Some POW leftovers from last season...

Thought I would share a few clips of this season to keep the off season stoke high. We skied in less than 4 months from now last season.

Starting with sweet Sandy at the Shoe earning our turns 10/30, maybe we will get a repeat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmHwR6825r8

Back to the Shoe 12/20 for a run down Cupp, pre opening, all the way to the barn on the service road. Sorry, same beats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rl8-ihcpUo

Then on to Whitegrass on 12/30 for a quick front side POW run.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADfmXVRaiQc

Then Finally the biggest Pow dayz of 2012-13 blowing off work, friends and life, bumming it at the shoe for 6 days during the epic storm. I traded in my Teles for a more dominatrix approach.

http://vimeo.com/63098320

The countdown is on...

Enjoy

Welcome, please tell us a little bit about yourself, POWSlayer!
Enjoyed the pics.
Sounds like you are a Snowshoe regular.
The Colonel

Very nice. Thanks. 4 months indeed!

Happy Independence Day. Any of you guys around DC actually going downtown and see the fireworks ? Wish I was there. We have a big local party this afternoon, will be looking for good brews and brats and watermelon and baseball, but i'll be thinking and talking about snow. Best wishes everyone!

Good pov stoke powslayer. The tree skiing at slowshoe looked pretty epic, reminded me of a couple days I had at t-line and one at steamboat this past winter. You have me looking forward to some much cooler weather, oh well at least the days are getting shorter.

Imagine:shoving a half case of reeb into a backpack, grabbing a dry bag, paddle float and pump, then scurrying through a half empty DC to get to the Key Bridge boat house (half empty, that is, except for all the parking spots which were of course taken so first, quick, run up to the pay garage, scour the *full* garage for the one spot in between concrete columns and under sewer pipe, then run full-tilt to get the last real boat on the dock, dodging and weaving around every lollygagging pedestrian out there). Beer: no beer yet. Must stand very still so nothing clinks whilst receiving safety lecture from just-post-teenager.

Imagine: Twilight on the river, paddling through the South River channel (barely scraping through since the parking lot SNAFU means its an hour past high tide), the only company some baby ducklings and a blue heron giving the kayak a fishy look combined with a stink eye. Beer: Yuengling Black & Tan. Heck, have another, you earned it.

Imagine: paddling out from the Pentagon marina into a maze of boats all moored or rafted together, the sun only just lighting the top of the Washington Monument and an airplane coming down to National from Rosslyn. Everything else in dusk. Beer: Molson Canadian Ice. Because sometimes independence means having whatever the frak you want.

Imagine: rafting up to a row of boats all playing "Thriller" to borrow a bottle opener - rats, forgot that- only to be treated to three very pregnant women in Stars and Stripes bikinis (you read that right) with U S A written in white grease pen on bellies, dancing to Michael Jackson on the boats' back decks. Beer: Bells Oberon Ale, yes I brought enough to share.

Imagine: Having 2 fireworks shows going on at once, the Mall one booming out stars inside circles, smiley faces, and colour shifting chrysanthemums overhead, every boom sending water ripples through the boats. And then the other show over your right shoulder (Old Town) with bright almost Irish greens and reds, chunkier and less elegant but vivid like hydrangeas of flame. Cider: Angry Orchard Elderflower

Imagine: paddling back to the boat dock only to get pulled over by the water cops who then proceed to strap another glow light to the back deck. Remember that safety lecture earlier? Get another one about having a 360 degree visible light. Beer: Great Lakes Brewing Edmund Fitzgerald porter.

Imagine: surfing the wake of the Dandy (Nina's Dandy now) straight upstream, the Rosslyn fireworks directly ahead, the waves bouncing off the seawall to your right and making a perfect V so that they launch you forward, each wave making the boat feel like a flying fish about to launch forward and up. Beer: no beer, hands making like motors.

djop,
you have real talent! Well done!!
The Colonel

Post of the summer. Thanks PJ.

That is a GREAT beer for boating, LOL.

great story djop, really great. next time with a pov....

sum peepul...alluys wantin moar

So you gave pregnant women alcohol?

I was a river rat back in my DC Days...From the Monument up to Flechers boathouse and above into the rapids...Fishing was awesome!...Herring,Shad, White perch, Stripers...JUMBO Cats...and Smallmouth up in the rapids.
Many many good times with me and the Bro's...Loved the Jive talkin between the boaters during the Perch run!(Dont get me started on the Chesapeake!)

Must be GW down here in NORTH Carolina...Monsoon Rains for well over a month with just one week break in between..

oh yeah, rained all day here in durm, again. its reaching ridiculous. 8.55" above normal last 90 days, thats 85% high. wasted snow opportunities fwiw. pretty close to averae over the last 5 years, though.

[/quote]So you gave pregnant women alcohol? [/quote]

Hey, they shared their pot!

I was waiting for someone to notice that.
The prize:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgI8bta-7aw