June 1 Final Day

[Coydog]

One of the best closing days in recent memory.


The Proud Viking standing clean and sober while surveying his Kingdom surrounded by a few of his loyal subjects.



The Long Walk Down



The Glorious Ski Down



The Proud Viking, less clean, less sober, not even standing, but victorious nonetheless.



The End



Some of the crew sustained injuries that required heavy medication. By some miracle, I finally found the exit on the 802 bus.

October is right around the corner.

[liv4ski]

[madhatter]

great job as always!!! there was some sketchball skiing going on out there yesterday...still what a great sendoff we gave the hill...

[buckethead]

dang nice video and quick work!

[RustyK]

Nice to see that Radio Ron enjoyed the day too.

Nice video.

[tyrolean_skier]

Good job on the video liv4ski.

[liv4ski]

Thanks Rusty and Ty. Missed you yesterday.

[liv4ski]

More pics for the record:

Lined up like on a pow day at Alta


Free ticket


Jeff greeting the thankful


Most likely the longest line of the season for SS


It will be interesting to see how many green shirts we see late May next season climbing down


Mike and Rob fielding requests, like a stair case down the headwall


Last chair of the season (I believe Dave had first chair of the season on Oct. 25)


Radio Ron is a skiing Mr. Rodgers

[GSKI]

Thanks for the great vid and the Radio Ron honor. He is one of the spirits of skiing as we all are and for all my life I have felt proud and comforted to be a part of it participating and watching and a part that will live well beyond all of us. We know it it transcends time.

[Guy in Shorts]

Early sun quickly hid behind the thicking morning clouds. Line to get the free green skiing in June T shirts started building so we grabbed a slot. Large stack of free tickets were passed around as even season pass holders grabbed one marking the first lift served June skiing in 15 years. Groomer parked on to Headwall top had ropes to allow the horde to belay down to the snow. Overheard one skier say that he will never complain about hike down the Peak walkway again. Dropping was the common cry as folks pushed off into the narrow entrance leading to the groomed Superstar snow surface. Many from the early crowd did a lap or two then headed out. Buddy after our third run said that the snow was so nice he would very happy calling that his last run. We paced ourselves planning to enjoy the entire 8 hours of lift operation. Great to see so many friends come from far and wide to enjoy a rare June ski day. I had hiked up to ski the last three June 1st with this one marking my very first June lift served ski day. Hours passed way too quickly as we loaded heading for last chair party on top of Superstar. Hugs, cheers, toasts and fireworks marked the end of the longest season in the East. Had a spill on my last trip down as the bumps most be conquered on each and every run. Cut on my forearm required a few stiches so I left the after party to get fixed.

June Grade A+

Quote of the Day - Best June ski day that I have ever had.

[buckethead]

^^ crap! Sorry to hear about the spill...and that you had to cut short your after-party.

Heal up fast.

But yes. An absolute A+ day.

[Captain Hafski]

Final Afternoon Report of the season: I can sum it up in one word.

Work

Glad so many of you have a great time out there. See ya in October (in the afternoon of course).

[DES]

Wow, I knew the "morning line" was getting long, but since I was in it and too busy talking, I never noticed it went back that far! Once I was on the lift I didn't even think about turning around to look. Heal up fast GIS...

[madhatter]

the skiing out there was both fun and work...sketchball conditions lead to sketchball skiing esp when the camera was out all day...I hit the ground more times in the last 2 weeks than in the last 2 years...


a bunch of stills from liv4ski's video:

bottom of the headwall, last run...


next frame:


aiming for the next bump:



the goal was to land on that bump:



gonna be a little shy:



taking off in the backseat w southside bobby looking on:



spot the landing and try to get r forward:



woulda coulda shoulda:



but not quite:


mudhatter from the top:



picking a line:



smashing the snirt:



spot the landing early and wait for the ground to come up:



Mr Moose in attack mode...



greg w the spreader daff:

[tyrolean_skier]

Early sun quickly hid behind the thicking morning clouds. Line to get the free green skiing in June T shirts started building so we grabbed a slot. Large stack of free tickets were passed around as even season pass holders grabbed one marking the first lift served June skiing in 15 years. Groomer parked on to Headwall top had ropes to allow the horde to belay down to the snow. Overheard one skier say that he will never complain about hike down the Peak walkway again. Dropping was the common cry as folks pushed off into the narrow entrance leading to the groomed Superstar snow surface. Many from the early crowd did a lap or two then headed out. Buddy after our third run said that the snow was so nice he would very happy calling that his last run. We paced ourselves planning to enjoy the entire 8 hours of lift operation. Great to see so many friends come from far and wide to enjoy a rare June ski day. I had hiked up to ski the last three June 1st with this one marking my very first June lift served ski day. Hours passed way too quickly as we loaded heading for last chair party on top of Superstar. Hugs, cheers, toasts and fireworks marked the end of the longest season in the East. Had a spill on my last trip down as the bumps most be conquered on each and every run. Cut on my forearm required a few stiches so I left the after party to get fixed.

June Grade A+

Quote of the Day - Best June ski day that I have ever had.

Sorry to hear you got hurt and needed stitches. Heal up quickly because kayaking is waiting for you.