Recent content by witch hobble

I miss you guys sometimes.

Franconia/Sugar Hill/Bethlehem/Littleton area of NH is pretty sweet. North of the notch and the Loon/Waterville crowds. Obviously Cannon, but also Bretton Woods, Burke, easy shot to Jay. Access to not just FNSP/Lafayette Ridge but also Presidentials. Incredible views all around, good food and...

Like a lot of good things, it’s all due to a small collection of coaches and committed volunteers. Lots of loaner gear (the only required piece of equipment the skier has to provide at our school is their helmet). The school has a bunch of spongy neoprene jumpsuits from the 1980s. The boots...

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/sports/in-new-hampshire-high-school-ski-jumping-still-flies.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Yes…..with tongue firmly in cheek. You can see a quote in this decade old NYT article from our former football coach/athletic director.

We used them on the Bear Mountain patrol shack when it was built back in ‘05.

I think I’ve probably discussed this here before, but NH is the only state that still has public high school varsity ski jumping. There are only 6 or 7 remaining programs competing these days. Most of the schools train at private/club facilities…..like Proctor Academy or the Ford Sayre ski...

Camper, we live in a consumer society and as such we judge and are judged by our consumer choices (or lack of them in the case of telemarkers on 75mm gear in 2023).

I’ve played. As with most things, it’s largely about the company you keep. I just found the parallel of skiers threatened by snowboarding’s explosive growth from 94-99 to be an apt comparison.

High water at the Winni wave last week.

To be or not to be to thine own self be true

We’ve seen this all before….. upstart recreational activity becomes trendy and faces backlash from the establishment.

lol….in Plymouth NH average January high temp is 23 degrees and 90% relative humidity. But I’m probably not going anywhere.

That was my line from a bit before I became a forum contributor, although it has been stolen a few times. I skied Tannery Out a whole bunch as a patroller. It wasn’t terrible, but I guess I was getting paid to do it, not paying to do it.

As a purveyor of memes, it would be hard to start asking for peoples mailing addresses and tacking papers to actual, physical bulletin boards, stapling memes to telephone poles etc.