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Pats Peak AZ race night Monday Jan 9th Week 2 of 9
Weather.... Real warm and wind blowing up hill
Conditions... Wet Packed Powder
A few props go out before we even start. Tree_Skier had mentioned he may not make it this week cause of a Ski clinic he was attending. He still made it. A long day of driving and on snow work. We needed his time and we appreciate it.
Ga2ski finished 19th on Tele Gear. Just amazing.
Roark jumped up 28 places from last week. Scott jumped 12. Charlie still has that smile that we all can identify him by.
Chile needs some love with back problems.
I got a helmet. :wink:
The race took place on Twister a more mellow trail than FIS race trail where we raced last week. The coarse was cranker(twister was the correct name for the trail) and many falls and many bail outs. Tree_skier had such and event and caused him to be very mellow on his 2nd run to get a time that counted.
The format is a side by side GS. The green coarse timing wand broke on the 2nd run so manual times were used for some.
The green coarse had a real tough set of turns (4 through 6) and many lost a decent amount of speed in that area. I had a hard time seeing the last gate near the finish, but finished with no crash.
The Yellow coarse had the most blow outs with some wild ruts due to the soft snow getting moved around. A large group lost it in the area of the 4th gate. Just really hard across the hill turns needed to be made. Not all did. I found the yellow coarse faster and posted my best time on that run.
The apres ski is always a highlight for me when we do an outing. Just hanging shooting the sh--. The camera did not work so no videos were shown. I don't think it was a big deal. Charlie, Roark and myself were the last to leave just having fun.
Speaking of cameras... its become difficult to take pictures the way the format is set up cause we have been going together. No pictures no proof.
We are happy with that.
Another great week. The results will be posted by Roark later today. We are not racing on the MLK weekend so we'll be back at it Jan 23rd. Get better Chile.
Weather.... Real warm and wind blowing up hill
Conditions... Wet Packed Powder
A few props go out before we even start. Tree_Skier had mentioned he may not make it this week cause of a Ski clinic he was attending. He still made it. A long day of driving and on snow work. We needed his time and we appreciate it.
Ga2ski finished 19th on Tele Gear. Just amazing.
Roark jumped up 28 places from last week. Scott jumped 12. Charlie still has that smile that we all can identify him by.
Chile needs some love with back problems.
I got a helmet. :wink:
The race took place on Twister a more mellow trail than FIS race trail where we raced last week. The coarse was cranker(twister was the correct name for the trail) and many falls and many bail outs. Tree_skier had such and event and caused him to be very mellow on his 2nd run to get a time that counted.
The format is a side by side GS. The green coarse timing wand broke on the 2nd run so manual times were used for some.
The green coarse had a real tough set of turns (4 through 6) and many lost a decent amount of speed in that area. I had a hard time seeing the last gate near the finish, but finished with no crash.
The Yellow coarse had the most blow outs with some wild ruts due to the soft snow getting moved around. A large group lost it in the area of the 4th gate. Just really hard across the hill turns needed to be made. Not all did. I found the yellow coarse faster and posted my best time on that run.
The apres ski is always a highlight for me when we do an outing. Just hanging shooting the sh--. The camera did not work so no videos were shown. I don't think it was a big deal. Charlie, Roark and myself were the last to leave just having fun.
Speaking of cameras... its become difficult to take pictures the way the format is set up cause we have been going together. No pictures no proof.
We are happy with that. Another great week. The results will be posted by Roark later today. We are not racing on the MLK weekend so we'll be back at it Jan 23rd. Get better Chile.
