Weekend Warrior – that’s what he called me and if he hadn’t just handed me a beer I would have … well we’ll get back to that later.
I left Tats (My skiing hero/ brotha from anotha motha) in Breckenridge last May after I graduated and decided to follow my professional ambitions, big mistake, and moved to Boston to work as a paralegal and live with my long lost sister (she’s been in Europe and Asia for years - 8ish?) But even now that I’m making big money (lies) and have applied for law school where I will be enslaved for three more years I wish I was out skiing with Tats and Andy. In lieu of that I have decided to put my backcountry gear into heavy use this winter. Being that snow didn’t start covering our mountains until early February, heavy is a relative term.
As you may have guessed, finding people to travel 3 hours to NH or VT to hike up a mountain is not an easy thing to do in Boston but luckily for me, MIT is full of outdoorsy fun loving science grad students who created an email list for the greater Boston area.
We woke up and arrived at Big J (right next to Jay Peak) trailhead by 8:30 where we met up with Jose and Win 2 MIT students and we strapped on our skins and extended our poles (oh wait no I didn’t because one of my roommates from Breck stole mine!!!! No don’t worry guys I’m using GS poles so I go super fast!) and took off. Big J is a beautiful mountain situated in a small range surrounded by plains and covered with Quebexacin radio waves and combined with no winds made for a great trek.
The skin up was fun and provided us with views of
Jay Peak and the
North Country.
We stopped where the trees told us to and pulled out our sandwiches and warm clothes and talked about the descent to come.
The slope was covered in fresh snow and well anchored with trees.
As we started down the slope was steep and made for about 10 amazing turns and we even found a cliff to drop.
The rest of the way was pretty gradual but made for a good time.
We finished up and headed south to find a place to drink before we had to get back to the city.
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