Hey guys figured since I was back in your territory id post up this TR here.

Well about 10 maggots just drove 13 hours south from as far as way from Cambridge, Vermont to ski snow left by a hurricane in West Virginia. Nature can be bizarre!!

the music for the TR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPl8qlKq41o

Vermont Plates in West Virginia



The snow was super dense wind affected and there was tons of it! There was not a single place that I stuck my pole that was less than 2 feet deep. The Majority of places were at least 36 inches deep with some lee sides easily in the 48 inchish range. IE my pole was stuck totally past my grip.

this is at the Base of Whitegrass touring center, and honestly one of the less deep places I found...



Day 1 took us to Whitegrass Touring Center. Which I was honestly like why are we here? knowing that Timberline had MUCH better pitch. Decided to go with the Flow and ski Whitegrass with the crew. We skied some fun albeit low angle open slopes, tree and meadow at Whitegrass. Never has meadow skipping been taken so literally.

Whitegrass running on donation only today.



Crank54 and Dowork on the ski out of Whitegrass Touring center.



ThinCover meadow skipping



Crank54 is the same Meadow



ML242 in the Ghost Forest at Whitegrass Touring center



a stoked maggot and local crew after a day of skiing Whitegrass.



after some moonshine and beer we headed to out cabin for the night.

10 dollars a night with dinner and breakfast. Only Catch? no power..

check out the snow drifts



best use of a ceiling fan ever

Thincover on our first run at Timberline







Crank54 getting his first run with actual pitch





back up again guys?



Beautiful Canaan Valley



Dowork is happy about the Glades at Timberline



Crank makes it look deep



Thincover skiing anything but in the woods at TLine

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good bye Timberline

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good bye Timberline

...somehow knew that whitegrass cafe/lodge pic would show up somewhere on the internet...hope you guys where able to find some of the relatively "steeper" terrain/woods at timberline on the far skiers right...

Love the skin dryer. Awesome to see you guys. Soory I did not make it over to Tline Friday. Had [censored] to deal with at condo plus my legs were fried.

Cheers

ScottyB

Thanks for the pix Josh!

Hey Josh, nice post, nice stoke. Good to hear from you.

Glad you made it. Gratifying to see WV be the capital of the ski universe this week. The TGR maggots have come from all over. When I left for home yesterday afternoon there,were about 100 cars at Whitegrass.

Saw your black SUV and VT plates at Canaan ski area on Fri AM. I considered skinning up there but didn't see you and was a bit reluctant to go alone. I know that at Whitegrass I can have untracked snow and also know that someone else will come by in an hour or so in case I get in trouble.

With respect to pitch, the steeper easy to reach stuff is at Timberline. It's not really very steep or long by national standards. At Whitegrass it isn't the pitch that's radical, it's the people.

some highlights from Thincovers pictures

Front side tree at Whitegrass skier is Andy



dowork




me in a open Meadow, Like I said meadow skipping has never been taken so literally



Me at timberline. Personally I use fat skis since they carve better in soft snow and hold more speed, being able to smear is something that nice to be able to do but a not my most fun turn.



skintrack to powder



Me jumping something in the woods



Dowork in one of the wonderful glades at Timberline



I honestly do not how soon Ill be able to ski woods with that much coverage at stowe. These are not by earliest Turn, or earliest EC coast turn but these for sure my earliest turn anywhere with out hitting anything. The snowpack at timberline is so deep and its staying cold. I am currently at home visiting my parents and its looking like next thursday could be a refresher for Canaan Valley.

Been a lurker here for a long time, I guess it took an historic storm to pull me out of the shadows.

Awesome pics. TCs pics are always prime. Great to see different communities of the EC coming together.

Thought you guys would like to see MC2's TR too:

http://skiequalsmc2.blogspot.com/2012/11/skiing-sandy-timberline-whitegrass-west.html

...there are a ton of glades at t-slime...those pics are taken in the mellow glades...really is a great mountain that no one knows about...conditions are like this more than once in a while and sometimes more than that...usually its only the boyscouts and youthgroups,,,along with the locals and usual suspects......props to you guys for gettin' some...

schools were still closed yesterday, and staff could report if they were able. Went by tucker county high school to find it is still being dug out! It sits at 3600' on a ridge, so it gets hammered and they have their own front-end loader and snow blower to move snow. ntl guard was there to help coordinate the polling station for voting



nov 5th:









snow bothers me? I was made for this sh*t!

Very belated welcome on my part. I'm hitting Harvey Road - NY Ski Blog daily this past month. Nice site.