Day 19 - Greek Peak

Out 8:40 to 2:00 with lunch at my locker; overcast and warm with light misting most of the day; 18 runs, 14,500 vertical; skied the 2019 Head i.Speed GS Cheater 17's and the Atomic Redster G9 RS's; soft and carvable leftovers after last night's rain.

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Day 18 - Greek Peak

Out 9:45 to 2:00 with lunch in the bar; cloudy and warm with intermittent rain showers; 24 runs; 17,758 vertical; skied the 2019 Head i.Speed GS Cheater 17's; soft and carvable; pretty good sized crowd.

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Day 17 - Greek Peak

Out 9:30 to 2:30 with lunch in the bar; increasing clouds and temps - temps rose into the upper thirties; 23 runs; 18,000 vertical; skied the 2012 Volkl RaceTiger SL World Cups; ever firming groomers; good sized crowd; skiing horribly.

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Day 16 - Greek Peak

$10 Day; huge crowd; one and done.

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Day 15 - Hunter Mountain

Out 9:00 to 1:45 with lunch in the bar; overcast with temps around 30° and some wind; 18 runs; 28,030 vertical; skied the Head i.Speed GS Cheater 17's; frozen chunks, rocks and dirt; nobody else out; snowmaking restarted all over the mountain this morning after yesterday's rain; skiing in new boots requires way too much buckling and unbuckling.

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Day 14 - Greek Peak

Out 8:30 to 2:00 with lunch in the bar; warm, cloudy and windy with the incoming rain storm threating all day; 23 runs; 17,316 vertical; skied the 2019 Head i.Speed GS Cheater 17's; soft snow with lots of dirt; except for the GPSC kids not many people out; suprisingly good today - Odyssey was fun.

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Day 13 - Greek Peak

Out 9:30 to 2:00 with a quick ski change and bite to eat at the car; warm and sunny with temps rising toward 50°; 23 runs; 17,260 vertical; skied the Atomic Redster G9 RS's and the 2019 Head i.Speed GS Cheater 17's; frozen marbles generally, but a few places (Elysian Fields) softened to some creamy goodness in the afternoon sun; nobody else out early, a few more people later.

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Day 12 - Greek Peak

Out 9:30 to 12:00 without a break; partly sunny with temps in the low thirties and very little wind; 14 runs, 18,460 vertical; skied the Atomic Redster G9 RS's; frozen groomers with tons of chunks; nobody else out; 2 days on race skis and in new boots has me thrashed.

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Day 11 - Greek Peak

Out 9:30 to 3:00 with lunch in the car; overcast with temps around freezing and no wind; 24 runs; 18,469 vertical; skied the 2019 Head i.Speed GS Cheater 17's and the Atomic Redster G9 RS's; crunchy groomers; very few people; first day in new boots - Lange World Cup RS ZB's - they're stout.

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Day 10 - Greek Peak

Out 8:30 to 11:00, no break; cloudy and warm, no wind; 13 runs; 9,841 vertical; skied the Blizzard Bonafides; no grooming overnight was an excellent choice - firm but skiable this morning despite the warm temps overnight; Odyssey was good again; skied with a new guy named Ron.

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Day 9 - Greek Peak

Out 12:00 to 3:00 with no break after having a Dr's appt this morning; skies clearing to late afternoon sunshine with temps in the upper forties; 15 runs; 11,302 vertical; skied the Blizzard Bonafides; soft snow; Odyssey was excellent; Elyesian Fields wasn't too bad either.

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Day 8 - Hunter Mountain

Out 9:00 to 2:00 with lunch in the car; cloudy with intermittent flurries, temps around freezing and little to no wind; 24 runs; 31,482 vertical; skied the Blizzard Bonafides; snowmaking on groomers; some people - no liftlines.

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Day 7 - Hunter Mountain

Out 9:00 to 1:45 with lunch in the lodge; overcast with temps around freezing and a little breeze; 25 runs; 31,111 vertical; skied the Blizzard Bonafides; resurfacing in progress after this weekend's rain; nobody else out, except the Tomessettis.

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Day 6 - Greek Peak

Out 9:15 to 11:45; foggy and rainy with temps in the thirties; 15 runs; 11,266 vertical; skied the Blizzard Bonafides; soft man made; Fields-Stoic and Odessey today.

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Day 5 - Hunter Mountain

Out 9:15 to 1:00 with lunch in the lodge; early sunshine dimming to overcast by the time I left; 16 runs; 19,992 vertical; skied the Blizzard Bonafides; soft snowmaking; a few more slopes today; the snowmaking on the pitch of Overlook was stellar.

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Day 4 - Hunter Mountain

Out 9:15 to 1:15 with lunch in the lodge; mostly sunny with a temps rising toward freezing and a little breeze; 15 runs; 23,433 vertical; skied the Volkl Mantras; excellent man made snow - cohesive but soft; very few people especially after lunch.

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Day 3 - Greek Peak

Out 9:15 to 11:15; clear, cool and windy - temps in the thirties; 11 runs; 8,494 vertical; skied the old Blizzard Brahmas; much better snow today - much better grooming today; much better crowd today; skied hard enough to have a little shin bang on my right shin.

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Day 2 - Greek Peak

Out 9:15 to 10:30; skied the old Blizzard Brahmas; just 6 runs; 4,689 vertical; it got crowded real quick, so I left; frozen, thin, variable; different trail rollout this year - Karyatis - Meadows - Plutonic, i.e. the Chicken Trail and not Fields - Stoic.

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Day 1 - Big Snow

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Day 32 - Greek Peak

Out 9:30 to 2:15; 24 runs; 16,912 vertical

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Day 31 - Greek Peak

Out 9:30 to 1:45; 21 runs; 15,697 vertical

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Day 30 - Okemo

Out 9:00 to noon; 14 runs; 9,952 vertical; skied the Blizzard Bonafides and the Atomic Redster G9 RS Revoshocks; NASTAR - 15.12 hcp Platinum

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Day 29 - Mt. Snow

Out 9:00 to 11:30, 9 runs; 9,932 vertical; 3 ft plus overnight - legit!; skied the DPS Alchemist Lotus 124's; powder and lightly groomed deep sonw; delayed openings all over the mountain; North Peak closed all day :( ; lots of front-side trees.

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Day 28 - Greek Peak

Out 9:30 to 1:00; snowing hard - 4"+ by the time I left; 14 runs; 9,597 vertical; skied the DPS Alchemist Lotus 124's; powder.



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Day 27 - Greek Peak

Out 9:30 to 3:00; 26 runs; 19,254 vertical

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Day 26 - Greek Peak

Out 9:30 to 1:30; 22 runs; 15,733 vertical

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Day 25 - Greek Peak

Out 9:30 to 2:15; 25 runs; 18,370 vertical

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Day 24 - Greek Peak

Out 10:00 to 2:00; 18 runs; 13,832 vertical

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Day 23 - Greek Peak

Out 9:45 to 2:30; 24 runs; 18,510 vertical

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Day 22 - Seven Springs

Out 8:30 to 9:30; 9 runs; 5,806 vertical; absolutely horrible - maybe the worst mid-season conditions I've ever skied

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Day 21 - Greek Peak

Out 9:45 to 2:00; 22 runs; 16,528 vertical

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Day 20 - Greek Peak

Out 9:30 to 2:00 with a quick ski change break in the car for lunch; cloudy with a little wind and temps in the thirties; 22 runs; 17,013 vertical; skied the Head i.SG RD's and the Atomic Redster GS RS Revoshocks; nice groomers; a few people in the PM; highest speed I've recorded in a least 5 years - tucking Odyssey on my SG skis in a suit with some decent light - too bumpy to do a low tuck top-to-bottom - if it was smoother I believe I could get close to 80 mph.

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Day 19 - Greek Peak

Out 9:30 to 2:30 with lunch in the car; heavy overcast with little to no wind and temps in the thirties; 26 runs; 20,312 vertical; skied the Atomic Redster G9 RS's; groomers; very few people; Chair 1 today, so I did all Odyssey runs since I didn't have to push; rode chair 13 too, algthough I didn't get a picture.

