Tuesday, November 20, 2007

White Mountain Report


This past weekend seemed like a perfect weekend to head up to the White Mountains for some good 'old adventure. Hotel rooms are still cheap and the weather seemed to be ideal. The plan was to head up to Huntington Ravine in search of some early season ice climbing on Saturday. As you may know, Mount Washington is not generally known for beach-like conditions. The Saturday weather report for Mount Washington was -15 to -25 with the wind chill and up to 100 mph gusts. We used our better judgment and finished up the rock climbing season with a morning on Cathedral Ledge climbing Thin Air (5.6). It was 35 degrees and sunny!

Sunday's weather report for Washington was a little more manageable (and desirable). We headed up to Huntington Ravine with blue bird skies and the ground covered in snow. We climbed Pinnacle Gully and had an excellent day. The climbing was good for early season and our only complaint was that we didn't take enough pictures.

I hope that I don't bite my tongue, but it appears that winter is finally here...

Friday, November 16, 2007

Green Mountain Greetings...


Vermont is a special place. Aside from being one of the healthiest, lowest polluting, largest milk producing states in the Nation, the Green Mountain State has been called home by Tubbs Snowshoes for nearly a century. The Green Mountain Col is here to show you that we're out there almost as much as you are and that we're building the sport of snowshoeing. We continue to innovate with revolutionary snowshoe technology and work with world class athletes like Danelle Ballengee to keep winter 'front and center'.

Now you may ask, what is a col? A col is a small pass between two peaks. The Tubbs office building has been resting along the Little River here in Stowe since the 1800's. We are ideally situated between the Mount Mansfield and the Worchester Range, hence the Green Mountain Col.

It is our goal to keep you up to date on Tubbs happenings, events, faces behind the scenes and all else adventure with this blog and we invite you to join in!

Live Light,

The Tubbs Team