Snowshoe weekend trip

Friday the 13th brought out some interesting creatures under sunny blue skies/
Massive snow whales

Wake up the following morning with a fresh blanket of powder on top of the Subaru.
This place is such a gem.

And of course a little batting practice out on the slopes.
Swing.

And a video I made from the whole trip Audio Bob Marley

White Friday

 Thanksgiving with the family was awesome .Breakfast of Champions on Black Friday .Yep that's 2 pieces.

Mindsurf Monday

Last March somewhere in the Eastern part of West Virginia. Cant wait to hike and ride this once conditions permit this winter.

 Happy T-giving week! ..

Flashback Friday

By the look of things the snowboard season should be  on track to get started out in West Va the day before Thanksgiving. Here's a few  flashback pics  from last years Black Friday  journey to the slopes . Even though I'm a huge powderhound I'd  gladly love to lay an edge into some perfectly groomed corduroy right about now. See you in a few weeks WV

 Rope drop

NN park sunrise

Bad News Va defying its nickname . Wish my camera would of showed the fog a little better .There was about a 4 ft tall light  layer of it  covering the entire lake . Captured this on the way to work this morning.
Looked 10 times better in person!

HPT

The city is raking in the dough this weekend , 3 sold out phish shows .All nearby hotels are sold out and all the local business's are packed   .There were so many extra unused  tickets bought online  that a guy unable to sell his gave me one for Sat night  while I was shopping at  Target  !

Post Oct. Noreaster fun

 Still raining out  + no outside work  on the agenda in the rain on Friday 10/11 .Southbound .
Really fun waves in town for a quick morning session .Then drive a little further down
   

Digging out

 Those photographers that surf must make good money to sit on the beach and take pics when its pumping like this. I can't do it . In the 3 minutes I was checking it I saw this .

  And this.  These pics aren't even sets . Plenty of well Overhead caverns in the water today ! Wind stayed offshore + light all day. Surfed until I couldn't paddle anymore, almost  until dark. .Classic fall day on the Outer Banks!

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10/09/13 First fall Noreaster

Ive always loved the first true Noreaster of the fall. Really signifies the change of seasons. This year is no different .

Noreasters also mean lots of rain and limited outside work. A good thing if you can find something else to do outside.    Somewhere in the Ches. Bay

Fall colors in the WV Highlands 10/4-10/06 2013

Headed out to Canaan Valley to do some biking and  hiking for the weekend and to take in the fall colors.
Not much color in the Va mountains as of 10/04 but things started to come to life after crossing into  WV on a scenic rt.

 Arrived at the Canaan Ski area and  bought a  4 hr scenic lift ride ticket for $8 . Managed to get about 4 rides up  in before close .They let you bring a bike up if you sign a waiver .
 The view was   worth turning around for.

 Figured I could cover more ground on the bike than hiking .Accessing the backcountry areas through the     top of the lift accessed trail to Weiss Knob. Shes a rocky buger for the first   100 yards or so

 Helmet cam  shot. Starting with  dropping  down from the top of the  knob

 About  1 1/2 miles  or so from there to the top of Bald Knob
  Pretty amazing view with really vivid colors .

 Not far from here is  the scenic wonderfully wooded forest of the Whitegrass  area

 And down into their trail system

  Also poked around in the Dolly Sods for a bit and then back in WG . Actually past peak color  on the Eastern side of the Ridge. One could easily explore this  vast area for weeks , its huge and spread out

 Next day wanted to enter WG from the Timberline side. They wanted $10 for a single ride  up the lift . I opted to peddle a couple miles up the  Salamander trail  instead of riding the squeaky slow orange popsicle chair up . About 30 minutes up hill with breaks to get to the access to the sods .

 Not much of a mtn biker so these cross country rides with only moderate  elev changes  are right up my alley .


   Entering the  WG area  and back into the vivid colors.

   This pic is 1/2way through a run down the mtn on my snowboard after  I hiked up to this area  last winter to snowboard  under amazing conditions with 28  inches of  natural snow cover on the ground. It was a pretty tough mile 1/2 hike in deep snow. After exploring the area this fall it has me seriously contemplating making a splitboard for easier access . WG is a cross country ski area w/ very nice manicured glade runs. Some of which are on a great downhill fall line  with about a 1200 ft vertical drop from top to bottom.

Looking forward to coming back to this  overhead rock drop once its  covered in snow

Freeland Rd. under amazing fall colors

 The Red barn

Headed out of town through the scenic rt through the Sods. Laneville  Rd .  rock drops in the back of someones barn. 

Colors are not quite peaking at Seneca  Rocks yet . Still a magestic sight  to behold

Ok Indian Summer its time to go . We need some snow on this amazing landscape