines of the morning. We dipped out of bounds and skied back in for divine turns. We lost EDeO and Chuck on our third lap, because they went just a bit too far out and had a longer trek back. The rest of us got in a nice long run down Everglade from the top before lunch. It was pretty sweet in there.

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Jay Peak, VT: 2/6/10

I’m in northern VT for the weekend on my way to several days in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. Left my office in northern NJ at 6 pm last night. Stopped to send some e-mails at the best highway rest stop in all of North America: the one on northbound I-81 in Guilford VT, just before Brattleboro.

By 11 pm, while driving past White River Junction, I was falling asleep at the wheel, so I pulled off, drove into a church parking lot, cranked the seat back and fell asleep. Woke up at 3 am, and I’m pretty sure that it was near zero outside, and not much warmer inside the car. In my 20s, I used to do the sleep-in-the-car routine occasionally, but I’m getting too old for this crap. It’ll take me two spa treatments for my neck and back to recover.

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Tree Skiing and the Big Jay Cut

Big Jay Cut
photo courtesy Vermont Life

Vermont Life just published an article on the effect of tree skiing on the woods.

I never thought twice about the impact of tree skiing until the Big Jay Cut. It’s definitely hard to face the fact that something that I live for, could be harmful.

Naturally occurring tree skiing exists in very limited quantities in the east. If you are talking about tree skiing on today’s alpine, AT or telegear. At today’s speeds. On most pitches, the spacing to ski at those speed just isn’t there.

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