Sundown - 12/11/2010

[Greg]

Great day at the institution with my oldest daughter. Ended up skiing for 4+ hours straight with her which was probably her longest day. Did a bunch of Canyon Run runs and a bunch on the nor'easter bumps. They seeded the rest of the way down. The older bumps are fun. Your typical flat troughs with a small crest for a bump, but the snow was silky smooth and overall a lot of fun. The final 4 or 5 rows are death chunk city, but with some snow making and skier traffic, they'll finish the run off nice. I'll post a few pics of the bumps in a few.

Beautiful day. Cool, but calm and sunny. The snow groomed out nicely. Saw o2jeff, madroch+family and gmcunni skiing, and Brian working.

 

[Greg]

Top:

Middle:

Bottom:

 

[2knees]

going back for the night shift?

 

[Greg]

Nope. Christmas party tonight. Hoping they're open tomorrow for some spring bumps.

 

[Glenn]

I gotta hand it to them...they set up some nice opening weekend bumps. Not many places roll it out like that.

 

[bvibert]

Nope. Christmas party tonight. Hoping they're open tomorrow for some spring bumps.

Not going to happen, sorry...

 

[gmcunni]

Great day at Sundown.. weather was awesome, felt like a spring day and the snow conditions were fantastic. props to Sundown for high quality snow this weekend

skied the afternoon shift. mostly Nor Easter but a couple trips down Canyon Run to check it out. Bumps were a lot fun. The top 2 sections were great. the bumps haven't gotten big yet and the snow was nice and soft which made for terrific conditions. Bottom section was a little hairy but got better as the day went on.

Top to Bottom Bumps on Nor Easter, what more could you ask for on opening weekend.

i took some pictures but they're identical to what Greg already posted. Here's a quickie of the lower section of the hill. Snow was great today.

 

[Greg]

Not going to happen, sorry...

Bummer...glad I got as much time on the bumps yesterday and today as I did.

 

[Greg]

Not many places roll it out like that.

Not many? Try none. Precisely why it's "my kind of mountain". :lol:

 

[o3jeff]

Got out there for my first day of the season today, but sounds like I should of hung around longer to see the rest of the crew. Conditions on all the trails were great(except the cookies on the bottom of NE).

Greg, your girl was flying out there today, and where'd she learn those turns from. I thin I'm going to take up learning how to carve this year cause I certainly wasn't doing to well in the bumps today!

 

[ski_resort_observer]

Looks pretty sweet, for sure. Glad there was the sign in the first pic or I wouldn't have known what those little bumpy things were on the trail. :wink:

 

[SkiDork]

showed the pics to Iceman. He's jealous. Nothing like that at K yet. Tomorrow they're going to build a course for the B comp next weekend. I'm gonna help shovel.

Sounds like a good time down there.

 

[gmcunni]

Got out there for my first day of the season today, but sounds like I should of hung around longer to see the rest of the crew.

sorry i missed you Jeff, what time did you leave?

 

[Warp Daddy]

Good Show guys , glad you got after it !!

 

[o3jeff]

sorry i missed you Jeff, what time did you leave?

I took off a little before noon.

 

[severine]

Definitely some stellar conditions tonight! I'm LOVING this season so far!

 

[2knees]

had a blast tonight. so awesome to have that hill 35 minutes down the road. thanks to sully and crew for getting nor easter set up for us. quick vid is uploading now.

snow surface was amazing. mid winter surfaces without the crowds.

 

[severine]

That was quick! Nice job, 2knees! You guys look good!

 

[Greg]

had a blast tonight. so awesome to have that hill 35 minutes down the road. thanks to sully and crew for getting nor easter set up for us. quick vid is uploading now.

snow surface was amazing. mid winter surfaces without the crowds.

Drunk off my ass my ass from the Christmas party, but I had to log into the PC when I saw there was a vid from tonight. Nice! I think there might be video from 2007 or so on Nor'easter with similar early season bumps where Brian is skiing them at about 1/millionth of the speed he was tonight... :lol: Nice work big man! :beer:

 

[gmcunni]

how was the lighting? seems plenty bright in the video, any dark spots on the trail?