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2023/2024 How many days so far?
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Looks like a bunny hill
110 days for the season at Big Sky. Time to head East as I hear they are getting some snow back in Vermont.
#60! Yesterday.. and 1 year ago I was still trying to walk without a limp. Gore was fantastic, left over 5" of powder mixed with the frozen granular, sun in the 20F morning made for some great carving..
top of the cloud..
high peaks were beautiful
top of rumor (left) and Lies (right)
21 runs, almost 24K
clouds moved in, kept it chilly and perfect carving. still rocking my @liberty76W's
top of the cloud..
high peaks were beautiful
top of rumor (left) and Lies (right)
21 runs, almost 24K
Day 28, and the first day that I took my 5.5 month old for a run. It was finally warm enough that we felt comfortable enough to go for a run. She didn't care one way or another and contentedly sucked on her pacifier and stared at the other skiers we saw on our slow meander down the mountain. Our season may end tomorrow.. 40+ highs for the next week and there isn't a ton of snow left.
with a pic like that, onlookers would find it very hard not to stare!
...Those retro Rossi blackops are breathtaking
Day 53. Another 3" of silky snow.
The NEG at Jay Peak and Owl's head got me to...
Day 39 at Calabogie (Ontario). It was a rough day for my pretty Head e-Race Pros. There was only some snow on the groomed runs. You had to keep an eye out for bare exposed rocks. I kept finding new rocks as the day wore on, gave up at about 1:30 PM.
4 bluebird days last week at Winter Park gets me to 48. Really enjoyable resort and Mary Jane Territory is legit!
and call it a day.
Good on you! I wish I could pack in more days. Last season I think I got around 35 day, and that is with only two days up a week. Nice pic too.
I'm calling it a season after 78 days. Half of those were in NC; the other half in Colorado and Utah.
Rudi Riet
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40 is my likely final tally of ski days for the season.
This was one of the most challenging seasons of my ski race coaching career. We were chasing snow all winter long. And when we had camps planned they always got some sort of spanner thrown into the works (e.g. warm and rainy weather for Killington just after the World Cups, rain and flooding just prior to our Sunday River camp).
My main mountain, Liberty Mountain, opened on MLK weekend and only with three beginner trails. My team had to decamp to Timberline Mountain, WV, for two straight weekends just to get time on snow.
Once Liberty was really open it was quite good. I applaud mountain management for blowing deeper, narrower trails rather than spreading things thin to get wider coverage. That saved their bacon through the frequent warm spells - we only had a handful of good snowmaking days and nights during the season.
Races got moved around hither, thither, and yon. Our already compressed racing season went from 7 weeks down to effectively 4 weeks - the athletes and coaches got tired quickly. The high point of the racing season was a speed camp at Okemo, VT, where we had incredible conditions for working on speed concepts and one of the best racing surfaces I've ever seen on our SG race day.
Last weekend was USSS Eastern U18/21 Finals at Gore Mountain, NY, which is where things likely ended for the season. At least we had a blissful blower powder day on Saturday. I only got a couple tastes of the goodness as we had to remove all of that fresh snow from the racing trail to get to the icy racing surface - but my, oh my, that powder was as light as I've ever seen in the east.
I had 5 wonderful days on snow in Utah a couple of weeks back, including one blower powder day at my home mountain of Solitude. That was great. And I finally invested in some "play boots," a pair of Atomic Hawx Ultra 130 XTDs. Yes, they are a lot softer than the plugs I usually ski in but they're a lot more fun in powder.
Now I'm pivoting toward two wheels, pedals, and lycra until the snow flies again.
This was one of the most challenging seasons of my ski race coaching career. We were chasing snow all winter long. And when we had camps planned they always got some sort of spanner thrown into the works (e.g. warm and rainy weather for Killington just after the World Cups, rain and flooding just prior to our Sunday River camp).
My main mountain, Liberty Mountain, opened on MLK weekend and only with three beginner trails. My team had to decamp to Timberline Mountain, WV, for two straight weekends just to get time on snow.
Once Liberty was really open it was quite good. I applaud mountain management for blowing deeper, narrower trails rather than spreading things thin to get wider coverage. That saved their bacon through the frequent warm spells - we only had a handful of good snowmaking days and nights during the season.
Races got moved around hither, thither, and yon. Our already compressed racing season went from 7 weeks down to effectively 4 weeks - the athletes and coaches got tired quickly. The high point of the racing season was a speed camp at Okemo, VT, where we had incredible conditions for working on speed concepts and one of the best racing surfaces I've ever seen on our SG race day.
Last weekend was USSS Eastern U18/21 Finals at Gore Mountain, NY, which is where things likely ended for the season. At least we had a blissful blower powder day on Saturday. I only got a couple tastes of the goodness as we had to remove all of that fresh snow from the racing trail to get to the icy racing surface - but my, oh my, that powder was as light as I've ever seen in the east.
I had 5 wonderful days on snow in Utah a couple of weeks back, including one blower powder day at my home mountain of Solitude. That was great. And I finally invested in some "play boots," a pair of Atomic Hawx Ultra 130 XTDs. Yes, they are a lot softer than the plugs I usually ski in but they're a lot more fun in powder.
Now I'm pivoting toward two wheels, pedals, and lycra until the snow flies again.
Day 42 on a powder day at Magic. They ran the black chair and when there was finally a line they opened the red as well and poof no lines. We got around 30" or so. They didn't groom much and by noon everything was bumped up. It was phenomenal fun. My stockli stormrider 95s were amazing in the untracked and bumped up powder. What a day, what a weekend.
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Is this pic looking back up at Good Medicine?
Made 39 for my 39th bday at snowbird on Friday.
Today is 40, a nice powder day at Steamboat.
Today is 40, a nice powder day at Steamboat.
Today was 90 at Big Sky with some fresh snow and later some sun.
The 90th Infantry Division patch. TO for Tough 'Ombres.
The 90th Infantry Division patch. TO for Tough 'Ombres.
No. Part of East Rim seen from Moe-Mentum.