traveling to away games - calling all faithful

<energetic and rallyful>
hi all
due to my impending busy intern year next season, friends and i are going to be making the remaining away trips this year - capital district, dartmouth and the flee-ers, and our travel partner. the cornell ticket office still has tix for onion/rip and dc/uvm. starr still has plenty of $5 general admission and will do will call for ya. tickets to all 5 games will cost $41. add another $40 each for 3 people hotels in burlington and the hanover area. come and join us so we can cheer on our big red. only one more season after this year to go to the Gut and cheer the Red on to an ECAC victory. anyone else making these trips? if not, come on!

</energetic and rallyful>

starr

Ticket Information
Adult Ticket Price $ 7 (reserved), $5 (general)
Children Ticket Price $2
Ticket Office Location Reid Atletic Center lobby
Ticket Office Location (more information) Broad Steet, Hamilton
Ticket Office Phone (315)228-7600
Ticket Office Hours 10AM- 2 PM

cornell

Ticket Office Phone 607-254-BEAR
Ticket Office Hours M-F 10:00-5:00
Ticket Office Email athletictickets-mailbox@cornell.edu

DC
Ticket Information
Adult Ticket Price Normal game $8, UVM game $10, Auld Lang Syne Tourney $12
Children Ticket Price Normal game $4, UVM game $5, Auld Lang Syne Tourney $6
Ticket Office Location Leede Arena
Ticket Office Phone (603) 646-2466
Ticket Office Hours 9-5 M-F
Ticket Office Email Online Ticket Sales

UVM
Ticket Information
Adult Ticket Price $8.00
Children Ticket Price Under 17 $5.00
Ticket Office Location Patrick Gymnasium Rm 209
Ticket Office Location (more information) Burlington, VT 05405
Ticket Office Phone 802-656-4410
Ticket Office Hours M-F 9:00-4:30
Ticket Office Email athletictickets@uvm.edu

ithaca to hamilton - a few ways to go (13/81 to thruway/81 to 20)
Total Est. Time: 1 hour, 46 minutes Total Est. Distance: 72.04 miles

ithaca to albany - a few ways to go (79-206-88, 13-81-481-90)
Total Est. Time: 3 hours, 16 minutes Total Est. Distance: 164.61 miles

ithaca to hanover according to mapquest
Total Est. Time: 6 hours, 0 minutes Total Est. Distance: 309.17 miles

hanover to burlington ~90 miles

burlington to ithaca
Total Est. Time: 6 hours, 2 minutes Total Est. Distance: 306.41 miles

hope that helps



Post Edited (01-22-04 08:48)

My friends and I will likely make the trips to Colgate and Union/RPI, but I'm not sure we're gonna do UVM/Dartmouth just because it's a long trip if there's not a lot to do up there (please, somebody prove me wrong, I love to make hockey trips).

well there is skiing. you can test drive a car and get a free pass for some ski areas there

[www.fatwallet.com] (not for test drive, other offer)
and
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or just enjoy dartmouth, go to ben and jerrys factory, go to vt teddy bear factory (dont know if you can actually do these things, will find out ). drive around the lake. drink. eat.
i have to run. cya at rip/onion/'gate

anyone getting 'gate tix they are usually available game time but you never know. cant beat $5 tix

I'll be at the Dartmouth game. It's only an hour from where I live. I'll be with two kids in the "family" section (great deal for 4 tix, 4 dogs, 4 sodas...only $40) which is only two sections over from the visitor section.

See ya

Too bad the Cornell-Dartmouth game is the first weekend in Feb. and not the 2nd. Winter Carnival is that weekend, and is always a blast (not quite as big as Homecoming anymore, though, as the Administration has really ruined Winter Carnival).

And I really shouldn't tell you guys this, as I'd get a kick out of people from Ithaca getting shut out at the doors after a 6-hour drive, but I truly do suggest you guys buy your tickets ahead of time for the Dartmouth game. Not to say that you would absolutely get shut-out, but I wouldn't want to risk it. The days of being able to walk into a half empty Thompson Arena are no more, at least this year. The only games I don't think will at least come close to selling out are the RPI/Union games next weekend.

I just bought 5 tix for VT/DC at the Cornell ticket office. It didn't look like there were too many left, so if you're looking for them, I would get them soon.

