Out 8:30 to 11:30 without a break; clear skies and a little bit of wind with temps rising through the twenties; 11 runs, 17,444 vertical; skied the 2019 Head i.Speed GS Cheater 17's; groomer; virtually empty today; Team Summit Masters - NASTAR type GS all the way down Richtor; last Team Summit training day of the year, so probably my last Keystone day as well; skied poorly again - turning in early at the top of the turn on every right footer on the steep.
Out 9:00 to 12:30 with coffee at Solitude Station; 4" overnight - snowy and windy with temps in the twenties; 12 runs; 17,217 vertical; powder that felt a lot like dust on crust; very few people again today; skied like crap.
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Out 9:00 to 1:00 with an early lunch at JJ's; light snow with temps right around freezing; 14 runs; 27,188 vertical; skied the 2019 Head i.Speed GS Cheater 17's; groomers with just a dusting of new snow to soften things the tinyest of bits; absolutely nobody else out - rode single all day except once on Super Bee and once on Excelerator; Collage was a dream - groomed flat and frozen solid with a tiny bit of new snow.
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Uncle Bob Day 5. Out 9:30 to 1:00 with a coffee break in the Adirondack chairs out on the deck at the base of Peak 7; 8 runs; 9,982 vertical; skied the Blizzard Bonafides; quickly softening groomers; not too many people - small to no liftlines; we made the effort and reached Peak 6; Bob's last day - he absolutely killed it this week.
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Uncle Bob Day 4. Out 8:30 to 12:15 with a coffee break in the lodge at Mid-Vail; sunny and warm with a little wind - after a below freezing start temps rebounded quickly into the low fifties; 11 runs; 11,703 vertical; skied the Blizzard Bonafides; the first frozen, truly crunchy groomers of the year to start, then steadily softening snow as the day wore on; to my utter surprise the crowd was very reasonable - believe it or not there were virtually no liftlines; finally got to ski a full day with Bob - we had a blast.
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.
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.
Uncle Bob Day 1. Out 8:30 to 2:30 with lunch in the Mountain House Base Lodge; sunny and windy with temps rising through the teens and twenties toward freezing; 13 runs; 21,897 vertical; skied the Atomic Redster G9 RS's and Blizzard Bonafides; pretty good crowd, just no real liftlines; Team Summit Masters - 15 gate GS on Richtor set by David S. not Matt; skied my best run of the season the first time through the course, then just so-so.
Out 9:00 to 1:15 with a coffee break in Solitude Station; snowing lightly with very little wind and temps in the twenties; 20 runs; 31,032 vertical; skied the 2019 Head i.Speed GS Cheater 17's; groomers, day old groomers with a light coating of new snow and some good stuff off Tucker Mountain; good crowd for a Monday, but little to no liftlines; actually skied a little better today; these skis worked very well today.
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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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Rocky Mountain Master GS. Out 8:30 to 1:00 with a quick break in the car between runs; clear, cold and a little windy with temps quickly rising through the teens and twenties to just above freezing; 13 runs; 13,664 vertical; skied the Atomic G9 Revoshocks; not too much of a crowd for a weekend; didn't ski particularly well, but I did achieve both my goals for the day - don't finish last in my class (I was 3rd of 5) and to be within 10 seconds of the fastest time each run (+9.93 and +9.89 - just barely, but I made it).
25 51 Burns, Martin M8 Team Summit 58.47 (25) 1:01.22 (26) 1:59.69 (25)
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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.
Out 9:00 to 11:45 with coffee in Solitude Station; 6" overnight - snowing with temps rising toward twenty and very little wind - maybe 2" more before I left; 12 runs; 15,223 vertical; skied the K2 Mindbender 108 Ti's; crowd wasn't too bad considering all the snow - never really any liftlines; untracked on Copperfield, Little Burn, Endeavor, skier's right on Union Peak down through Union Gap and So Fine; also did Valentine's completing everything on Tucker Mountain; knee deep lower down on Union Peak, on So Fine and back on Tucker; got a "very nice" from the chair doing Little Burn; Happy St. Patrick's Day!
