Recent content by mfurgal64

Tripoli rd is still closed, so the 3 of us biked up from the Waterville side to the trail head. Easy water crossings. Needed snowshoes for the last 500' of vertical. The snow was patchy and rotten, so rotten that even with shoes we would post-hole in places. No blow downs, no bugs. A very...

11 inches in Waterville Valley I just cleared the driveway with 11" of light snow on the ground in Waterville Valley (elevation 1500'). iIt's still snowing, but the flakes are going sideways. Here's hoping the lifts are turning. ...MikeF

Solid foot in Waterville yesterday with a few more inches today I measured a solid 12" yesterday in Waterville Valley, then went out to shovel another 2" today. It's been snowing all day and looks like another 1" may have accumulated. The ski area is claiming 18" and I believe them since they...

Snow here in Waterville Valley at 9:40am. Supposed to turn to ice/rain, but I hope it doesn't

Steroids I got stung on a trail with friends a few years back, I think I had 10 stings if I remember, I then went back to the same trail the next weekend with another set of friend and got stung another 3 times (no wonder no one wants to hike with me anymore). I haven't been on that trail...

The markers were orange but clearly in the national forest. More than 1/2 mile from the national forest marker and heading towards Livermore road (away from town). There we no stakes, as they used trees and the ground to make their triangle. The width of the triangle was about 10 ft. I would...

[My first post, please be kind] I was mountain biking with a VFFT friend yesterday around the cross country trails of Waterville Valley and noticed survey tape on the ground 100-200 ft or so. When I first noticed this, I figured it was left over debris from the ski season, but when I tried to...