Rate your 2010-11 ski season

[john1200c]

Very good until injury in Feb. It was shaping up to be the best one since I got back into this a couple of years ago....

Should be healed enough to give it a go next year.

[snowmonster]

Though I'm hoping for 1 or 2 more ski days, this is probably a good time to finally reflect on the 2010-11 ski season. I'd give my season a 9.0 (If I manage to ski past June 13 - the lastest I've skied - I'll bump it up by .5).

Highlights of this season include:

- The earliest ski day: October 23 at Sunday River
- Ski on my birthday
- Present at the Mittersill chair dedication and skiing the Mittersill sidecountry: January 17 at Cannon (I got a coin to prove it.)
- First time in Slidebrook at Sugarbush
- First time in Brackett Basin at Sugarloaf
- First time to ski the Balsams and Smuggler's Notch
- Lots of days in the backcountry with first time ski tours on the Thunderbolt Trail, Mt. Cardigan, Mt. Moosilauke, the Tuckerbrook Trail, the Cog Railway, Doublehead Mountain, Black Mountain and Monroe Brook.
- Backcountry skiing in the Gulf of Slides and Tuckerman Ravine.

Unfortunately, lowlights of the season include:

- Not skiing out west (being fiscally-reponsible has its price)
- Not attending the AZ Summit (life happens)
- Getting my pack stolen (To whoever filched it, just know that, depending on what you believe, either the karmic wheel comes 'round or you get back what you give out.)

The best part of any ski season is sharing the experience with kindred spirits who have the same magnificent obsession for this sport. Whether it was skiing on a keyboard or actually making turns on the trails, thanks for accompanying me on this journey. Thank you for the inspiration and the stoke!

Special thanks go to the AZers that I shared the trail with: rivercoil, madpadraic, monkeybrook, Terry, thaller, whaller, the fearless maineskier69, the indomitable wjenness, the incomparable snoseek and, my brother-in-arms, thetrailboss. You honor me by allowing me to slide alongside you. Until next season: May your turns be many and powder-filled!

[jimmywilson69]

I got 30 days in which is average for me. The improvement is that 7 of those Days were in Vermont and 3 of them were in Colorado.

I'd rate it an 8.5 out of 10. It was a great year but there is room for improvement in my technical skiing ability, Day's in the poconos that i'd ike to hit up and more days skiing out of PA!

I'm already jonesing hard for ski season, but it's atleast 6 long ass months away

[snoseek]

Though I'm hoping for 1 or 2 more ski days, this is probably a good time to finally reflect on the 2010-11 ski season. I'd give my season a 9.0 (If I manage to ski past June 13 - the lastest I've skied - I'll bump it up by .5).

Highlights of this season include:

- The earliest ski day: October 23 at Sunday River
- Ski on my birthday
- Present at the Mittersill chair dedication and skiing the Mittersill sidecountry: January 17 at Cannon (I got a coin to prove it.)
- First time in Slidebrook at Sugarbush
- First time in Brackett Basin at Sugarloaf
- First time to ski the Balsams and Smuggler's Notch
- Lots of days in the backcountry with first time ski tours on the Thunderbolt Trail, Mt. Cardigan, Mt. Moosilauke, the Tuckerbrook Trail, the Cog Railway, Doublehead Mountain, Black Mountain and Monroe Brook.
- Backcountry skiing in the Gulf of Slides and Tuckerman Ravine.

Unfortunately, lowlights of the season include:

- Not skiing out west (being fiscally-reponsible has its price)
- Not attending the AZ Summit (life happens)
- Getting my pack stolen (To whoever filched it, just know that, depending on what you believe, either the karmic wheel comes 'round or you get back what you give out.)

The best part of any ski season is sharing the experience with kindred spirits who have the same magnificent obsession for this sport. Whether it was skiing on a keyboard or actually making turns on the trails, thanks for accompanying me on this journey. Thank you for the inspiration and the stoke!

Special thanks go to the AZers that I shared the trail with: rivercoil, madpadraic, monkeybrook, Terry, thaller, whaller, the fearless maineskier69, the indomitable wjenness, the incomparable snoseek and, my brother-in-arms, thetrailboss. You honor me by allowing me to slide alongside you. Until next season: May your turns be many and powder-filled!

Hot damn, it's cool, you can call it now!!!!
I'll be at the River if they do Oct. turns, I think I'm shooting to gtfo of here a little earlier than mid-nov, we'll see. More importantly you got a little trip to make next year....

[Hawkshot99]

Overall I would give it a 9.

As for days on snow, I no longer count(Makes me get burnt out quicker) but I would say somewhere around mid 70's.

Skied the most amazing powder of my life on multiple occasions. Had 2 days where it was knee deep of true fluff. One of the days was a hour of lift served before the lifts opened "sweeping" the trails with patrol, and the other was when only season pass holders were allowed as only 1 lift was turning because of wind.

Had a very good year with my race teams. Won first place in our division at 1 mountain(Team 4th overall, and me 10th overall) and 2nd overall at the other mtn.

Had no injuries.

I am not a huge fan of spring conditions, so the fact that it stayed midwinter almost to the end was a plus for me.

The fact that it stayed good all year long. No mid winter week of warm and rain.

The ski shop I run had a very good season thanks to great customers and great staff. I am getting more opportunities to help the shop I work for when it comes to how the stores are run. Doing demo days with the owner to plan for next year.

Unfortunately I did not get out west like I did last year, but overall I had a great year.

[snowmonster]

Hot damn, it's cool, you can call it now!!!!
I'll be at the River if they do Oct. turns, I think I'm shooting to gtfo of here a little earlier than mid-nov, we'll see. More importantly you got a little trip to make next year....

We can probably pack in two or three trips at the River before mid-November. Maybe even Loon if they get aggressive.

By the way, get a nice couch. I'm calling dibs on it!

[Geoff]

I'd rate mine as awful. Work chewed me alive. When I wasn't doing business travel, I had conference calls all day that made it impossible for me to sneak out. I had an awful lot of weekends I had to work and could only grab a few hours on the hill. The spring skiing season mostly didn't happen. Most of March & April was cold and I didn't have many sunglasses & corn snow days.

[skidmarks]

I was lucky to have a very solid season with some fun CT backcountry thrown in too.

[gmcunni]

just saving my sig from last season in case i need to look it up



2010/2011 Season - 39 of 31

Killington - 11/11
Jiminy Peak - 12/4
Ski Sundown - 12/11 12/17 12/23 12/27 12/28 1/8 1/12 1/22 1/23 1/27 1/29 2/12 2/13 2/27 3/3 3/5 3/12 3/15 3/17 3/19
Pat's Peak - 12/30 1/16
Crotched Mountain - 12/31
Ragged Mountain - 1/15
Mt Snow - 2/5 4/3
Okemo - 3/13 4/8
Bolton Valley - 3/25
Sugarloaf - 3/26 3/27
CO - Copper 2/20 Breck 2/21 Breck 2/22 Breck 2/23 Vail 2/24 ABasin 2/25

[thetrailboss]

Well, I think that the official tally was 45 days. Started on November 7th at Sunday River, ended on July 4th at Snowbird, Utah. In between there were days at Alta, Loveland, Bretton Woods, lots of Sugarbush, Bolton Valley, Lyndon Outing Club, Smuggs (first time), Burke, and some earned turns day. Lots of snow, lots of good times. There was also an amazing groomer ride at Sugarbush in March when I rode shotgun on a grooming shift.