Killington 11/21/2008

[Geoff]

Upper Royal Flush was open. That's the uber thin cover shot in this thread.

MTS has snowmaking on it and has pretty good cover.

I completely blew off the AZ rendez-vous. Ain't no way I was riding the Glades triple at 11:00. I did Highline laps until 11:30 with a few Mouse Traps tossed in for variety, hit Mahogany Ridge for 30 minutes, and skied a few more before bailing out for the day.

I skied a bunch of runs with Mr G. He abandonded MrsG when I told him how good Highline was.

 

[2knees]

I skied a bunch of runs with Mr G. He abandonded MrsG when I told him how good Highline was.

I'm almost afraid to ask but....

how good was it???? I was dying for something more yesterday. riding the gondola and lapping all that junk up top just to ski mousetrap got kinda old.

 

[severine]

Are they chocolate chip?

:lol:

Nah, M&M. She enjoyed chopping the nuts in the grinder, dumping them in the bowl, dumping the M&Ms in the bowl, and helping add extras to the dough. I made sure her hands were very clean before hand, I promise.

 

[Geoff]

I'm almost afraid to ask but....

how good was it???? I was dying for something more yesterday. riding the gondola and lapping all that junk up top just to ski mousetrap got kinda old.

It sucked. You would have hated it.

The surface was like Mouse Trap yesterday. Nice soft manmade snow. It was pretty bumped up by my last run on it at 1:00. It was nice to finally ski something with some pitch to it that is sustained for more than a couple hundred vertical feet.


I imagine it will be borderline unskiable by noon on Saturday. There were already spots where people had traversed away the back sides of the bumps.

 

[ALLSKIING]

Now that I look at a trail map I think your right....BTW Carrie thanks for the cookies!!

I take it back it was upper RF

 

[SkiDork]

I take it back it was upper RF

yeah I guess its tough to distinguish between those 2 unless you were there.

 

[2knees]

yeah I guess its tough to distinguish between those 2 unless you were there.

lol, problem is, Dave was there.

who is that kinda hiding between steve and greg?

 

[SkiDork]

lol, problem is, Dave was there.

And thats why I said that... I was admitting that I shouldn't have disputed him, seeing as how he was there...

 

[2knees]

And thats why I said that... I was admitting that I shouldn't have disputed him, seeing as how he was there...

whoops, sorry. i was kinda pointing out dave's confusion

dave's not here man.....

 

[SkiDork]

whoops, sorry. i was kinda pointing out dave's confusion

dave's not here man.....

like ships in the night... we keep missing each others points.... lol

 

[ALLSKIING]

lol, problem is, Dave was there.

who is that kinda hiding between steve and greg?

I never ski that trail...its a green trail....I only ski blacks :lol:

 

[bvibert]

Great 1st day of skiing. Props to Killington for blowing a crap load of snow. The run of the day was highline, very nice. I'll let others fill in more details. Greg got some good footage, hopefully he'll be able to get a video edited out tonight.

I think everyone that was supposed to show up did, except for Moe Ghoul and his buddy.

 

[o3jeff]

Get the stoke posted up

 

[gmcunni]

(photo by bvibert)
not shown - dannyp who hooked up with us later at the quad.

 

[Greg]

Get the stoke posted up

Soon....

 

[bvibert]

I forgot to mention that this was a good crew. Everyone was skiing we and about at the same level.

I'd say that gmcunni get's the ripper of the day award. He just went right after it from the first run to the last! :beer:

Good skiing with all you guys again and nice to meet dannyp. A good boarder and a nice guy.

 

[Greg]

I forgot to mention that this was a good crew. Everyone was skiing we and about at the same level.

I'd say that gmcunni get's the ripper of the day award. He just went right after it from the first run to the last! :beer:

Good skiing with all you guys again and nice to meet dannyp. A good boarder and a nice guy.

Yep. Good crew. Kept a pretty decent pace. A few highlights while the vid uploads:

• gmcunni definitely gets the ripper award. I skied with him a few times, and knew he was talented, but he attacked that shit today like an animal. The guy is smoooooooth.
• yup - danny p is definitely a good guy. Fun to have a boarder with us for once.
• Missed meeting up with Moe Ghoul, Geoff and JerseyJoey.
• Quote of the day, ALLSKIING: "I love shots. They are my favorite thing." :lol:
• Highline was rad.
• Mousetrap was fun too.
• My boots are fugly as hell. :lol:
• That last run from the summit killed me. I was cooked about halfway down Highline.
• Overall, an awesome start to the season, no doubt.

 

[gmcunni]

great to get out and start the ski season. unbeliveable conditions for november. the snow on highline was more like early spring than late fall quality. the conditions on rime early in the day were also great.

props to killington for putting out a great product.

good to meet a few new AZ'ers. great time skiing with all of you.

drive home sucked!

 

[Greg]

Video

Enjoy:

 

[severine]

Brian says you did a good job, Greg. :beer:

Nice! Those are some big bumps for so early in the season!