Real Time Reports

[RootDKJ]

Killington Jan 6 2009 - Bluebird, cold empty. Snow hard, but not boilerplate, in fact, the grooming is top notch today. I'm really glad I gave the skis a sharpen and wax(blue) last night.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Killington Jan 6 2009 - Bluebird, cold empty. Snow hard, but not boilerplate, in fact, the grooming is top notch today. I'm really glad I gave the skis a sharpen and wax(blue) last night.

Nice..aside from powder and spring snow..hardpack but not boilerplate is my favorite. How much snow did you guys get from this last storm?

 

[RootDKJ]

Nice..aside from powder and spring snow..hardpack but not boilerplate is my favorite. How much snow did you guys get from this last storm?

I'd say three inches, followed by an inch or so of sleet. Tomorrow will be interesting.

The Red Bull Girls are up here and were loading in the gondi right before me. I tried to get on the car with them since they were only 6 and the gondi seats 8 and the liftie wouldn't let me. She told me they "paid" for a private car. Whatever.

 

[RootDKJ]

Killington Jan 9. Perfect post-powder day. No ice or death cookies anywhere. Pretty empty, plenty of cord still. Very cold but sunny. Tri layering again.

 

[carbonXshell]

Killington Jan 9. Perfect post-powder day. No ice or death cookies anywhere. Pretty empty, plenty of cord still. Very cold but sunny. Tri layering again.

I will be up there tomorrow searching for some of that corduroy.

 

[RootDKJ]

Blue Mt - Jan 19 2009
Partly sunny / mostly cloudy temp around 25. Feels crisper comapred to yesterday. Snow very firm and very fast. Razors and Challenge have small death cookies on them, but edge-able. Lazy is sweet as usual & Paradise is the same. Crowds aren't too bad right now, but there's 2 ambulances loading patients right now. Sucks.

No lifties working on the quad or six pack yet. I'm sure the bus loads will be here soon.

There's some really piss poor grooming on the intersection of Falls, Razors and Home Strech where there's rock hard ice bumps trails that the groomers left behind. There's no real way to go over it but to flatten out and prey the snowsnakes don't get you. Major carnage happening.

Next stop - Main St, safety meeting on the double, & Switchback. Nice relaxing day so far, hitting about 5 runs an hour.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Blue Mt - Jan 19 2009
Partly sunny / mostly cloudy temp around 25. Feels crisper comapred to yesterday. Snow very firm and very fast. Razors and Challenge have small death cookies on them, but edge-able. Lazy is sweet as usual & Paradise is the same. Crowds aren't too bad right now, but there's 2 ambulances loading patients right now. Sucks.

No lifties working on the quad or six pack yet. I'm sure the bus loads will be here soon.

There's some really piss poor grooming on the intersection of Falls, Razors and Home Strech where there's rock hard ice bumps trails that the groomers left behind. There's no real way to go over it but to flatten out and prey the snowsnakes don't get you. Major carnage happening.

Next stop - Main St, safety meeting on the double, & Switchback. Nice relaxing day so far, hitting about 5 runs an hour.

Awesome..I wish I was out there but I got a bonus day off tomorrow..I'll be skipping afterwork turns today in favor of the bar..

 

[RootDKJ]

Typical Blue shitshow bizzaro world now. VIP line rocks. Did Raceway into Burma after gettinf small. Raceway was really nice until Connector where there that weird grooming again. Kinda like 2 sets of~~~~~~ intersecting across the fall line. Arrgh

So much snow on the trees on Burma, it could pass for Vermont at parts. I think I saw toast here.

 

[RootDKJ]

Forgot to mention that the bite valve on my Camelbak sprung a leak.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Any line cutting ski instructors??

 

[RootDKJ]

No, just the opposide. The liftie is totally ingoring the VIP line. I had to wait over 15mins to get loaded.

I'm out.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

No, just the opposide. The liftie is totally ingoring the VIP line. I had to wait over 15mins to get loaded.

I'm out.

15 minutes in VIP..dang..well good for Blue for making tons of $$$$$ it's snowing here..

 

[RootDKJ]

Windham 3/29/09 - not much left up here. Lifts didn't open until 9:45. Not a slushy as Camelback was, but more challenging to find a route to the bottem. Lots of bare patches. It finally stoped raining, sun is coming out. Gonna do a few more runs. Pics and TR later.