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 12:15 with coffee in Solitude Station; warm and mostly sunny with a little wind and temps rising through the twenties; 10 runs; 15,803 vertical; skied the Nordica Enforcer 88's; groomers and some day old stuff; big crowd, so I left early; did Cornice Chute in Spaulding Bowl - it was still pretty good.
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Out 9:00 to 2:15 with coffee in Solitude Station and lunch in the car; 3" overnight, mostly sunny with a little wind, 16° in the parking lot this morning, 27° when I left; 15 runs; 20,761 vertical; powder and some wind blown styrofoam in places way up high; skied the K2 Mindbender 108 Ti's; plenty of people, but no real liftlines; everything before coffee was untracked - Copperfield, Copperfield, Little Burn, Kaboom, Endeavor, and Union Peak-Union Gap; finally got Boulderado - that only leaves Valentine's on Tucker Mountain; groomer adjacent parking today.
Lee and Tony Day 5. Out 9:00 to 2:30 with coffee and lunch breaks; cold and very windy with intermittent snow showers, -6° in the parking lot to start, 19° when we left; 12 runs; 15,000 vertical; skied the K2 Mindbender 108 Ti's; firm groomers and some day old stuff off Pali; pretty small crowd; just Tony and me again today.
Lee and Tony Day 4. Out 9:00 to 2:15 with coffee in Solitude Station and lunch in the car; 7" overnight - snowy, cold and windy today with temps in the single digits; 14 runs; 18,591 vertical; skied the DPS Alchemist Lotus 124's; powder; pretty big crowd, but I stayed up high and avoided most of the liftlines; rest day for Lee and Tony.
Lee and Tony Day 3. Out 9:00 to 2:15 with breaks for coffee and lunch; snowy, cold and very windy - temps in the teens with a couple of inches of new snow; 17 runs; 14,413 vertical; skied the Blizzard Bonafides; powder and packed powder; not much of a crowd; just Tony and I again today.
Lee and Tony Day 2. Out 9:00 to 2:30 with coffee in Solitude Station and lunch at JJ's; clear and cold with very little wind; 13 runs, 18,279 vertical; skied the Blizzard Bonafides; baby soft groomers; standard Tuesday crowd; just Tony and I.
Lee and Tony day 1. Out 9:00 to 1:30 with a coffee and general rest breaks in Solitude Station; overcast and cold with very little wind and some light snow, temps in the teens; 10 runs; 12,169 vertical, skied the Blizzard Bonafides; soft groomers; seemed like a big crowd right off the bat, but never really any lift lines; skied okay; the groomers on Timberline were very good.
Out 8:30 to 2:00 with lunch in the car; increasing overcast with a few flurries up high, 27° in the parking lot this morning, 37° when I left; 15 runs; 23,299 vertical; skied the Atomic Redster GS RS's and the 2019 Head i.Speed GS Cheater 17's; groomers mostly, some bumps; big crowd; Team Summit Masters - GS on Richtor; skied horribly.
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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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Out 8:30 to 3:00 with a long lunch in the car; warm and sunny with little to no wind, temps started in the teens and ended in the forties; 20 runs; 31,520 vertical; skied the Atomic Redster G9 RS's and the Blizzard Bonafides; groomers, many very firm; not much of a crowd; Team Summit Masters - GS on Richtor;
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Out 9:00 to 1:00 with a coffee break in Solitude Station; sunny and warm with temps rising into the forties; 21 runs; 27,765 vertical; skied the Blizzard Bonafides; groomers and softening stuff up high; not too many people; they groomed The Moz - very nice first thing - I did 4; Revenge softened nicely, so I did 3 up there to end the day; skiing okay; missed yesterday after getting to the hill without my pass.
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Out 9:00 to 3:00 with coffee at Solitude Station and lunch in the car; another 1" or so overnight - morning haze and snow flurries gave way to some sun by the afternoon - single digit temps with a little wind; skied the Blizzard Bonafides; 25 runs; 31,736 vertical; packed powder; pretty big crowd - typical for a Friday; first tracks on Copperfield - untracked, baby soft groomer with just enough new snow to fill in the ridges - I did 3;
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Out 9:00 to 11:30 with an early coffee break at Solitude Station to warm up my hands; 2" overnight - mostly cloudy and cold with a little wind, some snow showers and temps in the single digits; 10 runs; 16,382 vertical; skied the Blizzard Bonafides; powder and packed powder; lots of people - I left when I came back to the car for an early lunch and the lines at American Flyer and American Eagle were huge (maybe 10+ minutes); Windsong was a baby soft groomer this am; the rolls on Upper Oh No were fun enough for a second try; the bumps on the very top of Main Vein were very good as well - not sure why, but hardly anybody skis them; skiing okay; the Bonafides killed it again today.
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Out 9:00 to 1:00 with a warm up break in the car; 2" more overnight, on and off snow today with temps in the teens and a stiff wind coming from the south; 14 runs; 21,995 vertical; skied the Blizzard Bonafides; powder and packed powder mostly, but lots of bumps and even a few trees; another big crowd today; the untracked bumps on Union Gap stood out today; did a couple runs with some kid (26 yrs old) from Denver - he was really impressive in the bumps.
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Out 9:00 to 1:00 with a coffee break in Solitude Station; 2" overnight, light to moderate snow all day, maybe another inch by the time I left, temps in the teens, very little wind for a snow day; 15 runs; 23,645 vertical; skied the Nordica Enforcer 88's; 1"-2" on top of groomers early, then some old groomers and bumps; compared to yesterday there was absolutely nobody out today - in reality it was a pretty typical Tuesday crowd; tore up today's skis on Jacque's - I now need to patch all 3 of my good, all-mountain skis; Copperfield first thing was dreamy; Triple Treat was a triple treat as well; finally did Overlode; rode the same chair on Timberline two runs in a row - chair 69.
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Only out for 90 minutes, left at 10:30 when the crowd just got too big; clear and windy with temps in the twenties; 9 runs, 11,938 vertical; skied the Nordica Enforcer 88's; firm groomers; huge crowd; tweaked what I think is the adductor muscle way up high on my left thigh.
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Out 9:00 to 12:00 with a quick coffee break in Solitude Station; overcast with temps in the upper teens and a little wind - it's trying to snow, it's just not succeeding very well; 13 runs; 18,091 vertical; skied the Nordica Enforcer 88's; plenty of people - I left 1 run early when Sierra had a 2-3 minute line; Collage groomed is dreamy - they don't do that enough; changed things up a little this moring and lapped Sierra/Timberline rather than just Timberline; tried to do Valentine's or Boulderado on Tucker, but the entry from the top looked really sketchy and I didn't see an open gate in the rope line lower down; a little sick today.
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Out 8:30 to 10:30 without a break; clear, cool and a little bit of wind, 5° in the parking lot this am, around 20° when I left; 13 runs 14,166 vertical; skied the Blizzrd Bonafides; groomers, old snow and steeps; not too many people - never a lift line anywhere; wanted to ski Peak 6, but I circled the Freedom Superchair 4 times waiting for Zendo to open to no avail; so I got mad, did both sides of Imperial Ridge on Peak 8 and went home.
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Out 9:00 to 3:30 with ski change and lunch breaks at the car; clear, cold and calm - 0° in the lot this morning, 16° when I left; 31 runs, 34,741 vertical; skied the Atomic Redster GS RS's, the 2019 Head i.Speed GS Cheater 17's and the Blizzard Bonafides; groomers, old snow, bumps and steeps; there were people, but the only liftline I stood in was at American Eagle right at noon; NASTAR 4.55 hcp - Platinum; last chair again on Three Bears; did The Springs on Tucker; got a compliment from the liftie at Blackjack on the way back, "Watched you come down, you're good."; Gold Digger was worth a second run at the end of the day.
