Sliding

[HeyBC]

I just enrolled as a new member and I want to tell you guys that this is a great web-site. It's full of great information.

By way of background, I went to UNH, and the last time I skied was May 1982 at Tuckermans. Well, I started snowboarding this year(2003) with my 12 year old son who got me back to the snow. What a great year to get back into it. Well, we did the Poconos, the Catskills, and Colorado...Next Spring Break Tuckermans.

I do ahve a question. Can someone tell me where the "Great Gulf" is? Is it different than the Gulf of Slides?
Keep up the good work...

[RR]

North-North-East of the Mt Washington Summit. The Great Gulf cuts into the Mt Washington Massif east of Mts Clay and Jefferson. The wider part of the Great Gulf runs below Mts Adams and Mt Madison on the one side and on the other, below the Mt Washington Auto Road (more or less). Here's a photo from a great resource on the White mountains. They have a good backcountry skiing section, too. Veiw of Great Gulf in summer (http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/whites/greatgulf.html)

Mt. Washington is high on the left of the photo, with Clay and Jefferson upper right. Cruise the website. good stuff!

[skicdave]

For a winter view of the Great Gulf, check the Mount Washington Real Time Web Cam (http://www.mountwashington.org/cam/ravines/large.php) .

View is of Tuckerman Ravine (left), Huntington Ravine (center), Great Gulf (right).

The Gulf of Slides is situated to the south of Tuckerman Ravine which would be the next ravine to the left of Tuckerman Ravine in the web cam photo (but is out of view).

[loafnut]

I dunno dave... That looks like tucks on the left and huntington on the right to me. Great gulf is nowhere to be seen.

[<Jerm>]

Yup, dats Tucks-Raymond Cataract-Huntington, GG is on the other side of Chandler Ridge, not in view. You can sorta see it from the base of the auto road, but I think only the tops of Pipeline and Activator are visible if anything.

Man, Diagonal in Huntington is hanging in there. Maybe it'll still be skiable when the auto road opens? Better question is can I ever grow the nads to ski it?

[skicdave]

Hmmm... looks like they zoomed in the web cam. But on closer look, my mistake you can't see it from Wildcat.

Basically GOS is off photo to the left, GG is off photo to the right. Let you imagines run with it.

[M@]

Youll need a sherpa to carry up the cozenes big enough to ski that diagnol. Definatly wait for the auto road to open.

M@

[RR]

Hey Jerm...that Diagonal Gulley is all ice...you know ropes, ice screws and On Belay! Sure it gets a little snow now and then...I think Odell's would be a better choice, but stay off the skier's left chute...the flight would be long and blind and the landing zone is often full of ice chunks and washouts in the consolidated snow. I have climbed the southern chute of Odell's (that's skiers right on descent) and there's really only one itsy-bitsy ice cliff on that side.

[RR]

Looking NNE from Mt wahshington in winter: Maybe this view will help (http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/whites/wash/W40_txt.JPG) The Great Gulf runs from off-picture lower left all the way off-picture on the right. It's really big, the walk in is big the walls are huge and the drops are the real deal!