Only out for a couple of runs before running some errands; 2" more overnight - blowing snow with temps in the teens; 2 runs; 4,019 vertical; skied the K2 Mindbender 108 Ti's; big crowd; these skis are too GS'y to use in low visibility or in tight terrain - I've got to quit buying this kind of ski; hi mom.
Out 9:00 to 12:30 with a quick lunch break at JJ's; 2" overnight - cold and snowy with a little wind, temps in the teens; 9 runs; 15,171 verical; skied the Blizzard Bonafides; big crowd - moderate lift lines at times, other times it was get right on; made a couple of runs with Isadora after lunch; iced goggles today or I would not have gone inside; county wide mask mandate in all indoor settings effective today - I hope we make it through the season.
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Out 9:00 to 12:00 with a warm-up the hands break in Solitude Station; a little more snow overnight, probably just shy of 2" - overcast, cold and windy with intermittant light snow and temps in the teens; 7 runs; 13,194 vertical; skied the Blizzard Bonafides; packed powder and snowy bumps; good crowd, but only moderate lift lines at Super Bee; 2nd day in a row where my hands got cold immediately, but were fine after I went in and warmed up; feeling much better today.
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out 9:00 to 12:00 with a get dry, coffee break at Solitude Station; 5" more overnight - overcast and cold with a little wind and snow up high, temps in the teens; 8 runs; 12,869 vertical; skied the K2 Mindbender 108 Ti's; powder and packed powder; big crowd, but the lift lines weren't actually too bad - plenty of lifts up high open now to draw people away from the 3 base areas; skied all sorts of steeps, bumps and trees - here's the list of today's black diamonds: Triple Treat, Formidable, CDL 20, Mine Dump, Slip Not, 17 Glade; felt a little better on the new skis today; still a little sick.
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Out 9:00 to 10:45; 4" more overnight - cold, cloudy and windy today with temps in the teens; 5 runs; 8,004 vertical; skied my new K2 Mindbender 108 Ti's; powder and packed powder; big crowd; Alpine was open so I skied Triple Treat and worked up a hell of a sweat; couldn't get the feel for the new skis today, maybe having the totally wrong wax had something to do with it - they're really GS'y for such a light ski; left early after I got damp and started to feel a little sick - coughing and chest congestion; I-70 closed in both directions when I tried to leave, east-bound to Frisco opened after about 45 minutes.
Out 9:00 to 11:00 with Team Summit Masters; cloudy with intermittant snow and a variably stong winds, temps in the twenties; 7 runs; 8,759 vertical; skied the 2015 Volkl RaceTiger SL World Cups; groomers; big crowd - left as soon as we were done; worked on building pressure into the apex but only after the edge change, then absorbing the rebound through to the end of the turn while staying balanced directly over your feet; even with snow forecast for the next two days, and I can't believe I'm saying this, I'm skipping Friday and skiing on Sat instead - I don't think there will be near as many people out Christmas morning.
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Out 9:00 to 11:30 with Team Summit Masters; clear and cold with little to no wind and temps rising into the mid-twenties; 6 runs; 12,211 vertical; skied the Atomic D2 3.0 Race GS's; groomers; big crowd, left as soon as we were done; worked on long leg, short leg.
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Out 9:00 to a little after 11:00; clear and cold with no wind, temps rising toward 20°; 13 runs; 17,884 vertical; skied the Atomic D2 3.0 Race GS's; groomers with a little overhead snowmaking; large, quick arriving crowd - I left as soon as Super B was backed up into the maze; Andy's to Oh No to Rosi's was excellent down to Light's Out; Ptarmigan had the guns running with at least a few hours of last night's snowmaking groomed in perfectly - they even covered the dirt spot they dug up there yesterday with the groomer; Windsong was marvelous again; I still really like these skis.
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Out 9:00 to 11:30 with no break; clear and cold with virtually no wind, single digits to start around twenty when I left, 13 run; 19,651 vertical; skied the Blizzard Bonafides; groomers mostly, a little snowmaking on the side of Vein Glory; tons of people; skied slowly all morning; skipped skiing on Friday to go get my COVID booster; speaking of the pandemic, with the Omicron variant spreading fast I've reinstituted last year's protocol of not using the lodges or gondolas.
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Out 9:00 to 3:00 with lunch at JJ's; 2" overnight - partly cloudy, cold and windy with temps in the single digits to start, rising to the mid-twenties in the afternoon; 19 runs, 37,112 vertical; groomers with just enough snow to fill the ridges and then some - sweet, again; lots of people today - small lift line all day on Super B; Team Summit Masters Freeski - skiing fast with aggression - prep for Isadora who is racing a FIS GS at Vail on Monday; first shot at untracked on Andy's to Ore Deal again today - groomers don't get better than that.
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Out 9:00 to 3:00 with lunch at JJ's; 4" overnight, snow and blowing snow today with temps in the teens and strong winds - several different wind holds today; 14 runs; 26,314 vertical; skied the Volkl Mantra M5's; powder and packed powder; given the snow, not very many people at all; first shot down Andy's to Ore Deal on 4" of untracked snow on top of last night's grooming - sweet; plenty of bumps this morning too - Collage and two untracked on Hallelujah; Team Summit Masters Freeski this afternoon - worked on maximum forward bend in the ankle at the top of the turn, think lightning bolt body position; I enjoyed skiing with Matt and Isadora.
