Icebox Eleven

This certainly has been the year for ice. With a thread name like icebox I would really like to see someone build an igloo. Do you know how to build one? I think igloos are cool 😎
 
Took on Mooch north with the Goat this morn. Started from Tranquility and 4 hrs later found our way back. Conditions were fast and scary but exploring mooch's bowls were close to epic. Our downhill skillz are coming nicely. Hopefully these trips will translate into BS50 domination, or at least thats my motivation for risking blowing my knees off on these.
 
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Are you guys on skiis or wheels? Or ski-wheels? If it's the 3rd option WTF are ski-wheels?
 
We were on ski's, I shoulda noted that. There was a set of tire tracks up around rolli polli and it seemed firm enough to hold tires. I may do some mtb recon this week if we dont get too much snow tonight
 
Was beyond epic for me(even though the conds were tough) Dragged the 26r to places only long gone locals would even know. He got to experience the park as a forest rather than a trail system. Curious to see if this helps his directional comprehension or if hes now completely lost. As much as i've improved as a skier, its still nuts to me what Chris can pull off sometimes. Just a killer day. Gotta go now............7" and still comin down:getsome:
 
Was gonna do up the igloo and take some pics for Pixy but did a pm shorty w the 26r at Mahlon instead. We've officially taken backcountry to a new level!! Once the skis got temp adjusted to the snowpack it was ridiculous. Its starting to feel like my old enduro days suprisingly. You're just rippin thru the tight stuff and have milliseconds to pick which line, which side of a tree etc, but with no arrows at all to guide your general direction. At all the DHs i try to take a crappy line to give Chris the freshies so he can do his thang. These past couple days I've really gotten addicted to sittin up on a ridge starin down at a half mile of untracked open trees. I know a bunch of ya bought skis and are lurkin here, so lets go bitches! You've got a few more days/weeks to get up to speed for next year and nothin will get you to HTFU like xc skiing:getsome:
 
Hit Deer Park with the 26r this am on skis. It's just nuts now, we don't really use the trails anymore. We're startin to learn where all the swamps and briar patches are in all the local parks so its just turnin into free ski mania. I've gotten so much better in the last few weeks and i'm pushin the envelope til i hear it tearin sometimes. My luck and the snow are now havin a race to see which runs out first. Probably hittin the roadbikes tommorrow(cue the music from "aces high"!) Next week may be back to the mtbs or road, we'll see. I'd really like to get some road groups together in the next 4-6 weeks. Maybe alternate some north and central jersey rides with MattyB and the Haulers locals. What say ye............
 
Killer Weekend with the Goat, Hit most of Deer Park on and off trails with skis. Almost 4hrs of near death experiences. Good finale to our ski season.

Sunday we ventured up to Sussex to meet up with Sussex county's fastest "Badline" Dave. He Dragged our ski-sore asses through some of the best training hills upto High Point and into NY until we ran into some knee and fever issues(Thankfully for me) we had to cut it short. Awesome day to be on a bike, first wkd of pain! Time to break out the MTB's. Here's our shortened but deady loop today:
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Post up when you guys are going to do the magical mystical pain train road ride again...I'd be in.
 
So I'm sick as a dog. Didn't hear a peep from the 26r so i just hit the shop ride yesterday since Matty wasn't rollin w the girlz. As usual the "jet fighter pilots" went off the front. I just stayed in the middle as not to destroy all the peeps who come out for fun. I mean it ain't a show without an audience, right?? As we turn toward home i take every lead into headwind just so alls fair. I quite enjoy non sanctioned competition, people will try harder than in a race and will back off before the violence starts. Perfect combo!! So i got 2 who are in it to win it and we,re maybe 2 miles out. They're doin everything right in just lettin me sit out front to die in a 20mph hwind. I have no hills(my forte) and quite a long descent(that i suck at) in front of me. Hit the last small rise. Upshift ,stand,still a tire there. Spin it up,upshift, stand, shadow of a wheel still 4 ft back. Cry, upshift, stand. No shadow, pin it. TT til the shop.Sittin on the bench out front it felt like i tore both shoulders outta the socket. Thought i had no chance of holdin them off but i did. Can't understand why people pay money to race, when there's so much fun to be had for free!! So nothin today,probably rollin the road w TC tommorrow and then maybe SOMEBODY will release the "BIG NEWS ON TUES!!"
 
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