Day 32 - Copper

Out 9:00 to 2:00 with lunch in the Aerie; sunny and warm with temp in the thirties and little to no wind; 20 runs; 33,567 vertical; skied the 2015 Volkl RaceTiger SL World Cups; groomers; lots of people;

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Day 31 - Keystone

Out 8:30 to 11:15 without a break; a cool morning gave way to sunshine and temps in the thirties; 7 runs; 11,283 vertical; soft groomers; tons of people; Team Summit Masters - added Katarina and Takeo - drills.

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Day 30 - Keystone

Out 8:30 to 11:00 without any breaks; sunny with temps quickly rising towards freezing; 6 runs; 9,561 vertical; skied the 2015 Vokl RaceTiger SL World Cups; soft groomers; big crowd; Team Summit Masters Day 1 - Matt, Tanya and me with a new English guy named Maxim; didn't ski well at all.

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Day 21 - Hunter Mountain

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Day 20 - Hunter Mountain

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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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Day 91 - Keystone

Uncle Bob Day 3. Out 8:30 to 12:00, no break; sunny, warm and little windy - temps rising into the low forties; 10 runs, 15,838 vertical; skied the 2015 Volkl RaceTiger SL World Cups; groomer; very few people - absolutely no liftlines other than opening bell; Team Summit Masters - 6 runs through a 40 gate SL course on Richtor; skied poorly; today's pic is of Matt Fox our coach.

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Day 90 - Keystone

Uncle Bob Day 2. Out 8:30 to noon, no break; sunny and warm with a little wind - temps rising through the twenties into the mid-thirties; 10 runs; 15,838 vertical; skied the 2015 Volkl RaceTiger SL World Cups; groomer; dropped Uncle Bob at Breck while I did Keystone - made him ride the bus home; Team Summit Masters - 15 gate GS course on Richtor; actually skied pretty well; didn't look at the schedule and got to the hill ready to train SL when we were actually doing GS.

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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 85 - Keystone

Out 8:30 to 12:00 without a break; clear and cold with the tinyest bit of wind, 3° in the parking lot to start, but 29° when I left; 11 runs; 17,157 vertical; skied the 2015 Volkl RaceTiger SL World Cups; groomer; not too big of a crowd, never a real liftline other than at opening bell; Team Summit Masters - 5 runs through a 35 gate SL course on Richtor; skied horribly.

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Day 74 - Keystone

Out 8:30 to 3:00 with a long lunch in the car; warm and sunny with little to no wind, temps started right at freezing and ended in the forties; 19 runs; 29,798 vertical; skied the 2015 Volkl RaceTiger SL World Cups and the Blizzard Brahma #2's; groomers, many very firm; not much of a crowd; Team Summit Masters - SL on Richtor; first fall of the season today - lost a ski when hooked a gate - went down hard, face first.

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Day 55 - Keystone

Out 8:30 to noon with no break; clear, cold and calm; -7° in the lot this morning, 0° at noon; 13 runs; 11,889 vertical; skied the 2015 Volkl RaceTiger SL World Cups; packed powder; very few people today; Team Summit Masters - 10 runs through a 30 gate SL course on I-70; much better hand and body discipline today - it made the combinations much easier, that's huge; after a review of the video, not much change time wise - still around 10 or 11% slower than Matt.



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Day 54 - Keystone

Out 8:30 to 11:45 with no break; overnight snow ended by 10 o'clock giving us an inch or so - windy and cold too - temps only in the low teens; 12 runs, 7,067 vertical; skied the 2015 Volkl RaceTiger SL World Cups; super soft packed powder; a few people at Peru at the opening bell, but otherwise empty; Team Summit Masters - SL drills on I-70 lapping the A-51 double; completely revamping my SL skiing... hands up, level and square keeping the upper body directly down the corridor never reaching to cross-block - do not let one hand get in front of the other - and as always, forward.

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Day 46 - Keystone

More SL training. Out 8:30 to 11:15 with no break; sunny and warm with temps in the twenties and no wind; 8 runs, 12,712 vertical; skied the 2015 Volkl RaceTiger SL World Cups; not enough of a crowd for any lift lines; Team Summit Masters Training - 5 runs through a tough, 40 gate, SL course on Haywood; groomed packed powder down to the course where a late groom made for some chunks.

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Day 45 - Keystone

Out 8:30 to 11:30 with no break; clear with seasonal temps rising into the teens and no wind - really nice ski day; 7 runs; 11,123 vertical; skied the 2015 Volkl RaceTiger SL World Cups; very few people; excellent parking spot today; Team Summit Masters Training - 4 runs through a 35 gate SL course - Haywood is an excellent training hill for SL; skied okay; my left wrist is a little sore from cross blocking.

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Day 37 - Copper

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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Day 39 - Montage

Mid-Atlantic GS/SL Double Header. Out 8:30 to 4:30 with a quick lunch in the car; sunny and windy with temps in the twenties; 21 runs, 12,339 vertical; skied the Atomic Redster D2 3.0 Race GS's, the Atomic Redster G9 RS's and the 2015 Volkl RaceTiger SL World Cups; huge crowd/long lines; skied horribly in the GS, okay in the SL; 3 women beat me today - both races; 3rd in class in the GS, 2nd in class in the SL.

GS: 29  51  Burns, Martin  Tri-State  M7    43.69 (28)    43.93 (30)  1:27.62 (29)
SL: 17  51  Burns, Martin  Tri-State  M7  1:02.97 (19)  1:03.28 (22)  2:06.25 (17)

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Day 29 - Toggenburg

NYS Masters Race. Out 9:00 to 12:30 with a quick break in the lodge between races; 6" new snow overnight; cold and snowy with a little wind; temps in the teens; 12 runs; 7,200 vertical; skied the 2015 Volkl RaceTiger SL World Cups; powder; skied okay; first run in this morning's pow was very very nice; DFL in class race 1, but with Tomassetti's DNF and Lenda's hike in race 2 I wasn't DFL in class - mission accomplished!

SL #1: 21 21 M7 Martin Burns 48.93 (24) 48.76 (23) - 1:37.69 (21)

SL #2: 19 21 M7 Martin Burns 45.45 (21) 46.32 (20) - 1:31.77 (19) 

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Day 20 - West Mountain

Mid-Atlantic Masters Race Camp Day 4. Out 10:00 to 2:00 with a ½ hour in the car for lunch; partly sunny with temps in the twenties and no real wind; 13 runs; 6,550 vertical; skied the 2015 Volkl RaceTiger SL World Cups; groomers with patches of fresh snowmaking; no real crowd other than the campers and a bunch of West Moutain Jr Racers; odd morning course - full gates on the left, stubbies on the right, then half way down it switched; full course for the afternoon which was full of cute little tricks; good tip on tactics from John Jacobs, adjust the rise line based on changes in direction of the course not changes in terrain like fall-aways; I didn't ski particularly well today - we'll have to see what the video says. Review of the video proves Coach Lisa's adage, 'The rut trumps all.' Two seperate times in a twenty second video I was bounced well off line after going too straight and slamming into the rut, once in the hairpin and again in the flush.

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