I dunno andy...I think I'm going to have to go with the official thread.
My season total: 141.
127 at Bolton Valley (including a lot of days of earned turns)
9 at Sugarbush (including one day of earned turns on Mt. Ellen)
2 at Jay Peak
1 at Stowe
1 at Mad River Glen
1 at Killington
1 at Burke
(note on the math: one of those days involved skiing MRG in the morning and then hitting some backcountry at Bolton in the afternoon, hence the 127 + 9 + 2 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 141 deal.)
Highlights that come to mind:
- learning to tele
- getting the most total days I've ever hit in a year and the longest days-in-a-row streak (76, from February 27th through May 14th)
- getting in some darn fine powder days and a lot more time in the woods
- learning how to combine Google Earth, GPS tracks, topo maps, and other useful tools in scouting potential backcountry terrain
Goals for next season, as of right now (these could easily change):
- get at least as many days at Bolton Valley as the resort turns the lifts (I think it was 131 days of lift-served this year)
- get my tele skiing to the point where I can patrol on tele gear (I can comfortably ski just about anything that would be open and on the map at this point, but I'm not yet at a level where I could run a sled through the woods on tele equipment)
- stay in better shape through the summer so that I can get in the habit of skinning for multiple runs when I skin
I'm still processing, though...I've got a lot of memories from this year, just about all of them good in one way or another, and I'm looking forward to a quick summer and then another ski season.