View Full Version : I JUST SKIIED THE LOAF
loafnut
10-24-2003, 09:22 PM
http://www.sugarloaf.com/content/cams/sloaf/QuickEdit/text_1/text_1/data/image/image_11639/data/image_11639_b.jpg
Here's the story. Noon, Friday the 24th. Ive just taken a thermodynamics test. I'm cashed. So I float the idea that now would be a good time to rip the loaf, in jest. My friends pick up on it, and we all cut class and head up. All i can say from here is WOW. There is about 4 inches at the base. By the time we are at the top of boardwalk, its up to 8 inches. Top of spillway? 12+ with pockets of thigh deep. Its reasonably light higher up as well. Im so pumped right now. As soon as i get the pics, ill post em. The loaf could open now if they blew a bit on boardwalk.
skicdave
10-24-2003, 10:45 PM
Ya Mon! :cooldog:
Will be waiting for those :camera: !
NtrentT
10-25-2003, 09:57 AM
AWSOME !,,
I WANT TO BE THERE SOOOO BAD
skicdave
10-25-2003, 01:55 PM
The Loaf has always been one of my favorite ski mountains to look at and ski at. Only skied it once however and that was with a couple of feet of fresh pow! I miss those narrow twisted trails. Has Sugarloaf resisted the usual urge to widen these classic runs of the past? Have they left Bubblecuffer and Widowmaker alone? What the heck happened to the Gondola they used to have?
Frankontour
10-25-2003, 02:50 PM
Nice Loafnut !!
I would like to be there me too !!!!!
surfy
10-25-2003, 03:42 PM
Dave,
Sadly, the gondola is gone replaced by a high speed quad. Still plenty of narrow steeps although a few of the trails have been widened. Fortunately, the operative word is few. They have opened up some nice terrain recently that used to be out of bounds; what used to be called "nowhere" and "nothing". (As in: "what are you doing - nothing, where you going - nowhere").
Sugarloaf is my fave but, alas, I only get there once a year. It's a 13 hour drive for me in good weather. Tremendous top to bottom vertical and great downhill capacity. Will be making my annual pilgrimmage in February during President's week.
surfy
Sugarloafer since 1977
NH_tele
10-26-2003, 12:38 AM
I haven't gotten up to Sugarloaf in a couple years. It's an amazing mountain, but unfourtanetly, it's also a 5+ hour drive from where I live; not exactly in day-tripping range.
Hopefully I'll be able to make a pilgrimage up there this winter though; it's been too long since I skied the snowfields (although I've probably been spoiled by Colorado & Utah trips in recent years :mad: )
I just wish I could've gotten up there this weekend, those actually look like some nice turns!
loafnut
10-26-2003, 12:26 PM
dave, Bubblecuffer and winter's way will be just the way you remember them. Double bitter is still the same, but the bottom is now a terrain park. Widowmaker may have been widened, im not old enough to remember it any way other than it is now. :skicool:
loafnut
10-26-2003, 06:09 PM
unfortunatly there will not be any pics from this expidition. My friends digital video camera got stolen yesterday will all the pics/footage on it. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
Frankontour
10-26-2003, 07:45 PM
IMO, to steal a digital camera with some ski pics on it that have not been put on a computer should deserve 25 years of jail ;)
:mad: :eek: :envy: :( for the pics
At least, you can take a look to the pics of Chromer (from Skivt-L) who went at the Loaf yesterday.
http://www.pbase.com/chromer2/loaf102503
When I proposed to the wife at copper we took a boatload of pix with our camera, and then it was stolen. I hope the joey's developed the film and feel really bad about it.
Frankontour
10-26-2003, 08:49 PM
M@:
When I proposed to the wife at copper we took a boatload of pix with our camera, and then it was stolen. I hope the joey's developed the film and feel really bad about it. Ish... what a sad story ! :(
Next time I go to Tucks, I don't let my camera at Lunch Rocks !
Jolly J
10-27-2003, 07:52 AM
Congrats on first tracks ME.
jshefftz
10-27-2003, 09:39 AM
Weird that we didn't see each other -- started a bit before 10:00, and finished a bit before 2:00 (had a conference call for work!), so seems like we overlapped.
Anyway, here's the report that I already posted elsewhere:
*****
Sugarloaf parking lot scene was bleak Friday morning - all the new snow seemed to have settled significantly and/or blown away considerably. We (i.e., friend from Maine plus me) considered just
a nordic tour on the golf course but the Th website pics gave us hope.
Sure enough, a few hundred vert of skinning on Tote Road revealed a whole different world. Conditions steadily improved as we climbed higher,
eventually switching over to the utility-line/vehicle road, which then becomes a regular trail.
But as the temps got colder, winds stronger, and snowpack firmer, we concurred that going to the summit was not necessary. Unfortunately, I
ended up far in the lead as my friend stopped for various clothing adjustment fiddling, so with nobody to remind me of my earlier sensible sentiment, I soon found myself at the summit.
And what a crazily cold and windy summit! If the summit is like that in October, what about January?!?
Skied down to within a few hundred vert of the base (i.e., where the cover got thin), then skinned back up to several hundred vert shy of the summit (i.e., where the cover was very deep yet very firm), for a total vert count a bit under 4k.
Overall, pretty much an average New England backcountry skiing tour (given that we had rock skis) . . . but an above-average way to start off the season!
el-bagr
10-27-2003, 09:42 AM
Well done.
Why-oh-why do I live a sea level?
Glad to hear so many folks were getting fresh grins!
el-bagr
10-27-2003, 10:09 AM
Sea level's not the only issue. Move north. I actually used cross-country skis to cross a frozen bay of the ocean in Portland last winter.
Mrs. RR and yours truly will be retiring to Maine. Location, near ocean and not far from Mts.
Mrs. RR adores the seashore, the rocky shores being the most aborable. My plan is to stay in shape so I can ski Left Gully until I'm 80, by which time my vinyard will be mature, so I can get started on some serious drinking.
Jolly J
10-27-2003, 11:45 AM
I like your plan.
kfarrar
10-27-2003, 11:59 AM
check out these photos of the loaf on 10/25
Wish I could have been there.
http://www.pbase.com/chromer2/loaf102503
loafnut
10-27-2003, 12:07 PM
jshefftz, I actually didnt start hiking until 3, so you were long gone before i got there. :skicool:
I really like the "Catch the human" shot...that's so memorable. Really good stuff!
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