Monday

Keithus · Post by **Keithus** » Mar 17th, '08, 14:23

Today was a beautiful and sunny day.
Everything started hard and fast, but the bottom got soft as the Sun beat down all morning.

I enjoyed the automatic carves served up by the Atomic Metron 11B5Cs I had out again.
I did some K1 laps and pounded out Cascade, Double Dipper, East Fall and Highline in succession.
All were good and edgable, but fast and hard.
Yeehaw!
Up again and over to Coops for a conference call.
Good thing for that mute button.

I headed over to Bear to see if they're letting regular folks ride the competition trails.
No joy, and it looks like they're gonna tear 'em down without opening 'em up.
Assclowns.
Wildfire was fun, but it's been fun for awhile since most else has been closed.
OL groomed out again and I zipped down it again.
Atomics grip tightly.

By 1:00 things lower down were beach sand and glop.
Came down Highline which had been fast and furious in the AM; thick, sloppy and much slower in the PM.

Up the Slowdon and down Upper Bunny Trees->Mouse Trap->Lower Bunny and up and across to SC.
The Metrons are a little stiff for heavy tree action, but not bad today for a run here and there.

Left at about 2:00. Grills were springing up in Bay 1.

Sunscreen!

skiingsnow · Post by **skiingsnow** » Mar 17th, '08, 15:32

What a Great Day!!! I was out from 1:30 till 4:00. Cold and Sunny. Quite a few people out actually for a Monday, still dead of course, this is Killington afterall...

Run of the day was Upper Bunny Buster!!! Did many laps of that with the Poma and Quad, it was SUPER!!

Skyeway! Skied pretty well! 1:39pm

Panic Button skied AWESOME! Upper Needles Eye looked good... 1:40pm

Middle and Lower Needles Eye skied fantastic!!! 1:42pm

Upper Skyelark, the top bit was icy, then pretty good!! 1:51pm

Lower Skyelark, pretty good, especially the bottom half!! 1:53pm

Superstar Headwall and the first part of Middle Superstar was a bit scratchy, then good! 2:01pm

Lower Superstar, GREAT!! 2:03pm

Upper Ovation, Great!! Fantastic ski conditions!! 2:12pm

Cascade, Super!!! 2:27pm

Cascade!! WOW! 2:29pm

Double Dipper!!! Super Fun. Some ice at the very top, and the very bottom. 2:46pm

Upper Bunny Buster, trail of the day!!! Super Fun and Super Great! 3:02pm

MTS! Skied great, a lot of fun! 3:10pm

Highline. Towards the top it was soft and some exposed ice, then good! 3:13pm

Mouse Trap, pretty firm, but skied alright. . . 3:28pm

Gateway! Skied Great!! 3:37pm

Lower Cruise Control, another great run for the day! 3:43pm

Finn · Post by **Finn** » Mar 17th, '08, 15:53

thanks for the report and love photos.

buzzkill · Post by **buzzkill** » Mar 17th, '08, 17:05

Nice job on the pics SS capturing the day as it was,
miles and miles of fast groomers with a picture perfect cloudless sky.
Spent most of the day swooping warp speed turns on every mountain.
Lots of people around though, families, day tickets flapping in the breeze.
Too bad they didn't open up the Bear course, would've been nice
to see what was behind the Berlin wall. Still bummed about the weekend,
it's just terrible there weren't thousands of non-skiing/riding patrons milling about Bear,
stumbling and projectile vomiting at will. Maybe next year.

skiingsnow · Post by **skiingsnow** » Mar 17th, '08, 17:14

buzzkill wrote:Nice job on the pics SS capturing the day as it was,
miles and miles of fast groomers with a picture perfect cloudless sky.

Thanks! Generally I take my shots down the trail, capturing most of the trail, but usaully with less detail. But today I took all the shots looking up the hill, to get that great blue sky in every shot!!! But thats a hell of a lot more work, and I line up shots that dont work or dont show enough trail to figure out where it is, and have to pass, and work on another shot somewhere else...

But, its all in a days work...

Coydog · Post by **Coydog** » Mar 17th, '08, 17:25

Once again it seems everyone skied a different mountain than me. Northstar still flat and firm. Snowdon woods firm and too fast. Royal Flush had good bumps but the snow was torn up and heavy with long stretches of dirt or ice. Upper Wildfire was flat and fast and the lower section consisted of sandy, baby bumps. OL flat and just plain silly. Devil’s Fiddle was verging on fun with flat and firm conditions at the top, progressively changing to softer bumps and good lines as you headed down. Needle’s lift line had nicely formed bumps but they were jaw breaking solid – ditto for Flume. Skye Hawk was awful, but Superstar was groomed into a very relaxing cruiser.

Beautiful blue bird day - thought things would have softened up more, but no luck of the Irish today.

powbmps · Post by **powbmps** » Mar 18th, '08, 07:46

Wow, Superstar is bumping up nicely.

Should be great come early May.

OL flat and just plain silly

That would be the "legendary" OL.