Cross Country Skiing

[jobob]

Might be skiing tomorrow. Already 2 inches on the ground. I'll have to go to conservation land trails, but, hey better than nothing.

I went to grad school in Waltham, and took up XC skiing while I was there. If memory serves, there are tons of great trails to ski on up around Concord -- at least there were, oh, 20-plus years ago

I sure hope they're still there. Have fun!

[Crankin]

Did you go to Brandeis?
Oh , there are plenty of trails around here, but I really prefer tracked and groomed. It's not that I don't ski in the conservation land, I just prefer the other. But, I do a lot of snow shoeing on the local trails, as well as hiking.
There's so many trees down, I didn't even attempt it. In fact, friends went for a hike on a trail near their house and the police were there, so no one would go down it. The snow is mostly melted, too.
Kind of looking forward to my "shoulder" season. Still riding outside some, some hiking, and going to the gym. It's rare for me to ski before January and the season usually only lasts until the end of February. Even though there's awesome skiing up north in March, the one time I went to Stowe, VT in March, it rained and we ended up snow shoeing, as the trails were just too degraded/muddy for skiing. Planning a trip probably to the Northeast Kingdom in February.

[jobob]

I went to grad school in Waltham, and took up XC skiing while I was there.

Did you go to Brandeis?

Yikes, I never saw your response to my post from over a year ago, Crankin, sorry about that!

And the answer is, yep, I went to Brandeis. It was so much fun to meet up early in the morning with some classmates to go x-c skiing at one of the nearby parks, then we'd tromp back into the lab, oh, very late morning ... which helps explain why it took me 6 years to get my degree ...

[Irulan]

Learning how to skate ski is on my to-do list. We have a great nordic area here; I just spend so much time on the alpine slopes I don't get over there, even with my classic gear.

[Crankin]

JoBob, you probably had a lot more fun than me when I went to grad school. Twice.
It's pouring rain this morning. I am severely worried about our warming winters in the Boston area. At least there's snow up north!

[jobob]

JoBob, you probably had a lot more fun than me when I went to grad school. Twice.

It had its moments.

It's pouring rain this morning. I am severely worried about our warming winters in the Boston area. At least there's snow up north!

Oh geeeze. Once in a great while I miss the snowy winters in MA (mainly when the topic of xc skiing comes up), but the icy rains and slush I am very happy to do without! You have my sympathies.

[ridebikeme]

Well, over a foot of new snow, although with a bit of rain last night, it has definitely become very heavy. Home from work today because of schools everywhere being cancelled, but will have to wait for the snow to settle a bit... extremely heavy at this point. However, I'm excited to see it and thinking about buying some back country ski's.

[Jolt]

Well, over a foot of new snow, although with a bit of rain last night, it has definitely become very heavy. Home from work today because of schools everywhere being cancelled, but will have to wait for the snow to settle a bit... extremely heavy at this point. However, I'm excited to see it and thinking about buying some back country ski's.

Lucky you to have good snow! Here in York County it has been raining all day today so we have puddles and slush and yuck; about three inches of snow fell yesterday where I am but it's mostly gone now. Was going to do the group run from the Y this evening but it doesn't sound too appealing in this weather, will probably swim instead (once the swim team practices are done for the night...). Hoping for some decent snow this winter to learn to XC ski--got all the equipment last year (good Craigslist find) and then didn't even get to use it!