Popular Post indiggio Posted January 18, 2022 Popular Post Report Posted January 18, 2022 Keeping a watchful eye on the storm rolling up the coast early in the week had me hoping we could be in front of it before it hit, but that proved to be out of the question as it decided to move faster than initially forecast. As the snow began to fall Sunday night, I was hoping for the worst, a quick changeover to rain so it wouldn’t take an eternity to drive from Hellertown to Lake Placid. We needed to stop in Wilkes-Barre to pick up the son and then head on to upstate NY. Awake all night, I could hear the pitter-patter on the skylight. Since I could hear it, it had to have switched to sleet or rain, but couldn’t tell which. Finally got fed up and looked to see the road out front just wet. At least part of the ride would be easy. Checking the radar showed a mixed bag of precipitation all the way to Lake Placid. Rain in the Lehigh Valley, freezing rain around Hazelton, sleet and then snow up in Scranton-WB all the way up. Wonderful! Left around 5:45am to get to WB after the kid’s shift. Usual 90 minute drive took 2 hours. Wet snow started just above the Blue Ridge and continued into WB. After packing the car, I could see some blue skies breaking through, but radar up North showed different. The entire ride on 84 across to the NY thruway was white knuckle, snow-covered. Most if the thruway to Albany was clear sailing until Lake Gorge when the snow began to fall again, but good. More gestures to slow down followed from the wife, which just made me drive even faster! The drive on 9 & 73 was Interesting and fun, over hill and Dale, back into the wilderness. Who found this place for Olympics is beyond me! Just then the ski jumps come into view, cool! Checked into out cozy tiny home & then went out in search of beer and food. Just down the road is Big Slide brewery, so we picked up a crawler of their Giant Double IPA which was quite good. Also picked up some Lake Placid brewery’s Shredder IPA. First choice for food was Smoke Signals BBQ based upon numerous recommendations including @RidgeRacer, but passing by it didn’t look like it was open, maybe the holiday? Dunno. Son made executive decision for pizza, so it was a Supreme and garlic cheese bread from Bazzi’s pizza, both of which hit the spot. Gonna be another chilly one at Whiteface tomorrow with a high of 7! Time to suck it up! Ski The East! Spicy roads… Ski jumps… Around town… Supreme pizza & beer… 11 4 2 1 Quote
antman12 Posted January 18, 2022 Report Posted January 18, 2022 F*** yeeaaa! WTGAI. Looking forward to more updates. 1 Quote
RidgeRacer Posted January 18, 2022 Report Posted January 18, 2022 Stoked for you man. Can't wait to read the TR and hear your thoughts on WF. fingers crossed that the summit quad opens for you tomorrow. Not sure where they are with lookout mountain yet. Either way Essex, approach, northway speed runs to the base off little wf are always good first thing. Smoke signals is open from 4 to 9 tomorrow...Bazzis always comes through though. I've never seen that place closed. Hope you all have a great time. Potential for snow on Wednesday! Layer up though. Forecast looks brisk. Can't wait till we're there in March! 1 Quote
Johnny Law Posted January 18, 2022 Report Posted January 18, 2022 Love some high peaks daks action and it should be awesome skiing this week. The mountaineer is in Keene and is probably the best mountaineering shop in the north east. Their books alone and they have every piece of gear on earth. 1 Quote
Mixilplix Posted January 18, 2022 Report Posted January 18, 2022 1 hour ago, Johnny Law said: Love some high peaks daks action and it should be awesome skiing this week. The mountaineer is in Keene and is probably the best mountaineering shop in the north east. Their books alone and they have every piece of gear on earth. The Adirondack High Peaks are one of the best mountain ranges in the east......I gained a lot of respect for ski jumpers once I saw those jumps... 1 Quote
RidgeRacer Posted January 19, 2022 Report Posted January 19, 2022 1 hour ago, Mixilplix said: The Adirondack High Peaks are one of the best mountain ranges in the east......I gained a lot of respect for ski jumpers once I saw those jumps... Pic I took a long time ago 5 Quote
tarponhead Posted January 19, 2022 Report Posted January 19, 2022 Lmao! I’m here at Lake Placid Brewery and pub eating chow before heading to Indigios tiny house after an uneventful drive up and I figure instead of asking how his drive up was to check this site first. Indigo is a GSS-approved poster! Psyched to ski WF tomorrow and doing it with Indigio and son!Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 8 1 Quote
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted January 19, 2022 Report Posted January 19, 2022 40 minutes ago, tarponhead said: Lmao! I’m here at Lake Placid Brewery and pub eating chow before heading to Indigios tiny house after an uneventful drive up and I figure instead of asking how his drive up was to check this site first. Indigo is a GSS-approved poster! Psyched to ski WF tomorrow and doing it with Indigio and son! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk He sure is but he seemed to forget to post a report today and knowing Indiggio he’s probably asleep already so will likely post his report around 5am tomorrow which is fine..I understand... 1 Quote
