Day 6 - Keystone

Out 9:00 to 1:00 no breaks; warm and sunny with increasing wind and overcast - temps through the thirties; 14 runs; 31,606 vertical; skied the Fischer RC4 GS Cheater 18's; 3f; lots of people - small line a couple of times; top to bottom today - 2.8 miles in about 6 ½ minutes; skiing okay.

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Day 5 - Keystone

Out 9:00 to 11:30; clear, calm and sunny with temps in the mid-thirties; 9 runs; 15,003 vertical; skied the Fischer RC4 GS Cheater 18's; conditions starting to firm to East Coast standards - totally 3f; big crowd; didn't like the Fischers near as well as the Brahmas on virtually identical conditions; found out today that they open at 8:30 on Friday's; I packed the suncreen in my boot bag back at home, when I opened the lid in the parking lot this AM it very quickly oozed out about 10% of the bottle.

Breck from Keystone

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Day 57 - Montage

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. #justgivemeagroomer    

Day 53 - Montage

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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Day 51 - Montage

out 9:00 to 12:15, no break; overcast with temps right at freezing - snow showers left a thick coating of sticky, wet snow; 23 runs; 15,692 vertical; skied the Blizzard Brahma #2's and the Fischer RC4 GS Cheater 18's; groomers; not much of a crowd - no lift line at all; skied with David W. till about 11:00, then finished off by myself; skied okay; Boomer excellent again - Smoke excellent as well; the Fischers skied very well the past two days.

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Day 50 - Montage

Out 9:00 to 2:45 with a long lunch break in the car; snow all day - first flakes at 9:00 with snow starting in earnest at 10:00 and then letting up significantly by 1:00 - 3"+ total; 33 runs; 22,503 vertical; skied the Fischer RC4 GS Cheater 18's and the Nordica Enforcer 88's; groomers with new snow; pretty busy for a Monday, but no lift lines; Boomer was exceptional today - groomed perfection kept soft with the new falling snow; didn't ski particularly well. #justgivemeagroomer    

Day 33 - Montage

Beer League Race #3. Out 4:15 to 6:45 with a quick break back at the car to change skis and warm up; clear, cold and windy - temps in the teens, NW wind straight up the race hill; 10 runs; 6,191 vertical; skied the Fischer RC4 GS Cheater 18's and the Atomic Redster G9 RS's; snowmaking on Lightning and Boomer, otherwise groomers; skied ok; beat all the women;

7 91 Martin Burns 29.33 (7)

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Day 7 - Killington

So ends part 1 of my ski season - it's mostly Montage and NY state day trips from here. Out 9:00 to 4:00 with just a ½ hour in the car for lunch; an early, high level K Cloud gave way to a sunny, pleasant day with temps just above freezing - the wind did pick up a bit toward the end of the day; 41,692 vertical; 34 runs; skied the Fischer RC4 The Curv's and the Blizzard Brahma #2's; nice groomers at opening bell that got pretty scratchy as the day wore on - a little new snowmaking thrown in just for fun at the end of the day when they dropped the rope on Lower East Fall; huge crowd early that thinned out by the afternoon; after due consideration I've decided that I've absolutely ruined the Fischers by having them ground flat (0° base bevel) - I won't make that mistake any more; didn't ski particularly well today; looong drive home after a looong day on the hill.



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Day 38 - Killington

Out 9:20 to 3:00 with lunch at Bear; overcast with temps rising toward freezing and a stout wind, especially up high; 25 runs, 40,570 vertical; skied the Fischer RC4 GS Cheater 18's; granular on crust; very light crowd - not surprising given all the rain; Bear Claw/Anti-Venom/Wildfire was very good - everything else sucked.

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Day 31 - Killington

Out 8:00 to 3:00 with coffee at Bear and lunch in the bar at Snowshed; temps around 20° with increasing winds and clouds; 29 runs; 34,166 vertical; skied the Fischer RC4 GS Cheater 18's; firm groomers; tons of people; skied with Bud and Tom; Bear opened today; spent way too much time waiting for Tommy this morning.

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Day 30 - Killington

Out 11:00 to 2:30 with coffee in the Ski Club building; clear, cold and very windy - below 0° overnight, at or just above 0° today - winds 25 mph + all day; 13 runs; 16,869 vertical; skied the Fischer RC4 GS Cheater 18's; firm, wind-blown groomers; very few people out; wind holds on several lifts; out late after one final morning of auto service in Rutland; I'll get my vertical, just not on days like today.

