Jisch
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Saturday (1/17) my wife and I went up to Bigelow Hollow to repeat a tour we did a few weeks ago. Conditions were excellent. About half of the fire roads were packed powder from all the quad and snowmobile traffic, while this made for some fast gliding, it wasn't exactly a nice smooth ride. We popped out onto Breakneck Pond and skied the length of it. It was a bit sobering just how long it took to ski that when it's so quick to ride a mountain bike along the shore. We found some excellent hills on the far side of Breakneck and we lapped a bunch of them. Off the trails it was 2-3" of powder on top of a hard packed surface. Turning was a dream. We came down a particularly steep fireroad on the way back, unfortunately the cover was pretty light and our skis took a few hits from rocks sticking up. Just moving too fast to avoid them. We got back to the cars after 3 or so hours - all in all a very good outing.
Saturday night we picked up 3" of light powder.
Sunday (1/18) I had daughter transport duties so it looked like there would be no skiing for me. I caught a break with the scheduling and I got 1.5 hours of free time when she was sledding with friends. I booked over to the local town park and got in some skiing. I basically skied to the back of the park where I knew there was some decent hillage. I lapped the hill 5 or 6 times doing some serious high speed turns in the woods. Despite the fact that I was alone, I let out a few "whoops" as I executed crazy high speed turns to shoot down chutes, between trees, logs, rocks etc. The snow was really good for turning, but was actually a bit sticky when I was climbing. I feel like the combination of downhill and BC is getting me a lot more comfortable on the BC skis, I used a combo of parallel and tele turns to make my way down the hills. I'd be lying if I said the snowplow didn't come out a few times to scrub off speed as well. Great time, I only wished I had more time to enjoy it.
I was a bit concerned that I'd get to Bromley on Monday with noodles for legs, but it worked out fine. I guess that "off season" mountain biking does an ok job of keeping the legs in shape!
John
Saturday night we picked up 3" of light powder.
Sunday (1/18) I had daughter transport duties so it looked like there would be no skiing for me. I caught a break with the scheduling and I got 1.5 hours of free time when she was sledding with friends. I booked over to the local town park and got in some skiing. I basically skied to the back of the park where I knew there was some decent hillage. I lapped the hill 5 or 6 times doing some serious high speed turns in the woods. Despite the fact that I was alone, I let out a few "whoops" as I executed crazy high speed turns to shoot down chutes, between trees, logs, rocks etc. The snow was really good for turning, but was actually a bit sticky when I was climbing. I feel like the combination of downhill and BC is getting me a lot more comfortable on the BC skis, I used a combo of parallel and tele turns to make my way down the hills. I'd be lying if I said the snowplow didn't come out a few times to scrub off speed as well. Great time, I only wished I had more time to enjoy it.
I was a bit concerned that I'd get to Bromley on Monday with noodles for legs, but it worked out fine. I guess that "off season" mountain biking does an ok job of keeping the legs in shape!
John
