Sundown Bump or Bust III - 3/22/09

[deadheadskier]

I look forward to it in the AM. Up at 5, another fun filled day tomorrow of fake smiles and fending off snake oil salesman at a trade show. Can't wait to see it.

Though I've never met her, bummer to hear about 180's wife getting hurt. Hope to read it's nothing too serious.

 

[downhill04]

Wait did the screw up mean 180 didn't qualify?

 

[Trekchick]

I'm out of popcorn, while waiting for this TR.
Shall I pop some more?

 

[powhunter]

One observation that I had was once the duals started...Whover was the fastest went on to the next round...didnt seem like turns, air and speed were judged collectively...Anyways had a great time today Congrats to the Azers that qualified and made it to latter rounds!!!

steveo

 

[bvibert]

Great day! Sundown really deserves big props for putting on a great event, cramming so much stuff into such little time was impressive. There were a few small problems, and the deal with 180 really sucked, but overall it was great. Hopefully they can iron out the details for next time.

Lots of great talent there today. It was great to see the Meatheads there, especially The Hammer and Radio Ron. Everyone seemed to really like what Sundown had going on, it's not too often you can get guys to head south to ski in CT!

There's so much more to be said, but I'm too spent to get it out of my head right now.

I wouldn't anticipate any video from me until tomorrow night. Aside from the fact that I'm so beat, Carrie is hogging the computer that I do video processing on...

 

[mondeo]

I'm out of popcorn, while waiting for this TR.
Shall I pop some more?

3 hours for Greg to edit, 3 hours for Vimeo to upload...

I'm gonna wait til morning.

 

[bvibert]

One observation that I had was once the duals started...Whover was the fastest went on to the next round...didnt seem like turns, air and speed were judged collectively...

I don't know if that was necessarily true. I saw at least a couple duals where the guy who crossed the line first wasn't the one to move on. It was usually pretty obvious that faster guy was just blasting down with little control though.

 

[powhunter]

How did pat do in the 2nd round??

 

[2knees]

i'll add more later but my quick recap is this.

The talent there was out of this world. I knew the grand for first place would draw people, but shit that was a top notch field.

Personally, i couldnt be happier, I qualified 11th. won a round and then lost a very close duel with someone who had a bye in the first round. not bad for a hack like me.

The hammer was killing it today.

iceman is gonna be an olympic gold medal winner.

sundown rocks.

alan got screwed.

great day, most importantly.

 

[RootDKJ]

Randy "The Hammer" Grasso. And deservedly so. Unbelievable talent there today. Top skiers from both Killington (no Highway Star ) and Hunter in attendance. More later.

REALLY...HighwayStar wasn't there to show you CT skiers how it's really done....shocking

 

[Trekchick]

Sev, how did you do in the competition

 

[bvibert]

Oh yeah, I need to add this, just for Jarrod:

The third bump down on the right, after the kicker, totally sucked!

 

[severine]

Sev, how did you do in the competition

:lol: Didn't even try today. Sore knee. Though my toppling over the exposed ledge at the top of the trail was entertaining. I don't think I've ever been offered so much care after a spill before. Thanks, guys! My arm is sore now, and I swore I broke it when I landed on it, but I'm okay.

Still trying to get a few pics up. RAW files are HUGE and I have to process them twice (first to convert, then to cut down on the size) so it takes a lot of time.

 

[severine]

Radio Ron caught me trying to sneak a few shots and mugged it up instead. (Too bad I had the zoom lens on.)

These kids wanted to be filmed and photographed by everyone. I guess I'm a sucker.

 

[2knees]

and i found JimG! i can change my sig.

nice seeing you Jim, it had been too long.


Al, please post an update on your wife when you get one. The response by the ski patroller barely 20 feet away was disappointing at best.

 

[RootDKJ]

Radio Ron caught me trying to sneak a few shots and mugged it up instead. (Too bad I had the zoom lens on.)

These kids wanted to be filmed and photographed by everyone. I guess I'm a sucker.

who's who in these pics?

 

[severine]

Nobody from AZ. The dude in the one-piece is Radio Ron from Meathead Films.

Working on the LOOOOOOOOOOOOONG list of other photos.

 

[bvibert]

who's who in these pics?

Radio Ron is in the purple one piece, the rest I mostly don't know and aren't AZer's, or anyone that an AZer is likely to know.

 

[RootDKJ]

Radio Ron is in the purple one piece, the rest I mostly don't know and aren't AZer's, or anyone that an AZer is likely to know.

aww crap... I was hoping for some shots of the Sundown AZ gaper crew :-D;-)

 

[bvibert]

aww crap... I was hoping for some shots of the Sundown AZ gaper crew :-D;-)

There are more coming, Carrie is trying to sort through about 800 photos that she took today.