https://skiinghistory.org/news/pioneers-southland-skiing
djop wrote:
How Vermonters, Austrians and Swiss launched skiing below the Mason-Dixon Line.
https://skiinghistory.org/news/pioneers-southland-skiing
If anyone wants to know more about skiing in the southeast, the book Southern Skiing is on sale. Randy Johnson finally published the updated edition in 2019. Quite a lot changed since the first edition in 1986. He covers lift-served and backcountry skiing.
There are a lot more southern 6000 footers than I thought. en.wikipedia.org
they lack recent glacial activity - within the last 20,000 years. That and abundant snow. Tuckerman ravine is a classic U shaped glacial cirque carved by a glacier in its slow gravity driven flow down the mountain. Water carves V shaped valleys and glaciers, U shaped. Mt. Washington and the presidential range have numerous cirques that have great spring skiing, Gulf of Slides, Great Gulf, Huntington, Jefferson, Ammonoosuc, King. I have skied many. Note well that you must wait until the spring corn cycle is well established. The snowpack needs to freeze hard overnight, followed by a few hours of warm sun to make a beautiful ski-able soft snow surface. In winter large deadly avalanches are frequent.
