I skied Gore today. The insurrectionists where all headed to Washington, so I figured it would be redneck free.
I dropped my Teles’s and Fat boards at the pickup/drop off spot. Having to Boot up in your vehicle presents new challenges to the already painful process of putting ski boots on.
I went straight to the top and skied the hardest stuff first, Lies and The Rumors. It was survival mode, but I didn’t fall on those steep ice covered double diamonds.
With that out of the way, I did a few runs on the North Quad.
Around noon, I heard from my friend, and he gave me a location, bottle of Burnt Hill Quad and a time.
If you look at the map, there appear to be several routes to get there, one from the top and the other from the bottom of the Northwoods Quad. But those routes, I learned, were closed!
So the lift op, on my third try tells me Little Sister to Twisted Sister to the Gorge. That turned out to be a fun bunch of cruisers.
But that run under Burnt Ridge Chair, Sagamore, was great. And seeing and skiing with a friend was an immense relief from Covid Hell.
It wasn’t until I was leaving, around 2:30, that I saw they had tents for changing into boots!
So, no telemarking today. As it was only my 2nd day of the season, and first in 2021, my legs were shot!
LLLY 