saturday 3/1

[asher2789]

omg its march! where did the season go??

took the day off and finally after all these years competed in slash and berm. the course was fun!! the step up ollie pad was intimidating but it hit so nice i hope they keep it up (they wont). the tree section was spooky as hell, the woops were hard to judge, do you gap them, do you pump them, oh f*** theres trees everywhere and too much speed. i think all the blue paint threw everyone a bit too as it made things look more intense. my best run was my second practice run (first was an inspection), i fell on both timed runs in the tree section. switch run was sketchyyyyy and i DQ'd in the trees and also took the wimp line rather than hit the features (hit them natural). im glad i competed despite not doing that well.

did another switch cable to roundabout run prior to the switch race, slightly better today than yesterday. i rarely ride bear but all my runs after the course were fun too, got a lot of cheers from the lift. did the lift line pretty fast and dropped the rock skiers left, also dropped a cliff in the woods above that trail coming in, and did a back 3 on the side hit just after the tunnel on another run and then jumped into the woods off the crossover took a high speed high consequence line in view of the lift through the natural halfpipe that forms in that drainage and made a massive backside slash at the apex of one of the "walls" which might have been my turn of the season so far.

probably the most fun ive had on a saturday in a while.

[skiballz]

Ramshead and Snowshed were complete disasters yesterday from 9-1030. That put a damper on the morning.

[Pedro]

Ramshead and Snowshed were complete disasters yesterday from 9-1030. That put a damper on the morning.

If that area is nuts, jump on the bus to K1. The bust that pulls into snowshed also stops at rams head (not in the lot, but on the access road)

[skiballz]

It was a mechanical issue at Rams. Ordinarily those areas are not awful yet by 9.

[KingsFourMan]

Saturday was a bute, one of my best VT days of the year. Was on the BMQ with K4Woman at around 7:45 and pretty much had the mountain to ourselves until around 10 or 10:30 although it was a bit more crowded than the typical 8-10 time slot presumably because of the overnight snow which wasn't as much as expected. The couple of inches of fresh and the warmish temps made for hero snow almost everywhere. Everything we hit skied great. The Supe pod skied especially well with the Canyon being almost as good, Downdraft being particularly fun. Needles eye pod also great.

K4Woman’s knee held up extremely well to the point where she thinks the injury she sustained on a powder day on the backside of Steamboat 2 years ago has finally healed. Even a last run of the day down Devils Fiddle didn’t bother it. First time we’ve skied DF in years and we both had a good laugh remembering the time around 35 years ago when we were dating and I dragged her down it when she was still a fairly low level intermediate. I was just below the crest near the top when I started hearing people on the DF lift yelling “DIG IN, DIG IN”. I then see one of her run away skies come over the crest without her. I jockeyed myself into position to pounce on it which I did to the load cheers of people on the lift above. I then see her come over the crest, arms and legs flailing, along with her other ski and poles which had all become detached from her. She and all her stuff proceeded to slide past me in a death slide all the way down to the netting that used to be there were the lift line comes out of the trees. She ended up half upside down all tangled up in that netting like a fly in a spider’s web. My buddies coined the term “bad girlfriend management” from that incident, a term we still use to this day whenever we see it happening on the slopes which is fairly regularly although never quite so severely.

She is now an excellent skier and says that she feels “oddly comfortable” in that type of terrain from all the times I dragged her down it when we were younger.

[asher2789]

Saturday was a bute, one of my best VT days of the year. Was on the BMQ with K4Woman at around 7:45 and pretty much had the mountain to ourselves until around 10 or 10:30 although it was a bit more crowded than the typical 8-10 time slot presumably because of the overnight snow which wasn't as much as expected. The couple of inches of fresh and the warmish temps made for hero snow almost everywhere. Everything we hit skied great. The Supe pod skied especially well with the Canyon being almost as good, Downdraft being particularly fun. Needles eye pod also great.

K4Woman’s knee held up extremely well to the point where she thinks the injury she sustained on a powder day on the backside of Steamboat 2 years ago has finally healed. Even a last run of the day down Devils Fiddle didn’t bother it. First time we’ve skied DF in years and we both had a good laugh remembering the time around 35 years ago when we were dating and I dragged her down it when she was still a fairly low level intermediate. I was just below the crest near the top when I started hearing people on the DF lift yelling “DIG IN, DIG IN”. I then see one of her run away skies come over the crest without her. I jockeyed myself into position to pounce on it which I did to the load cheers of people on the lift above. I then see her come over the crest, arms and legs flailing, along with her other ski and poles which had all become detached from her. She and all her stuff proceeded to slide past me in a death slide all the way down to the netting that used to be there were the lift line comes out of the trees. She ended up half upside down all tangled up in that netting like a fly in a spider’s web. My buddies coined the term “bad girlfriend management” from that incident, a term we still use to this day whenever we see it happening on the slopes which is fairly regularly although never quite so severely.

She is now an excellent skier and says that she feels “oddly comfortable” in that type of terrain from all the times I dragged her down it when we were younger.

the real story here is that you are still friends (or more? even better!) after all that. lol at bad girlfriend management!

[KingsFourMan]

the real story here is that you are still friends (or more? even better!) after all that. lol at bad girlfriend management!

Yeah, we survived that bad girlfriend management event and just celebrated our 30 year wedding anniversary last October.

[asher2789]

the real story here is that you are still friends (or more? even better!) after all that. lol at bad girlfriend management!

Yeah, we survived that bad girlfriend management event and just celebrated our 30 year wedding anniversary last October.

hell yeah!!!