Man this could be a best seller . Very good keep up the good work

 

I think the first was better than the last. But they I think were pretty good.

 

I know all about up there. Obviously not as much as you with you living there but I go up to either chamberlain lake or chesuncook 4 times a year(every season) the golden road, telos road, and others are almost offroad trails in themselves. but yea, I know there's plenty of land up there to trail on. And I dont like alot of people down here in the south btw all massholes, Canadians, and like you said, annoying liberals. Im refuse to categorize myself with being liberal or conservative. I have my own beliefs and some fall into each category but not one or the other. I just like being outside. I like winter camping/ice fishing chamberlain. There's some monster trout in there. Usually we pitch our tent at Ellis brook or mud brook sites. Those two coves are great for wind coverage and shallow trout fishing. We've stayed at nuggets once but it's way better to just have your own tent.

 

so april 1rst, Eric, cc, and I decide that we are going to make a run up to sunday river ski resort on saturday since friday we recieved 18 inches of powder. Of course we take the xj. we leave at 6 AM. google says it should take 2 hours and 13 minutes to get there from my house. 1 hour and 35 minutes, one stop to get coffee, and 27 cars passed later, we reach the white cap base lodge which is the first of the 8 mountains at sunday river. we get our tickets 25% off since eric and I work at the hospitol and cc "forgot her hospitol identification badge" because in truth she doesnt work there but they let dont know that. so we get ready and go outside and stand second in line for the lift to open at 8:00 am. all of a sudden were on the lift, with our whole day mapped out. were gunna do northern exposure, a double black diamond that is only good for the first 5 or so people after a snowstorm since theres many jagged edges and small 3-7 foot granite rock droppoffs that get uncovered by boarders and skiiers. This was only the second time ive been on the trail ever and it was so nice and soft and amazing! it was so nice, right out of the gate, we were all throwing backside 3's off the first droppoff ehich is actually pretty intimidating( i think you supposed to go around the 15 foot drop off, not over it) but anyhow 15 feet to moguls isnt bad with 18" of powder. we get to the bottom and head over to jordan bowl and oz. we plan on easing our way into the glades(trails that go throught he woods) by starting on blind ambition which is an easy but fun single black diamond. Then we go up to the top of jordan bowl to hit lolipalooza. This is a green circle but is in no way boreing. its 1.5miles says my gps and its wide, soft, and full of rolling hills. we race down it without making a single turn or skid mark. we go so fast that if you dont have your bandana over your face, the wind will force your mouth open... to be continued

 

so after only 2 runs on jordan bowl and only 9:00, they shut down jordan bowls lift due to high winds. we had no choice but to wait 45 minutes for a bus to pick us up at the bottom and bring us to south ridge... what a waste of time. but you know what, all 3 of us are 17, and in good shape. halfway up the mountain then down a flat trail a little ways, is the oz lift which we can see at the top of the mountain in still running! so we start walking. ski patrol asks what we are doing. we explain, "getting our moneys worth rather than waiting for a stupid bus." they let us go but encourage people to not follow us. a few others do but not many. so we get to the lift after a half hour. we stop to rest and eat some fresh powder for hydration. this is where it gets recklace. the first thing we do is go down lost pricess( single black diamond) to get to double black glade tin woodsman. where kansas and lost pricess intersect, there is a good size boulder that you can ride onto then drop off the other end for a good 4-5' thrill. something goes very wrong. whats this, a numb *** from quebec sitting down on the other side of the rock? well to late now. gotta crash so i dont break there neck. so the lady gets up and starts yelling at me in french. mean while, eric is coming and sees whats going on and is forced to sacrifice his landing as well. then cc, seeing eric in her path, has to turn quick and jump off the left side onto flat ground where of course a guy is slowly plowing down the mountain( plowing is when someone on snowboard or skis is "brakeing" down the whole mountain which pushes huge piles of snow which are hazards to people who are cruising what seems like smooth snow.) so cc takes him out by accident. we decide that we will just take off and they cant keep up with us. so we get to tin woodsman. we start carving our way through the tightly nit forest. i go to carve between 2 trees when out of nowhere, i catch a front edge and scorpian so bad that it chips my helmet. (scorpian is when you fall forward and land on your chest and it stops you so hard that your board hits you in the back of the head.) There was no way i hit that tree! i was at least 1 foot away! i walk back up to examine. no chips in the tree... thats odd. then eric comes flying down the line when right in front of me.. pop, slam. he did just as i did. of course i see whats wrong. theres a godamn stump about 1/2 an inch under the snow. so now we limp our way down to the lodge to get food. first thing we do after is hit the parks. super pipe was a little to soft but thats better than ice. im not great in the pipe but i got good air outa the pipe on my frontsides. then the jumpline was pretty slow too because of the powder. i was doing all i could to make it past the knuckle on the 40 foot table-top. i got in a nice slow method backside 180. cc did the same only indy and slightly corked. eric went all out and threw his new 540 and of course, not enough speed. he landed it on the knuckle and didnt slide out but sat down after words grimicing in pain and the force of the landing shockaved his body. we went on to the rail garden. battleship box... easy... rollercoaster rail difficult but fun. doghouse box, for some reason super hard but fun. we coudn't under stand why no1 was hitting the rainbow rail. it double barrel with 2" barrels so its pretty easy for a rail, not to mention its a pretty gentle rainbow comparded to the 5 foot high, 15 foot long ones. this one is about 5 feet high and 30 feet long making its not much of a rainbow. i decide to throwdown. a trick i love, get enough speed and jump the top of the rail and 270 to frontside boardslide the down slanted side. all goes good. untill i make contact with the rail from the 270. the whole downside, the waxed paint and powdercoat was chipped off, and the steel had flaky rust on it. poly urethane stick to rust pretty good and needless to say in a blink of an eye i was picked up and slammed on my back just hard enough to knock the wind outa me. this is how the rest of the day went for us. we are not a buncha stupid kids who cant board. us three have boarded together since 4th grade and are very capable of doing anything that mountain has. we just had a fun day powder day that was full of mishaps that made getting up in the morning on sunday not an easy task.

