2/14-15 :: Jay Peak Gapper Kamikaze Downhill Open

[BigJay]

2/14-15 :: Jay Peak Gaper Kamikaze Downhill Open

With gapers flowing from all over the Northeast, this past weekend was quite interesting. We're not use to seing all these people pointing there skis straight down the groomers without caring about skiers and riders below!

So forget everything about security (self or other's) and bomb straight down... Doesn't matter if there are kids or slower people, use them as gates! Pretty impressive seing these folks just not controlling their speeds... And it's contagious... One gaper at the time, they just repeat what was done by their previous heroes!

Conditions were fast... And to me, it just means you have to slow down... because one slips can put you out for a long period of time... but if you're a downhill super-hero, chances are, you're not skiing until next thanksgiving anyways...

Ah well, one sad weekend at the mountain... Groomers were OK in the morning... glades were rideable... but without powder their just not worth it... We need snow! We want to go back to late January snow!

Pray for snow!

 

[2knees]

i think its spelled with one p, but i'm not entirely sure of that.

sounds like good viewing from the chairlift though. always love to watch the various techniques applied by those types of skiers. the guerrilla tuck and the fullback pose are the two most common that i see.

one version that always earns extra points in my book is the out of control semi-sideways bomb. otherwise known as the lean-to. the one where a (usually) denim clad subject is moving at a very high rate of speed but with no ability to turn. they employ the wedge, which has no effect at that speed except to turn them about 20 degrees sideways. to their dominant leg i usually assume. this particular move almost always ends with a spectacular crash as they invariably hook that one ski thats skidding uncontrollably off to the side.

 

[powbmps]

gapper

gaper

 

[BigJay]

fixxed it! :smash: