Day 63 - Killington

Out 9:00 to 4:00 with a few breaks at the Ski Club while racing and lunch at the condo; yesterday's rain ended as 2" of snow last night - partly sunny today with temps around 20° and some wind; 25 runs; 33,170 vertical; skied the Atomic Redster G9 RS's and the Nordica Enforcer 88's; fresh snow on groomers; Chute-Chute-Chute was all smooth creamy goodness first thing; finally beat all the women - Steph and Lauren, the two fastest women, weren't there but it still counts.

12 151 MARTIN BURNS 24.05 (12) SM5 (2)





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Day 59 - Killington

Out 9:00 to 1:30 with coffee at the Ski Club; clear skies with temps around twenty and some wind; 17 runs; 19,689 vertical; skied the Atomic Redster G9 RS's; firm groomers; good sized crowd, but no lift lines; 2nd, 3rd, and 4th in my Ski Bum classification were separated by 0.15 seconds - of course I was the poor bastard in 4th...

18 151 MARTIN BURNS 25.54 (18) SM5 (4)



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Day 52 - Killington

Out 8:00 to 3:45 with several race breaks and a lunch break at the Ski Club; clear and cold to start, but the sun quickly warmed things up to nearly 20° and it even felt warmer than that for a little while; 25 runs; 27,686 vertical; skied the Atomic Redster G9 RS's and the Blizzard Brahma #2's; groomers and some good snowmaking; not too many people out; if I would have know how badly I'd ski at Ski Bum today, I wouldn't have taken yesterday off; all sorts of lift problems today - stopped on or waited in line before they closed a lift for more than 5 minutes 4 different times today - oddly enough all on different lifts and two of the stops were more than 10 minutes; tons of fixed grip lifts today and today's vertical shows it; the snowmaking on Double Dipper was very, very good, especially the top ⅓ under the long armed tower guns - got to make turns down the steepest pitch along side tons of the slough I kicked off up above.

Race 1 - 151 BURNS MARTIN DNF

Race 2 - 24 151 MARTIN BURNS 25.97 (24) SM5 (4)



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Day 46 - Killington

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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Day 40 - Killington

Ski Bum Race. Out 9:15 to 4:00 with coffee and lunch breaks in the Ski Club Building; overcast and warm with very little wind again; 31 runs; 36,158 vertical; skied the Head i.Speed GS Cheater 19's and the Blizzard Brahma #2's; frozen granular; plenty of people, but no lift lines.

26 151 MARTIN BURNS 30.15 (26) SM5 (5)



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Day 61 - Killington

Ski Bum - 28.04 (33)    +6.49

Just out for an hour to do Ski Bum; cold, windy, and overcast - temps in the single digits; 3 runs; 4,400 vertical; skied the Atomic D2 3.0 Race GS's; soft, packed powder conditions - Highline was so soft that slipping the course was even difficult; got home and found that one of my boots was broken - ugh, very bad timing!



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Day 55 - Killington

Ski Bum - 26.91 (17)    +4.16

Out 9:00 to 1:15 with a lunch break down at Snowshed; clear and cool with no wind - temps climbing through the teens; 18 runs; 18,250 vertical; skied the Atomic D2 3.0 Race GS's; stayed mainly to Northridge and the Canyon with a few Highlines and a couple of Snowsheds for good measure; conditions were good - mostly soft pack, but starting to firm up up in the Canyon; skied a little better today in the Ski Bum Race - beat all but 2 of the women; GoPro was testing some of their new drones this morning on Upper East Fall - the drone carries the camera and has a dual controllers, one of which is a GPS transmitter that a skier can carry and the drone follows.



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Day 49 - Killington

Ski Bum - 28.18 (29)    +6.06

Out 9:30 to 1:30 with a 2 cup coffee break in the KSC building to watch some of the bums ski; clear and cold with little to no wind; skied the Atomic D2 3.0 Race GS's; 11 runs; 12,100 vertical; another poor result despite not skiing that badly; failed to beat any of the Class A women finishers; the Canyon Quad ran today, so I did Dip Dip 4 or 5 times; conditions are stellar - soft pack everywhere



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Day 33 - Killington

Ski Bum - 23.64 (19)    +3.34

i.Speed GS Cheater 19's; 2 runs; 3,250 vertical.



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