Killington - Friday, 11/10/2006 (contingent on opening)

[andyzee]

Originally Posted by Greg

Better?

Nah, I liked it better without the pic. So, where's happy hour next week?

[Sky]

Greg....you were right...I shouldn't have looked. :<

So, my bust-arse efforts Friday to score rock skies, get them mounted up...get the boots ground down a bit...and get the skis tuned was (sort of) a waste of effort eh? Well....I'll be "ready" whenever.

On an up-note...the trip to NY City was pretty cool. Just got back. I'm posting a review now in the "trips" forum.

[BeanoNYC]

Originally Posted by andyzee

Nah, I liked it better without the pic. So, where's happy hour next week?

Jax?

[andyzee]

Find it kind of hard to believe that Killington wouldn't open this week:

[BeanoNYC]

You earn some turns this weekend?

I sure hope it's open. Not only was I looking forward to skiing, I was looking forward to seeing you guys. I spent the entire weekend catching up on work so I could go with a clean conscience.

[andyzee]

Originally Posted by BeanoNYC

You earn some turns this weekend?

I sure hope it's open. Not only was I looking forward to skiing, I was looking forward to seeing you guys. I spent the entire weekend catching up on work so I could go with a clean conscience.

Yeah, got some turns in. But to be honest, I earned more falls than turns Looked real nice up top, some snow on the bottom, not much, but looked like enough too cool the ground real good. Gotta run now. Later

[bvibert]

Nice pics Andy! Like you said, it's hard to believe that they won't be open...

[Greg]

Okay folks - it's pretty clear to me that Killington will not be an option on Friday; unless a miracle happens, and/or they figure out a way to download. With that said, I'd really, really like to ski with y'all on Friday. Not a whole lot of options, but here goes:

1. Move the venue to Sunday River, provided they open this week
2. Earn turns at Killington
3. Postpone this thing and propose a new Killington gathering date

Option 1 is definitely on the table for me. I would need to stay over somewhere up North on Thursday night, which already is worked out. If SR is open with lift-serviced skiing, I am down despite the frightening long ride for one or two runs. I would be doing this just out of spite actually; kinda like a "somehow, some way, I'm gonna ski" mentaility.

Option 2 doesn't sound all that appealing to me. Certainly not that I couldn't swing the hike physically or wouldn't enjoy it, but more due to the fact that a 3:30 drive to ski a few runs on ungroomed mounds of manmade snow doesn't sound worth it. However, if a decent number of folks in this group want to do that, I'll go.

As much as I hate to say it, option 3 seems the most reasonable. The only day that really looks feasible for me right now is Saturday, Nov. 25, T-Day weekend. That was a planned ski day for me anyway and if this option is open to others, I'll just work this Friday instead of "forcing" a ski day.

Any thoughts or other ideas?

[thetrailboss]

Originally Posted by Greg

Okay folks - it's pretty clear to me that Killington will not be an option on Friday; unless a miracle happens, and/or they figure out a way to download. With that said, I'd really, really like to ski with y'all on Friday. Not a whole lot of options, but here goes:

1. Move the venue to Sunday River, provided they open this week
2. Earn turns at Killington
3. Postpone this thing and propose a new Killington gathering date

Option 1 is definitely on the table for me. I would need to stay over somewhere up North on Thursday night, which already is worked out. If SR is open with lift-serviced skiing, I am down despite the frightening long ride for one or two runs. I would be doing this just out of spite actually; kinda like a "somehow, some way, I'm gonna ski" mentaility.

Option 2 doesn't sound all that appealing to me. Certainly not that I couldn't swing the hike physically or wouldn't enjoy it, but more due to the fact that a 3:30 drive to ski a few runs on ungroomed mounds of manmade snow doesn't sound worth it. However, if a decent number of folks in this group want to do that, I'll go.

As much as I hate to say it, option 3 seems the most reasonable. The only day that really looks feasible for me right now is Saturday, Nov. 25, T-Day weekend. That was a planned ski day for me anyway and if this option is open to others, I'll just work this Friday instead of "forcing" a ski day.

Any thoughts or other ideas?

I can do any one right now.

Sunday River was my likely back up. But tonight I got some very bad news....one of the cars has a transmission that is about the break So that will screw up things $$$ and car wise. So if SR opens this weekend, I may or may not come. Will see.

[Bob R]

I'll be at the River next Sat no matter what.