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Out 9:00 to 1:30 with lunch at JJ's; partly cloudy and warm with strong winds, 37° in the parking lot this AM, mid-forties by the time I left; 17 runs; 38,981 vertical; skied the Head i.SG RD's and the Atomic D2 3.0 Race GS's; fairly light crowd - no liftlines at all; you have to ski the fronts of the SG skis, just like everything else.
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Out 9:00 to 3:00 with a coffee break in Solitude Station; clear and sunny with a little wind up high, 11° this morning, mid-thirties this afternoon; 26 runs, 52,383 vertical; skied the Atomic Redster G9 RS Revoshocks; groomers; plenty of people, but plenty of lifts and terrain open too so never any liftlines to speak of; probably the most vertical I've ever skied in 1 day.
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Today marks 1,000 ski days in retirement. Out 9:00 to 12:00 with a warm up break in Solitude Station; 5" overnight - snowy, cold and windy today with temps in the low teens; 8 runs, 11,784 vertical; skied the Blizzard Bonafides; powder and packed powder; huge crowd; Team Summit Masters Freeski - worked on absorbing and extending by linking long turns in the moguls; with all the new snow and mogul runs this week I got very tired again today; dinged my skis pretty good.
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First real powder day of the year. Out 9:00 to 1:00 with coffee in Solitude Station; 6" overnight; overcast with intermittent snow showers, but very little wind - temps in the twenties; 12 runs, 25,206 vertical; skied the Blizzard Bonafides; powder and packed powder; quite a few people out, but the only real liftlines were at Excelerator; 4th or 5th person down Mine Dump - fresh snow in bumps, nice; also did CDL #20 and Hallelujah, both all bumps; with the deep snow and some mogul runs today my legs got tired pretty quick; Speed Center teardown in progress; starting to feel a tiny bit of pain and stiffness in the right knee.
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Out 9:00 to 1:30 with a coffee break in Solitude Station; clear and cold to start with a quickly increasing clouds - completely overcast when I left - temps in the teens to start and twenties when I left; 26 runs; 39,189 vertical; skied the Atomic Redster G9 RS Revoshocks' groomers; lots of people but no lines;
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Out 9:00 to 2:00 with a coffee break at Solitude Station; 4" new snow overnight - cloudy, cold and blustery with intermittent snow flurries and temps in the twenties; 14 runs; 32,102 vertical; skied the Blizzard Bonafides; a couple inches of fresh on last nights groomers; plenty of people, but never a line at Super Bee; SL on Oredeal for Petra today; Ptarmigan first run was silky smooth; I'm skiing pretty well; Ski Tracks is really starting to piss me off - I've had 4 or 5 days now where the GPS recording gets paused and I've missed huge portions of the day.
Out 9:00 to 1:45 with a coffee break in Solitude Station; overcast and colder and a growing breeze from the SW and snow in the forcast - temps rising toward freezing; 16 runs; 28,687 vertical; skied the Atomic D2 3.0 Race GS's; groomers; not many people - no lift lines anywhere today; more Petra today - I got video of this morning's GS, but my phone battery died this afternoon and I missed recording 2 runs off the top of the Speed Track - they took down the B-net on Copperopolis so we could actually see her all the way from the start, across the top flat, down the first pitch and off the big jump at the top; Storm King T-Bar today - had to dodge lots of rocks up there, very little snow; Toyota U.S. Grand Prix practice started today - tons of extremely fast snowboarders on Main Vein on their way to the half pipe today; Dew Tour next weekend so I'm still shutout at the Flyer lot.
Out 9:00 to 3:00 with a coffee break in Solitude Station; sunny, warm and still again - just like every other day this week; 14 runs; 29,737 vertical; skied a borrowed pair of 3 year old Atomic Redster S9 FIS's and the Atomic Redster G9 RS's; huge crowd, but just like yesterday nobody riding Super Bee; first day of Team Summit Masters - I wasn't afforded the luxury of being included on the mailing list so I brought GS skis, hence the need to borrow some SL's; I expect that today was the last of my opportunities to watch Petra Vhlova - I doubt she'll be here when I return next week; 5.
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Out 9:00 to 1:45 with a coffee break in Solitude Station; sunny, warm and still - again; below freezing overnight, but it warmed up to lower fifties today; 19 runs; 39,226 vertical; skied the Blizzard Bonafides; groomers; lots of people but nobody was using Super Bee, I walked right on all day?; a Petra GS/SG doubleheader today; shutout at the Flyer Lot this morning - closed because of the Dew Tour; preping these skis last night I notice a couple of gouges from their day 1 at Breck; passed 500,000 today.
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Out 9:00 to 1:30 with a coffee break in Solitude Station; sunny, warm and still - temps in the mid-twenties this morning, near fifty when I left; 18 runs, 36,264 vertical; skied the brand new Atomic G9 Revoshocks; groomers; lots of people, but no lift lines; the new skis worked well - stable and quiet; Women's SG NorAm's on the Speed Center Track with Vhlova training GS on West Encore again; scared myself with a high speed bobble on Main Vein; primo parking spot this morning.
