5/5/2001 Cinco de Tuckerman REPORT

[M@]

The Info you want:
-Sherburne, only good till first cut-off
-Hillmans, excellent, plenty of snow left
-Bowl, a bunch of snow rivers
--Left gulley, just like hillmans
--Right Gulley,big crevases just under the lip, most people strappin on there
--Headwall, Most everyone coming down the headwall middle left area. Only a couple of shoots skiiable
--Shoot (Hourglass?): Lots of people hiking up it, all coming over headwall shoots, probably too many snow rivers to do it
-Little Headwall etc, didn't try to ski from the rocks to Hojo... reports were 3-4 places you had to take skiis off
-Tuckerman Trail, pinkahm to hojo: 1st 1/3 = rocks, 2nd 1/3 = mud, 3rd 1/3 = Mashed Potatoes Snow. Not much ice at all

My trip Report:
-Short version: Fri = MAH_VAH_LUS, Sat = Cold but great crowd
-Long Version: m.sheppard.net/tuckerman/2001

Next Year's date = April 27, 2002, Sat Full Moon

I'm gonna try to stich some of my pictures together now. So some of the pix look a little silly along on my site. Also, MY SERVER SUCKS, you've been warned.

Tubed for the first time this year and it was AWSOME, talk about your PERFECT sledding hill!

M@ (aka Silver Bullet)

[RKelleyJr]

Hey M@:

For those of us not int the know...What exactly is a snow river, and is it good or bad???


-R

[M@]

A snow river is a ~3ft wide by ~3ft deep slowly moving flow of snow. In the ravine, there were at least 4-5 of them going almost from the top of the headwall to almost the bottom.

As far as good/bad, they are tricky to ski over if you're not ready for it. So if you're traversing, and you go over one unexpected, you could falter and end up falling down the snow river! Not dangerous as much as a nusance.

In the shoot on sat there were like 2-3 of them going through the shoot, so the already narrow neck there has even less area of good snow in which to make a turn. Lots of people were riding the rivers down.

M@

[SherpaKroto]

A Snow River is exactly what it sounds like - steep area of soft snow running downhill. Can sometimes be fairly deep and is not a great thing to hit jump turning.

m@ - we're heading up the same time as you next year (pretty sad to be already thinking about this - I really miss Tuck's, but I can only get there once a year). Jello shots at Hermit Lake on Saturday night (Or my new concoction - a Strawberry Alarm Clock - warm strawberry jello, Mt Gay Rum, more Mt Gay Rum. A few of these and the next thing you hear is... the alarm clock. Don't knock it until you try it! Signing off - SherpaKroto