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Day 18 - Greek Peak

Out 1:30 to 4:30; cloudy with some broken sunshine poking through now and again, temps around 20°; 13 runs; 10,341 vertical; skied the 2019 Head i.Speed GS Cheater 17's;

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Day 17 - Greek Peak

Out 9:30 to 2:00 with lunch in the car; lightly falling snow with temps in the low twenties - maybe 2" total; 20 runs; 15,820 vertical; skied the Head i.SG RD's and the Atomic Redster G9 RS's; tuck runs on Oddyssey - sort of; only 61.5 mph max.

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Day 16 - Greek Peak

Out 9:30 to 2:30 with a lunch break in the car; light snow, then some very light freezing rain; Atomic Redster G9 RS Revoshocks; 26 runs; 20,373 vertical; all 26 runs today on Odyssey; these skis are very good.

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Day 15 - Greek Peak

Softly falling snow most of the morning - 2" or so; busy, busy, busy; Odyssy was good again; made it to Chair 5 today; lots of good skiers on the hill today; I love the Revoshocks; 19 runs; 14,652 vertical.

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Day 14 - Greek Peak

Happy Birthday Mom! Heavy snow all day - 3"+ when I left; skied the Blizzard Bonafides; busy; Illiad and Odyssy were stellar; 18 runs; 14,091 vertical.

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Day 13 - Greek Peak

out 10:30 to 2:30 with lunch in the car; rain and snow with temps in the low thirties and a tiny bit of wind - an inch of wet sticky snow on top; 16 runs, 12,144 vertical; skied the Atomic Redster G9 RS's; a few people out despite the weather; made it to Chair 4 and Trojan was pretty good; skied with David before lunch; my wax didn't help at all today - I felt like I was actually glued to the ground much of the time.

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Day 12 - Greek Peak

Out 12:30 to 4:45 with a quick dry off break in the car; on and off rain with a tiny bit of wet snow for about 2 minutes - no wind; 20 runs; 15,340 vertical; skied the Volkl RaceTiger SL World Cups; lots of good snow, but plenty of running water; more people out that I would have thought for a rainy Wednesday afternoon; skied okay I guess.

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Day 11 - Hunter Mountain

Out 9:15 to 1:00 with lunch in the bar; more rain overnight - it ended with a light frosting of sticky snow on the very top of the hill - heavy overcast with light flurries and temps around freezing today; 16 runs; 24,065 vertical; nobody else out; the ungroomed runs that were open seemed to have weathered all this warmth and rain better that all the groomers we were doing this week during camp; today GS race was cancelled, dare I say obviously; top-to-bottoms all day, The Cliff-Bleeker St-Eisenhower was fun.

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Day 10 - Hunter Mountain

Mid Atlantic Race Camp Day 4. Out 9:00 to 2:45 with lunch in the cafeteria again; heavy rain overnight, but no rain and cooling temps today - temps might actually get back below freezing tonighyt; 13 runs; 6,360 vertical; skied the Atomic Redster G9 RS's; conditions continue to deteriorate - Hunter races cancelled; nobody else out again; GS in Doug Lewis' group, actually skied okay.

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Day 9 - Hunter Mountain

Only out 9:00 to 11:30 - had to go home and pick up the speed suits I forgot; 5 runs; overcast with temps in the fifties again; 6,240 vertical; skied the Atomic Redster G9 RS's; more wet snow, snirt and running water; nobody else out again - given the weather it's not surprising; GS training in Jim T's group - we replaced Tobi and ? with Peter and Scott.

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Day 8 - Hunter Mountain

Mid-Atlantic Masters Race Camp Day 2. Out 9:00 to 2:30 with lunch in the cafetereia again, warm and rainy with temps in the lower fifties; 13 runs; 7,197 vertical; skied the 2015 Volkl RaceTiger SL World Cups; soft snow, slush, snirt and running water; nobody else out today; SL training again - Lisa D B's group with the same group as yesterday; actually skied okay;

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Day 7 - Hunter Mountain

Mid-Atlantic Masters Race Camp Day 1. Out 9:00 to 2:30 with lunch in the cafeteria in the main lodge; overcast and warm with temps in the upper forties; 13 runs; 8,416 vertical; skied the 2015 Volkl RaceTigerSL World Cups; slush, snirt and plenty of running water; in John P.'s group with Dave W., Alex, Lisa and Bill Z., Tobi, and Steve; took a little while to get my feet back under me this morning.

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