Out 9:00 to 1:45 with a warm up break in the car to change skis; clear, cold and calm, -10° in the parking lot this morning, 2° when I left; 21 runs; 26,785 vertical; skied the 2019 Head i.Speed GS Cheater 17's and the Volkl M5 Mantras; groomers, bumps and steeps; big crowd, had to circle Excelerator waiting for the line at the Storm King T-Bar to dissapate; did Cabin Chute and Resolution Bowl-Sawtooth both with only one stop; on my way back to Three Bears skier's left on Lillie G was basically a noon groomer; did Denverite on Tucker.
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Out 8:30 to 2:00 with warmup and lunch breaks in the car; clear and very cold with no wind, -17° in the parking lot this morning and 9° when I left; skied the 2015 Volkl RaceTiger SL World Cups and the Volkl M5 Mantras; 17 runs, 27,964 vertical; nobody else was out; groomers, bumps and trees; finally made it to The Outback and did The Grizz, Pika Glades and Timberwolf; did Geronimo, Bullet and a couple down Starfire on North Peak too; the flatter stuff on The Outback had much better snow - Timberwolf was fantastic; Life Flight helicopter landing.
Out 8:30 to 2:15 with lunch in the car to change skis; 3" new snow overnight - cold, still and foggy this morning - temps in the low single digits all day - on and off fine snow throughout the day; 22 runs; 20,718 vertical; skied the Atomic Redster G9 RS's and the Nordica Enforcer 88's; groomers mostly; very few people; Team Summit Masters - short GS course on I-70; Jackwacker was sublime.
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Out 9:00 to 3:15 with a coffee break in Solitude Station and lunch in the car; overcast and 14° to start with a little bit of wind - the snow started around noon - 21° with a little over an inch by the time I left; 31 runs; 34,941 vertical; skied the Nordica Enforcer 88's; Soliloquy early was fantastic; Formidable was flat and firm so I did 2; caught the last chair on Three Bears and did Buffalo Stampede - it was excellent; Upper Enchanted Forrest was extremely thin; the top of Bradley's Plunge was horrible; did Union Peak for the first time; first 30k+ day in 6 weeks.
Out 9:00 to 2:00 with lunch in the car to change skis; 0° this morning in the lot, maybe 25° when I left - a high overcast all day - plenty of wind too; 25 runs, 26,440 vertical; skied the Atomic Redster G9 RS's and the Nordica Enforcer 88's; groomers and some week old snow; NASTAR 0.58 hcp - Platinum; Six Shooter off Mountain Chief was suprisingly good; on the way home the leeward side of the snow fence along Timber Ridge had caught all sorts of snow - short, but very nice.
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Out 8:30 to 12:00 no break; clear and relatively calm with temps rising through the teens; 13 runs; 7,505 vertical; skied the Atomic Redster G9 RS's; groomers; big weekend crowd; Team Summit Masters - short GS on I-70; stay low thru transition - do not pop up at all; didn't ski particularly well today; the list: low centered transition - rollup to forward pressure on outside ski with an active inside leg - diciplined upper body (forward and straight - don't twist) - clean entry (don't twist the lower body or start the turn too early or drift the tips into the fall line or ...) - feet out from under the body as soon as possible at the top - square with head, shoulders and hips in front of the feet out beyond the rise line at the apex - then attack the gate from outside the rise line.
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Out 8:30 to a little after 2:00 with lunch in the car; very clear and very cold with a little wind; -7° in the parking lot this morning and -9° when I left; 26 runs; 22,759 vertical; skied the Atomic Redster G9 RS's and the Nordica Enforcer 88's; some good groomers and some very firm ones too; Team Summit Masters - short GS course on I-70; 3 runs through doing the Schlopy Drill and then 10 more full speed; skiing okay; finally got back to North Peak - a few down Starfire and finished with Starfire-Black Hawk; the bottom pitch on Wild Irishman on the way home was treacherous - people walking out the bottom.
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Out 9:00 to 12:00 with lunch in Solitude Station; 2" new snow overnight - snowing lightly with temps in the teens and light winds - maybe another inch today; 11 runs; 14,762 vertical; skied the Nordica Enforcer 88's; powder and packed powder; very few people, even though I left when I skied down to Flyer after lunch and there was a 2 minute line; these skis are awesome.
