Ski Sundown - 1/31/2007 (night)

[Greg]

Date(s) Skied: Wednesday, 1/31/2007 - 7:05 pm - 10:15 pm

Resort or Ski Area: Ski Sundown, New Hartford, CT

Conditions: Manmade packed powder, hard pack, seeded moguls. Temps in the 20's, Clear, moonlit skies.

Trip Report: Clicked in shortly after 7 pm and headed right to Nor'easter. The bump lines were a bit strange and the bumps were certainly harder and faster than Sunday night. Saw 2knees at the top of the Ex bumps and loafer89 at the base. We all rode up together and took another run on Nor'easter. We were then off to the sun deck to meet the rest of the crew. Grassi21, bvibert and Marc were already waiting. Great to finally meet Marc. We gave madskier9 a few more minutes and then headed out while loafer and Warren headed home.

Most of us stuck to skiing Nor'easter all night. We finally bumped into madskier9 and his kids while loading Lift 2. We got a run in with them. We would hook up with Jeff again later in the night. Stuck to Nor'easter/Exhibition all night. I didn't feel as good as Sunday, but it was still a ton of fun. Brian kept at it all night with us. For a guy skiing bumps only 4 days he can hold his own. I grabbed a great video of him. Pat slammed through the moguls in typical 2knees fashion. Marc is a hell of an athletic bumps skier - excellent for only skiing bumps for a couple years. I've never seen someone ski backwards so much. :lol: Jeff is a very controlled bump skier with big sweeping pole plants. He's fun to watch. His kids seemed to be having a blast in the bumps. Chris was keeping at it on the Exhibition bumps. Keep logging those miles Chris! :beer:

All in all, a great night and a pretty decent sized crew. Glad to finally meet Marc who lived up to his online persona!

 

[Grassi21]

Damn your quick with the TRs.

Nice to meet you Marc. You are the steeziest!

 

[2knees]

marc and madskier, nice bump skills both. cant believe marc has only been skiing bumps for a couple of years. Madskier looks like water flowing dowhill, SMOOOOOTHHHH. Grassi, greg and brian, always a pleasure.

I feel like i've been in a blender. I'm beat down. I have pain from my feet to my neck. tomorrow is gonna suck.

 

[Greg]

Damn your quick with the TRs.

Wait till you see how quick I roll out this vid!

 

[madskier6]

Tonight was a lotta fun. Great to hit a few runs with you guys. Nice to meet you 2knees, bvibert, Grassi21 & Marc.

Thanks for the kind words about my bump skiing, Greg & 2knees. I was very impressed with your bump skills as well. 2knees does the zipper line very well. Greg has a nice easy flowing rhythm to his technique. Hats off to you guys for skiing the bump runs all night. While I enjoy the bumps, I can't do them all night like you guys. I like a little variety with some cruisers mixed in for good measure.

Other than Nor'easter & Exhibition, Gunbarrel was my favorite run of the night. I got some serious speed going on that run and enjoyed the carving. My 2 sons had a great time and really liked Sundown. We'll be back!

 

[Marc]

Good God you guys spend way too much time on the intarweb. It was good to finally meet you psychos. My balance still felt pretty off in those bumps. I haven't skied seeded since... well, I don't know if I've ever skied good seeded bumps before.

It was cool skiing with 2knees... and picking up some technique. All in all a good night.



Aaaaand I made it home in an hour without getting my ass a ticket, because believe me, i was most deserving. Let's go with that video Greg, everyone can marvel at my backwards skiing skillz.

 

[Marc]

marc and madskier, nice bump skills both. cant believe marc has only been skiing bumps for a couple of years. Madskier looks like water flowing dowhill, SMOOOOOTHHHH. Grassi, greg and brian, always a pleasure.

I feel like i've been in a blender. I'm beat down. I have pain from my feet to my neck. tomorrow is gonna suck.

Wash those ibuprofin down with a little JD. That'll cure what ails ya.

:dunce:

 

[Greg]

Enjoy:

Ski Sundown - 1/31/2007 (night)

I'm going to bed! :-o

 

[Vortex]

Nice. I remember when we had a couple outings a year. Know we have a couple a week anyway. Night skiing works for many.

 

[ALLSKIING]

Nice vid!! The bumps look great, I will have to find a way to get up there soon.

 

[bvibert]

Good night last night. Good to meet a couple more AZer's, Marc and madskier6. You other chumps were good company too. Too bad Loafer wasn't able to hang around for a bit longer. I definitely felt better in the bumps on Sunday night, but I still had fun. I do feel a bit beat up today too.

Enjoy:

Ski Sundown - 1/31/2007 (night)

I'm going to bed! :-o

Crazy bastard! I didn't even watch the footage I took from last night yet...

 

[loafer89]

It was nice to meet and make a few turns with Marc, if I was not feeling so awful last night I would have stayed a bit longer, but I really do need to get Warren home at a reasonable hour.

I really got going good on the bumps on Nor"easter between 6-7:15pm, but ran out of energy after that.

I have convinced my wife to ski with us now that the easier stuff is open from the summit. Warren has a 1/2 day at school next wednesday so we way go futher afield and ski at Wachusett, but that is still up in the air.

 

[loafer89]

Thank you very Much Grassi21 for the tip about the Ski sundown stickers, Warren was quite pleased to get one.

 

[Grassi21]

Thank you very Much Grassi21 for the tip about the Ski sundown stickers, Warren was quite pleased to get one.

No worries man. I wanted to get one as well so I could represent on my Jeep. Good to see you guys again last night. Hope you guys feel better.

 

[Greg]

Enjoy:

Ski Sundown - 1/31/2007 (night)

I'm going to bed! :-o

Crazy bastard! I didn't even watch the footage I took from last night yet...

5 hours of sleep after a night of skiing bumps. I'm paying the price today, but it's all for your viewing pleasure. Around midnight in my house is when I'm guaranteed at least a few hours of peace and quiet. I've got editing a 4-5 minute movie down to about a two hour project so I figured I'd just bang it out.

Check out Brian at 1:51 - 2:07. Four days on the bumps!? :-o :-o

 

[Greg]

Thank you very Much Grassi21 for the tip about the Ski sundown stickers, Warren was quite pleased to get one.

No worries man. I wanted to get one as well so I could represent on my Jeep. Good to see you guys again last night. Hope you guys feel better.

Where did you guys get one? I think Sundown is deserving of one on my Jeep as well.

 

[bvibert]

5 hours of sleep after a night of skiing bumps. I'm paying the price today, but it's all for your viewing pleasure. Around midnight in my house is when I'm guaranteed at least a few hours of peace and quiet. I've got editing a 4-5 minute movie down to about a two hour project so I figured I'd just bang it out.

Check out Brian at 1:51 - 2:07. Four days on the bumps!? :-o :-o

The video looks good, and you managed to make me look pretty good too! I can see I need to work on tightening up that stance a bit though.

 

[bvibert]

Where did you guys get one? I think Sundown is deserving of one on my Jeep as well.

I'm gonna have to go ahead and guess they got one in the Ski Shop above rentals. IIRC they close at 8pm...

 

[Greg]

The video looks good, and you managed to make me look pretty good too! I can see I need to work on tightening up that stance a bit though.

NEWSFLASH: I didn't have anything to do with making you look good.

Stance is fine. Work on holding your line and keeping your hands up. I see your left hand dropping a lot. You must favor the right turn or something.

 

[loafer89]

I got the stickers in the ski shop for $1.59 each. We got the ones with the resort embelm that has the pine trees on it and say "feel the fun" as they where selling three different kinds. We put them on our house doors.