Out 8:30 to 12:00 without a break; warm with a growing overcast and temps right at freezing - no wind really; 10 runs, 15,623 vertical; Atomic D2 3.0 Race GS's; groomer; big crowd; Team Summit Masters - 5 runs through a 15 gate GS course on Richtor; very little snow kicked up in photo #2.
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 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 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 2:00 with a coffee break at Solitude Station; sunny and warm with no wind, 20° in the parking lot this AM and 43° when I left; 25 runs; 43,602 vertical; skied the Atomic D2 3.0 Race GS's; groomers; not much of a crowd; Men's NorAm SG today on the Speed Center track; great views from the chair of World Cuppers training GS on West Encore included Petra Vhlova and Lucas Braathen.
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Beer League Week #8 - Finals. Out 4:00 to 6:15 with a quick break back at the car to change skis; cloudy and windy with temps around thirty; 12 runs; 7,458 vertical; skied the Atomic Redster D2 3.0 Race GS's and the Atomic Redster G9 RS's; frozen groomers; not much of a crowd other than all the racers; skied okay; our team (The Ski Shack) took 1st place for the season, I ended up in 7th overall for the season.
8 91 MARTIN BURNS 26.80 (7) 26.60 (8) - 53.40 (8)
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40,000 at the 'Tage! Out 8:50 to 6:15 with a couple of ½ hour breaks in the car; clear, cold and windy to start, then a nice afternoon as the wind died and temps rose into the mid-twenties; 61 runs; 40,358 vertical; skied the Fischer RC4 GS Cheater 18's, the Atomic Redster D2 3.0 Race GS's and the Noridca Enforcer 88's; frozen groomers or snowmaking; standard mid-week, Montage crowd - nobody till 11:00, then a few people till about 2:30, then nobody again till after 5:00 - never a lift line; snowmaking on Smoke - nice early, very wet later on; White Lightning was a firm, crunchy groomer - fantastic on some of my GS skis, so I did it 49 times... I kid you not; took my 3rd fall of the season on Smoke very late in the day.
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Beer League Week 7. Out 3:00 to 6:00 with a quick break at the car to change skis; clear, warm and windy - temps falling into the mid-thirties; 11 runs; 6,541 vertical; skied the Atomic Redster D2 3.0 Race GS's and the Fischer RC4 GS Cheater 18's; frozen groomers in North Face - mushy groomers up top; not too many people; didn't ski particularly well, but didn't ski horribly either.
8 91 MARTIN BURNS 28.58 (10) 27.70 (7) 56.28 (8)
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Beer League Race #6. Out 3:15 to 6:30 with a quick break in the car to change skis; snowing with temps in the low twenties - 3" so far today; 14 runs; 8,275 vertical; skied the Atomic Redster D2 3.0 Race GS's and the Atomic Redster G9 RS's; groomers with some small piles of new snow; pretty good crowd, but with Long Haul running, no real lift lines anywhere; skied horribly again... ... ...; 6-7m offset on such a flat hill sucks regards of distance; 20.51 hcp - Gold.
7 91 MARTIN BURNS 29.97 (8) 29.56 (8) - 59.53 (7)
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Beer League Race #5. Out 3:45 to 6:15 - just long enough for a few warmup runs and my race runs; temps in the twenties with an intermittent wind; 12 runs; 6,000 vertical; skied the Atomic Redster D2 3.0 Race GS's; not too crowded; didn't ski particularly well;
7 91 MARTIN BURNS 27.66 (8) 27.79 (7) - 55.45 (7)
#justgivemeagroomerMid-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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Beer League Race #4. Out 4:00 to 8:30 with a quick stop at the car to change skis after the race; sunny and warm with temps quickly falling into the upper twenties as the sun went down; 19 runs, 10,930 verical; skied the Atomic Redster D2 3.0's, the Atomic Redster G9 RS's and the Nordica Enforcer 88's; soft groomers with the steeps on North Face starting to firm and/or bump; skied okay; could have pulled a really nice result tonight, but I got late and dropped all kinds of time in the bottom half of the Red course and still was only .03 seconds slower than my time in the Blue.
5 91 Martin Burns 27.49 (5)
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Beautiful day, terrible skiing. Out 9:00 to 12:00; clear and coldish, no wind - temps in the teens; 14 runs, 8,630 vertical; skied the Volkl Mantras and the Atomic Redster D2 3.0 Race GS's; excellent conditions - soft groomers and leftover snowmaking; good crowd, but with all the lifts open the only real line was on Iron Horse during NASTAR; leftover snowmaking on Lightning was still marvelous; skied horribly at NASTAR - 21.47 hcp (Gold); okay after looking at the results it wasn't as bad as I thought, only Nicolae Soare and Steve Rheault beat me - I can live with that; today's picture shows the top of Smoke at noon on my way out, still very nice.
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Out 8:40 to 2:45 with a long lunch in the car watching the first run of the Men's Slalom in Schladming; snow to sleet to freeing rain starting at 8:30 this morning; maybe an inch of snow - just enough to cover everything nicely; 32 runs, 22,744 vertical; skied the Atomic Redster D2 3.0 Race GS's and the Line SuperNatural 108's; groomers and leftovers - all with a fresh coating of snow; skied okay; Lightning was excellent again early; skied the new snow along the edges all afternoon; still like the Lines - they're smooth and slinkey; nice to have the #2 GS skis back in the fold with some new bindings after I broke the heel piece on the originals; big winner in today's Fantasy Ski Racer game for the Women's GS in Kronplatz, Italy.
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Out 8:30 to 3:00 with a quick lunch break at the car to change skis; sunny and warm - temps in the upper forties with no wind; 24 runs; 14,621 vertical; skied the Atomic Redster G9 RS's, the 2019 Head i.Speed GS Cheater 17's, and the Atomic D2 3.0 Race GS's; groomers; typical Montage crowd - nobody early and all the newbs arrive around noon; NASTAR today: 9.95 hcp (Platinum).
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Beer League Race #6. 25.47 (3) 12.01 hcp (Platinum)
Out 4:00 to 5:30 just to race; clear and calm with temps in the twenties; 7 runs; 4,280 vertical; skied the Atomic D2 3.0 Race GS's and the Atomic Redster G9 RS's; groomers; Smoke was very good - they blew 2" of smooth chalk on the pitch; good result tonight - beat all the women.
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Ski Bum Race with makeup run from week 1. Out 9:00 to 4:00 with just two quick breaks in the Ski Club Building; clear and cold with a little wind out of the NW - temps in the twenties; 28 runs; 34,383 vertical; skied the Atomic D2 3.0 Race GS's; groomers; lots of people, but no lift lines; plenty of people at Ski Bum though - waited 45 minutes for my first run and almost ½ hour for my second;
Race 1 - 10 151 MARTIN BURNS 25.47 (10) SM5 (2)
Race 2 - 13 151 MARTIN BURNS 26.10 (13) SM5 (4)
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Out 9:15 to 3:00 with coffee at Bear; overcast and warm with temps rising just above freezing - little or no wind; 26 runs; 40,526 vertical; skied the Atomic D2 3.0 Race GS's; frozen granular; a few people, but no lift lines; Bear Claw/Anti-Venom/Wildfire was good, everything else sucked; fucked up my skis today - they need to go to the shop; ski-in/ski-out today - finally.
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