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Date(s) Skied: Monday, 2/26/2007, 7:10 pm - 10:00 pm
Resort or Ski Area: Ski Sundown, New Hartford, CT
Conditions: Packed powder, some scratchies, Temps in the 20's/near 30, Light to moderately accumulating snow.
Trip Report: Tonight would prove to be a bizaare night. It started off on my old 182 cm K2 Axis X Pros as the AC3s are in the shop. Skis felt pretty good and more nimble than I remembered. Got to the top of the bumps on Nor'easter and noticed they were all flattened out! :blink: Not groomed totally, but certainly knocked down. Really no consistent lines to be found.
Met up with Grassi21 and we took a few runs on Nor'easter. Chris looked pretty good through the now bumplets so in a sense the flattening of them a bit was good for him. Next weird thing to happen was at the bottom of the Exhibition bumps. Just hanging at the bottom waiting for Chris when a kid on a snowboard plows right into me. I didn't even see it coming which was probably a good thing. He took me out at the legs and knocked a ski off as he spun down the trail to my left. I basically just went from a standing to sitting position with no damage done. He looked like his bell was rung a bit though. My immediate reaction was to ask if he didn't see me just standing there. He asked if I was okay. I did the same and that was that. Luckily the kid was 100 lbs. at best. I would have been pissed if I was injured less than a week before my MRV trip.
Met up with Pat shortly after 8 pm and he was pretty disappointed with the bump situation. We lapped Nor'easter anyway. Chris hung with us until about 8:30 and Pat skied for another hour. My final four runs were solo on Gunbarrel which was fun to hit at a good clip on the old sticks, Tom's Treat, and finally two runs on Nor'easter. On my second to last run, I wiped out and slammed hard on a bump. No damage done, but it confirmed I do not like the longer skis in the bumps. After my final run I looked back up Nor'easter and wondered if the bumps would be any good again this season. Kind of running out of time. I doubt they'll reseed them now. Oh well. It was good while it lasted...
About 3/4" of snow on my car when I left tonight. The snow surface was nice all night.
Resort or Ski Area: Ski Sundown, New Hartford, CT
Conditions: Packed powder, some scratchies, Temps in the 20's/near 30, Light to moderately accumulating snow.
Trip Report: Tonight would prove to be a bizaare night. It started off on my old 182 cm K2 Axis X Pros as the AC3s are in the shop. Skis felt pretty good and more nimble than I remembered. Got to the top of the bumps on Nor'easter and noticed they were all flattened out! :blink: Not groomed totally, but certainly knocked down. Really no consistent lines to be found.
Met up with Grassi21 and we took a few runs on Nor'easter. Chris looked pretty good through the now bumplets so in a sense the flattening of them a bit was good for him. Next weird thing to happen was at the bottom of the Exhibition bumps. Just hanging at the bottom waiting for Chris when a kid on a snowboard plows right into me. I didn't even see it coming which was probably a good thing. He took me out at the legs and knocked a ski off as he spun down the trail to my left. I basically just went from a standing to sitting position with no damage done. He looked like his bell was rung a bit though. My immediate reaction was to ask if he didn't see me just standing there. He asked if I was okay. I did the same and that was that. Luckily the kid was 100 lbs. at best. I would have been pissed if I was injured less than a week before my MRV trip.
Met up with Pat shortly after 8 pm and he was pretty disappointed with the bump situation. We lapped Nor'easter anyway. Chris hung with us until about 8:30 and Pat skied for another hour. My final four runs were solo on Gunbarrel which was fun to hit at a good clip on the old sticks, Tom's Treat, and finally two runs on Nor'easter. On my second to last run, I wiped out and slammed hard on a bump. No damage done, but it confirmed I do not like the longer skis in the bumps. After my final run I looked back up Nor'easter and wondered if the bumps would be any good again this season. Kind of running out of time. I doubt they'll reseed them now. Oh well. It was good while it lasted...
About 3/4" of snow on my car when I left tonight. The snow surface was nice all night.
