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Sundown Jan 16th 2010

bvibert

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Beautiful day at Sundown today. Saw a few of the crew around at various points today. The word on the street was that the moguls were still pretty firm despite the warm weather today. After my shift I just had to check it out for myself, at the worst possible time... I managed to get out just as the sun was going down, dropping the temperature and flash freezing anything that may have softened up during the day. Combine that with the flat light at that time of day and I had a slightly less than awesome time. The first run down Temptor wasn't too bad, still some light to see at least. After that it was kind of like skiing by feel, even the push piles on the groomed trail were interesting when you couldn't see them until you were on top of them, with the dropping temps they were solidifying pretty nicely too. Anyway I took 3 runs down Temptor, with varying degrees of gaperness, and then had the bright idea to head down gunny for my last run. After that I was done.

One pic of the left line on Temptor:
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So sorry. Thought you had kids. My bad. Thought you had kids that skied with you.

I do have kids, 2 and 4, they weren't skiing with me today though. I was working and got out for 4 runs after work. I posted this thread to let my fellow Sundown bump skiers know how they were skiing... Sorry it's too boring for you...
 

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I do have kids, 2 and 4, they weren't skiing with me today though. I was working and got out for 4 runs after work. I posted this thread to let my fellow Sundown bump skiers know how they were skiing... Sorry it's too boring for you...

Someone piss in your cheerios this morning? :lol:
 

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I do have kids, 2 and 4, they weren't skiing with me today though. I was working and got out for 4 runs after work. I posted this thread to let my fellow Sundown bump skiers know how they were skiing... Sorry it's too boring for you...

Jeeze take it easy on WBM.
 

Harkin Banks

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Hey Guys-

I skied the bumps at Sundown mid day yesterday. They never really got soft. Pretty hard and icy. So, you didn't miss much IMHO.

For me it was the first day out of the year. Despite the conditions I did about eight full runs in the bumps. Wow, am I sore now. On the good side I would say that the bump lines were not bad. There was actually a little rhythm to them.

-Chris Mo'
 

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I got there around 2:30, skied til around 4. Left line at the sweeper bumps has gotten a little funky, started throwing me sideways a little. Last couple runs were down stinger, you need some pretty good speed to hit that jump.
 
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