Mount Greylock, Mass. — Backcountry Skiing the Thunderbolt Trail

Hey guys, today we are in Massachusetts and we're gonna ski a bit of New England history here They call it East Coast backcountry classic But from everything I saw on the internet, it looked more like a Ski area without the lift. It seemed the ski trail is pretty wide and The trail was built about a hundred years ago in 1930s some of the early races people didn't have helmets. They you know, they had wooden skis I don't know if it had even metal edges. It was pretty much free healing. No plastic and And I don't know if they could groom it They probably just sidestepped the mountain to be able to ski it and yet they were able to ski it down under three minutes or so And then before the US entered the Second World War Actually Hitler sent his ski team over here for one of the races and everybody was shocked because those guys were just Shoesink the whole thing down in like two and a half minutes. I'm looking at it. I am NOT gonna do that I'm not gonna do what the German boys did. It's a beautiful day. It's pretty cold when I was driving up here. It was minus nine So I hope that the Sun will help a little bit to fix the the freeze especially at the top So we just finished first mile ish And we have two more miles to go If you guys plan on coming over I Recommend bring a map because there is a lot of trails that just crisscross. I had a few minor detours It seems that most of the uphill is pretty wide and obvious It's sometimes steep, but it's still pretty wide But I followed some other people's skin tracks It didn't feel like trail at all, it's beautiful though. I hope the skiing is good So here is where we meet the ski trail again It doesn't look bad at all still have to get to the top Okay, we're by the shelter So we're at the top. It's super cold, super windy, my fingers are about to fall off I'm gonna get out of here They said there was gonna be some beautiful views, but I'm not sure I'm into it today Let's get out of here, it's too cold That's how much snow we got here This is Thunderbolt, I'm totally not choosing this thing Hey guys It's Fast a Beautiful day. I just feel like if I send it too fast, I'm not gonna really enjoy it, but it wants to go It just wants to go Nice they have a very steep section with some rocks sticking out When I was driving in I ran into a ranger or something And he was telling me that the slope at some point is over 30 degrees I didn't quite believe him, but I see it now There's a lot of stuff sticking out Needles I Well, I must say that it looked a little bit better on the way up Oh Did you get me Can I get it from here Yeah So far away I guess I'm supposed to go down here Really Are you sure? This is probably Now this cannot be this Oh, man, that was so good I Don't have the energy to go up again But it was so good. I honestly have no idea if I took the right trail I'll have to analyze the footage. I'm sure the top was okay all the way till the kiosk and I believe I was still on the right one down from the kiosk from where the uphill trail crosses the downhill But then it seemed to be pretty skinny There were two uphills that it's hard to believe that like how much speed would you need to actually get over it? And then the name turned into roost