dlague
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Conditions: PP to Firm
We headed to Keystone for SB Sunday turns. We did not have a real plan out side of skiing some of the back peaks beyond Dercum. In particular, we wanted to ski The Outback. Turns out we never made it. I wanted to hit a few bump runs and conditions looked pretty good. In the end we only did two bumps runs and my wife was not thrilled - she dislocated her knee while at the Summit at Sugarloaf last season and according to the x-ray, she actually fractured her knee cap as well. She kept skiing into June and still is now but it has been getting worse and after a trip to the Ortho, the doc told her no bumps. Oops! She felt it was going to be OK but mid way down the second run she was feeling it, with no way out. We then went to the beach chairs at the base of Santiago Express for a Bloody Mary and an IPA to give her knee a break. I was feeling bad. BTW the bumps were a combo of firm with some soft snow but skied nice.
After that Experience, I started looking at the grooming report and found Starfire to be groomed and opted for a steeper run. I do find that Keystone Blues have decent pitch and there are runs that would be classified as black at most resorts back east. Starfire was pretty firm with a layer of PP so there was some scraping going on but it still tracked really well. My wife was skiing groomers really fast so we stuck to those for the next couple hours. We headed back to the front-side and skied Wild Irishmen, Paymaster and Frenchmen as they were skiing real fast. We were taking the rollers and launching which seemed really fun, we were also playing with fun spots off the the sides of the trails. When we went in for lunch we decided to ski off Peru Express and let our son play in the park for a bit and skied Go Devil which is a really nice run with intermediate bumps. We had a great day and really enjoyed how fast everything was.
There was a Patroller that picked us out of the lift line which was a little long and had us cut to the front with him which was cool.
We headed to Keystone for SB Sunday turns. We did not have a real plan out side of skiing some of the back peaks beyond Dercum. In particular, we wanted to ski The Outback. Turns out we never made it. I wanted to hit a few bump runs and conditions looked pretty good. In the end we only did two bumps runs and my wife was not thrilled - she dislocated her knee while at the Summit at Sugarloaf last season and according to the x-ray, she actually fractured her knee cap as well. She kept skiing into June and still is now but it has been getting worse and after a trip to the Ortho, the doc told her no bumps. Oops! She felt it was going to be OK but mid way down the second run she was feeling it, with no way out. We then went to the beach chairs at the base of Santiago Express for a Bloody Mary and an IPA to give her knee a break. I was feeling bad. BTW the bumps were a combo of firm with some soft snow but skied nice.
After that Experience, I started looking at the grooming report and found Starfire to be groomed and opted for a steeper run. I do find that Keystone Blues have decent pitch and there are runs that would be classified as black at most resorts back east. Starfire was pretty firm with a layer of PP so there was some scraping going on but it still tracked really well. My wife was skiing groomers really fast so we stuck to those for the next couple hours. We headed back to the front-side and skied Wild Irishmen, Paymaster and Frenchmen as they were skiing real fast. We were taking the rollers and launching which seemed really fun, we were also playing with fun spots off the the sides of the trails. When we went in for lunch we decided to ski off Peru Express and let our son play in the park for a bit and skied Go Devil which is a really nice run with intermediate bumps. We had a great day and really enjoyed how fast everything was.
There was a Patroller that picked us out of the lift line which was a little long and had us cut to the front with him which was cool.
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