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Wachusett night skiing

ozskier

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The equipment sorts bogs you down a litte bit but you quickly learn to compensate for it. If anyone is looking into doing inverted stuff I'd highly suggest taking a trip to the water ramps at placid before hucking yourself around on the snow.

I got a minor injury two years ago, I bruised my coccyx trying something stupid at Mount Snow. Thankfully it was the tail end of the season and it healed up nicely in a couple weeks. This Winter I had all sorts of knee and shin problems. My shins were pretty much done for with all the stress fractures so I decided to take it easy and not compete or hit anything too nasty.

BigBog, that isn't a skirt. C'mon now.
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Sky521 said:
ozskier said:
Watch out sky, you'll see me jumping over the road like this...Lets see Dozer try to take me out when I'm above him!

HEH! Great photo. How much different is it to take off / land with a few extra feet of "sole"?

I don't care to be any "higher" than I already am thank you....(an excuse for being unable to jump with legs only vs ankle flex (as for hoops/rebounding))

I thought you got hurt two years ago not last year?[/quote[/img]
 

sledhaulingmedic

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Skiing Wa certainly has pluses: Price and location. Also, learning to never stop on the hill and be hypervigelent to the hoards of brats and drunken Yahoos keeps it interesting.

The grooming is good and the crowds do thin out later in the night. Conditions are frequently "Sugar on China". Something is better than nothing. We can't all live in SLC and ski 100 days, and it is a big jump in vertical from any of the other Eastern MA areas. It might not be my favorite place to ski, but I've had a lot of fun there at various times.
 

Zand

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Every trip to Wachusett is different. If the crowds are low and there's been good weather lately, the skiing will be excellent. It varies greatly when it's crowded. It can still be good, just a lot of people. Sometimes, 90% of the crowd is beginners and then it heads downhill. The worst is a large crowd during cold weather when there hasn't been much snow. Talk about boilerplate.

Feel free to dig up my TRs from last season. There are a lot of them and they range from opening day on the boilerplate to the day after the blizzard to closing day, 75 degrees and $.25 hotdogs.
 
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