mt. snow winter beerfest

[marcski]

Wow....really fun..

Despite taking part in the largest winter beerfest yet...(and doing my share..(6).dogfish head 60 and berkshire brewing company porters) I had the girls in the woods all day. And I was back on the hill in the woods at 8 this am. More later....

 

[drjeff]

Yup, a great day yesterday and its starting off nice and mushy today too! And today I get to chace the 2nd place finisher in the girls 17 and under division of the glade-iator, my 7 year old daughter around for our last ski day at mount snow this season!

 

[MommaBear]

...the 2nd place finisher in the girls 17 and under division of the glade-iator, my 7 year old daughter...

Funny - I was scanning the results to see how you & company made out. Didn't even catch that your daughter competed. Nice job to her!!

 

[marcski]

Jaws was awesome today!

 

[skidmarks]

And they're open for another week, right??

 

[drjeff]

And they're open for another week, right??

What they've said is that if the weather is good (read as not raining) they'll spin the grand summit express, challenger triple, and nitro express next weekend. If its raining next weekend, then today was the last day of the year for Mount Snow. The official descision will be made by Wednesday or Thursday at the latest

And yes, jaws was awesome today!

 

[marcski]

And yes, jaws was awesome today!

Jaws in a better light....

Jeff....were your kids skiing today? What was she wearing? And....challenger was also supurb today...those 2 were ROTD's IMHO.

 

[jaywbigred]

Abso. awesome weekend. I can't believe I didn't follow my hunch and get over to Jaws. That pic looks awesome!

The snow was fantastic, the Gladiator entertaining, and the Brewersfest was terrific. Great weather. Had 5 different beers, 4 of which were new to me (Dogfish Head Saison du Buff, Stone Black Double IPA, Stone Belgian IPA, Magic Hat Black IPA, plus a regular old Harpoon IPA), cheered mightily for DrJeff's daughter (we assumed the connection from the last name), and then spent a couple hours at the Snow Barn eating pizza and helping kick the keg of BBC Steel Rail, before heading home where I collapsed at 8:30 for the night, much to the chagrin of our house full of guests. Today we still got a good 3.5 hours in before quitting to check out equip. sales (new goggles) and have my boots worked on by Tom at the Bootfitters in the main base.

Hoping to make it up for this coming weekend! Have to get to Jaws!

 

[ski stef]

Sounds and looked like a great time!! :beer:

 

[drjeff]

Jaws in a better light....

Jeff....were your kids skiing today? What was she wearing? And....challenger was also supurb today...those 2 were ROTD's IMHO.

My daughter was in a pink helmet, pink goggles, light blue shell and black pants, and my son had a black and white helmet, green goggles, a black coat and gray pants. I m and my maroon shell and tan pants were chasing them :lol:

Yup, Challenger to boulder pile was pretty sweet as well today

 

[MommaBear]

Yup, Challenger to boulder pile was pretty sweet as well today

That is one of my favorite pathways down - with a dip into the woods before hitting boulder pile. Hope they open next weekend to enjoy it one more time this season.

 

[BeanoNYC]

Wow....really fun..

Carinthia?

 

[marcski]

How long ago did lower challenger become boulder pile?

Beano, those woods was the bottom of the trials.

Jeff: I don't think I saw you guys today...but who knows...? But I know the feeling....I was chasing down 3- 8 y.o. girls and one almot 5 in the boonies and the ego ally woods all day yesterday.....

 

[Glenn]

I did the Gladeiator dressed up like Roman Soldier. The Ripper was gnarly in the AM...pretty darn icy. It softened up by the time I went down. I'd say I was somewhere in the middle of the comp.

Brewfest was awesome. Jeff was hit by some beer as there was a Jersey Shore esque shouting match and beer flinging by two younger females near our table. I'm just happy Jeff's kids weren't around to witness that. Security was there in a hury. Beer was great as usual! It was a nice way to cap the day off after some sun, skiing and a silly costume. That evening, vcunning's "Snow Bar" close down party.

We skied yesterday as well. Ran into Jeff and the Family twice! My wife I did a number runs. The Ripper skied much better yesterday! More bumps, soft...it was nice. The bumps one Roller Coaster were getting nice an big. Olympic was a fun run as well!

The heavy snow really tired out my wife. I think we called it quits around noon. I grabbed some drinks at Cuzzin's and ran into vcunning and his family.

Hoping for one more weekend next weekend. I "think" it'll be OK if the rain holds off. I'm still amazed with all the snow up there. It's almost mid April and there were hardly any bare spots there yesterday.

 

[MommaBear]

How long ago did lower challenger become boulder pile?

It didn't. If you exit Lower Challenger and head down and cross over Free Fall, the trail on skier's right is called Boulder Pile.

 

[marcski]

It didn't. If you exit Lower Challenger and head down and cross over Free Fall, the trail on skier's right is called Boulder Pile.

Momma....years ago "boulder pile" used to be called "lower challenger". I was asking when the name was officially changed. This was the first time I saw it named as boulder pile. I don't use trail maps since I have skied mt. Snow for yrs.

 

[MommaBear]

Momma....years ago "boulder pile" used to be called "lower challenger". I was asking when the name was officially changed. This was the first time I saw it named as boulder pile.

Sorry - I've always know it as boulder pile.

 

[marcski]

No worries...I like it and it did ski wonderfully yesterday. Like you, I also enjoy the woods off to the side. Which I liked yesterday too.

 

[marcski]

It seems that the name change came in 2009.

2008 Trailmap (from skimaps.org):

http://www.skimap.org/data/210/260/1283967503.jpg

2009:

http://www.skimap.org/data/210/260/1293505707.jpg

 

[Glenn]

Some pics of me at Gladeiator. Shrunk them down for interweb viewing.

Skiing bumps in a costume with a cape was a totally new experience for me. :lol: