Magic 2/28/08

[Greg]

Originally Posted by Greg

Vids a' comin', folks. Prolly 45 mins...

Movie Maker crashed on me 3 times. The vid is done. Making the files and then I'll upload. Have another beer...

[TheBEast]

Dying here waiting for this movie!

[Greg]

Originally Posted by 2knees

Magic was so far off the hook today the phone was lost.

...

Everything else was sublime, for this lowland sloppy seconds hack.

Classic!

Originally Posted by bvibert

I should add to my above post that I'm glad I finally got to ski several trails that have been on my hit list since missing them for various reason last time I was there, including one that was even on the radar in Magician. Most importantly, to me, was that I finally knocked off Red Line. Black Line was awesome, as was Heart of Magician and The Hallows. It was nice to hit Witch (Upper), Goniff, and Broomstick too. I was kinda bummed that we didn't hit Slide of Hans, but it seemed like kind of a waste with Wizard being groomed all the way through...

Yep. Except for Slide, we hit all the key trails. And I had a blast carving up the butter-like corduroy too. Magic is a good mountain for intermediates as well.

Originally Posted by TheBEast

Dying here waiting for this movie!

You and me both. My PC is giving me fits. I'm actually posting this from my laptop so as not to anger it any more as I generate the movie files...

Originally Posted by madskier6

It doesn't get much better than this. Get thee to Magic now ASAP to enjoy prime conditions! Magic needs to be experienced right now!

I echo everyone's sentiments about going to Magic. Now! I can't imagine that it gets much better and with some new snow tomorrow, forget about it. Anybody hitting any other mountain in SoVT this weekend should have their friggin' head checked.

[deadheadskier]

shut up Greg and post the damn video

[powbmps]

It's 3:40.

Must......have........video.......











Where's the insomniac smilie?

[riverc0il]

Nice report! You guys are still jumping out of your skin excited about the skiing yesterday, super glad you guys had such a great time at Magic. Magic mid-week powder days are a total no brainer due to low prices and no competition, I imagine you guys were getting phenomenal barely tracked lines pretty late into the day even a day after the storm.

[Greg]

Originally Posted by powbmps

It's 3:40.

Must......have........video.......

Sorry. I was up past midnight trying to get this thing done and WMM was crapping out and won't produce the final movie final. No worries though. I brought all the data to work and come hell or high water, I'll get this thing up ASAP. It will be worth the wait.

Originally Posted by riverc0il

Nice report! You guys are still jumping out of your skin excited about the skiing yesterday, super glad you guys had such a great time at Magic. Magic mid-week powder days are a total no brainer due to low prices and no competition, I imagine you guys were getting phenomenal barely tracked lines pretty late into the day even a day after the storm.

Indeed. No untracked except on the sides of some of the low angle stuff. I'm sure it was there if we looked harder. It hardly mattered. Despite being mostly wind-packed crud/tracked out powder, we rarely felt bottom. It definitely was skiing like more snow than the 10" reported from Wednesday.

[bvibert]

Originally Posted by Greg

Indeed. No untracked except on the sides of some of the low angle stuff. I'm sure it was there if we looked harder. It hardly mattered. Despite being mostly wind-packed crud/tracked out powder, we rarely felt bottom. It definitely was skiing like more snow than the 10" reported from Wednesday.

Even on the last run there were some little patches of snow that hadn't been touched, nothing to write home about but I made sure to track them out all the same.. I made some untracked turns in The Hallows. Definitely skied like more than 10"

[2knees]

I was having nightmares about Jeff plowing into me after that little hit on redline.

All teeth and skis.


still floating on cloud nine today. i really really want to get back this weekend.

[Greg]

Turns out my work PC is a bigger POS than my home PC. I'm still trying to get this vid done, but it might have to wait until tonight. I think I'm done with Windows Movie Maker...