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Date(s) Skied: Friday, 12/15/2006, 9:00 am - 3:15 pm
Resort or Ski Area: Hunter Mountain, New York
Conditions: Spring bumps, corn; Sunny am, cloudy pm, warm and calm
Trip Report: This has to go down as the largest AZ gathering so far. The look on dmc's face at one point when we told him the whole group was pretty much AZers was priceless! Let's see. The list in no particilar order was: Greg, bvibert, JimG., dmc, andyzee & V, zook and three friends, Grassi21, MarkC, eastcoastskier, Hawkshot99, trtaylor, highpeaksdrifter, Son of Drifter, 2knees, cbcbd and two friends, and finally Eski for a run or two. Hope I didn't miss anyone. That's 16 AZers and friends of AZers brough the total to 22!
Things went smoothly getting the group rate for 14 folks. Thanks so much everybody for being prompt. That part went off without a hitch. The groups sort of broke off naturally into smaller groups based on ability and desired terrain. The only group I didn't get a chance to ski much with was the zook crew. Next time guys. In a sense the limited terrain made it easy to mix things up with the different groups throughout the day. It was impossible to keep a group this large together so I just tried to encourage everyone to do their own thing and have fun. I think it worked out well.
The main runs were the HBK mainline, with Ike as a final option, Minkya/Lower Crossover, and Belt. There were a few other connector trails and such. After about 10 am, everything softened up into some great corn snow and spring bumps. Kind of bittersweet this time of year but still a great day. We kind of felt guilty having this much fun on spring snow in December.
Big funky bump line skier's left of Hellgate. Some very nice bumps on Ike - but it was a bit thin, and more manageable bumps on Minya. There were several other lines scattered on the mountain and plenty of corn snow for the non-bumpers. I didn't ski Belt but heard it was nice; although a bit firm till later in the morning.
I won't go into trail-by-trail detail and will ultimately let the videos (three shooters - Brian on a new DV cam, AndyZee helmet cam and my with the point and shoot) tell the story. Really really great day of skiing. I spent most of my time on the bumps with JimG., 2knees and the Drifters, but still managed some time with many of the other AZers on and off the bumps.
Anyway, great to meet up with some new AZers. We all share a passion; that's obvious. I think everyone had a great day! I sure did!
Resort or Ski Area: Hunter Mountain, New York
Conditions: Spring bumps, corn; Sunny am, cloudy pm, warm and calm
Trip Report: This has to go down as the largest AZ gathering so far. The look on dmc's face at one point when we told him the whole group was pretty much AZers was priceless! Let's see. The list in no particilar order was: Greg, bvibert, JimG., dmc, andyzee & V, zook and three friends, Grassi21, MarkC, eastcoastskier, Hawkshot99, trtaylor, highpeaksdrifter, Son of Drifter, 2knees, cbcbd and two friends, and finally Eski for a run or two. Hope I didn't miss anyone. That's 16 AZers and friends of AZers brough the total to 22!
Things went smoothly getting the group rate for 14 folks. Thanks so much everybody for being prompt. That part went off without a hitch. The groups sort of broke off naturally into smaller groups based on ability and desired terrain. The only group I didn't get a chance to ski much with was the zook crew. Next time guys. In a sense the limited terrain made it easy to mix things up with the different groups throughout the day. It was impossible to keep a group this large together so I just tried to encourage everyone to do their own thing and have fun. I think it worked out well.
The main runs were the HBK mainline, with Ike as a final option, Minkya/Lower Crossover, and Belt. There were a few other connector trails and such. After about 10 am, everything softened up into some great corn snow and spring bumps. Kind of bittersweet this time of year but still a great day. We kind of felt guilty having this much fun on spring snow in December.
Big funky bump line skier's left of Hellgate. Some very nice bumps on Ike - but it was a bit thin, and more manageable bumps on Minya. There were several other lines scattered on the mountain and plenty of corn snow for the non-bumpers. I didn't ski Belt but heard it was nice; although a bit firm till later in the morning.
I won't go into trail-by-trail detail and will ultimately let the videos (three shooters - Brian on a new DV cam, AndyZee helmet cam and my with the point and shoot) tell the story. Really really great day of skiing. I spent most of my time on the bumps with JimG., 2knees and the Drifters, but still managed some time with many of the other AZers on and off the bumps.
Anyway, great to meet up with some new AZers. We all share a passion; that's obvious. I think everyone had a great day! I sure did!