Marc
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Date(s) Rode: August 14-16
Resort or Ski Area: Killington
Conditions: Warm and dry, then steamy and raining
Trip Report:
I've been taking a group of friends (the number and composition change a little bit every year) up to Killington in early to mid August for the past six years. It was kind of the end of the summer get together before we all returned to school. Of course, now I'm out and working but the tradition lives on!
The first four years we were able to stay at the house of a 40 something year old bachelor who has extra beds he rents out in the winter. The past two years that has been unavailable, but the condo rentals in the summer time there are very reasonable (we got a 6 person for $105 a night, or less than $20/night/person). We cook our meals and split the gas, this year I think I spent a total of about $120 including lift tickets.
We left Friday, made a stop at Ocean State Job Lot for cheap food, and obscure brands. It rained on the way up, but it seems as though it always rains on these trips and none of us cared much. One was actually hoping for rain. Checked in around 9:30 and got to bed early. The mountain opened at 8:00 on Saturday morning. We rode up to the lodge where three of us split off and started spinning up to the summit. The others took the lift.
An hour or so later, we made it to the summit, totalling around 2000' vertical, from the condo to the summit, much of it spent in the granny gear...
The rest of the lift serviced Saturday was great, partly cloudy, fast and scary. Spent most of the day on trail 6, and some of the new single track they cut. That wasn't all the good because they didn't remove any top soil. Super steep, barely rideable... not all that fun.
Saturday night, we came back and washed the bikes, did some tweaking and put on two pounds of pasta. And cracked a few brews. We left our bikes behind the conodo and fortunately no one stole them. We drove up to the lodge the second day after a later start. It rained all night and was still raining in the morning. No big deal. Grind that crud into the drivetrain!
We didn't do as many runs do to the rain. One rider with flat (only two of us riding clipless this year) actually sheared the crank arm threads and had to make the rest of his way down with one pedal. He took one car home. One other retired early. The rest of us rode on until closing and rode back to the condo, all down hill. We were wet and tire. We cooked again that night and drank more. What a surprise. I should have picture from this year soon, but in the mean time, I posted some from 2 years ago... pretty much the same conditions, of course, I have a different (and much better) ride now:
Resort or Ski Area: Killington
Conditions: Warm and dry, then steamy and raining
Trip Report:
I've been taking a group of friends (the number and composition change a little bit every year) up to Killington in early to mid August for the past six years. It was kind of the end of the summer get together before we all returned to school. Of course, now I'm out and working but the tradition lives on!
The first four years we were able to stay at the house of a 40 something year old bachelor who has extra beds he rents out in the winter. The past two years that has been unavailable, but the condo rentals in the summer time there are very reasonable (we got a 6 person for $105 a night, or less than $20/night/person). We cook our meals and split the gas, this year I think I spent a total of about $120 including lift tickets.
We left Friday, made a stop at Ocean State Job Lot for cheap food, and obscure brands. It rained on the way up, but it seems as though it always rains on these trips and none of us cared much. One was actually hoping for rain. Checked in around 9:30 and got to bed early. The mountain opened at 8:00 on Saturday morning. We rode up to the lodge where three of us split off and started spinning up to the summit. The others took the lift.
An hour or so later, we made it to the summit, totalling around 2000' vertical, from the condo to the summit, much of it spent in the granny gear...
The rest of the lift serviced Saturday was great, partly cloudy, fast and scary. Spent most of the day on trail 6, and some of the new single track they cut. That wasn't all the good because they didn't remove any top soil. Super steep, barely rideable... not all that fun.
Saturday night, we came back and washed the bikes, did some tweaking and put on two pounds of pasta. And cracked a few brews. We left our bikes behind the conodo and fortunately no one stole them. We drove up to the lodge the second day after a later start. It rained all night and was still raining in the morning. No big deal. Grind that crud into the drivetrain!
We didn't do as many runs do to the rain. One rider with flat (only two of us riding clipless this year) actually sheared the crank arm threads and had to make the rest of his way down with one pedal. He took one car home. One other retired early. The rest of us rode on until closing and rode back to the condo, all down hill. We were wet and tire. We cooked again that night and drank more. What a surprise. I should have picture from this year soon, but in the mean time, I posted some from 2 years ago... pretty much the same conditions, of course, I have a different (and much better) ride now:
