shadyjay
09-15-2009, 08:39 AM
...... where everybody knows your name!
Spent this past weekend at my family's condo up on Trailside Ten. Great weekend, my first back since I left in April after living in VT since '05. Purpose of the mission was an exploratory one. Check out the condo - convert it from a "tornado" status down to a somewhat liveable status as she'll be my home for the winter... a nice 1/2 mile downhill hike each morning should get me all warmed up for lift ops.
Spent Friday and Sunday afternoons at the base of Bravo seeing some of my crew from the winter. Talked to my super and got the ok to return. Went for a lift ride up to top of Bravo, then hiked up Jester to Lincoln Peak, Long Trail to Castlerock, then down Castlerock's work roads to the base. As previously mentioned in another post, the trails are mowed and they look great... don't remember them being mowed last year, or at least not when I hiked last year. Work road on Castlerock definetely gave my legs a workout. Lots of freshly painted green towers and terminals and a couple new lift shacks and improvements I was told. A BIG PLUS is new chair numbers on Bravo, North Lynx, and I think Gate House too. THEY NEEDED THEM BAD... GREAT JOB!
What amazed me on Sunday was how many diehard mountain bikers are out there. Despite the rain/drizzle/dreariness, a few kept on lapping. Saw the "Johns" out riding. Not too many on the zipline on Sunday, I still have to ride it one of these days.
Woke up Monday, packed up the new truck, and with quite the chill in the air, I departed for CT, thinking that the next time I return, it hopefully will be for a much longer duration, and the green will hopefully be replaced with a white coating that will keep getting thicker and thicker until the spring.
So to those of you I saw over the weekend, thanks for the greeting. To those I didn't, I'll be seeing you all again real soon...
2 months (or so) and counting!!!!!!!!
-Shady Jay
-Hogan
Spent this past weekend at my family's condo up on Trailside Ten. Great weekend, my first back since I left in April after living in VT since '05. Purpose of the mission was an exploratory one. Check out the condo - convert it from a "tornado" status down to a somewhat liveable status as she'll be my home for the winter... a nice 1/2 mile downhill hike each morning should get me all warmed up for lift ops.
Spent Friday and Sunday afternoons at the base of Bravo seeing some of my crew from the winter. Talked to my super and got the ok to return. Went for a lift ride up to top of Bravo, then hiked up Jester to Lincoln Peak, Long Trail to Castlerock, then down Castlerock's work roads to the base. As previously mentioned in another post, the trails are mowed and they look great... don't remember them being mowed last year, or at least not when I hiked last year. Work road on Castlerock definetely gave my legs a workout. Lots of freshly painted green towers and terminals and a couple new lift shacks and improvements I was told. A BIG PLUS is new chair numbers on Bravo, North Lynx, and I think Gate House too. THEY NEEDED THEM BAD... GREAT JOB!
What amazed me on Sunday was how many diehard mountain bikers are out there. Despite the rain/drizzle/dreariness, a few kept on lapping. Saw the "Johns" out riding. Not too many on the zipline on Sunday, I still have to ride it one of these days.
Woke up Monday, packed up the new truck, and with quite the chill in the air, I departed for CT, thinking that the next time I return, it hopefully will be for a much longer duration, and the green will hopefully be replaced with a white coating that will keep getting thicker and thicker until the spring.
So to those of you I saw over the weekend, thanks for the greeting. To those I didn't, I'll be seeing you all again real soon...
2 months (or so) and counting!!!!!!!!
-Shady Jay
-Hogan