riverc0il
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damn, i am spent. it was a great morning of skiing for damn sure. i was hitting stuff left and right that i thought i wouldn't be doing until next season after a more complete recovery from the injury was made. slight minor adjustments to my technique were required, most specifically my right hand pole plants and right hand turns, but no worries what so ever. i was definitely cautious on some of the lines and didn't try some of jay's harder glades, especially those that i have not been down before. okay, on to the trip report:
got to jay around 8am and they were already packing em' in like sardines at the stateside lodge. things didn't get really busy until i took my first break around 10am. actually, the first hour and a half of skiing was surprising uncrowded. but after 10am, the place was packed. jay was reporting two feet by thursday morning. today, the best i could find was one foot occasional untracked. the rest had either been tracked up, packed down, or blown away. and it took some looking to find those occasional one foot untracked, but when i found them it was grrrrrrreat!
started on the bon quad and took a warm up on the groomers down to the jet. the groomers were total CRAP much like i had suspected. blown clean of snow, with scraped down groomer tracks abundent and occasional ice and bare spots. time to head into the woods.
over on the jet, i wasted no time pointing my skis towards timbuktu. repeat. repeat. repeat. repeat. okay, that was my morning it was a really really fun morning
felt SO great to be in the trees again. even though i was taking conservative lines. found some nice hits of pow, but it was going quickly. by 10am, the rest of new england seemed to have arrived at the jet so i headed over to the freezer to see how the other side of the mountain was doing.
windy and cold!!! the freezer lived up to its name and the unload area was a sheet of ice! i made my way down ullr's dream which was anything but. scarped and wind blown, how fun! revisited the trail of my injury location by heading into BBPG which was packed down, scraped, and nasty up top but pretty nice when it opened up down lower. LOTS of people in there, wow! people the freezer, the conditions, and the crowds, it just wasn't worth it. i headed by stateside and grabbed a lunch before returning to the jet.
the line was crazy. at one point, it looked like about 40-50 people were in the singles line! i paired up with another single and hoped in the regular line which seemed to move quicker during the ~10 minute wait. i figured timbuktu area had been getting hit quite hard with traffic, so i looked else where towards kitzbuehel and kitz woods. kitz woods had gotten pretty heavy traffic before my arrival, but i pretty much had the well packed down glade to myself. really nice where it opens up more down low. i traversed a few runs looking for nice slots and lines that retained some fresh stuff and found good turns and good snow. emptied out onto stateside glade which had really nice packed and loose pow on skier's left, i let out a "wooo hooo!!!!" as i picked up some exceleration and made some great quick turns on the lower pitched glade. sweet. i repeated that combo, sometimes hoping out onto the bumps of kitzbuehel and alternating my lines where i could find them.
great skiing for sure! definitely wasn't quite the two feet of untracked that was already tracked, but occasional fresh lines containing a few short turns of foot deep pow could be found if you looked for them. easier to find was plenty of packed pow in some trees, though the main routes through the glades were well scraped down in most places. my arm was really killing me by lunch, i pressed on until 1:30pm and decided i have the whole week off from work, why kill myself on the first day of the week? probably will head back up tomorrow for some more. it snow all morning and during noon time, but not much accululation. i am still feeling the chill from that wind.
got to jay around 8am and they were already packing em' in like sardines at the stateside lodge. things didn't get really busy until i took my first break around 10am. actually, the first hour and a half of skiing was surprising uncrowded. but after 10am, the place was packed. jay was reporting two feet by thursday morning. today, the best i could find was one foot occasional untracked. the rest had either been tracked up, packed down, or blown away. and it took some looking to find those occasional one foot untracked, but when i found them it was grrrrrrreat!
started on the bon quad and took a warm up on the groomers down to the jet. the groomers were total CRAP much like i had suspected. blown clean of snow, with scraped down groomer tracks abundent and occasional ice and bare spots. time to head into the woods.
over on the jet, i wasted no time pointing my skis towards timbuktu. repeat. repeat. repeat. repeat. okay, that was my morning it was a really really fun morning
felt SO great to be in the trees again. even though i was taking conservative lines. found some nice hits of pow, but it was going quickly. by 10am, the rest of new england seemed to have arrived at the jet so i headed over to the freezer to see how the other side of the mountain was doing.windy and cold!!! the freezer lived up to its name and the unload area was a sheet of ice! i made my way down ullr's dream which was anything but. scarped and wind blown, how fun! revisited the trail of my injury location by heading into BBPG which was packed down, scraped, and nasty up top but pretty nice when it opened up down lower. LOTS of people in there, wow! people the freezer, the conditions, and the crowds, it just wasn't worth it. i headed by stateside and grabbed a lunch before returning to the jet.
the line was crazy. at one point, it looked like about 40-50 people were in the singles line! i paired up with another single and hoped in the regular line which seemed to move quicker during the ~10 minute wait. i figured timbuktu area had been getting hit quite hard with traffic, so i looked else where towards kitzbuehel and kitz woods. kitz woods had gotten pretty heavy traffic before my arrival, but i pretty much had the well packed down glade to myself. really nice where it opens up more down low. i traversed a few runs looking for nice slots and lines that retained some fresh stuff and found good turns and good snow. emptied out onto stateside glade which had really nice packed and loose pow on skier's left, i let out a "wooo hooo!!!!" as i picked up some exceleration and made some great quick turns on the lower pitched glade. sweet. i repeated that combo, sometimes hoping out onto the bumps of kitzbuehel and alternating my lines where i could find them.
great skiing for sure! definitely wasn't quite the two feet of untracked that was already tracked, but occasional fresh lines containing a few short turns of foot deep pow could be found if you looked for them. easier to find was plenty of packed pow in some trees, though the main routes through the glades were well scraped down in most places. my arm was really killing me by lunch, i pressed on until 1:30pm and decided i have the whole week off from work, why kill myself on the first day of the week? probably will head back up tomorrow for some more. it snow all morning and during noon time, but not much accululation. i am still feeling the chill from that wind.
it was still good though 
