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Is just a little bit shallow for such heavy snow. if it was only a little bit steeper you could really carry speed through some of the spots. Absolutely fantastic pruning job though.
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rocks860
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How have I never found these spots at sundown. I can't even conceptualize where they would be
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By shallow I mean not Steep- is plenty deep.
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the pond skim is weather based. its a really lame event at 25 degrees.
gmcunni
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I bet they could make to at least April 5th this year with the snowpack I saw this weekend. I guess it's an economic thing. Would love to get a rematch with Satan's Staircase this season. I was totally slayed by the upper half. Couldn't find a decent line to save my soul. Wasn't a big fan of the bumps on the lower half either - the seeding was either haphazard or it got destroyed during the skiing in phase. I'm really interested in seeing the lines people will be skiing in the comp. Maybe the snow will be soft enough by then for people to bash through the road blocks.
Will the company be on the stairway or gunny?
gmcunni
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did you hit the snowbar while there?
stairway is what i heard (read).
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No, but almost did when I was taken out by the very last row of bumps on my first run down the stairway and just about slid head-first into it.
Savemeasammy
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Please post up the go-pro footage. That sounds entertaining.
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Haven't gone pro yet, unfortunately. Maybe once I can tame the stairway I'll reconsider. Would have made for some good reviewing, though. My helmet even flew off because I forget to strap it on. Really, I'm lucky to be alive, I think.
powhunter
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Jarrodski you guys plan on bumping up gun barrel this year?
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Not this year.... the mogul specific crowd has not been out en masse
the Stairway has only gotten better by the day. Yes, the lines are mischievous, yes, i like it that way.
Gunny bumps wouldn't be out of the question if business demanded it. but to be perfectly honest with you guys, we don't see so many mogul skiers that we need two trails of bumps right now. there's only 4 expert trails at the mountain. a park, and bumps eat two.... so, yea...
can someone explain to me the fascination with seeded "course" style mogul trails? I've never understood why a perfect zipper-line run top to bottom would be attractive.... I've long preferred un groomed variable terrain / skier made moguls which is exactly what we have right now on the Staircase.
see you out there. It's 1pm and its soft.
powhunter
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Disagree with you on that bro. The mogul specific skiers at sundown do prefer zipperline bumps
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not what i was getting at... i'm saying there's not a lot of you guys.... and i am asking you to explain the zipper specific trail to me
obviously im just trying to get a dialog started and am in no way shit talking...
steamboat1
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Killington has multiple seeded bump lines around the mountain. Hardly ever see anyone use them.
Not really sure. Probably similar to the reason park rats prefer launching a 720 off a 15 foot kicker on a flawlessly groomed trail rather than some random mogul on the staircase. I think zipperline moguls skiers probably enjoy the speed and rhythm you can't achieve if you are always having to adjust your line in some haphazard maze of snow piles. Similarly, I imagine park rates enjoy going big in ways you can't if you have to worry about landing in the middle of an icy bump field.
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