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Day 18 - Killington

Out 9:00 to 2:30 with lunch in the Peak Lodge; temps in the twenties - most of the day spent in the K Cloud, but a little wind later moved the bottom of the cloud layer up the hill significantly; 29 runs; 32,776 vertical; skied the Fischer RC4 GS Cheater 18's; packed pow and carvable groomers; other then the PSIA folks, not too many people out again today; skiing well; feeling good.

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Day 11 - Killington

World Cup Week Day 1. Out 9:20 to 2:30 with lunch in the Peak Lodge; temps rising in the mid-thirties with a persistent K Cloud up high and the tinyest bit of wind; 28 runs; 28,976 vertical; skied the Fischer RC4 GS Cheater 18's; groomers; lots of people; watched Katharina Leinsberger ski Middle Chute 4 times from the chair, I even stopped on top of the Bunny Tunnel to watch and she tucked out the top of Upper Chute and stopped right next to me - she had GS skis on, so very smooth and very fast.

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Day 4 - Killington

Out 9:00 to 1:00 with a quick coffee break in the K-1 Lodge; overcast with temps around freezing - occasional freezing fog; 21 runs; 22,826 vertical; skied the Fischer RC4 GS Cheater 18's; carvable groomers; good crowd - no lines but lots of folks on the hill; skied a little better today; feeling pretty good physically too.

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Day 114 - Killington

Too crowded to stay too long. Out 9:45 to 11:15; sunny with temps in the forties and little to no wind; 9 runs 11,000 vertical; skied the Fischer RC4 GS Cheater 18's; chunks and mush most of the places they groomed; huge crowd - everybody's concentrated back on just four lifts.

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Day 106 - Killington

And so ends 19 straight days. Out 9:00 to 2:30 with lunch at the Peak Lodge; 20° overnight - increasing overcast and 'cold' all day with temps never getting much above freezing - very light winds; 26 runs; 36,176 vertical; skied the Fischer RC4 GS Cheater 18's; firm groomers; just the right amount of people - enough to keep the place open, but too few to create a lift line; Upper Bunny Buster was very good; ducked the rope and skied Lower Ovation this afternoon; 3 day vertical total: 110,400 - 5 day vertical total: 185,364 - 7 day vertical total: 222,025 - 14 day vertical total: 398,505 - 19 day vertical total: 509,619; ok, this is an actual run down Skye to Bear: Stash Way-Gateway-Bear Trax-Snowshed Crossover-Shorty-Bear Claw-Skyeburst-Dreamaker.



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Day 105 - Killington

Another big day. Out 9:00 to 3:45 with lunch at the condo; cold overnight and clear, cold and windy today - temps never made out of the twenties; 31 runs; 41,392 vertical; skied the Fischer RC4 GS Cheater 18's; firm groomers mainly - a little corn on Bear - some chunks elsewhere; a few people out today; Skyeburst/Grizzly was divine before lunch; SPE4 broke down this afternoon, so I was finally forced to ski something other than Bear; so I get to Needles and the Quad is running, but Panic Button/Needles Eye was closed?



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Day 103 - Killington

Big day. Out 9:00 to 4:00 with lunch at the condo; overnight temps in the teens slowly rose into the thirties this afternoon - sunny and a little windy; 30 runs; 42,926 vertical; skied the Fischer RC4 GS Cheater 18's; firm AM conditions gave way to soft spring corn by the afternoon; very few people out;

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Day 102 - Killington

Out 10:00 to 4:00 with lunch at the condo; 2" overnight - cold and windy today with clearing skies - temps in the twenties; 22 runs; 32,088 vertical; skied the Fischer RC4 GS Cheater 18's; to give the snow a chance to dry out they groomed very late this morning - that and the new snow had things looking and skiing pretty well today; not many people out; despite the cold temps overnight nothing really froze solid - but things did continue to firm all day; got to do OL 3 more times; a little late to the hill this morning when Sunrise and the south side of Bear were closed till 9:30 for on-going grooming; looking up and down OL.



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Day 79 - Killington

Out at noon and back in for more clothes at 1:15; in and out clouds with temps in the teens and the tinyest bit of wind; 14 runs; 16,500 vertical; skied the Fischer RC4 GS Cheater 18's; 3f.

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