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| quite a snow pile at the cabin! |
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| climbing the mt washington summit cone |
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| view from Tuckerman Ravine top |
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| view from the summit cone itself |
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| Angus and Se' snowboarding with me at Waterville Valley - $1 lift ticket day!! |
Reports, musings, sermons, happenings from a Presbyter (Priest) of The Episcopal Church who loves Jesus, the natural world, ice and snow, and is raising 3 children with his artist-wife, Erin McGee Ferrell. (This photo is of the Presidential range in NH taken from Vermont.)
Showing posts with label Tuckerman's Ravine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tuckerman's Ravine. Show all posts
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Mt. Washington trip
Here are a few pictures from a PERFECT weekend up in snowy New Hampshire! There was still 1 to 2 feet of snow at our cabin, which made for fantastic nordic skiing through the woods. And in the mountains there are still 4 to 8 feet on the ground. With warm temperatures (40-50's) and full spring sun, it was amazing. Praise God who is the giver of all good gifts!
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Tuck's Pilgrimage
"The annual pilgrimage to Tuckerman Ravine is the world's grandest, oldest, biggest celebration of sliding on snow. Nowhere else on earth do people come together so faithfully and in such numbers to revel in the joys of snow.
Tuck's is anathema to many of the values of modern society. It takes hard work to get there, there are no rules, dire consequences can follow from mistakes, and you have nothing to show for your courageous efforts save for a fleeting track in the snow. For this, people return again and again. In Tuck's, you are free" (From Backcountry Skiing Adventures: Classic Ski and Snowboard Tours in Maine and New Hampshire by David Goodman, p.121).
All of our household made the pilgrimage up into Tuckerman's Ravine yesterday (Erin and me, all 3 children and 2 dogs). It was a fantastic day: 72 degrees at the base, sunshine, small crowds. How strange to run into a group from Urban Promise in Camden right in Pinkham Notch and at Hojo's! It is such hard work to ride this magic snow, but amazingly beautiful!
Praise God for such beauty and such reminders fo the reality of our life-task. Riding in Tuck's is like our journey into holiness in Christ: it takes hard work to get there, on this journey we are free, and at the end we truly have nothing to show for it except for the reality of our own experience. But it is a path of the greatest beauty. Nothing else can compare.
Here are some photos:
Tuck's is anathema to many of the values of modern society. It takes hard work to get there, there are no rules, dire consequences can follow from mistakes, and you have nothing to show for your courageous efforts save for a fleeting track in the snow. For this, people return again and again. In Tuck's, you are free" (From Backcountry Skiing Adventures: Classic Ski and Snowboard Tours in Maine and New Hampshire by David Goodman, p.121).
All of our household made the pilgrimage up into Tuckerman's Ravine yesterday (Erin and me, all 3 children and 2 dogs). It was a fantastic day: 72 degrees at the base, sunshine, small crowds. How strange to run into a group from Urban Promise in Camden right in Pinkham Notch and at Hojo's! It is such hard work to ride this magic snow, but amazingly beautiful!
Praise God for such beauty and such reminders fo the reality of our life-task. Riding in Tuck's is like our journey into holiness in Christ: it takes hard work to get there, on this journey we are free, and at the end we truly have nothing to show for it except for the reality of our own experience. But it is a path of the greatest beauty. Nothing else can compare.
Here are some photos:
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