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Tuckermans tomorow?

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eastAR5
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idk if its worth it like its only 35 mins away from here and my school is taking a bus up tomorow morning

i dont just wana hike for an hour then ski down some steep ass bowl for 30 seconds then be done. is there some stuff i could session or small cliffs , cornices or anything
Apr 29 2006 5:53PM
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Liam.
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my friend tells me that there is some nice cliffs to drop but not sure how much snow is left up there...usaually its a good time
Apr 29 2006 5:55PM
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philipc
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couple cliffs you can huck, its more than 30 seconds down too. umm. check this out

www.timefortuckerman.com

hikethewhites.com/tuckermans.html
Apr 29 2006 5:56PM
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Lineskier-101
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you live 3 minutes from tuckermanns and you've never been there? unbelievable.
Apr 29 2006 7:28PM
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eastAR5
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no i go to ski acadmy here its my first year
Apr 29 2006 7:42PM
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chapz
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ye id go man, it will probably be worth
Apr 29 2006 10:04PM
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ski8990
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you will most likely get up there and be standing at the top and say "was I seriously asking about hitting cliffs up here?" hitting the headwall is some intense shit. Then again, I dont know who you are so maybe you are some insanely good dude so I shouldnt really be passing judgments
Apr 29 2006 10:47PM
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Melvs
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ya, go and see some crazy shit, it's worth it. I'm going up in a week or two and trying to do an overnight up there to celebrate the school year ending... but not really sure on that yet.
Apr 29 2006 10:56PM
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4frntSkier
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i wanna go
Apr 29 2006 11:06PM
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eastAR5
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yea im going and gona build some little kicker or something at the bottom after skiing down
Apr 29 2006 11:31PM
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TimmyP
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i went up on Friday for the first time. We stayed over thursdsay night in the Pinkham Notch parking lot and hike dup early the next day. I was crazy i got in about 3 runs. It was kind scary becase the footing was not that good and i was told to watch out for the crevases

but i deainately want to go up next week after school ends
Apr 30 2006 12:54AM
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396222687862
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Doesn't LINE and someother ppl have a party there? They did last year i think
Apr 30 2006 7:57AM
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Ahmets_Brother
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i might go up may 13 and 14th
Apr 30 2006 8:16AM
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alev
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i was gonna go soon, but i figure i might as well wait til lthe auto road is open so i can ski in may and june or something. but i actually might go in the next two weekends and hike, and not be lazy
Apr 30 2006 8:34AM
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C.Stone
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do it a dank
Apr 30 2006 10:41AM
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yellav
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im heading up there with some kids within the next few weeks
Apr 30 2006 11:11AM
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linds-o-rama
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you'll certainly be hiking for more than an hour (try 3 - 5 in total), but it is definitely worth it. once you get there you will realize that building a kicker is not a great idea, but just skiing the bowl (or hillman's for that matter) pretty much rules.
Apr 30 2006 11:27AM
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III
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im pretty sure that the cliffs on the headwall are not hittable right now due to lack of snow.
Apr 30 2006 11:55AM
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Melvs
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hillman's looks sick still (these pics are off the site from friday):

[img]http://www.tuckerman.org/photos/tucks/images/2006-04-28%20Hillman's%20Highway.jpg[/img]
Apr 30 2006 12:28PM
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eastAR5
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yea i went... sick day 65 and sunny snow was soo soft. hiking up to the top was fucking scary i thought i was gona slip and die , that shit is mad steep

it was the first time ive ever done any kind of skiing like that it was pretty crazy for me on my beat up t halls and fresh white tee dropping into the chute. I have a lot more respect for big mtn skiing now evne tho i know the line i did was pussy shit compared to some of the stuff out west/ ak. Cause you like oh shit i could actualy die doing this unlike the park where u might just case or somethin. I still think its boring to watch on vidoes and park is way more fun in the end

When i was leaving im almost posivie i spotted a legit booter off to the left, the landing wasnt good but it still would be ill to hit

i dont think ill do it again or at least not for a long time cause the hike was GAYY. i rocked my g-bag so i couldnt find a way to strap my skis on so i had to carry them and my poles up the whole fucking way in my hands and then back down. i felt like i was gona die on the last 2 miles coming down
May 1 2006 10:41AM
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eastAR5
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oh and if u do it dont be a retard like me and forget to bring water cause i almost passed out from dyhration going up


i know theyd never be able to do this but they could actually have a legit east coast spring/early summer camp on the revine. like helicopter in a bunch of jibs and put together a couple tables maybe a hip and itd be all set. and you could choose from big mountain camp or jibbing so there would be something for everyone

the only problem i could see is the ice chunks that break off the headwall cliffs sometimes and come down at lik 100mph u would be fucked if u got hit by one of those
May 1 2006 10:46AM
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linds-o-rama
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^ sounds like you weren't too prepared... the hike isn't bad if you are in good shape and have plenty of food and water (not to mention an appropriate pack and hiking boots!)

