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 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 87 - Loveland Valley

Rocky Mountain Masters SL.

11 51 Burns, Martin M8 Team Summit  1:04.45 (10)  1:01.32 (11)  2:05.77 (11)

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Day 45 - West Mountain

Mid-Atlantic Master SL. Out 8:30 to 11:00 with a quick warm up break in the car before my only race run; coating of snow overnight with cloudy skies and temps in the twenties; 6 runs, 5,112 vertical; skied both pair of Volkl RaceTiger SL World Cups; groomers; holiday crowd; skied horribly again; DNF'ed first run and just left.

- 51 Burns, Martin M7 DNF DNS -

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Day 21 - Killington

Out 12:30 to 2:30 with David; a few clouds, temps in the twenties and a little wind; 11 runs; 12,231vertical; skied the 2012 Volkl RaceTiger SL World Cups; groomers of varying firmness's; got to do the Superstar pod for the first time this year.

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Day 9 - Killington

Out with Chris and Aaron, 9:15 to 11:30 with a nice long coffee break in the Peak Lodge to finish off my morning; clear and windy, temps around 20°; 7 runs; 8,595 vertical; skied the 2012 Volkl RaceTiger SL World Cups; groomers; best snow was Upper Bunny, but only got to do it once because the 6 was on wind hold and the guys kept wanting to ride the box instead of the triple - I hate Great Northern.

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Day 86 - Killington

Officially the stickiest day ever. Out 1:45 to 4:15, no break; 2" of glue overnight; clearing skies today with temps in the forties and no wind; 9 runs; 13,000 vertical; skied the 2012 Volkl RaceTiger SL World Cups; soft sticky snow everywhere - I almost had to walk down Sun Dog; the only lift lines were when the chair stopped, which it seemed to do a lot today; Bear Claw-Anti Venom-Wildfire all day; the pictures are the Sunrise Condo Association's groomer working outside the condo this evening.

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Day 44 - Killington

Out just to get the day; 2 runs; 1,959 vertical; skied the 2012 Volkl RaceTiger SL World Cups; zero line at the SPE4 at 1:00.

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Day 31 - Killington

Ski Bum #2. Out 9:10 to 2:00 with a couple of breaks in the ski club building; clear, cold and windy to start, but temps did eventually rise well into the twenties; 16 runs; 18,520 vertical; skied the 2012 Volkl RaceTiger SL World Cups and the Atomic D2 3.0 Race GS's; 3f; got to the Canyon this afternoon for 4 runs on Cascade; did pretty well in today's race - only got beat by 1 girl.

17 151 MARTIN BURNS 23.50 (17) SM5 (2)

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Day 24 - Killington

Out 9:00 to 12:45 with a coffee break in the KSC building; 20° and mostly sunny with a little wind up high; 18 runs; 21,260 vertical; skied the 2012 Volkl RaceTiger SL World Cups and the Head iSpeed GS Cheater 19's; nice carvable groomers with some real crunchy granular on most of the steeps; started at Bear this AM; hopefully ski-in/ski-out by Wednesday; skied all over today - Bear, Needle's, Skye, Canyon, and Snowdon; rode the new Snowdon Six Express for the first time today - very comfortable, but not so fast?

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Day 16 - Killington

Skiing with Bud and Tommy. Out 9:00 to 1:00 with a KBL coffee break; mid-twenties with no wind and an in and out, hazy K Cloud; 15 runs; 15,500 vertical; skied the 2012 Volkl RaceTiger SL World Cups; mostly soft pack - some chunks on Supe; the past 3 days have been a revelation - tuned skis definitely work a whole lot better.



Artic blue

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Day 11 - Killington

Out 8:00 to 11:00 with a warm-up break in KBL; cold and sunny, no wind, -2° at the condo, 5° in the parking lot, 12° when I left; 11 runs, 11,750 vertical; skied the Volkl RaceTiger SL World Cups; the groomers were perfection this morning; enjoyed laps in the Canyon and a run down Highline in the sun; saw Jay, Joel, and Jenn in KBL at break - Kevin Ture as well; World Cup VIP tickets for this weekend!

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Day 10 - Killington

Frozen turkey. Out 8:00 to 10:15 with a warm up break in KBL; sunny and cold with a little wind just to top it off (-10° this am); 5 runs; 7,100 vertical; skied the 2012 Volkl RaceTiger SL World Cups; crowd building by the time I left; over dressed and got sweaty; googles iced over inside and out, so I basically skied by brail; left early when I went back out after break and my googles immediately froze over.



Somebody got the goods.

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Day 4 - Killington

Top to bottom today. Out 9:00 to 12:45 with a break in the Peak Lodge; sunny and comfortably warm with temps around freezing and much less wind than yesterday; 17 runs, 12,750 vertical; skied the 2012 Volkl RaceTiger SL World Cups; nice firm, flat groomers; The new Bunny Buster tunnel/bridge ("The Bunnel") is interesting - much more of a left turn than I thought.

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Day 3 - Killington

Mid-winter. Out 10:00 to 11:30 - no break; overcast with temps in the mid-twenties and a stiff breeze; 9 runs; 5,000 vert; skied the 2012 Volkl RaceTiger SL World Cups; fairly soft groomers with plenty of coverage; skied ok; no heart attack on the stairs.

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Day 2 - Killington

Veterns Day crowd. Riding up K-1 I saw the massive line at the NRT, rode directly back down, and went home.



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Day 6 - Killington

On the hill from 9:00 to 12:45 with a ½ hour coffee break in the Peak Lodge; 20° and overcast with a little wind; skied the 2012 Volkl RaceTiger SL World Cups; 21 runs; 15,500 vertical; flat and firm with lots of soft spots under the guns; good crowd, but never a lift line at the triple; more terrain open today - skied High Traverse, Upper Double Dipper, Lower Rim Run and Middle Chute for the first time this year; World Cup prep is coming along nicely - looks almost complete; lots of snowmaking on Snowdon - Upper Bunny, Killink and Upper and Lower Chute - shouldn't be too long till the Snowdon Quad comes online; snowmaking on Lower East Fall too - will probably be a few days before we get to ski it though; splicing the new cable on the Snowdon Triple this morning; skied several runs with Mark B. this morning - we switched skies for 4 or 5 runs - didn't like his Renouns too much, they felt a lot like Tom's old Volkl 5 Stars.



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