WRITINGS ON THE WALL

ATHENS

ATHENS

ATHENS

PARTHENON

PRAHA

CZECH

pRaGue

ALL PHOTOS TAKEN BY GOOD LUCK

MY BROTHER'S GIANT HEAD

JAY PEAK- DISCOUNTS

Me- "Oh, I didn't see you there"

The Ride & Ski card (http://www.rideandskine.com/Home.html) comes with a book of coupons; four of those coupons were buy one get one free at Jay Peak.
The card itself gets you $10 off at Jay.

Shéady Acres (http://sheadyacres.com/index.html) has discounted tickets for their guests.

MR SQUEAKERS

 
  Liftopia (http://www.liftopia.com/) has 14%-32% off for the rest of the season.

 


We booked our package for Jay in November (http://www.jaypeakresort.com/). The best deals at most resorts are                  pre-season. Sometimes Jay also has powder deals or Mardi Gras deals.   When you stay with them they send you coupons for lessons, restaurants, and shops.

giant jazz hands

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JAY PEAK- MOVING ON UP

Q, doing stuff

Jay Peak is located in the Green Mountains and Jay National Forest, 5 miles from Canada in Vermont. The elevation is 3,858'. It used to be higher, but they cut off the top to make stuff. It has a vert of 2,153'.

Jay is gangsta; it can have brutal temps and wind. I only saw the sun a few times in six days. The rest of our trip was Jay gray. The weather can keep the faint of heart away, which equals more snow for me. Jay has more powder than anywhere in the east. They have gotten 248" this year! In comparison, Killington got 189" this year and stupid Vail got 346" (whatever Vail- we all know you're great). There are six lifts and an old school tram. So no rest for you on the tram- you just stand there. The tram holds 60 people and takes 8 min. to get to the top of the resort. In the morning of a powder day it can be like the 6 train, everyone jammed in a box breathing each other's air, but instead of going to stupid work, you are going for freshies.

me

We got perfect conditions. It snowed four ft in the week that we were there. We shared this powder with like 100 people. Unbelievable. It was cold with temps of 5 and 10 with the windchill blowing below zero. 
But none of that matters in the trees. You go to Jay for the trees. More than half of the mountain is glades. My second run, Jesse (who i met on the lift) took me hiking out of bounds off of the Flyer (I am bad at remembering names of runs). I fell in love with Jay at that first turn. 


We originally booked a package with Jay Peak earlier on in the year, but it was snowing so much that we decided to leave the city early. Q found this amazing place, Shéady Acres and booked the Tea House (more on Shéady Acres and the O'Sheas in future posts). The tram had been closed our first day because of high winds, so the O'sheas had hiked up the peak and got the face. Eamon told me it would behove me to be on the first tram and follow their example. The next morning I choked on Face shots in the Face Chute. Soooo good. 

Face and Tuckerman chutes

It might have been best to have a guide, though; for these chutes. Three out of the four times that I did the Face or Tuckermans I ended up fighting my way out the trees right above the flyer, which is wrong. Later on Q heard some seven year olds on the tram talking about the face and tuckman chutes, "stupid people go there"- said one while pointing to my line.

On the fifth day, the sun came out and I decided to pay someone to take me to places I couldn't find on my own. I had also been spending a lot of time in the trees by myself, which isn't the smartest thing ever. I took a lesson, it was everything I dreamed of. Calla took me to many secrets. We giggled through the stashes of powder. 

happy land

I can't even explain how epic this trip was. I cried when we left.

WRITING ON THE WALL- GOOD LUCK'S PERSPECTIVE

PIRAEUS, GREECE

ATHENS

SIFNOS

SANTORINI

ATHENS

PARTHENON

SANTORINI

PRAGUE

PRAGUE

GERMANY

ALL PHOTOS TAKEN BY GOOD LUCK

BESTIES

I will resume posting on the 22nd, at the moment I am way to busy hanging out with my best friends at Fashion Week.    Here they are:

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Alta specializes in Gaper Weddings

FREAKS BALL XL

FREAKS BALL XL

Last Fri. Good Luck took me to Brooklyn Bowl to see some pretty amazing string work

Some Cat From Japan
They are a Jimi Hendrix cover band. I know, I love Jimi- but a Jimi Hendrix cover band? But, they were incredible. This band is based out of Brooklyn and the musicians are pretty important, I'm not much of a Jam band girl, but people kept screaming the musician's credentials at me. I was really into it. (http://www.jambands.com/features/2010/06/01/some-cat-from-japan-not-just-another-hendrix-cover-band)



El Ten Eleven
They are an instrumental duo from L.A. Kristian Dunn plays a plethora of basses. He plays two different double neck bass guitars and two different fretless bass guitars. Tim Fogarty plays an assortment of drums. Together they make some wild tracks. It's pretty mind-blowing. I've never seen anyone play the bass like that before. (http://www.elteneleven.com/secret/)



I was a little anitsocial. Oh wait, you're not supposed to film the back of people's heads? Duly noted.