 

and heres a good example of what my day was like if all of this was me and eric


the crash at 1:59 of video is pretty good scorpion. just imagine that going a little faster and in the woods. lol

 

very interesting i read every bit of it and i would like to mention not everyone from mass. is a masshole i really belong down south or up north which is where i will end up someday

 

Keep writing dude, You have a talent. Your writing style doesnt quite leave us on the edge of our seat but its very good. Your words pull us in as if we are sitting in the XJ with you crawling up the mountain or walking with you on the deer drive holding a rifle ready to shoot. I dont ski or snowboard but now I want too. Write somemore so I may learn of living life in the North Woods as if I was there breathing in the cold morning air.

 

I know. I have some friends from mass and they are not bad drivers and they're not stupid. I think masshole is just a statement that covers the textbook "ignorant tourist" whether it's Florida, conn., NY, or wherever. It just so happens a majority of our tourists are from mass. Now QUEBEC is a whole different story lmao!

 

Thanks. That's pretty deep. And I'm not writing a bestseller I
Know that. It really started when inwas bored and wrote chapter one then people told me to write more so now I tell my adventures as they are. but yea, I guess it's all opinion but if you like that cool morning air feeling, come up here towards the end of October. It's not cold but the air is dry and crisp and cool like 45ish and like 55 in the day. And the foliage is nice( those damned leaf peepers are mesmerized like robots lol)

 

I definitely would love to come up there. This Texas 100* heat and humidity is killing me. I wait around here all year for the first cold front in the fall to grab my bow and hit the woods. Below is a link about a couple that traveled the Congo back in 2008 in a overland Toyota. It was posted a while back. I'll warn you, just as the first post says it's a looooog read. Once you start though its hard to stop. The guy has a writing style that pulls you in like you do but then you are lead to the cliff with on foot over and then he makes you wait for the next post. I read it after the fact but I can only imagine what it was like reading it as he was posting. Thought you might like to read it.


https://www.cherokeeforum.com/f9/fir...0-years-66700/

 

Read through all of it and I find it great! I see in your signature that your essentially a mountain man/subsistence farmer but yet you never really explain this. Care to?

 

I agree, you should save it and write it in book form when your finnished....not just anyone can write stuff that others want to read and want more! it's a gift, you should totally run with it

 

you want me to write about my lifestyle or just explain it to you? I'll write a chapter about it!

 

I wake up on a fine sunday morning to blue jays, chickadees, and the warm sun heating up the blue sky. it's about 6:30 am on my weekend off from work. this is the perfect time to get things done! It's 58 degrees; just right for working around the yard. I take a quick shower then grab a coffee and go out on the porch. it's the same every time. my dad is already there, wide awake wondering why I was just getting up. "you know, we still got 3 cord of wood to get. it's gunna get hot in about 4 hours we better get going on it." so we take out the 1944 IH farmall with our homemade trailer that's built to the exact dimensions on a stacked cord of wood. we had dropped some oaks and birches last fall about half a mile down the trail. we have a pretty efficient system goin on. he likes to run the chainsaw(he likes anything with a trigger or anything 2-stroke. A chainsaw has both!) and he limbs the trees and cuts them into roughly 15-18" logs and stands them up. I follow behind with a splitting maul and split them into 2 or four pieces. I like splitting the wood better. it beats going to the gym to lift weights! Then we stack it in the trailer only as high as the rail. When it's full, we know we have pretty close to a full cord if wood. so about 10:30am roles by and we finish our second load. now it's getting hot so we resort to other measures of working. when we get up to the house, the whole yard is filled with a mouth watering aroma of hickory and apple wood. My dad had thrown a fresh pork roast on the smoker to slow cook all day. Both my dad and I had been so busy working and what not, the garden had gotten away from us. My home made habenero pesticide had managed to keep the deer and bugs out but stood defensless against weeds. so for a couple hours we weed by hand, and mulch with straw(hay has seeds in it which grass will grow from. Have to use straw). tomatoes look good. Cabbage, broccoli, beets, onions, peppers, cukes you name it all looking great! The last row was the worst. 2 foot weeds everywhere. underneath it all were zucchinis that looked like a baseball bat with no handle. they were longer than my forearm! So after we harvested everything that was ripe, we feasted on Some smoked pork roast. when we had butchered the pigs, I had mixed a bunch of herbs from the garden( basil, oregano, cayenne pepper, garlic, kosher salt, water and vinegar) and used a meat injector from cabelas to inject it into the roast and rib cuts of meat. Then we vacuum sealed them to be smoked or froze. we had also made a maple syrup brine as well(we were boiling at the same time, that's why we thought to try it.) we made 3 maple hams and they were amazing!!! anyways, we decided that we had to start scouting the deer with it being august now so after we finished our pork roast, we gave the left over to the pigs(lol they don't know! They loved it!) and used the last 3 hours of day light to figure what trends they were still following and which ones they weren't. The deer are forever changing their habits because of logging next door, as well as houses being put in around the area. When I was born, my parents owned 142 acres of a parcel of 3000+ undeveloped land. a guy from Mass bought 1520 of it and put a hunting camp there and now 17 years later the rest has pretty much been made into 10 acres or less house lots over the time. So the deer have to constantly adapt.