Skiing Mount Marcy - NY's High Point
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ธ.ค. 2024
- A tour to the top of NY's highest point with local Ron Konowitz during a good March snowpack. Heavy pow above treeline and a fast ski of the historic Mt. Marcy Ski trail. A sunset ski out. 16 miles round trip. Also see our Article about skiing Marcy on the Treasured Heights website blog. Skiing States is a series about skiing the highest points of all 24 snowy states, see other episodes on the Treasured Heights TH-cam Channel.
Man I loved this. Thank you!!
Great video, so much better to ski down than hike down in summer lol.
Love the video man. I didn’t have the money for Alpine skis so, last January I did it the old fashioned way and simply hiked up and skied is back. Unfortunately when I did it was a complete whiteout with a mix of light snow and fog. I had spent the night at marcy damn prior, so I was safer having gear. But honestly being alone up there and only seeing a couple hikers the whole time. It wasn’t my safest time. Anyways, a time to remember for sure
You'll want snowshoes if you don't have uphill ski capability. postholing by hikers on the trail in winter is a huge problem. Its required to have proper footwear when there is more than 6" of snow by law because the postholes have caused skiers to crash on the narrow trail with serious consequences. Its not as much an issue elsewhere but as long as powerful lobbist extremists block the restoration of our ski trails to original 1990s width there will be more skier/hiker/snowshoer crashes on an increasingly tiny trail.
@@TreasuredHeights makes sense, I used snowshoes the entire way, I thought that would be implied as “hiking up” but I guess not. And yes, on my way down some of the narrow areas I sunk in spots people walked through.
@@theoutdoorangler1173 You did it right, we all try to spread the word on this issue, even talk to people on the trail as a lot of winter runners in sneakers have descended on the trail, its a really weird situation to have all the users crammed on that trail when I remember we had a beautiful wide trail back in the 90s when I started backcountry skiing there. The new master plan has made big problems for skiers up there and I'll have a new video on the trails situation this winter.
@@TreasuredHeights never realized the amount of people that head up without snowshoes. Also, one you near the summit, at least when I was up there. You need some sort of traction, and I feel crampons would just sink in except for the summit, so the spikes on my snowshoes were necessary or I’d by sliding everywhere
Great video. Love that last shot at Indian Falls!
Thanks, I just love those warm sunny March days with no wind and that was one of them!
Would this be possible with nnnbc bindings and stiff leather boots (alpina alaska)? This looks awesome
Hi Meira, this would not be possible with nnn bc boots as this trail is extremely narrow and requires cranking hard turns, expecially dense east coast snow. I've pushed nnn bc boots to their limit and I know they can't handle too much twisting motion. While much of the trail is mellow, there are steep and narrow sections, or not steep, but steep enough to require tele or AT boots.
@@TreasuredHeights As you should know, many routes (and certainly Marcy!) were done years ago by the Ski-to-Die guys (and many others) with early tele equipment that gave less control than modern bc skis & a good NNN boot…so, yeah it is possible. I first skied Marcy many years ago with 220cm double cambered skis and low-cut leather lace-up boots. Enthusiasm, technique and a willingness to “toss the anchor” when things get dicey can get you down a lot of stuff!
Beautiful snowfields and trees, great vid.
Thanks, Marcy is a great peak in the winter, and has a fraction of the visitors as summer.
@@TreasuredHeights I subbed and am using the pic of the summit as a new zoom background
@@duckyboi3922 Cool, its great to be up there on a clear spring day with those views!
@@TreasuredHeights Yeah its a nice zoom background
Is skiing coldens trapdike and slide a harder descent than most? I’m looking to start bc skiing soon and would like to know the easier hikes/descents to get started off right. Reason I bring up the trapdike is I loved climbing it and seems like it would be fun to ski down
That route is not by any means a normal ski route, its deadly ice falls and rocky most of time with avy danger in pockets. The Adirondacks severely lack terrain for starting bc skiing. Vermont is way better with glades and open woods with shorter approaches. VT also gets more snow and better quality snow, less ice. A few trails in the adks like Marcy and Wright Peak were great but are growing over and NYS is not allowing them to be restored to proper width, this video was shot a decade ago and the trail is even tighter now. Mansfield in VT is a super cool place to play to start and worth the drive.
@@TreasuredHeights alright, will do my research of VT, thanks!
Fabulous vid. And bonus is that I recognize the name Ron Konowitz from when I was a camper at Camp Poko-McCready many years ago. Could the TH-cam algorithms be that good or just coincidence?
This is badass!! These mountains are something else you could never attempt truly going down the bare face of the high peaks people really don't understand how difficult it would be to try and go off the face of the shi lol even mount mansfield you could take a trail down but it would be a death wish to try and just shoot off The Chin itself lmfao
People ski directly off the chin all the time my man!
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