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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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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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Out 9:00 to 1:30 with a quick warm up break before NASTAR in Solitude Station and lunch in the car to change skis; clear, cold and the tinyest bit of wind up high - 5° in the the lot and only 10° when I left; 22 run; 23,120 vertical; skied the Atomic Redster G9 RS's and the Blizzard Bonafides; groomers, some steeps and some bumps; good crowd, but no real liftlines; NASTAR 5.21 hcp - Platinum; finally got to Spaulding Bowl and Resolution - did Patrol Chute and then Double Zero to Highline; tried getting to Rendevouz from Resolution... you can't - I ended up doing Ute Overlook.
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Out 8:30 to 12:00 no break; snowing lightly with temps rising into the twenties and very little wind - maybe 1" by the time I left; 10 runs; 16,642 vertical; skied the 2015 Volkl RaceTiger SL World Cups; groomers; a few people today - small lift line at Montezuma most of the morning; Team Summit Masters - SL training on the NASTAR hill; did 6 runs thruough a 30 gate course;
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Out 8:30 to 12:00 with a 5 minute warm up break in Summit House; clear, cold and calm again - near zero in the lot this morning, 12° when I quit; 11 runs; 18,181
vertical; skied the Atomic Redster G9 RS's; firm groomers; very few people; Team Summit Masters - GS training on the NASTAR hill;
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Out 8:30 to 12:15 with no break; clear, cold and calm - single digit temps in the parking lot only rose a few degrees into the low teens; 10 runs; 17,228 vertical; firm groomers; not too many people, but a small line did develop on Montezuma; Team Summit Masters - GS training on the NASTAR hill; come at the gate from outside the rise line; get your feet out from under your body, the earlier in the turn the better; stay square; running late this morning and rushed right past my prepared GS and all-mountain skis as I got in the car - thank god the Head GS Cheaters were already in there - wrong wax, but they were skis - good news is skis for tomorrow are already done.
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Out 9:00 to 1:00 with lunch in the car to change skis; single digit temps in the lot this morning - high overcast with some broken sunshine later - temps rising toward thrity with no wind; 22 runs; 23,210 vertical; skied the Atomic Redster GS RS's and the Blizzard Bonafides; groomers and one run down the bumps and trees on Tucker Mtn; very few people today; NASTAR 4.94 hcp - Platinum; went over the back and got to ride the Three Bears Triple for the first time; Western Slope should not be a double black.
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Out 9:00 to 11:45 without a break; clear and calm with temps rising quickly from the single digits to the mid-twenties; 16 runs, 17,456 vertical; skied the Atomic Redster G9 RS's; groomers; not near as many people as I was anticipating - never a lift line, except Flyer first thing and I went right through in the singles line; NASTAR 11.68 hcp - Platinum.
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Out 9:00 to 2:30 with lunch in the car; snowing and breezy with temps in the twenties - snow started right at opening bell, maybe 2" when I left; 27 runs; 27,738 vertical; skied the Atomic Redster G9 RS's and the K2 Mindbender 108 Ti's; corduroy first thing, later a little new snow on the groomers and on some crusty old stuff too; not too crowded; NASTAR 22.42 hcp - Gold; skied Indian Ridge, Revenge, Kaboom, and Little Trees off Sierra all non-stop; totally fucked up the K2's - twice!
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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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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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Out 11:00 to 1:00 with no break - I had to wait to get plowed out this morning; 10" overnight, even here in town - 4" more today - heavy snow - windy with blowing snow and temps in the twenties; 7 runs; 8,249 vertial; skied the K2 Mindbender 108 Ti's; powder and packed powder; the skis worked extremely well today; did Ptarmagin, CDL 20, Brennan's, and Mine Dump consecutively, all non-stop; skied Free Fall Glade and I believe for my first time ever - it was nice; put the first real ding in theses skis - not sure where it happened though, that's pretty unusal.
