Rose was just beautiful today. Drove up solo. Really early. Made my usual stop at Colfax. This gas station (just by starbucks) has the best sign at the door. And they make lovely chicken (didn't get any this morning, but it's delicious)
Warmed up on the third chair. An hour lesson with Mark Downing, and as it happens, I am skiing better an hour later. Working in getting more dynamic (rotary drills). It helped a lot later on Bruce's. It was my best day on bumps. I didn't become an Olympics zipliner but I am a little more aggressive after working on short turns and separation.
Anyways, back to what others could care about. Here is a nice little way of coming off NW chair, unless you want to do the face runs. Turn right of you exit the lift, and follow there folks in the picture. This is not hard at all. Most difficult here means "most difficult way of getting off this chair".
The view is great:
And the drop is a little ice pretty much always, a good chance to practice side slips and pivot slips (unless, that is, you are @ScotsSkier )
I went back to slide for lunch. I took Bruce's from the top, which was phenomenally fun. Missed @Bobalooski (last time I was there and it was that much fun was last spring. and I was there with him, his son and mine),
Lunch was ... a nice break
After lunch I lapped Bruce's for a while trying to get more aggresive and down the fall line. I used the traverse from Bonanza (I also did Bonanza but it was groomed and less fun - but fantastic snow)
The snow was soooo good that before leaving I started playing around in little glades around Bruce's:
And crud (not pictured here). There were machine tracks between runs. They look like tractor tracks, on snow. Not sure what makes them. I went there for fun. Did well! It's amazing how things change. Now I seek natural snow, and even artificially f'd up snow! It used to be forbidden snow. Then bad snow. Now it's FUN!!!!!!!! Thank you @KingGrump and @Monique for the inspiration
Warmed up on the third chair. An hour lesson with Mark Downing, and as it happens, I am skiing better an hour later. Working in getting more dynamic (rotary drills). It helped a lot later on Bruce's. It was my best day on bumps. I didn't become an Olympics zipliner but I am a little more aggressive after working on short turns and separation.
Anyways, back to what others could care about. Here is a nice little way of coming off NW chair, unless you want to do the face runs. Turn right of you exit the lift, and follow there folks in the picture. This is not hard at all. Most difficult here means "most difficult way of getting off this chair".
The view is great:
And the drop is a little ice pretty much always, a good chance to practice side slips and pivot slips (unless, that is, you are @ScotsSkier )
I went back to slide for lunch. I took Bruce's from the top, which was phenomenally fun. Missed @Bobalooski (last time I was there and it was that much fun was last spring. and I was there with him, his son and mine),
Lunch was ... a nice break
After lunch I lapped Bruce's for a while trying to get more aggresive and down the fall line. I used the traverse from Bonanza (I also did Bonanza but it was groomed and less fun - but fantastic snow)
The snow was soooo good that before leaving I started playing around in little glades around Bruce's:
And crud (not pictured here). There were machine tracks between runs. They look like tractor tracks, on snow. Not sure what makes them. I went there for fun. Did well! It's amazing how things change. Now I seek natural snow, and even artificially f'd up snow! It used to be forbidden snow. Then bad snow. Now it's FUN!!!!!!!!
Thank you @KingGrump and @Monique for the inspiration
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