Date(s) Skied: 1/23/07
Resort or Ski Area: sundown
Trip Report: Quick and dirty edition... I had to work tonight, but I managed to get out an hour early just so I could see if there were truly bumps being developed on the mountain. I got on the lift at 9:20pm so it was to be a short session. I knew I wouldn't have much time so I decided to...
What's that Greg and 2knees, you just want to know about the bumps?? Fine, I'll jump right to it... :roll:
The start of the bump field on skiers right of Exhibition
Looking up Nor'Easter
Unfortunately this is what the bumps on Nor'Easter looked like; Big, frozen, piles of death cookies.
I must say that I was simply amazed with the amount of bumps they made! From the Sundeck down through Nor'Easter with the groomed bail out to skier's left up to Temptor. I started out by attempting a few of the bumps in the upper section and quickly bailed the bumps were solid piles of death cookies and I got thrown all around. I'm no expert, but they looked pretty spaced apart too, maybe to make it easier for noobs like myself? I did notice, after I bailed, that a small section in the middle of the upper section had smooth bumps that weren't all chunky. I intended to hit those next time around, but next time around never came... not for Nor'Easter at least... I only looked down the lower section from the Temptor intersection and all I could see was VERY chunky looking piles, though they did look a little tighter spaced. From there I went down Temptor to the lift, completely forgetting about the bumps that were supposed to be on skier's right of Exhibition. I decided to head down Canyon next to get a look up at the bumps from the bottom of Nor'Easter. They looked about as expected so I snapped a few pics and went on my way intending to ski down to the lift and hit the upper section of the Nor'Easter bumps on the next run... I skied skier's left of the Canyon flats, which I almost never do and stopped at the top of Exhibition to the left by Temptor. I was quite surprised to see bumps across from me that I had completely missed! I headed over to those and actually managed to hold my own! That blew any thoughts I had of hitting Nor'Easter/Temptor again. I was hooked on these and I wouldn't be able to hit most of them Temptor! My last few runs were down Canyon, but I hit the bumps from the beginning the rest of the times. I looked like crap and I didn't hold much of a line, but I had fun! It helped that I felt much better than the only other people I saw in the bumps who were flailing around a bit...
Can't wait for tomorrow when I'll have some more time to play in them. Hopefully they'll be able to get the Nor'Easter bumps smoothed out a bit so I can try those too!
I think I just spent more time uploading pics and writing this then I did skiing tonight! :lol:
The rest of the pics are here:
http://forums.alpinezone.com/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/649
They were hard to take since it was dark out, these are the best ones...
Resort or Ski Area: sundown
Trip Report: Quick and dirty edition... I had to work tonight, but I managed to get out an hour early just so I could see if there were truly bumps being developed on the mountain. I got on the lift at 9:20pm so it was to be a short session. I knew I wouldn't have much time so I decided to...
What's that Greg and 2knees, you just want to know about the bumps?? Fine, I'll jump right to it... :roll:
The start of the bump field on skiers right of Exhibition
Looking up Nor'Easter
Unfortunately this is what the bumps on Nor'Easter looked like; Big, frozen, piles of death cookies.
I must say that I was simply amazed with the amount of bumps they made! From the Sundeck down through Nor'Easter with the groomed bail out to skier's left up to Temptor. I started out by attempting a few of the bumps in the upper section and quickly bailed the bumps were solid piles of death cookies and I got thrown all around. I'm no expert, but they looked pretty spaced apart too, maybe to make it easier for noobs like myself? I did notice, after I bailed, that a small section in the middle of the upper section had smooth bumps that weren't all chunky. I intended to hit those next time around, but next time around never came... not for Nor'Easter at least... I only looked down the lower section from the Temptor intersection and all I could see was VERY chunky looking piles, though they did look a little tighter spaced. From there I went down Temptor to the lift, completely forgetting about the bumps that were supposed to be on skier's right of Exhibition. I decided to head down Canyon next to get a look up at the bumps from the bottom of Nor'Easter. They looked about as expected so I snapped a few pics and went on my way intending to ski down to the lift and hit the upper section of the Nor'Easter bumps on the next run... I skied skier's left of the Canyon flats, which I almost never do and stopped at the top of Exhibition to the left by Temptor. I was quite surprised to see bumps across from me that I had completely missed! I headed over to those and actually managed to hold my own! That blew any thoughts I had of hitting Nor'Easter/Temptor again. I was hooked on these and I wouldn't be able to hit most of them Temptor! My last few runs were down Canyon, but I hit the bumps from the beginning the rest of the times. I looked like crap and I didn't hold much of a line, but I had fun! It helped that I felt much better than the only other people I saw in the bumps who were flailing around a bit...
Can't wait for tomorrow when I'll have some more time to play in them. Hopefully they'll be able to get the Nor'Easter bumps smoothed out a bit so I can try those too!
I think I just spent more time uploading pics and writing this then I did skiing tonight! :lol:
The rest of the pics are here:
http://forums.alpinezone.com/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/649
They were hard to take since it was dark out, these are the best ones...