glad you had an adventure, the backcountry always is!
May 1 2006 11:31AM
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CKpolicy
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thats what i was gunna say. the hike is much longer than an hr.
May 1 2006 11:34AM
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eastAR5
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skate shoes with no laces. damn
May 1 2006 11:37AM
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CrazedSkier1080
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yeah adank you set urself up to be fucked. as long as your prepared its a dope time whenever. i went on saturday and it was ILL
May 1 2006 11:38AM
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timoski
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you're lucky it was soft and you could edge into that 45 degree slope...imagine if it was ice hard...imagine if a billion gapers hiked up there with you...imagine you went up last weekend liek i did....

ok so i went to tucks saturday, first time. we show up and there are a ton of people, both lots are filled. we get up top, and i took a trial run too see if it was soft yet, it wasn't. the top half of the bowl was so hard "if the bootpack wasn't already there you couldn't hike it" to quote my friend who went all the way to the top.

so heres the equation ....

steep terrain+lots of people+hard snow=carnage

i did a couple runs in the middle about 3/4 of the way up beacause that was skiable. many many people tried the run looker's right of the "cliffs", unfortunately it was really warm the days before and a foot and a half gullys formed which the melting snow had drained and the the snow had hardened to it was hard as a rock. it was here where most people met their demise. about every 10 minutes the huge crowd that had gathered on the rocks would all "oooooh" and you'd look up and see someon ragdolling. a typical run was about 10 feet of sliding, followed by 300 ft of brutal, incredibly fast i-can't-believe-you-survived-that ragdolling, which ended right by the rocks where the crowd and ski patrol were situated. it was incredible, and gruesome. the only thing i could think of when i watched it was lemmings. person after person i guess would somehow talk themselves into it ("i'm better than everyone else?"), and then proceed to eat massive, hugemongous amounts of shit.

i'd say in total about 50 people fell, 20 ragdolled really hard and got somewhat injured. a dislocated shoulder, two broken collarbones, a punctured lung, a broken wrist and many many bloody faces; there was 2 foot surface of dripping blood where one guy slid to. on the hike down, i was really tired and would get stuck behind a slow person being helped by someon else, i'd start to get impatient and then i'd see their face covered in scraped bloddy scars: they were absolutely spooked and had a new respect for the mountain and mortality i assume. pics to follow when i get them.

p.s.- i showed up mad unprepared liek you, but someone gave me a real hikign backpack thank god...i smoked with some random guy at the top lodge, and the whoel hike down was mad fun, i was sliding everywhere and took sick lines through all those rocks
May 1 2006 11:42AM
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timoski
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the skiing wasn' thtat good but it was worth it for the carnage alone
May 1 2006 11:44AM
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TimmyP
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i could see how the place could get extremely dangerous with tons of people
May 1 2006 11:55AM
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ski_cartel
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me too
May 1 2006 2:56PM
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Ahmets_Brother
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do you think that in mid may the snow will be complete shit and any lines through the cliff and rockier parts unskiable?
May 1 2006 5:12PM
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Melvs
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I'm hoping not, as that is when I'm heading up... there is a lot fo snow still and I don't think they'll loose THAT much in 2 weeks as the weather seems to be cool still, but anything can happen up there.
May 1 2006 5:29PM
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TimmyP
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on the right side a waterfall undermines the whole thing, and there are crevases that go down at least 20 ft
May 1 2006 6:05PM
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eastAR5
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yea thers still a lot up there like it takes effort walking through the snow up near the middle and top
May 1 2006 6:10PM
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Ahmets_Brother
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when does the autoroad open?
May 1 2006 6:13PM
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t_walker
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^ i think like another week or two, early this year, the website is like mountwashingtonautoraod.com or something i dunno try google, but yeah once the autoroad opens hopefully the snow fields will still have cover
May 1 2006 6:52PM
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linds-o-rama
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i thought about driving up the auto road and skiing down... it kind of seems like a cop out, but then again it would save lots of time! has anyone done this? do you just hitch back up to get your car?
May 1 2006 8:38PM
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whitewater413
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i went yesterday the snow was really nice
the hike is a bitch but i would recomend going for sure
May 1 2006 8:48PM
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t_walker
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bring a few people, alternate who drives back down
May 1 2006 9:00PM
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CrazedSkier1080
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AHAHAHAHA i assume you saw my wreck then, on saturday i skid a line through the headwall and went left of the snow cliff because the top was all ice. I made one turn trying to dump speed because i was going too fast. when i tried to make another i hooked an edge and got slammed and tomahawked.

I had my seth vicious, yellow backpack and a black coat
May 1 2006 9:18PM
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eastAR5
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maybe some people enjoy being in pain for 2 hours as they assend slowly up a endless rock trail carrying all ur ski shit . not me


if i do it again im driving up for sure
May 1 2006 9:27PM
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A_E
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yea but if u drive up to the top, youll have to hike or ski down, then hike up the headwall, and up to the top, when i hiked it, the bottum part up til tuckermans was easy, hiking to the top from the headwall is hard casue its all big rocks.
May 1 2006 9:30PM
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TimmyP
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yuo are jsut a lazy slob
May 1 2006 10:28PM
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