Blue Mtn Bump or Jump 3/6

[2knees]

seriously considering this. anyone interested as carpooling would be the best way to go. I got the mini van so i could probably take 6 comfortably.

http://www.skibluemt.com/SkiBlue/ca...location=&location2=&type=&eventDate=20100306

 

[Grassi21]

i'm interested. it will depend on prior plans falling apart as expected.

 

[2knees]

nice. Who doesnt love a good road trip?

 

[o3jeff]

I call shotgun!

 

[4aprice]

As of yesterday there were nice seeded bumps on Challange. There were no kickers however (not that it would take much to build them). One person I skied with described them as getting shelfy. Not an expression I had heard before but a pretty good description of the deep troughs that brought one almost to a complete stop before falling into the next trough.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

 

[Greg]

As of yesterday there were nice seeded bumps on Challange. There were no kickers however (not that it would take much to build them). One person I skied with described them as getting shelfy. Not an expression I had heard before but a pretty good description of the deep troughs that brought one almost to a complete stop before falling into the next trough.

Sounds perfect. :razz:

 

[MrMagic]

wow sounds good to me

 

[mondeo]

I'll probably be in. Will I need to bring a snorkel for the car ride with Grassi?

 

[Grassi21]

I'll probably be in. Will I need to bring a snorkel for the car ride with Grassi?

Depends on what I have for dinner the night before?

 

[mondeo]

Depends on what I have for dinner the night before?

I was thinking more along the lines of me wanting to live on the edge - you know, not wanting to be safe.

 

[Grassi21]

I was thinking more along the lines of me wanting to live on the edge - you know, not wanting to be safe.

Then you have 2 things to worry about.

 

[cw123]

Attached is a image that does not have the best lighting and is a phone camera but gives some idea of Challenge - also you can not tell pitch by the image

 

[2knees]

Attached is a image that does not have the best lighting and is a phone camera but gives some idea of Challenge - also you can not tell pitch by the image

looks pretty good to me.

 

[Greg]

looks pretty good to me.

I would say damn good!

 

[2knees]

I would say damn good!

those are seeded bumps. unlike the seeded bumps we've been skiing on! :razz:

 

[RootDKJ]

I got some pics of the bumps yesterday. I'll post 'em later.

 

[4aprice]

Attached is a image that does not have the best lighting and is a phone camera but gives some idea of Challenge - also you can not tell pitch by the image

I'm not a big fan of night skiing but the lighting there actually looks pretty good. Almost better then the shadowy daylight I was skiing those bumps in on Sunday Morning. Sun angle is becoming much better now and by March they should be bathed in good light almost all day. My first run down Nightmare Sunday I could hardly see the bumps due to the shadows.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

 

[2knees]

what is the pitch like on that trail. it looks completely flat but i realize the camera doesnt portray steepness very well.

 

[RootDKJ]

what is the pitch like on that trail. it looks completely flat but i realize the camera doesnt portray steepness very well.

Think a solid VT blue trail.

 

[iroyt1]

Sorry for the long post but I think it’s worth the read. Ok guys this is straight from the horse’s mouth. I can't take most of the credit for the recent good bump skiing at Blue Mt this year but I will take some. Back in October of 2009 my one friend contacted the management of Blue Mt. to ask them if they would be willing to hold a mogul comp this season. They were all for it but they didn't really know much about mogul skiing or how to run a mogul comp or how to properly seed good moguls. That was when my friend contacted me and asked if I would help out. I was all in. The management at Blue Mt. is all new as of last year (don't quote me on it) and they have been very receptive to new ideas, which is great. For quite some time many of the die hard bumpers at Blue Mt. have been trying to convince the management there to have more bump runs and to seed some of them as well but the old management was not very willing to cooperate. I will however give them credit for at least allowing to have one bump run (Barneys Bumps) which is a good trail to learn how to bump ski but it's not steep enough for the more advanced bumpers or to have a good comp on.

As of a few weeks ago my friend informed me that the management would allow us to go out with the groomers at night and actually show them how to seed the bumps correctly. The one snowcat operator was already seeding bumps, however he was doing it a different way which was not the most efficient way and also resulted in some irregular shaped moguls. The snowcat operator is a super nice guy who takes much pride in his work and wanted to perfect his mogul seeding technique but wasn’t quite sure how to do it. So one night a few weeks ago my friend and I headed up to Blue Mt. to meet up with the snowcat operator. At about 12 am we got to work. I jumped in the snowcat with him and just told him what to do. He is a skilled snowcat operator but just needed someone to show him the right way to do it. After a few rows of seeded bumps he was amazed as to how good the bumps looked and how much quicker it was to seed them this way as compared to how he was doing it before. These were the bumps we seeded on Nightmare as of Jan 23rd. From now on he will be seeding the bumps the new way. He just seeded the bumps again on Challenge this past Saturday. As you can see from the picture they are all evenly spaced and have a good shape to them. He did a really great job. It’s pretty much a perfect checker board. There are about six lines total. The only thing now is that we have to convince the snowmaking crew to blow nice lite snow instead of the wet stuff. That will be our next endeavor.

As for the mogul comp it will be held on Challenge. To answer the question about the steepness of the trail. It is a fairly steep trial. I believe at its steepest section it is about 25-30 degrees pitch which lasts for about 100 meters or so. That is what the degree meter in the snowcat showed. It is more than a solid VT blue trial. It gradually flattens out at the bottom. The top section of the headwall is around 22 degrees pitch. They have it rated as a double diamond. The overall length of the entire headwall of Challenge is about 300 meters. This trail could easily hold a world cup level comp on it. It has the pitch and length. That picture does not give the steepness any justice. The manager has told us that he wants this mogul comp to be a big hit and has for the most part given us the resources to make it happen. He is letting us design the course. We will attempt to build the top and bottom jumps just like they do for the world cup events. With the platform take off and the drop away landing. There will be prizes and trophies to the winners. This definitely will not be a hoky poky, local mountain mogul comp. It will be first class. I encourage everyone reading this to spread the word and come to Blue Mt. on March 6th and show your stuff. It should be a great time.