This year's theme is NO LIFT LINES
by Mark Charest
I started off today by making a list of goals for the upcoming ski season (2008-2009). Last season was great ending in a mancation to Crested Butte. I'm not doing a big trip this year and instead my ski goals are all about backcountry skiing. I've skied the back bowls of CB as a Western State student and the Thompson Brook trial off the Polecat at Wildcat. As a kid we always tried to go ski in "the woods" at whatever mountain the minivan took us to. But this year I really want to get into hiking for my turns.
David Goodman's book Backcountry Skiing Adventures: Classic Ski and Snowboard Tours in Maine and New Hampshire provided me with my first draft of goals except for the Thunderbolt trail off of Mt Greylock in Mass. I'll research that trip on my own. Here's my list of goals:
I started off today by making a list of goals for the upcoming ski season (2008-2009). Last season was great ending in a mancation to Crested Butte. I'm not doing a big trip this year and instead my ski goals are all about backcountry skiing. I've skied the back bowls of CB as a Western State student and the Thompson Brook trial off the Polecat at Wildcat. As a kid we always tried to go ski in "the woods" at whatever mountain the minivan took us to. But this year I really want to get into hiking for my turns.
David Goodman's book Backcountry Skiing Adventures: Classic Ski and Snowboard Tours in Maine and New Hampshire provided me with my first draft of goals except for the Thunderbolt trail off of Mt Greylock in Mass. I'll research that trip on my own. Here's my list of goals:
Mount Moosilake Gorge Brook Trail
Cardigan Alexandria Trial
Doublehead in Jackson
Gulf of Slides
Tuckerman's
Mount Hale in Zealand
Thunderbolt on Mount Greylock
And possibly the Great Gulf (maybe with a guide)
Let's hope the weather cooperates this winter. To start, I've got to get in shape and start gathering my gear.
Sooooo.. what do you blog about in October?
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