severine
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Date(s) Skied: Saturday, December 1, 2007 (opening day!)
Resort or Ski Area: Mohawk Mountain, Connecticut
Conditions: groomed packed man-made with some churned up "powder", blue skies, windy, temps in the 20s
Trip Report: Arrived around 1:30PM on opening day to a mostly empty lot! Wind was blowing fiercely. Huge difference from just 2 days ago when I snapped those sneak peek pictures. Fan guns were blowing snow on Arrowhead, Nutmeg, and Wildwood (which was not open). Decent coverage, though not much of a base, on Arrowhead and Nutmeg.
I went easy on myself and stuck to Nutmeg for the first hour, getting my ski legs back and relearning the basics. Found that I had the same problem as before: if I thought too much about what my feet should be doing, I did crappy and almost fell. But as soon as I let go and just pointed myself downhill, focusing more on stance than anything else, it all came together.
Arrowhead and I have a bit of a history. When I was learning to ski, I had a real hard time building confidence to go down the top and where it turns around Exhibition. I almost psyched myself out ... but then I figured there was no way I could return to AZ with a trip report on Nutmeg only.
Arrived at the top of Arrowhead to a row of snowboarders just sitting across most of the trailhead. Waited for them to go down then decide to just gun it. Huge step for me; I've always been afraid of speed and being able to stop, LOL. Leaned a little too far back once and started to lose my balance so I started a C curve...and fell on my side. But I got right back up and kept going.
I did meet a nice woman who I'm wondering if she's on AZ or TheSkiDiva. She helped me get up once during another stupid fall (just turning around on the sides from a stop).
I have to work tonight so I only managed 4 runs down Arrowhead. I'm rushing to get this typed up so I can jump in the shower... But basically, great day skiing! Manmade snow was hard packed on much of the hill... a bit sleek and fast, combined with new skis with a recent wax and I was a fast skiing diva! New skis were great. 14cm longer than my last pair but much more stable at higher speeds. I had a blast! Quads burned a bit but nothing too unbearable. I couldn't ski to exhaustion due to having to drive myself home and 6 hrs of work to do tonight. But I feel satisfied.
Pictures to come... Brian will be posting them while I'm at work. A+ to Mohawk for effort! They didn't have much to pick from, but they did a great job covering what's open and having it open for Dec 1st! I had a smile plastered on my face the entire time!
Resort or Ski Area: Mohawk Mountain, Connecticut
Conditions: groomed packed man-made with some churned up "powder", blue skies, windy, temps in the 20s
Trip Report: Arrived around 1:30PM on opening day to a mostly empty lot! Wind was blowing fiercely. Huge difference from just 2 days ago when I snapped those sneak peek pictures. Fan guns were blowing snow on Arrowhead, Nutmeg, and Wildwood (which was not open). Decent coverage, though not much of a base, on Arrowhead and Nutmeg.
I went easy on myself and stuck to Nutmeg for the first hour, getting my ski legs back and relearning the basics. Found that I had the same problem as before: if I thought too much about what my feet should be doing, I did crappy and almost fell. But as soon as I let go and just pointed myself downhill, focusing more on stance than anything else, it all came together.
Arrowhead and I have a bit of a history. When I was learning to ski, I had a real hard time building confidence to go down the top and where it turns around Exhibition. I almost psyched myself out ... but then I figured there was no way I could return to AZ with a trip report on Nutmeg only.
Arrived at the top of Arrowhead to a row of snowboarders just sitting across most of the trailhead. Waited for them to go down then decide to just gun it. Huge step for me; I've always been afraid of speed and being able to stop, LOL. Leaned a little too far back once and started to lose my balance so I started a C curve...and fell on my side.
But I got right back up and kept going.I did meet a nice woman who I'm wondering if she's on AZ or TheSkiDiva. She helped me get up once during another stupid fall (just turning around on the sides from a stop).
I have to work tonight so I only managed 4 runs down Arrowhead. I'm rushing to get this typed up so I can jump in the shower... But basically, great day skiing! Manmade snow was hard packed on much of the hill... a bit sleek and fast, combined with new skis with a recent wax and I was a fast skiing diva! New skis were great. 14cm longer than my last pair
but much more stable at higher speeds. I had a blast! Quads burned a bit but nothing too unbearable. I couldn't ski to exhaustion due to having to drive myself home and 6 hrs of work to do tonight. But I feel satisfied.Pictures to come... Brian will be posting them while I'm at work. A+ to Mohawk for effort! They didn't have much to pick from, but they did a great job covering what's open and having it open for Dec 1st!
I had a smile plastered on my face the entire time! 
