Splitting up with Aggie. 1/9

[Mt.A TODD]

Well the Snow Gods were favorable to us down here in York Maine. Saturday into the night it snowed. 7 inches of the White fluffy stuff blanketed the previous 2 inch crust, 3 inch powder from Thursday. Woke up early...hungry, I was going to eat this 3 layer Agamenticus pie for breakfast! What a fitting day too for the maiden voyage of my homemade split board….I call her Liberty. She is pretty. After some coffee, I started in the base parking lot and skinned up the Ring Trail to Blueberry Bluff and reached the Summit in no time.
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Weather was perfect, snow was perfect and I was dazed with how well those fat skis motored uphill! Chug, chug chug. Saw three other boarders at the top who hiked up the road…..barf. They said the conditions were bony on the ski trails and went back down the way I came. Luckily they didn’t get into my stashes, and I had some great fresh (rock less) tracks down one of the old ski runs. The split behaved like my solid board, felt great, turned great.
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Transition time from Ski mode to having the board strapped on and ready to ride was eight minutes, but I know with some more practice it will get quicker. Skinned and scouted back up a different trail, and did one more run down.
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Back up over the Summit of Aggie and boarded down back to the car though the open trees. What a great Day! …and Liberty, my new girlfriend is Awesome!
http://timefortuckerman.com/photopost/data/500/2252lift.jpg

Toddski Out

[radair]

Way cool, Toddski!!! I can't wait to see it. Hopefully you took some pics of the split process - that must have been pretty wild feeding your stick into the table saw!

That second pic is really sweet, nice tracks.

Hopefully we'll start getting some depth (here in the hills, anyway). Pete, Z & I had a fun session at Wildcat this morning.

[gnurider1080]

for those of us who want to get some nice backcountry powder but dont want to subject our boards to a table saw, does snowshoeing with your board on your back work just as well? theres some nice backcountry stuff in ward reservation gotta hit it next time we get a big storm.

[pk]

You da' man, Todd. That's SOOOOOOO COOOOOOOL!

pk

[Z]

Yay, the split board is finally ready!!! Now you can join us on our backcountry jaunts. Nice tracks!

I swear it was just an hour ago on the ride home that I was saying we haven't seen you in a long while and hope to catch up soon.

There were some nice turns to be had in the woods today as long as you kept off the high angle stuff - there is definitely a bulletproof layer that isn't going anywhere.

Damn these southern storms... I bet you had a lot more powder than we did out of the last two! Let's keep our fingers crossed that the forecast for this weeek isn't as bad as they are saying...


Oh... and to answer the question about the snowshoes... yes, you can use snowshoes instead of a split board. But you can ask Toddski what it's like to carry your heavy board on your back in deep powder! (Whatever you do, it's definitely bad, bad ettiquette to posthole the trail without snowshoes or skis. Try to stay in a single skin track and conserve the powder as much as possible!)

nifty Todd. looks like great fun and free to boot.

I'm picking up the new alpine skis today. I have 1 month left on the job where i can blow off a day.

Still you and Gnu got me thinking i should have gone the back country route. Maybe next year.