thinnmann
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The holiday weekend crowds hit today. The lodge was more crowded than usual in the morning before skiing, and at lunch. The parking lot was packed earlier than usual. The lift lines were not that bad at lift 7 and Tomahawk, until Superchief broke down again, second day in a row. That happened after lunch today. After that it was singles line city for us. And some of the the lifties at Tomahawk lift continue to be clueless about how to move the lift lines.
The conditions were very good again. A little warmer than yesterday, but no sun, and light freezing rain / "wintery-mix" starting about 1 PM.
None of the runs were especially soft, but there wasn't a lot of ice either, until after 2 PM or so. Pepacton was closed for racing, but Dot was open. Not realizing they were there, I was screaming down Peekamoose and almost ran into them, but cut a hard right in time.....
They built a WC style bump run about half way down Belleayre run, and they scammed a bunch of Alpine Development kids into packing it down. The problem with the run was the slope wasn't steep enough to warrant the size of the bumps. I couldn't really get enough momentum to ski them right as a result. Maybe it is just me, maybe not - anybody else ski them? My 14 year old son is a good bump skier (yea, he has crossed over into the better-than-me category) and he said it stunk. Yahoo and Onteora were better bump runs today. The natural snow on Utsayantha is almost a pleasure, if you can stay off the dirt and rocks - I got a big scratch on the bottom of my Atomic m:EX's today there.
The conditions were very good again. A little warmer than yesterday, but no sun, and light freezing rain / "wintery-mix" starting about 1 PM.
None of the runs were especially soft, but there wasn't a lot of ice either, until after 2 PM or so. Pepacton was closed for racing, but Dot was open. Not realizing they were there, I was screaming down Peekamoose and almost ran into them, but cut a hard right in time.....
They built a WC style bump run about half way down Belleayre run, and they scammed a bunch of Alpine Development kids into packing it down. The problem with the run was the slope wasn't steep enough to warrant the size of the bumps. I couldn't really get enough momentum to ski them right as a result. Maybe it is just me, maybe not - anybody else ski them? My 14 year old son is a good bump skier (yea, he has crossed over into the better-than-me category) and he said it stunk. Yahoo and Onteora were better bump runs today. The natural snow on Utsayantha is almost a pleasure, if you can stay off the dirt and rocks - I got a big scratch on the bottom of my Atomic m:EX's today there.
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