I live in Burlington but I spend most of my winter weekends leaving town to go watch Cornell hockey. But here are some suggestions:

Ben&Jerry's does have factory tours on Saturdays but they don't make ice cream that day so it's not quite as interesting. You still get free samples. Stop by the Cabot Cheese Annex, Lake Champlain Chocolate Store and the Cold Hollow Cider Mill just down the street. I always plug Dakin Farm, too. [www.dakinfarm.com] Loads of free samples at either of their stores. The branch store is close UVM.

The VT Teddy Bear tour is okay if you can stand bad puns. Very, very bad puns.

Tours of local breweries might interest the hockey crowd. Both Magic Hat and Vermont Pub and Brewery are in the Burlington area. They have set times for tours but will sometimes add a tour if you call ahead and have enough people.

In addition to downhill skiing, you can go cross-country skiing, sledding, snowshoeing, ice skating or dog-sledding. You can also rent snowmobiles up in Stowe, although it's a bit expensive.

Church St. Marketplace is in the middle of Burlington. It's a pedestrian mall like the Commons but loads better.

The movie about the 1980 Olympic team also opens that weekend. I can post info on local movie theaters if anyone is interested.

Is Bootless & Unhorsed still together?

[Q]Is Bootless & Unhorsed still together?[/Q]

I don't know. After the demise of The Last Chance Saloon , Bootless and Unhorsed used to play at Reuben James' (a.k.a RJ's) on Friday nights for a couple hours. Not the same. I think RJ's has gone hip-hop on the weekends. No more Irish drinking songs.

I'm planning on going to the games @ Colgate and @ RPI and Union. Is it better to get tickets through the Cornell ticket office or through the schools themselves? What I mean is, if I got tickets through the CU ticket office, are the seats on the side where Cornell attacks twice? Anyone have any idea (since I've never been up to the games at any of those 3 schools)? Thanks



Post Edited (01-22-04 14:36)

avash u cannot get tix for 'gate thru cornell = sold out

Wow, I must have gotten the last couple of them then because I got them about an hour ago!

The best mexican food in the east - used to be 1978-85 The Stowaway on the Mountain Rd in Stowe, Vt I used to love eating there... Anyone who goes by Stowe - let me know if it's still A-OK?

u got them from cornell tix? i was there saturday and they said they were sold out.

jy3,

yeah I got the colgate tickets from the cornell box office yesterday (Thurs.) afternoon at around 3:30, so perhaps they do indeed still have some. I also got RPI/Union tickets, so as of yesterday, they still had those as well.

I then walked over to Lynah and noticed that the team was finishing up practice; O'Byrne of all people won their end-of-practice breakaway competition!

that is strange b/c she told me they had none! cya there.

I'd like to go to Dartmouth/UVM -- I figure it's a nice way to spend my birthday, and it'll be one of my last chances to see some games before rehearsals start on the 23rd. Is anyone interested in arranging some sort of econo-room?



Post Edited (02-01-04 22:19)

my room is full, sorry. u should be able to get rooms for both nights for 30 each

Is anyone driving from Ithaca or nearby to the Dartmouth/Vermont away games (or even to that region in the East where civilization lies) this weekend? Offering the usual: good company from a fellow faithful and paid gas and things.



Post Edited (02-02-04 14:12)

My birthday is this weekend too! Although during my freshman year on my birthday, Cornell lost 11-0 to Yale, so it's not a very promising date. The following year however, they beat Princeton 8-4 at home, and I believe that was a good year for Princeton. So it remains to be seen what luck they will have in Hanover.

Power to the Aquarians We should celebrate. Come to the games!!

sorry mike i will be leaving from albany

who is going to uvm/dc?

I'll be there

I am

Myself + 1 will be there for Dartmouth/UVM. Since I'm also planning on doing RPI/Union already, it means the only games I will have missed this season will be the Yale/Princeton games and Everblades. The latter was never a possibility, but I could have stayed at home in New Jersey. Grr, stupid friends not wanting to go to the away games until it was too late...

I am going with 2 friends

Careful on the roads tomorrow. The weather is going to be really nasty and we don't want any repeats of the Colgate travel experience (in so many ways.)

From the NWS...
Ithaca:
A WINTER STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR LATE TONIGHT INTO FRIDAY. GENERAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS WILL RANGE FROM 1 TO 3 INCHES ACROSS NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA TO 3 TO 5 INCHES ACROSS UPSTATE NEW YORK BEFORE THE SNOW CHANGES TO SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN ON FRIDAY MORNING. THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF SIGNIFICANT ICING ACROSS THE REGION ON FRIDAY.

Hanover:
SNOW WILL OVERSPREAD NEW HAMPSHIRE BY FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND MOVE INTO WESTERN MAINE BY LATE IN THE DAY. FRIDAY NIGHT SNOW WILL CONTINUE IN THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS OF MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE WHILE SOUTHERN INTERIOR MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE SEES A CHANGEOVER TO MIXED PRECIPITATION. ALONG THE COAST SNOW WILL CHANGEOVER TO RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME FREEZING RAIN FRIDAY NIGHT. THE COMBINATION OF ACCUMULATING SNOW FOLLOWED BY SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN FRIDAY NIGHT WILL MAKE ROADS HAZARDOUS.

Burlington:
SNOW IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS VERMONT AND NORTHERN NEW YORK ON FRIDAY...WITH 2 TO 4 INCHES OF SNOWFALL EXPECTED BY EARLY FRIDAY EVENING. THE SNOW IS EXPECTED TO MIX WITH OR CHANGE TO SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN FRIDAY NIGHT...AS WARM AIR ALOFT MOVES INTO THE REGION...WHILE TEMPERATURES AT THE SURFACE REMAIN BELOW FREEZING FRIDAY NIGHT. THERE IS STILL SOME UNCERTAINTY AS TO WHAT TYPE OF PRECIPITATION WILL OCCUR FRIDAY NIGHT...AS THIS IS DEPENDENT ON THE TRACK OF THE LOW PRESSURE AREA MOVING UP THE EAST COAST...BUT THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF SNOW OR ICE.

Good advice from Christine. The storm is huge, causing snow in Ontario and severe thunderstorms in the Gulf of Mexico. It's also the same system that dropped a few tornadoes in Hawaii a couple of weekends ago.

yeah, people here are already attempting to talk me out of going up there...

Would it really be a road trip to Burlington or Hanover (or a hockey road trip in general) without inclement weather? (Easy to say when I'm stuck on the left coast.)

Joking aside, stay safe everyone.

Well, just in case... does i2 carry the away games as well? Or just the home games?

Just the home games.

gonna leave earlier b/c of the weather tomorow. leaving from the albany area, gonna take route 7/9 then 91 up. cya tomorrow guys and drive safely

My plan is to leave the Hartford area at 2pm Friday, which should give us more than enough breathing room... probably going to leave Hanover at noon on Saturday to give us enough time to slide our way over to Burlington. If anyone needs a ride, I've got some extra room in my car (and would probably welcome the added weight ).

Let's go Red!!

To echo Christine, anyone who's driving this weekend, be safe, eh? Last weekend saw enough car trouble for the whole year and then some.

Keith K '93 wrote:

Would it really be a road trip to Burlington or Hanover (or a hockey road trip in general) without inclement weather? (Easy to say when I'm stuck on the left coast.)

I dunno. Even being a native Syracusan, I wouldn't go out in this one. It's gonna get really ugly. Snow doesn't scare me, however the freezing rain predicted this afternoon should give one pause.

Just look at this map:
[www.weather.com]

However, I do thing we should invade Rhode Island and steal their anti-snow weather machine.

...yeah. Looks as though we're having some last minute change of plans.

Despite the lousy forecast, my friends and I left Ithaca for Dartmouth around 12:15 on Friday, and it rained the whole way up, but the roads really weren't too bad until after the game. It snowed during the day on Saturday (which was good for the skiing **) ) but other than that we didn't see any more bad weather for the rest of the weekend. The faithful turnout was understandably small at Dartmouth, but I was glad to see more people made it to VT.


This weekend the boys looked to me more like the team I remember- they were passing better, and working the boards better. Gleed's goal on Saturday came off a beautiful pass from Cam Abbott, which was awesome to watch, especially sitting in the first row. All in all, I was satisfied! I'm glad we decided to make the trip after all. I can't ask for anything better than a 4 point weekend!

Let's Go Red!