Out 12:00 to 3:30 with no break; 2" overnight, maybe 5 more today; extremely windy with heavy snow and temps around 20°; 10 runs; 15,980 vertical; skied the 2019 Head i.Speed GS Cheater 17's; powder and packed powder; plenty of people on the hill, but no lift lines; afternoon Team Summit Masters training on Haywood - we actually skied gates, it was only a tight, 15 gate GS but it was gates!
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Only out for a couple of runs before running some errands; 2" more overnight - blowing snow with temps in the teens; 2 runs; 4,019 vertical; skied the K2 Mindbender 108 Ti's; big crowd; these skis are too GS'y to use in low visibility or in tight terrain - I've got to quit buying this kind of ski; hi mom.
Out 9:00 to 12:30 with a quick lunch break at JJ's; 2" overnight - cold and snowy with a little wind, temps in the teens; 9 runs; 15,171 verical; skied the Blizzard Bonafides; big crowd - moderate lift lines at times, other times it was get right on; made a couple of runs with Isadora after lunch; iced goggles today or I would not have gone inside; county wide mask mandate in all indoor settings effective today - I hope we make it through the season.
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Out 9:00 to 12:00 with a warm-up the hands break in Solitude Station; a little more snow overnight, probably just shy of 2" - overcast, cold and windy with intermittant light snow and temps in the teens; 7 runs; 13,194 vertical; skied the Blizzard Bonafides; packed powder and snowy bumps; good crowd, but only moderate lift lines at Super Bee; 2nd day in a row where my hands got cold immediately, but were fine after I went in and warmed up; feeling much better today.
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out 9:00 to 12:00 with a get dry, coffee break at Solitude Station; 5" more overnight - overcast and cold with a little wind and snow up high, temps in the teens; 8 runs; 12,869 vertical; skied the K2 Mindbender 108 Ti's; powder and packed powder; big crowd, but the lift lines weren't actually too bad - plenty of lifts up high open now to draw people away from the 3 base areas; skied all sorts of steeps, bumps and trees - here's the list of today's black diamonds: Triple Treat, Formidable, CDL 20, Mine Dump, Slip Not, 17 Glade; felt a little better on the new skis today; still a little sick.
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Out 9:00 to 10:45; 4" more overnight - cold, cloudy and windy today with temps in the teens; 5 runs; 8,004 vertical; skied my new K2 Mindbender 108 Ti's; powder and packed powder; big crowd; Alpine was open so I skied Triple Treat and worked up a hell of a sweat; couldn't get the feel for the new skis today, maybe having the totally wrong wax had something to do with it - they're really GS'y for such a light ski; left early after I got damp and started to feel a little sick - coughing and chest congestion; I-70 closed in both directions when I tried to leave, east-bound to Frisco opened after about 45 minutes.
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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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 11:30 with no break; clear and cold with virtually no wind, single digits to start around twenty when I left, 13 run; 19,651 vertical; skied the Blizzard Bonafides; groomers mostly, a little snowmaking on the side of Vein Glory; tons of people; skied slowly all morning; skipped skiing on Friday to go get my COVID booster; speaking of the pandemic, with the Omicron variant spreading fast I've reinstituted last year's protocol of not using the lodges or gondolas.
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Out 9:00 to 3:00 with lunch at JJ's; 2" overnight - partly cloudy, cold and windy with temps in the single digits to start, rising to the mid-twenties in the afternoon; 19 runs, 37,112 vertical; groomers with just enough snow to fill the ridges and then some - sweet, again; lots of people today - small lift line all day on Super B; Team Summit Masters Freeski - skiing fast with aggression - prep for Isadora who is racing a FIS GS at Vail on Monday; first shot at untracked on Andy's to Ore Deal again today - groomers don't get better than that.
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Out 9:00 to 3:00 with lunch at JJ's; 4" overnight, snow and blowing snow today with temps in the teens and strong winds - several different wind holds today; 14 runs; 26,314 vertical; skied the Volkl Mantra M5's; powder and packed powder; given the snow, not very many people at all; first shot down Andy's to Ore Deal on 4" of untracked snow on top of last night's grooming - sweet; plenty of bumps this morning too - Collage and two untracked on Hallelujah; Team Summit Masters Freeski this afternoon - worked on maximum forward bend in the ankle at the top of the turn, think lightning bolt body position; I enjoyed skiing with Matt and Isadora.