Popular Post indiggio Posted January 19, 2022 Author Popular Post Report Posted January 19, 2022 Ski day 1 Loaded up the car about 7:00am into 12’ and flurries which would be the high temp for the day!! The son had put the directions into his phone and Away we went. Driving out of Lake Placid and up towards the mountain, passing the golf course and Cobble Mountain Lodge, I thought of @RidgeRacer and @saltyant . We continued to drive a bit longer than I expected from looking at the map, but the son assured me we were going the correct way. We came to a T and he instructed me to turn left, Ok. As we climbed an ever steepening road, we came to Santa’s Workshop in North Pole, NY. Next I see a sign for Toll Ahead. Tolls on a ski road? WTF? About this time I was pretty sure something was amiss, as the son was tapping something into his phone. “Uh oh”, he uttered. “Uh oh, what?”, I responded. “Uh, looks like there’s a Whiteface Mountain and Whiteface Mountain Resort and I think I chose the wrong one”. Bah! We had just taken a 15 minute excursion, but got to see where Santa builds his toys! When we finally managed to get to the mountain, parked and actually booted up in the lodge which I never do, but the frigid temps and length of hike proved it worthwhile. Unfortunately with the flurries falling, views of the summits were obscured. Started out on the gondola and down Excelsior just to see how the conditions are. The report said the mountain got 9” from yesterday’s storm, but you wouldn’t know it as the wind had blown most of it away. Rode Little Whiteface and lapped the runs in that area for a while. Took a run all the way down and rode the quad back up. By then the brutal cold had pushed us into the lodge to warm up. After warming up, we took the summit quad up to the peak. Lots of the upper runs have not had much blown on them and the wind was howling, so we headed back down to lap the lower runs. They’re calling for snow tomorrow, so we quit kinda early and headed back with visions of BBQ in our heads. Placed an order for brisket and brisket sandwich from Smoke Signals, both of which were delicious. Not a good photo day… Today’s beer… Brisket and chopped brisket sandwich with Habanero BBQ sauce and the wife’s salad… 9 2 1 Quote
indiggio Posted January 19, 2022 Author Report Posted January 19, 2022 26 minutes ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said: He sure is but he seemed to forget to post a report today and knowing Indiggio he’s probably asleep already so will likely post his report around 5am tomorrow which is fine..I understand... Eh, got caught up eating and some other crap. See above… Quote
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted January 19, 2022 Report Posted January 19, 2022 3 minutes ago, indiggio said: Eh, got caught up eating and some other crap. See above… Looks grate. Almost the Paleo diet unless there are some fries lurking in the distance. Quote
RidgeRacer Posted January 19, 2022 Report Posted January 19, 2022 Nice report. Weather looks much better for tomorrow...should be nice! Then Antarctica like temps the next few days after (-21 for the low wed night!) First pic looks really good. 1 Quote
saltyant Posted January 19, 2022 Report Posted January 19, 2022 (edited) 37 minutes ago, indiggio said: Driving out of Lake Placid and up towards the mountain, passing the golf course and Cobble Mountain Lodge, I thought of @RidgeRacer and @saltyant . We continued to drive a bit longer than I expected from looking at the map, but the son assured me we were going the correct way. We came to a T and he instructed me to turn left, Ok. As we climbed an ever steepening road, we came to Santa’s Workshop in North Pole, NY. Next I see a sign for Toll Ahead. Tolls on a ski road? WTF? About this time I was pretty sure something was amiss, as the son was tapping something into his phone. “Uh oh”, he uttered. “Uh oh, what?”, I responded. “Uh, looks like there’s a Whiteface Mountain and Whiteface Mountain Resort and I think I chose the wrong one”. Great stuff!!! On 9/3/20 I biked from Cobble Mountain Lodge to Santa's Workshop and then to the top of Whiteface Mountain, and it certainly was a grind but one of the best bike rides I've ever completed. The hill up to Santa's is a grind itself, and beyond that there's still about 2,900 ft. of elevation gain to go to the highest point on the road (thru the toll gate). Amazing for the east coast! Oh, and the skiing ain't bad either. TFTI !!! Edited January 19, 2022 by saltyant 4 Quote
indiggio Posted January 19, 2022 Author Report Posted January 19, 2022 50 minutes ago, RidgeRacer said: Nice report. Weather looks much better for tomorrow...should be nice! Then Antarctica like temps the next few days after (-21 for the low wed night!) First pic looks really good. It was so cold today, it took all the will I could muster to pull the phone out to take a few pics! 3 Quote
toast21602 Posted January 19, 2022 Report Posted January 19, 2022 10 minutes ago, indiggio said: It was so cold today, it took all the will I could muster to pull the phone out to take a few pics! We appreciate it! Reports are exponentially better with good pictures. 5 Quote
trackbiker Posted January 19, 2022 Report Posted January 19, 2022 Nice report. Check out Paradox brewing on the way home. It's right off the Northway (87) Exit 29. 3 Quote
mbike-ski Posted January 19, 2022 Report Posted January 19, 2022 oh yea that mountain can be cold! Some years back Niko and I went up for some "spring" skiing in late March, started out at -14* with high of 0* lol. We're headed to Gore Friday , calling for a high of 10.... 2 1 Quote
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted January 19, 2022 Report Posted January 19, 2022 (edited) @Indiggio did you ski any moguls or woods? Edited January 19, 2022 by GrilledSteezeSandwich Quote
saltyant Posted January 19, 2022 Report Posted January 19, 2022 1 hour ago, C1erArt said: Ice face. @RidgeRacer Ice face talk. Actually, Whiteface was a blast for me and no more ice than any other east coast resort 🤷🏻♂️ Quote
RidgeRacer Posted January 19, 2022 Report Posted January 19, 2022 (edited) 20 hours ago, indiggio said: Wow. Look at all of this ice. Ice everywhere!!! Edited January 19, 2022 by RidgeRacer 2 1 Quote
toast21602 Posted January 19, 2022 Report Posted January 19, 2022 8 minutes ago, RidgeRacer said: Wow. Look at all of this ice. Ice everywhere!!! You know what our old friend Robert2 would say.... Ice is nice, speed is good! Quote
tarponhead Posted January 19, 2022 Report Posted January 19, 2022 @Indiggio did you ski any moguls or woods? [emoji1787]yes[emoji1787]Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Quote
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