Ski Sundown - 1/24/2008 (night)

[Greg]

Date(s) Skied: Thursday, 1/24/2008 , 6:30 pm - 10:10 pm

Resort or Ski Area: Ski Sundown, New Hartford, CT

Conditions: Firm bumps, on and off snow showers, temps near 20.

Trip Report: Got started around 6:30 with the Legends today. Wanted to give them a go in the bumps tonight. Took one run on Nor'easter. Definitely some funky snowmaking whales starting to show up in there. Still some decent lines though. Mostly edgeable but slick backsides.

Next run was Gunny as Upper NE was roped. Called Grassi and took my next run on Canyon to meet Chris. We did another run on Canyon and then NE reopened. Rest of the night was on Nor'easter. The Ex bumps are beat so I only hit those a few times and opted to take some little hits near the Pole Cats in the middle of Ex instead. I wasn't feeling it with the Legends tonight so I swapped them out for the Cabrawlers before too long.

I was in a funk to start tonight, but I kept plugging away at it and eventually broke out of it. Still didn't ski that well all night. The bumps were firm and challenging. Actually had an incident where I was glad I wear a helmet as the back of my head struck the icy backside of a bump. Chris tweaked a knee at one point. He skied it off on Canyon the rest of the night. Hope it's feeling better.

Met up with jonnypoach towards the end of the night as he was doing NASTAR on Gunny most of the night. All in all a decent night, but it was all about just logging miles tonight.

 

[bvibert]

Glad you guys made the best of it, you both looked like you were in a fog, or frazzled, or something every time I saw you...

Hope the knee is OK Chris.

 

[Greg]

Glad you guys made the best of it, you both looked like you were in a fog, or frazzled, or something every time I saw you...

Pretty accurate. Both of us seemed to be in a major funk. Sorta just going through the motions tonight. My mood improved as the night went on. Chris was more in a fog than me...

 

[RustyK]

Never been to Sundown. It's about 1 hour from my house.
Would like to meet up with you guys for weekday adventure..

 

[bvibert]

Never been to Sundown. It's about 1 hour from my house.
Would like to meet up with you guys for weekday adventure..

Wednesday nights are our usual nights.

http://forums.alpinezone.com/23155-ski-sundown-night-wednesday-1-30-2008-a.html

Come on over sometime, we love meeting new AZer's!

 

[RustyK]

Wednesday nights are our usual nights.

http://forums.alpinezone.com/23155-ski-sundown-night-wednesday-1-30-2008-a.html

Come on over sometime, we love meeting new AZer's!

I know a couple of guys that do lessons every Wed. night. (not sure what they are learning)
I'll tag along with them some week..

 

[severine]

Sorry the night wasn't spectacular. But I'm sure it was still great to just be out on the hill.

Chris, I hope your knee is okay!

 

[MRGisevil]

Glad to hear you stuck with it, Greg. I had the same thing going on Wednesday night. Was in a serious funk until about 8:30 and starting feeling much better. Ended up having a great time so I'm glad I didn't give into the mood.

 

[Greg]

Glad to hear you stuck with it, Greg. I had the same thing going on Wednesday night. Was in a serious funk until about 8:30 and starting feeling much better. Ended up having a great time so I'm glad I didn't give into the mood.

It happens from time to time and you really just have to battle through it. More often than not, you can shake it.

 

[bvibert]

I know a couple of guys that do lessons every Wed. night. (not sure what they are learning)
I'll tag along with them some week..

Do you know if their lessons are with Todd? If so I saw them last night.

Let us know when you're going to head up..

 

[2knees]

Definitely some funky snowmaking whales starting to show up in there. Still some decent lines though. Mostly edgeable but slick backsides.

I have no idea how you are supposed to maintain contact in lines like this. When the backsides of the bumps are totally slick, i always go back to the hopping/slamming method. Maybe it doesnt fit into the WC technique that we are "supposed" to use but it works so much better.


Yeah, i noticed the snowmaking whales getting bigger on monday. there are some serious dropoffs in a couple of places. makes for some interesting line choices.

 

[severine]

Yeah, i noticed the snowmaking whales getting bigger on monday. there are some serious dropoffs in a couple of places. makes for some interesting line choices.

The whales do keep it interesting. The trail is never exactly the same from trip to trip.

 

[Grassi21]

Pretty accurate. Both of us seemed to be in a major funk. Sorta just going through the motions tonight. My mood improved as the night went on. Chris was more in a fog than me...

Yeah, we'll call it a fog... ;-)

My knee is a still soar but I don't think its anything serious. I was in the back seat a lot last night due to the firm bumps and hardpack hiding some troughs. I just didn't feel in control last night which led to me making some bad turns in the NE bumps. Its all good. But as always, good to see the guys and nice to meet the aerodynamic jonnypoach.

 

[MrMagic]

man am i glad to hear others were in the bump funk as well , i was there thursday during the day , and i couldnt get anything going for me on the bumps,, now i know there is a few more people who felt the haze, i know it must of been the lines or the snow, hope it gets better for next wed, night as i will be joining you guys again

 

[Grassi21]

Yeah, i noticed the snowmaking whales getting bigger on monday. there are some serious dropoffs in a couple of places. makes for some interesting line choices.

Interesting line selection? Bah. You should have seen me on some of those drop offs with one foot in the trough and the other on an oddly shaped bump. Good thing I do Yoga.

 

[Greg]

man am i glad to hear others were in the bump funk as well , i was there thursday during the day , and i couldnt get anything going for me on the bumps,, now i know there is a few more people who felt the haze, i know it must of been the lines or the snow, hope it gets better for next wed, night as i will be joining you guys again

I had a few good stretches of somewhat decent skiing. I still had to stop in the middle or make a sweeping line correction every time though. This year's bumps don't lend themself well to smooth top to bottom runs, unlike last year. Good challenge though. I actually wouldn't mind seeing N'E rebuilt too before the final mow-down at the end of February. There is a lot of snow in there. I feel like I've been skiing the same line for the past 5 weeks. New seeds would make it seem like a different run.