Another week of winter

March 5, 2022

Snow on Tuesday night led to 3″ of fresh dry powder on top of cold cord groom – The best runs of the season – near the best of my life. Hero snow was everywhere.

Snow on Wednesday night brought 7″ of dry powder on top of the cold cord groom. Hard going – most of the mountain was deep powder skiing – and while it looks cool – it is a LOT of work.

I managed to open and close Wednesday and Thursday and then Sally joined for Friday where another 25k was had under cold blue sunny skies – delightful.

130k for the week and up to 450 for the season –

More to come?

We shall see….

333k

February 16, 2022

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Day three this week – crossed the 300k mark for the season. Still not sure on 500 let alone another big year – It takes some time and effort to rack up that kind of vert.

Cold again – and without the afternoon sun – it was hard to rally for the last hour. I got off the mountain with only 42k for the day.

The grind –

February 16, 2022

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First big effort to rack up the vert this week.

Taking some time from work for some concentrated effort on the slopes.

Cold so far this week but forecast to warm up.

Despite state meets – I have been able to ski almost non-stop – right on to the lift every turn.

The snow table is down – after last weeks warmth – but is is like the most durable foam core base you can imagine…

Winter at last

February 6, 2022

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At last

KP

March 7, 2021

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Up and down again at King Pine.

Windless with bluebird skies – the twenty-four degree temperature felt like summer.. compared to days earlier in the week.

Same route – up and down slow pokey pine..

Walks

March 6, 2021

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Sam is able to go for walks (short ones) so that’s what we did –

The trails off the bridge were polished white ice – not great, but we got up into the woods a bit and were able to let them loose and run about. They loved it. So did we.

Ott

February 20, 2021

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When I ski, I have buds in. I run chubby buttons on my sleeve and the volume is at 11.

Ott is the seasons hit – and my go to tunes for swishing the slopes the last few times out. This is my play list so far for the week ahead.

Up for it

February 6, 2021

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After a strong day downhill on the boards yesterday (Friday) today would be uphill focused.

After a day of accumulating snow and wind, today would be big blue and sunny

Our folly for the day would be up Cranmore – like Gibson to Easy Street etc..

Sally remarked early out of the base “I don’t know about this…”

I could not argue the reality and sudden impact going up can be. We would not be being licked by kittens today.

We came up something that was not groomed after we passed Schnieder. It was a hoot grinding up the mountain in better than 15″ of fresh snow.

We were back on the groomers at the bottom of easy street. Getting near the end.

I was feeling good as we slid across the last false flat before the top out. Sun was out. We were warm.

Up over the south slope headwall and we were done

Sally could muster a smile coming over the top

We took the bench outside of Meisters.

We enjoyed an agave based recovery beverage on the cold and windy summit.

Thats about it.

Almost 90 minutes up and 2 minutes down.

We had some mutual ski boot revelations on the way down –

UP and Down at KP

January 24, 2021

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§012321184042 KP up and down

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We got some human powered seasons passes at King Pine today. $50 for the season for access to the mountain for skinning as well as the X-C trails and ice skating. Not bad.

Parking in the north lot at the bear lift is 20 minutes from the house and 2 mintues from stepping in for the skin up – which took 25 minutes on our first edition . Up slow pokey pine to the picnic tables in the glade up top.

It was a cool 15 degrees with a strong west wind gusting to 25kts. The shell stayed on for the run up.

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At the top there is a series of picnic benches. We had a drink of water, took the skins off and got ready for the drop back down. It woul take less than two minutes.

The mountain was crowded but we were not affected much. it was an easy drop back down slow pokey pine (love that name) and back to the car. Twenty more minutes and we were back home. Not bad.

My legs were hammered when I woke up this morning after a solid 20k at cranmore (first time out for the season really) and I was proud that we both agreed to head out around 2pm to get our pass and climb king pine.

My legs will be hammerd when I wake up tomorrow – Just guessing…

Late start to an off season

January 10, 2021

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Saturday January 9 was first day out – and for us it was on skins to start followed by a single ride on the quad. The conditions were not great – the mountain was run well and C more did a good job for social distancing. I would rate it 8/10.

We need more snow – and no weekends. Just not worth it.