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Agreed. Maybe if the two had done a beacon check before they dropped in, they might have reconsidered? However, after the up and down grunt from D to B, probably they would have still gone for it even knowing one or both of the beacons did not work.

I worked in the AMC huts with Jeff Leich, whose contributions to skiing history in the Whites is second to none. Agreed on Chris Joosen, great guy, who loaned us the USFS Rammsonde penetrometer for a snow pit study in Tucks for a student’s undergraduate honors project. Funny part was that Chris...

Agreed. MWAC has had a fine succession of excellent avy forecasters. You probably remember Brad Ray from the late 60s / early 70s?

Best report, I think, is Jeff Fongemie’s at the MWAC site. Apparently three skiers skinned up Wildcat Ski Area, one decided to bail after reading the avy forecast on his phone and gave his beacon to one of the other two who had forgotten his, before the other two traversed the ridge to Wildcat...

Avy occurred in a narrow gully on the east side of Wildcat D that was reamed out by a Tropical Storm Irene debris flow, according to Steve Smith who has been there.

Met Hal in the Belknap fire lookout tower the couple of times that I have been there, I think. Very kind person, if he were the guy that I met there.

Ski instructor friend confirms 40” in B’boro and 48” at Mt Snow where he instructs, more than I have seen in Thornton the past three winters combined.

1” of wet snow early this morning at 600 ft in the Thornton snow doughnut hole, then drizzle late afternoon with a few flakes this evening. Supposedly Loon in Lincoln got 3”, but I think that the western Whites missed this brunt of this one.

Best spruce trap scene in a film evah! 🙂

I associate tree wells more with b/c skiing in the West. You always b/c ski with a buddy because if you get buried in an avalanche or fall upside down into a tree well, the chances of suffocation are similar. At least the snow that buries one in a tree well does not quickly set up like concrete...

Also, check out Naomi Watts (aka PVSART’s Pam Bales) dealing with the spruce trap in the film “Infinite Storm.” Pam told me that she thought the scene was overdone, Hollywood-style, but I did not. 🙂

When backcountry skiing, always turn on the downslope side of trees, not the upslope side. 🙂

No way were we going to bivi on our Waumbek-Weeks traverse, Peakbagger. Jazzbo and I were reminiscing about that trip at a geology field conference last June. At the time there were two appropriately named Hollywood films for us playing iin the theaters: “No Place for Old Men” and “There Will Be...

We did not find the Waumbek-Weeks traverse too crowded on 1 January 2001. 🙂

three of us xc skied the loop with a car spot a couple of decades ago finding the east side essentially a bushwhack, so with the Billski’s trail maintenance and recent snowfall, maybe it is time to try it again.

And, Gerry tubes for condiments, like jam and peanut butter.

WV Ski Association cannot keep anyone off Livermore and Tripoli Roads as those are public ways, but they do request no bare booting or mircospiking on either the set tracks on both sides or the middle part between the tracks where xc skaters do not want the relatively smooth surface full of...

Charlie Henderson was at UNH with me when each week he would bring his latest hand-sewn outdoor gear from his dorm room to our NHOC Rock and Ice Climbing Subgroup meetings to test out. I still own one of his Nameless Frameless rucksacks, which on one occasion I had in my hand for repair as I...

Me, too! Except my 1969 vintage, expedition down jacket is a Sierra Designs, which I used with a REI down elephant’s foot with the Thaw label. Last time they got used was on Denali in 2004, thanks to AGW.

A friend had a double-walled, nylon, A-frame tent with a tunnel door at one end and a zip door at the other, both with ,osquito netting. There were vent tubs at the top of both ends, snow flaps extending outward from floor, dark brown nylon on the outside and white nylon on the inside. Wide sewn...