The Canaan Valley and Snowshoe, 2/11 thru 2/14

[davidski]

I already posted a report about the time I was at whitegrass, and that weaves back and forth





BUT, I left greater Saxapahaw, NC Sat morning and passed Senaca Rocks about 2:00, I've still only driven by them















I got my room at the Purple Fiddle and got a night ticket at Canaan

It was seriously, bitterly cold, w/ 40 mph winds. By 7:30 when I quit there was Nobody out, including lifties (pagamony can attest to this phenomenon at CV)...............sorry in advance about the hand held videos











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Got back to the Purple fiddle and watched the band, The Hot Seats, spectacular fiddle player







Sunday morning I went to Canaan again. Right away in the liftline I happened to meet Abe, who is a rare poster on the board and an excellent tele skier who showed me some great tree runs last year



With his brother we made some good turns on perhaps technically closed runs















Later I skinned out of CV and ran into Abe again with his brother and wife out on the pipeline small world













EAST COASTER-- if you are reading this, I went to the top of Wiess Knob and tentatively started down, for a picture, it was so beautiful, wind loaded and deep that I really came close to winging it down to laneville, frankly I still wish I had











Monday Morning was bright and beautiful, $15 lift tickets at Canaan with two canned goods



Great, great conditions and even though I had finnagled most of the runs before it was fun to be at the rope drops



















Now this is something -- Abe, notice that our tracks were the only ones there, and when I came down again on Monday Patrol really was waiting for me but they were very, very cool . The key question is -- Ok, so how was it?









Snowshoe' on Tues., hmmn,

the stuff under the lifts was pretty good













and a nightime experiment:























I think it is going to be a good March

[BaZinGa]

Excellent! You timed it perfectly for that storm. Hate that our trip was ending before the goods arrived.

[pagamony]

ahh, now that's the CV that I know and love... no lifties, no grooming, and wheres all the people? props for the experiment.





this, this is why you drive 7 hours...

[marzski]

Nice TR!

[ROYMERCER]

very neat TR. Loved all the off mountain shots .

[davidski]

Here are some more shots in trees and off the pipeline



























look closely, skinning has some advantages over XC







Canaan from Bald knob







and another hand held video



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[teledave]

@davidski 271744 wrote:

look closely, skinning has some advantages over XC











Hahahaha. Nice work David.

[swamphox]

You set the handheld vid to private...

[EastCoaster]

Quote:
EAST COASTER-- if you are reading this, I went to the top of Wiess Knob and tentatively started down, for a picture, it was so beautiful, wind loaded and deep that I really came close to winging it down to laneville, frankly I still wish I had



I've never actually skied it all the way down into Laneville- it ends on private property (though I've heard that the owner is pretty cool/used to people skinning from the bottom). Usually you hit diminishing returns with snow depth at a bench about 3/4 of the way down.

[davidski]

@swamphox 271756 wrote:You set the handheld vid to private...



I haven't posted from You Tube before, not sure but I think I fixed it