Ski Sundown 1/30/08 (night)

[Beetlenut]

Wow, nice skiing guys!! Of course it helps not having ice in the troughs, or any troughs for that matter. Mr. Evil I wouldn't have even known that was you without the title put up in the video by Brian. You've really been working I see. I've been wanting to make another Wed night, still waiting for the planets to align just right at home. Did they completely knock down the old bump fields and re-seed from scratch? The bumps looked much friendlier in that video! You guys are really improving fast. I'm going to have to try and make it back up there in the next few weeks while the bumps are still hospitable!

 

[Grassi21]

Wow, nice skiing guys!! Of course it helps not having ice in the troughs, or any troughs for that matter. Mr. Evil I wouldn't have even known that was you without the title put up in the video by Brian. You've really been working I see. I've been wanting to make another Wed night, still waiting for the planets to align just right at home. Did they completely knock down the old bump fields and re-seed from scratch? The bumps looked much friendlier in that video! You guys are really improving fast. I'm going to have to try and make it back up there in the next few weeks while the bumps are still hospitable!

You are correct. They reseeded both Nor Easter and Exhibition. Ex was seeded wider and longer than the time you were there.

 

[jack97]

Nice skiing!

Keep it up, skiing with good tech makes moguls addictive. Yesterday, I went to Sunapee after the "Ugh" event / freezing niar. The place was covered with ice (the clear stuff), lift towers and trees looked as if it got coated with over an inch or more. They had to delay opening the summit quad to break off the ice from the lift towers and waited till 1:00 pm to open sunbowl. Operations wanted the cats to have some traction to get to these trails at the bowl, so they waited till mid morning for things to soften up. Overall, they did a great job of getting all the trail in good shape. But they left the moguls alone, the ice storm left a frozen/hard granular surface. Not totally smooth but it had some texture to make it "edgable". Basically, I could not handle the upper section of goose b/c the bumps had high cliffs. The mid and lower sections, I did better, i was able to get good rhythm. Over at the liftline moguls, that trail has a lower angle pitch, no problem with speed control or where I wanted to go. I couldn't have done that last season with those conditions.

 

[MR. evil]

Mr. Evil I wouldn't have even known that was you without the title put up in the video by Brian. You've really been working I see. !

Thanks! Hopefully you can make a Wed. bump night soon.

Of course it helps not having ice in the troughs, or any troughs for that matter. . Did they completely knock down the old bump fields and re-seed from scratch? The bumps looked much friendlier in that video!

Actually those bumps were REALLY icy when we shot this vid, especially the new bumps on Noreaster. They were like small piles of concrete. For the time being until they get skied in, they are also spaced pretty funky. I really mis the old bumps on NE. But the new bumps on EX are only about two week old are great, much better than they were when you joined us on bump night.

 

[jack97]

Actually those bumps were REALLY icy when we shot this vid.....

In the vid, I saw some snow flying at the end of the turns and saw some tracks.

What I skied on yesterday was frozen hard granular, only a couple of us were skiing goose and liftline, nobody was leaving tracks, no loose snow, maybe an occasional granular crust was flying by the end of the day.

I don't want to make this an ego thing and was really hesitant about posting, my intent was to say that the techniques Dipiro outlines and what the world cup bumpers are using is solid stuff. I 've seen it done by others, skiing down the fall line a real icy bump run, it just makes more of an impact to me when I experience a little of it myself.

 

[Beetlenut]

Thanks! Hopefully you can make a Wed. bump night soon.

Actually those bumps were REALLY icy when we shot this vid, especially the new bumps on Noreaster. They were like small piles of concrete. For the time being until they get skied in, they are also spaced pretty funky. I really mis the old bumps on NE. But the new bumps on EX are only about two week old are great, much better than they were when you joined us on bump night.

I'm toying with the idea of trying to make this Wed night (2/6). Weather looks to be interesting for that night. Might be warm, might have r@*n. Would make the bumps fun though. I'll be watching the forcast the next few days.

 

[Greg]

I'm toying with the idea of trying to make this Wed night (2/6). Weather looks to be interesting for that night. Might be warm, might have r@*n. Would make the bumps fun though. I'll be watching the forcast the next few days.

I like the way you think.