Mad River Glen - 2/11/2010

[Grassi21]

2knees, madskier, and myself met up with powbmps at 10am at the base of the single. A little breezy but a beautiful blue sky. I only did one run off the single (Cat Bowl > Lynx I think). There appeared to be a good amount of loose snow in some of the troughs and crests. Wish I could have hung with the boys all day today. But back to back to back skiing and partying took its toll on me today. I didn't want to hold up the group so I did some cruising off the double. Randomly crossed paths with the guys and skied Lower Glade. There was some serious scratch going on on some of the non bumped terrain. Hopefully one of the other guys will chime in with some more interesting details.

Despite a disappointing day performance wise, I had a great time. I skied Killington, Mt Ellen, and MRG on consecutive days. Got to hang with some good dudes and even got to meet the Blue Bomber.

 

[powbmps]

MRG kicks ass!!! It was my first time there. Sustained steeps with lots of hopping around to avoid rocks/ice/stumps takes a lot out of you :grin:. Only managed to get 10 seconds of video:



Variable conditions for sure, but it was a beautiful day. Still some pockets of great snow in the woods.

Took a couple random pictures:

 

[BushMogulMaster]

Nice! Looks much better than it did last week! Might have to drop by for a few turns at MRG tomorrow.

 

[bvibert]

Looks pretty good in the video and pics. Glad you guys had a good time! I wish I could have made it up there.

 

[2knees]

finally got to ski this place after so many years. conditions could've been better but still, it was a blast. paradise was a total trip. lots of ice flows and damn near the steepest thing i've skied excluding some stuff at kirkwood. probably seemed steeper then it was simply cause you had to avoid so much sh^t on your way down. fall line was probably the other real highlight. just an awesome relentless trail. canyon had the best bumps, at least where the sun was hitting it.

other then that, not much to say, i cant wait to go back when the snow is deeper.

powbmps was skiing like a crazyman all day. he hit some little chute that i wouldnt have repelled down. crazy bastard. unfortunately, by the time i went to take some vid, my batteries were frozen again. I have a 15 second clip of powbmps i'll get up at some point.

 

[Greg]

Looks great!

 

[2knees]

10 seconds of powbmps...

 

[powbmps]

Well that was worth the wait :lol:.

What's madskier6 up to? I am anticipating some well composed artsy black and whites.

 

[2knees]

Well that was worth the wait :lol:.

What's madskier6 up to? I am anticipating some well composed artsy black and whites.

:lol: sorry, i took it out a few times but the batteries were frozen. the hand warmer didnt do the trick.

I really wish i had caught some of your antics on film.