Killington - 1/28/2008

[2knees]

Date(s) Skied:1/28

Resort or Ski Area: Killington

Conditions: a bit of everything

Trip Report: Nice day today. crystal clear blue skies and little wind. Skied with Greg, Madskier6 and spinmasterk. Later caught up with powbumps from the mogul board. SpinmasterK is a fantastic skier and powbumps was killing it today. Hit O.L. early, probably too quick for this old man. Decent snow and some big bumps. No great lines that i found. My face found the snow a few times though. Hit up vertigo, wildfire, the boardercross/terrain park and northstar to name a few. Mostly hardpack with some loose piles. fast for sure. Middle ovation was nice but low rider and patsy's were more fun. Still alot of ice, real nasty ice, lying just below the now semi scraped off surface. K has done a good job of making snow but in all honesty, i think we need some natural, ok alot of natural, to really get it back in shape.

We all took turns behind the camera so there is some video floating around somewhere.

 

[Greg]

Date(s) Skied: Monday, 1/28/2008 , 11:20 am - 4:10 pm

Resort or Ski Area: Killington, Vermont

Conditions: Variable: loose snow, hardpack, scratchies, snowmaking bumps on Outer Limits. Sunny, calm.

Trip Report: Got kind of a late start due to fatherly duties and some traffic heading up. Jeff and I clicked in about 11:20 and met 2knees and Tom Horrocks (SpinMasterK) at the Superstar Quad. We loaded and took a spin through the Dreamaker terrain park on the way to Bear. Not a park skier, but the elements look pretty impressive and it is a long park.

Hopped on the Bear Mountain Quad for our "warm-up" on Outer Limits. Big ole snowmaking bumps with some slick hard pack here and there. We were all huffing and sweating by the bottom of that one, except for Tom. Checked out Vertigo and then made our way to Snowshed for lunch (thanks Tom!). Head the pleasure of also meeting Dave Rathbun and Chris Nyberg down there.

We then made our way back to the base of Superstar to meet up with powbmps from the MogulSkiing.net and K-zone forums. Decided to try Snowdon and took a run down Northstar. At that point we bid farewell to Tom (tough morning at the office!). Nice guy, helluva skier. We had some great conversation on Killington's future as well as some discussion of various online topics...

We then checked out Low Rider and Patsy's (X 2). The woods were skiing pretty good. Thin, packed and a bit scratchy but definitely very skiable. Patsy's was the run of the day. The groomers all skied great today. The natural or ungroomed trails were sketchy here and there; made for some challenging yet fun skiing. Killington, like the rest of the Northeast needs a nice fat dump. Outer Limits was fun with lot of snowmaking bumps.

All in all a good day. Jeff and I had a couple beers in K-1. I rolled in about 8:45. Thanks again for everything Tom. Pat/Jeff - a pleasure. powbmps - great to meet you. You're an excellent skier. Got some footage, mostly of Low Rider and Patsy's. It's uploading now.

 

[2knees]

beat ya to it!

would've loved to grab a beer with you guys but had to hightail it home. When i got home, my wife gave me the ok to go to the Uconn/Louisville game tonight. damn near a miracle.

 

[Greg]

beat ya to it!

Ack! Merged them!

 

[Greg]

High res video

Still uploading. It will be ready in about 15 mins. Ridiculously large (100+ MB) for a 3 minute video, but here ya go:

Killington: 1/28

YouTubage tomorrow. Good night!

 

[andyzee]

You had fun at Killington? Gee, how did that happen? :lol:

 

[Greg]

You had fun at Killington? Gee, how did that happen? :lol:

I know, right? After all the whining all summer, I'm determined to give them a fair evaluation. I plan to hit up the big K at least once more this season. So far, so good.

 

[madskier6]

I had a lot of fun at K today. Many thanks to spinmasterk for the hospitality. It was fun skiing with all you guys today. The Snowdon trees were definitely where it was at. There was some ice underneath from the Jan thaw but there was still some softer snow to be found in some places (if you looked hard enough). A great Killington day!

 

[andyzee]

I know, right? After all the whining all summer, I'm determined to give them a fair evaluation. I plan to hit up the big K at least once more this season. So far, so good.

Plenty of good stuff, just have to know where and when to look.

 

[Greg]

YouTubage

 

[danny p]

nice youtubage! glad you guys still found some pow in the tree runs. I was watching the video on the killington.com homepage yesterday afternoon and saw you (Greg) in it! Don't know if you mentioned this elsewhere, but if you haven't seen it you should check it out!

 

[Greg]

I was watching the video on the killington.com homepage yesterday afternoon and saw you (Greg) in it! Don't know if you mentioned this elsewhere, but if you haven't seen it you should check it out!

Ha! That's a trip. I made killington.com! :lol:

Thanks Tom for editing out the crash...

 

[danny p]

Ha! That's a trip. I made killington.com! :lol:

skiing looks good in the vid! pretty sweet to make the front page vid!

 

[Greg]

skiing looks good in the vid! pretty sweet to make the front page vid!

Ha! Thanks. Back seat city, but that was par for the course for me yesterday... :lol:

 

[bvibert]

Sounds like you guys had a good day. Sorry I had to miss it..

Video looks good!

Congrats to Greg for making killington.com video! :beer:

 

[MRGisevil]

Nice vid! Glad you guys had such a great time

 

[severine]

Ha! That's a trip. I made killington.com! :lol:

Woohoo, you're famous! Nice vid! Looks like some good skiing to be had! While I'm not so interested in bump runs, I do want to learn to ski glades. In due time....

Nice vid! Glad you guys had such a great time

Are you that excited for them?

 

[powhunter]

nice vid greg!! Glad you guys had a good time.....The trees was where it was at on sun too....we need a dump up there soon to refresh the bumps!!!!

steve

 

[powhunter]

how was northstar??? k.com said snowmaking sun night

steve

 

[dmc]

Way to bring some soul back to Killington guys..

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