roark
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Date(s) Skied: Monday Night 1/5/09
Resort or Ski Area: Pat's Peak, Henniker NH
Conditions: PP, LSGR; Clear with temps in the 20s
Trip Report:
Showed up early to allow djspookman to get some turns in on the new gear. Met up with skibum9995 and waited nearly an hour for the Pat's crew to get it together. ga2ski showed up around 5 and finally some of us got our race tags (some just got day tix, will get the race tags next week I guess) and hit the hill. Being the first night of racing with lots of new faces on the staff I don't want to begrudge the inconvenience, but we were told to show up early after all... :-?
Conditions were a firm base with some soft granular piles, actually much better than I expected given that I had to chisel through the ice to get into my car this morning. Race was set up on FIS. We took a few warm up runs on Duster and Cyclone. Somewhat disappointed to find Tornado closed (it did get lights, right?).
Course was pretty fast and not as turny as it sometimes can be on FIS. The yellow course seemed to be a more difficult line than green, traversing further on the start and a nasty gate halfway down a roller (do I set an edge before the roller or at the transition?,,,) New pacesetter tonight (I could have sworn I saw Zach at the bottom...) One blatant DSQ appeared to be missed as well (maybe there was a re-run, but certainly nothing in the results). An unfortunate injury held things up a bit, hope all was ok there.
We scored some early pairings, mostly running in the first ten. djspookman had a very solid first showing on teles, silvering both runs. I had to pick it up when he was ahead of me after the first three gates - always fun to have a competitive pairing. I also got silvers for both runs, which means he completely smoked me with the tele handicap. ga2ski was his usual self, ripping the first run with a sub 20 second performance. The late addition to the team also put up a very solid time, 3rd best on the team and helping to keep our average up. skibum9995 was a little disappointed he didn't get bragging rights tonight and may be in need of a shave. Although the beard does help to keep confusion down with his womanly hips and all. :-o S.B. isn't nearly as fast on the teles as alpine, but still put up some solid numbers.
The Pat's crew tore down the course quickly - no fun runs tonight. Also shut down the lifts at quarter til - a bit of a disapointment as we were ready for a couple more runs.
The bar was lively with first week excitement and some shwag. Alas, when the results came none of the yellow results were counted. Another opening night snafu, I guess. All but the team standings are updated as I write this.
Overall, the team finished second on the night. ga2ski, skibum9995 and S.K. all on the first page. A good start we hopefully can improve on.
Resort or Ski Area: Pat's Peak, Henniker NH
Conditions: PP, LSGR; Clear with temps in the 20s
Trip Report:
Showed up early to allow djspookman to get some turns in on the new gear. Met up with skibum9995 and waited nearly an hour for the Pat's crew to get it together. ga2ski showed up around 5 and finally some of us got our race tags (some just got day tix, will get the race tags next week I guess) and hit the hill. Being the first night of racing with lots of new faces on the staff I don't want to begrudge the inconvenience, but we were told to show up early after all... :-?
Conditions were a firm base with some soft granular piles, actually much better than I expected given that I had to chisel through the ice to get into my car this morning. Race was set up on FIS. We took a few warm up runs on Duster and Cyclone. Somewhat disappointed to find Tornado closed (it did get lights, right?).
Course was pretty fast and not as turny as it sometimes can be on FIS. The yellow course seemed to be a more difficult line than green, traversing further on the start and a nasty gate halfway down a roller (do I set an edge before the roller or at the transition?,,,) New pacesetter tonight (I could have sworn I saw Zach at the bottom...) One blatant DSQ appeared to be missed as well (maybe there was a re-run, but certainly nothing in the results). An unfortunate injury held things up a bit, hope all was ok there.
We scored some early pairings, mostly running in the first ten. djspookman had a very solid first showing on teles, silvering both runs. I had to pick it up when he was ahead of me after the first three gates - always fun to have a competitive pairing. I also got silvers for both runs, which means he completely smoked me with the tele handicap. ga2ski was his usual self, ripping the first run with a sub 20 second performance. The late addition to the team also put up a very solid time, 3rd best on the team and helping to keep our average up. skibum9995 was a little disappointed he didn't get bragging rights tonight and may be in need of a shave. Although the beard does help to keep confusion down with his womanly hips and all. :-o S.B. isn't nearly as fast on the teles as alpine, but still put up some solid numbers.
The Pat's crew tore down the course quickly - no fun runs tonight. Also shut down the lifts at quarter til - a bit of a disapointment as we were ready for a couple more runs.
The bar was lively with first week excitement and some shwag. Alas, when the results came none of the yellow results were counted. Another opening night snafu, I guess. All but the team standings are updated as I write this.
Overall, the team finished second on the night. ga2ski, skibum9995 and S.K. all on the first page. A good start we hopefully can improve on.
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