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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 3:00 with a coffee break in Solitude Station; clear and sunny with a little wind up high, 11° this morning, mid-thirties this afternoon; 26 runs, 52,383 vertical; skied the Atomic Redster G9 RS Revoshocks; groomers; plenty of people, but plenty of lifts and terrain open too so never any liftlines to speak of; probably the most vertical I've ever skied in 1 day.
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Today marks 1,000 ski days in retirement. Out 9:00 to 12:00 with a warm up break in Solitude Station; 5" overnight - snowy, cold and windy today with temps in the low teens; 8 runs, 11,784 vertical; skied the Blizzard Bonafides; powder and packed powder; huge crowd; Team Summit Masters Freeski - worked on absorbing and extending by linking long turns in the moguls; with all the new snow and mogul runs this week I got very tired again today; dinged my skis pretty good.
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First real powder day of the year. Out 9:00 to 1:00 with coffee in Solitude Station; 6" overnight; overcast with intermittent snow showers, but very little wind - temps in the twenties; 12 runs, 25,206 vertical; skied the Blizzard Bonafides; powder and packed powder; quite a few people out, but the only real liftlines were at Excelerator; 4th or 5th person down Mine Dump - fresh snow in bumps, nice; also did CDL #20 and Hallelujah, both all bumps; with the deep snow and some mogul runs today my legs got tired pretty quick; Speed Center teardown in progress; starting to feel a tiny bit of pain and stiffness in the right knee.
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Out 9:00 to 1:30 with a coffee break in Solitude Station; clear and cold to start with a quickly increasing clouds - completely overcast when I left - temps in the teens to start and twenties when I left; 26 runs; 39,189 vertical; skied the Atomic Redster G9 RS Revoshocks' groomers; lots of people but no lines;
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Out 9:00 to 2:00 with a coffee break at Solitude Station; 4" new snow overnight - cloudy, cold and blustery with intermittent snow flurries and temps in the twenties; 14 runs; 32,102 vertical; skied the Blizzard Bonafides; a couple inches of fresh on last nights groomers; plenty of people, but never a line at Super Bee; SL on Oredeal for Petra today; Ptarmigan first run was silky smooth; I'm skiing pretty well; Ski Tracks is really starting to piss me off - I've had 4 or 5 days now where the GPS recording gets paused and I've missed huge portions of the day.
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 3:00 with a coffee break in Solitude Station; sunny, warm and still again - just like every other day this week; 14 runs; 29,737 vertical; skied a borrowed pair of 3 year old Atomic Redster S9 FIS's and the Atomic Redster G9 RS's; huge crowd, but just like yesterday nobody riding Super Bee; first day of Team Summit Masters - I wasn't afforded the luxury of being included on the mailing list so I brought GS skis, hence the need to borrow some SL's; I expect that today was the last of my opportunities to watch Petra Vhlova - I doubt she'll be here when I return next week; 5.
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Out 9:00 to 1:45 with a coffee break in Solitude Station; sunny, warm and still - again; below freezing overnight, but it warmed up to lower fifties today; 19 runs; 39,226 vertical; skied the Blizzard Bonafides; groomers; lots of people but nobody was using Super Bee, I walked right on all day?; a Petra GS/SG doubleheader today; shutout at the Flyer Lot this morning - closed because of the Dew Tour; preping these skis last night I notice a couple of gouges from their day 1 at Breck; passed 500,000 today.
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Out 9:00 to 1:30 with a coffee break in Solitude Station; sunny, warm and still - temps in the mid-twenties this morning, near fifty when I left; 18 runs, 36,264 vertical; skied the brand new Atomic G9 Revoshocks; groomers; lots of people, but no lift lines; the new skis worked well - stable and quiet; Women's SG NorAm's on the Speed Center Track with Vhlova training GS on West Encore again; scared myself with a high speed bobble on Main Vein; primo parking spot this morning.