WRITING ON THE WALL- UFO- THEY ARE EVERYWHERE

At the DMV

my arm

my other arm

MY BROTHER'S GIANT HEAD

DISCOUNTS- MT. SNOW

I used the Ride and Ski (http://www.rideandskine.com/Home.html) card and got two for one tickets on Fri.

I should have bought The Vermont Travel Club Card (http://classicskitours.net/vermontTravel.asp) for Sat. and Sun. The card saves you $19 on Sat. and $27 on Sun.

Mt. Snow also has a FanFare Card (http://mountsnow.com/buy-lift-tickets/). It's $79 and you get half off during the week, 25% off during the weekend, and 10% off of Holidays.

ELEVATED LOCAL- MARK GETS YOU TUNED

APR´ES IN NEW YORK

Mark has been hosting an apr´es on the Upper East side for three seasons. He used to ride with hard boots and bindings and race, so he appreciates a properly waxed board.

Here's the deal: Go to Bailey's Corner Pub (85th and York- www.facebook.com/baileyscorner) at 2 AM- 4 AM on Saturday or Sunday morning, bring your board or skis and bring an old lift ticket. The lift ticket gets you a 2 for 1 drink special (for the whole ski season). 
Then give Mark $25 and he will tune your board or skis and give you a PBR tall boy.

Then get on the Emilos bus (85th and York- http://www.emiliosskishop.com/index.html) that goes to Hunter, Okemo, Mt. Snow, Stratton, or Windham. Or get on the Homage bus (86th and York- http://www.homagebrooklyn.com/) that goes to Hunter, Mt Snow, Okemo, or Stratton. Go to sleep, and wake up on the hill, and go ride your freshly waxed equiptment.

If you want a more traditional Aprés go to Bailey's on Tues. from 7 PM- 9PM. It's the same deal on Tues, but they also feed you. I had a banging pulled pork sandwich. I have also heard that they have a corned beef master in the house.

Mark is also a photographer (www.facebook.com/sweeneymarkd). These lovely ladies are his. He shoots in the studio and in the snow. You can find him at Hunter ripping big turns.

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this coat will help you impregnate a bear

MT. SNOW- THE GATEWAY MOUNTAIN

The city is getting hit with storm after storm after storm. I keep leaving the city for Vermont; where we'll get an inch or so, if we're lucky. It's hilarious. 

in front of my house in Brooklyn

I went to Mt. Snow with Lil' Mo (Heather- http://www.motionetti.com), her Goshen family, and a dying cat. We stayed in a giant house with twenty beds and a view of the mountain. Big fun.

Mt Snow is in the Green Mountains of Vermont. It has 490 acres, an elevation of 3,600 ft, and a vert of 1,600 ft. It's not very steep. In the 60's Mt. Snow's founder/owner Walter Schoenknecht asked the Atomic Energy Commissions if he could have a nuclear bomb so Mt. Snow could have a bowl to ski in. They said no for some reason. Most mountains that I have ridden have a backside or something that requires hiking without lift access, but you can ride all the way around Mt. Pisgah.

Lil' Mo

Friday no one was on the hill. Mo and I played all over.


Mt. snow has a gigantic park. It takes up all of the Carinthia ski area. It used to be a seperate mountain. There are twelve park areas of different levels and two pipes. (http://carinthiaparks.com/) They like to have the X-Games there. There are some amazing riders and skiers in the park- like an unordinary amount of amazing riders and skiers. Riding the Nitro Express is crazy. You just watch head after head kill it. 

the line for the lift

Sat. Mo and I mainly stayed in the trees. The North Face of the mountain has some great trees, we managed to still get some freshies. They also don't groom much over there. It's less crowded. Sat. it was Mo, me, and 20,000 of our closest friends. Just kidding, but not really. Mt. Snow is the closest big Vermont resort to the city, so the weekends get pretty insane. The lodge was like Times Square. We had waffles and Red Bull for lunch instead of going in and dealing with all the people. We had candy for breakfast. Later on, I puked in my mouth.

mo coming out of the trees