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2plankerider
08-25-2003, 09:15 PM
hello to all! yet another reason to goof off at work...i will provide what great wisdom (or lack thereof) i can.
my name is Eric, and yes i am a tuckerman junkie.
TheOctopus
08-25-2003, 09:19 PM
Greeting and salutations. And welcome. You'll find lots of kindred spirits here. If you're trying, for some strange reason, to recover from your snow addiction, I'm afraid we will only enable you further....
Super-cool pic you've got on your profile page, btw. Where was that taken?
NHski
08-25-2003, 09:24 PM
Welcome!
2plankerider
08-25-2003, 09:32 PM
photo was taken back in march at STEAMBOAT. one of the top five days on the mountain EVER! it dumped about 5 feet the week before we got there and dumped another 3 feet within a 2 day period while we were there. (photo taken on day 2 of the dump) my wife was exstatic too (previous 3 trips out west we missed monsterdumps) we were due and man we got it!
kmrnskier
08-25-2003, 09:42 PM
Welcome 2plankerknuckledraggerVtr!!!! :D
Frankontour
08-25-2003, 09:47 PM
Welcome to the community, 2plankerknuckledraggerVTr ! Also welcome to NH_Tele !
I hope you will sign our petition to mother nature to extend winter to 6 months (or 12) instead of 3 :D
elwood
08-25-2003, 09:57 PM
2plankerknuckledraggerVTr:
photo was taken back in march at STEAMBOAT. one of the top five days on the mountain EVER! it dumped about 5 feet the week before we got there and dumped another 3 feet within a 2 day period while we were there. (photo taken on day 2 of the dump) my wife was exstatic too (previous 3 trips out west we missed monsterdumps) we were due and man we got it! Welcome 2plank... That looks like somewhere near the Priest Creek lift. Were you by chance on Closet or Shadows in that pic?
skicdave
08-25-2003, 10:51 PM
2plankerknuckledraggerVTr:
my name is Eric, and yes i am a tuckerman junkie. Welcome Eric / 2PKDVR. Glad to see you've come right out and admitted your problem... welcome to TAA, have a :beer: or :beermug: , we have many brands!
Also welcome to NH Tele!
Enjoy
Mumster
08-26-2003, 08:16 AM
Another mouthwatering avatar. Welcome aboard. We could ALWAYS use another fanatic.
Welcome to the madhouse...will that be ale or beer?
skicdave
08-26-2003, 09:05 AM
Speaking of Avatars. What about you RR?
2plankerider
08-26-2003, 09:10 AM
elwood, actually the wife got a bit intimitated by the closet/shadows area as visibility was pretty weak high up on the mtn. photo is from the tree line running b/t nelson's run and twister off the four joints lift. it truely was unbelievable! awwwww great, now i got my juices flowing and i'm sitting here at my crappy desk.
elwood
08-26-2003, 12:09 PM
2plankerknuckledraggerVTr:
elwood, actually the wife got a bit intimitated by the closet/shadows area as visibility was pretty weak high up on the mtn. photo is from the tree line running b/t nelson's run and twister off the four joints lift. it truely was unbelievable! awwwww great, now i got my juices flowing and i'm sitting here at my crappy desk. Ahhh, those are some good trees to poach. Did you ever ditch the wife for a quick run to hit closet or shadows? Shadows is my favorite run outside of the Chutes at Steamboat...
Skilasnow
08-26-2003, 12:13 PM
A hearty hello, and welcome.
NH_tele
08-26-2003, 12:13 PM
Thanks guys! I'd definitely sign that extended winter petition...It's about time we had year-round snow in the bowl!!! (those Pacific NW guys have it easy, turns all year here are pretty hard!)
Anyway, my real name is Ben, in case you want to know, and I'm Ben Peters over on telemarktips.com forum, if anyone else is over there...
Glad to be part of the community!
boarder25
08-26-2003, 12:24 PM
I was at Steamboat last March.We got to board after a good dump but I had left right before the big one....Maybe next time.
2plankerider
08-26-2003, 12:36 PM
[/QUOTE]Ahhh, those are some good trees to poach. Did you ever ditch the wife for a quick run to hit closet or shadows? Shadows is my favorite run outside of the Chutes at Steamboat... [/QB][/QUOTE]
oh yeah! i was all over the place...went with a few buddies as well. had some fraternity brothers live there for a few years after college so i'm well versed in the terrain. it just happened to be a wife day that day.
Mumster
08-27-2003, 11:47 AM
skicdave:
Speaking of Avatars. What about you RR? The photo of RR at Piz Bol would do nicely.
Sure, I just sent a copy to Dave. I just a little shy, that's all......NOT!
Dude - Thats a serious PIC...
Where was that taken?
My son and I went up Piz Boe, in the Sella Group of the Dolomites. Not a very hard climb, longish though, 6000+ vertical feet in about 9 hrs round trip from the ski village of Corfusco in the Alto Badia. The mountain behind me is La Marmolada, Queen of the Dolomites, there's good skiing there right now, and some stellar alpine rock climbs.
We got in some long glissades on the way down, maybe 900 vertical feet or so.
More pix are at :
1) Getting used to altitude (http://community.webshots.com/album/82369365HzzbqL)
2) Hiking in high places and a day in Venice (http://community.webshots.com/album/84320011VwwgdQ)
Mumster
08-27-2003, 02:06 PM
Good work, RR.
Now, we will have to work on surfy.
Dave is so "on the job". Way to go bro!
Castlerock
08-27-2003, 02:54 PM
Hey RR, I think I might have run into you at tucks Thursday April 11, 2002. It was an hazy/slightly overcast day with perfect snow. I was solo and so were you (If it was you). We met up near the bottom of the snowfields. Here is a picture of that day, does it ring a bell?
http://home.comcast.net/~m.fennelly/bowlApril02.jpg
I stayed low that day...Alastair (son) copped a snowfield run after tagging the summit.
DRPHIDDLEPHOS
08-27-2003, 04:45 PM
the last time i was at steamboat it snowed all week too, and i learned about drinking too much at 12,000 feet :D :cry: i got a wicked hang over!
2plankerider
08-27-2003, 04:55 PM
:beer: at 12,000...didn't think much of it the first trip out (yeah i was young and naive) boozed HARD. hungover even HARDER :D
btw sweet pic castlerock, it's got my juices flowing already. i tore my achilles on st. pat's day at sunday river :cry: (not booze related, just had a REALLY old pair of snowboard boots) and have been pretty much doing nothing since then. although got the go ahead from the dr. the other day to pretty much do what i want now. had to take a mad river rocket up to tucks this year as i could not get into my ski or snowboard boots. flying down sherburne with a 50lb. pack on a mad river rocket is pretty fun in case anyone is wondering
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