36 inches in 36 hours at Stowe

[bushwacka]

from 12 noon friday to midnight saturday night stowe average one inch and hour snowfall. with in one day the Snowstake jumped from 48 inches to 81 inches.



Needless to say this made for a bunch of happy campers.

Friday afternoon turns yielded some great 6 inches of windbuff, out on a last run with my favorite ski buddy Liz



Saturday morning comes around. 7:10 triple opening, quad is on windhold. We rocked it in the morning but I took no pictures video will come soon. The snow is deep but its not epicly deep yet just another 12 inch powder day at stowe early morning. Luckly for me I am working but my lessons are all level 8s and I march them right into the demo center and grab them the right sized sticks so they do not ruin there day or mine;). By mid day the tracked run were yielding faceshots and the untracked would basically stop you if it was to flat. End of the day me and my crew venture off into an area know as "the planets" and wwhat insued was just epicly amazing run of giggliing face shot and people take hilirious falls down steep slopes.

the shots from the planets.


Haven gets a snow beard


Liz attacking a pillow


Tom charging out of the snow



Erik the roomie looses his legs



Haven alone in the deep dark woods



you would be smiling too if your part of my crew



My buddy Alex was off all saturday, everything just keep getting filled in all day along.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w9IZTk1mK0&feature=share

saturday night the snow keeps on coming down. Another foot would fall before it was all over and the overnight winds erased all the tracks from the previous day. then the sky went bluebird. A Bluebird 3 foot powder day at stowe is like finding a real unicorn they really do not happen ever well to be fair I have seen 2 in 3 years of being here. EVERYTHING on the mountain was suddenly in, avalanches and non avalanches snow burials are now much more are concern than hitting anything. Early morning Liz just kept repeating "Is this real life?"

I proceeded to do 4 laps top bottom on the chin, these 4 laps will go down as some of the best riding I have done anywhere better than days I have done in utah. the only thing that sucked is being a sunday there was alot more competition for it than normal.

what a great day for an early morning skin. Photo by Kevin Dunkley



that skinning lead to this me in waist deep snow, Photo by Kevin Dunkley



Somehow the Roommate Erik found neck deep snow. Photo by Kevin Dunkley



Remember we have nothing steep and its always icey here in the east.



Blowing up powder like its my job.



My Buddy and Local Elan Pro scored the first line from the top. Pretty much the most amazing 1 minute long POV video ever shot at stowe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXaoOGRQiE8&feature=share

and Lastly my roommate made this video from the weekend, its pretty good and not all POV. check it out. I am in Yellow, Liz is in Purple Erik Suvanto is the camera man/skier duh.



my POV video is coming soon.

[jim-ratliff]

WOW.

[Gary]

Bush....thanks for posting that....living vicariously though those pow shots....sweet!

[Liam]

Hey Johnny2R, if you are still looking for good powder skiing videos to learn from, Bush and his gang's videos are as good as any you'll find!

I see your boy eric is still on the Nomads and the Keeps, I was hoping to see some shots of the Gypsy in prime Stowe powder action. 

What does he like better-the Nomads or the Keepers (as he was on both in his video)?

Liam

[dan.boisvert]

Wow...very nice!

(and here I thought the comparatively paltry amount we got at Waterville was good..)

[bushwacka]

Hey Johnny2R, if you are still looking for good powder skiing videos to learn from, Bush and his gang's videos are as good as any you'll find!

I see your boy eric is still on the Nomads and the Keeps, I was hoping to see some shots of the Gypsy in prime Stowe powder action. 

What does he like better-the Nomads or the Keepers (as he was on both in his video)?

Liam

He likes the Keepers alot better fopr this much snow! ...but

his dukes on his nomads and for stuff that requires skinning its his only option.

He is a rep now and I think he has a pair of the new rockered nomad and a pair of Gypsy coming.  both of which will get the new guardian from salomon.

[HighAngles]

That really was an incredible video.  Like you said - it almost seems unreal - quite impossible.  In all the years I skied in the Northeast (18 years) I never experienced conditions like this.  Way to get after it and send in the pics/video.  I guess it really did happen.