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How many days left in your season?

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lloyd braun

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JimG. said:
Amazing! Yes, I'm sales manager for a food prep equipment wholesaler. Mostly food prep equipment like bakery mixers, food choppers, food warmers, soup warmers, coffee makers, etc. Lots of repair parts and accessories too.

And I'm sure you work hard...folks like us who play hard always seem to understand they need to work hard too.

The big difference between us seems to be that you chose to work in an area with reliable natural snow while I have to make due with reliable manmade snow and a little natural.

But not this season...and I just bagged on a trip to northern VT because of the big warmup last weekend, assuming all the tree shots would be flash frozen crap. Would've been a 6 1/2 hour drive each way with my wife and 3 kids, but the time and money commitment didn't seem worth it for groomed trails.

Of course, it's been puking snow up there since Tuesday when I cancelled out.

The noise you hear is my foot kicking myself in the butt.

Small world huh? I would bet I sell some of your products....too funny. If you ever make it out here.....drop me a line and we can make some turns!

The big difference between us seems to be that you chose to work in an area with reliable natural snow while I have to make due with reliable manmade snow and a little natural.

I have a problem with the above statement, and that is:

I didn't choose to WORK in an area with reliable natural snow!

I chose to LIVE in an area with reliable natural snow!!!!!!

trust me it is not the JOB keeping me here in Aspen. Please understand that I don't live here to work. I live here to ski, my job just pays the bills!
 

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lloyd braun said:
I chose to LIVE in an area with reliable natural snow!!!!!!

trust me it is not the JOB keeping me here in Aspen. Please understand that I don't live here to work. I live here to ski, my job just pays the bills!

To quibble a little bit....

I thought Aspen only got about 220" of natural snow per year?
 

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Geoff said:
To quibble a little bit....

I thought Aspen only got about 220" of natural snow per year?

I can quibble

our average is 300 inches per year. we will exceed that this year if we have not already.

do you not think that is a lot of snow?
 

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lloyd braun said:
I can quibble

our average is 300 inches per year. we will exceed that this year if we have not already.

do you not think that is a lot of snow?

Jay, Vermont averages over 300 inches. And that is not out "west." :wink:

Bolton and Stowe are close behind.

As for my days, not enough left :lol: Hit 35 today.
 

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lloyd braun said:
I didn't choose to WORK in an area with reliable natural snow!

I chose to LIVE in an area with reliable natural snow!!!!!!

Not sure that place exists....unless you are in Antarctica. :lol:

I recall a season a ways back where BOTH sides of the US had bad ski seasons.
 

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Well I think it is a season for me. I will be traveling for work next weekend then on a cruise, so I won't be around until April 15th, so we shall see. I got 9 days in, not to bad I guess, just miss the 25-30 days of college, but what can you do. Overall most days were great minus the tree skiing.
 

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PRobably a dozen... A few more at Hunter and Killington and Tucks...
 

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ALLSKIING said:
Back to Jay:blink: You must put 100k Miles on your car a year.;)

Actually I have very low mileage on my car as I use it primarily to work and back every day (about 30 miles) I only have 8000 miles on the car and it will be a year old on June 1st.

Usually I go skiing with my wife as the chauffeur with her car. I am hopefull for Jay next weekend, but right now I am sore and tired after a three day skiing blitz with a 6 year old in tow.
 

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I think I might be down to 5 days left, unfortunately. I have 2 days at Killington next weekend. I have probably 3 days left at Wachusett- one this week, one next week, and one on the proposed closing day- April 2nd. I think they could make the 9th if they wanted to, and they will stay open if there is enough snow. If by some grace of god MRG opens, I might add a day to that, but I don't think there's a chance.

EDIT: MRG is actually opening! I guess that will be my destination this weekend.
 

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Like to get 10 more in. It will depend on who stays open and what's left in the Presidentials. I should have four more by the end of next week. Beyond that, hard to tell.
 

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March has not been a good month for skiing for me. I went skiing with a friend last week so I had to go to Attitash (everything was groomed in classic Attitash fashion - blahhh). The rest of the weekend I had other plans so no skiing. This weekend I'll be going to Stratton with other friends (I'm thinking it's going to be a repeat of Attitash). I won't be up in N. VT again until the last weekend of March/1st weekend of April. I've missed some of the best skiing of the year after going there practically every weekend all winter. :(
 

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I thought my season was over last weekend. But I just picked up a pair of Head c220i's. I'm an intermediate guy so I don't expect anyone to be impressed. ;-) I couldn't pass up close to 50% off. Most likely we will be at Butternut testing out the new gear.

This forum has kept me interested and excited about the sport all winter and already has me yearning for next season. Thanks!
 

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Grassi21 said:
This forum has kept me interested and excited about the sport all winter and already has me yearning for next season. Thanks!
Thanks for the kind words. Hopefully, we'll keep skiing on the brain for you throughout the summer too! :beer:
 

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Greg said:
Hopefully, we'll keep skiing on the brain for you throughout the summer too! :beer:
That's what this forum did for me this past year...now I definitely need therapy...;)
 
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