Ski Sundown, 1/23/09

[mondeo]

I was feeling decent today, so decided to get one last practice session in before tomorrow. Definately warm, so things skied decently, with a slick spot here in there. Still struggled with the funky bump at the top of the right line for a while, but I think I have it figured out now.

I'm predicting ice bumps tomorrow. Should be interesting. Plus I have a surprise in store... (and we'll see if it's good or bad. Definitely a surprise, though.)

 

[bvibert]

Plus I have a surprise in store... (and we'll see if it's good or bad. Definitely a surprise, though.)

You have some way to make it stay warm??

 

[severine]

Wondering what the surprise will be!

 

[o3jeff]

Backflip off the kicker?

 

[mondeo]

So I left out a few details. After I figured out the bump at the top of the right line, I figured I'd do two more runs, one for each line. Run down the right went fine. Last run, top went good, but I hit the wall of a bump between the kickers and doubled ejected. As I was hiking up to get my skis, a kid coming down picked up my skis, and as he was carrying them down said something to the effect of, "Hey, I think this ski is bent." Sure enough...

So seeing as this was practice for the competition today, I was in a little bit of a bind. Didn't want to ski on rentals, and figured I needed new skis anyways, so I woke up at about 4:30 this morning and drove to Killington to pick up these:

Surprise...

 

[bvibert]

The skis look good. That's some dedication to drive up to Killington just to buy new skis!

 

[severine]

Wow! That is definitely some dedication to the sport! Sorry about the bent ski, but it doesn't seem like you're too bent out of shape over it.

 

[powbmps]

Sexy!