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Out of the press after a bunch of hours, I had the top sheet on this pair printed even though it is quite boring per my wife. I told her she can put anything on the next pair, hoping for some rocket ships. Top sheet right out of the press Bases right out of the press Next step is cutting out the individual skis, pretty much run the jig saw along the edge, just don’t cut the edge. The base is the only thing in the lay up that is the finish shape of the ski, so that is used for cutting the ski to shape. Cutting out the shape The final step before mounting and a tune is to bevel the sidewalls, I used the home made router table from a few posts ago with a bottom bearing 7 degree bevel bit. This puts a nice taper on the side walls and helps keep the top sheet from chipping while skiing. Final shape, I wanted to weigh them but I forgot before I put bindings on them. Finished [emoji736] They are mounted and tuned with one day on them so far. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

New boots arrived today. Last years XT 130s. Only took 6 days from Italy compared to the Edgie Wedgie that took 4 weeks from Ohio. My feet hurt just thinking of breaking them in.

Oops. Here are a few Solitude pics that I found in the Google photo album. They’re not great but hope they help show the coverage. possibly Main Street ? a skiincy skiing photo the Wasatch range 😍 We had some of our favorite runs from here. possibly from Summit Express? and from the parking lot. The amount of clean cars in Utah is absurd, by the way.

If you are getting it through LVH maybe I'll be lucky enough to give it to you. I signed up to help them organize and to run vaccination clinics for the next few months and help with the community vaccine roll out throughout the LV. I volunteered initially to run some surge COVID units, but luckily we never needed that extra capacity. Because I have only had limited time on the clinical unit during the last few months felt almost guilty as a nurse for not doing enough during this pandemic, so vaccinating the greater community to help try and turn the corner with this pandemic is the least I could do. I'm really looking forward to it.

Wow. He was hanging out in the lot yesterday though correct? Just my opinion here but you can't have it both ways. If you leave PASR then you have to forego all of the benefits that go along with PASR, including sausage Sunday.

Day 3 Solitude Bluebird and Bumps Woke up and immediately hit the snooze, Snowbird beat me up so I wasn’t as extremely motivated to get up before the sun. Had a leisurely breakfast of eggs and toast and headed out. Dropped off Wally at dog daycare and headed into Big Cottonwood Canyon. Pulled in around 9:30 to the Moonbeam base area, booted up, grabbed a ticket, hit the bathroom, and was on the snow a little before 10. Up Moonbeam and down the widest groomers I’ve ever seen under a perfectly blue cloudless Utah sky. We were shooting for the Apex express lift but that was having a temporary mechanical issue so we scooted over to the slow sunrise triple for two nice runs down Timberline/Sensation and then North Star. Apex express was open now so we hopped on it for a trip up where we explored Wall Street/Main Street and Blue Spruce with the occasional dip off trail. One more ride up Apex Express and we cruised down to the Summit Express lift. At this point, I would like to say that I do not like chairs that follow the terrain and go down on their way up the mountain. It feels weird to be going downhill so I was pretty pumped when the chair eventually started to go up very steeply. Once we got to the summit, it became very clear that it had not snowed in a week. Lots of exposed rock, shrubs and absolutely everything was bumped up here. There were also more people than expected since everyone was funneled into the trails Mine/Dynamite and no one was bothering with the ridge or the cirques. This meant it was just 1800 vertical feet of crusty and icy bumps down to the village. Needless to say this was our one and only trip to the top. We took Apex Express up and cruised down to the Moonbeam base area where we dropped our gear in racks and walked over to the car for another round of socially distant lunch. Similar spread to the day before but @skiincy packed a thermos of hot water and made some Ramen noodles for us which was a nice touch. We relaxed for about 45 minutes and enjoyed the crisp air and sunshine and we both dropped a layer. Back to the Moonbeam Express and then from the top of that we took the Powderhorn II lift and cruised down Eagle Ridge until the snow below looked pretty good and we dropped down Paradise lost which was fun and had good snow but was still a little rocky and had a decent amount of shrubs poking out. Down to the eagle express and up again to cruise down the same route but stayed on the groomer to Sunshine Bowl before getting on Eagle Express again. This turned out to be a really fun lift and we took it 4 more times alternating between dropping down some nice steep blacks and cruising on the western groomers. We cruised down over to the Apex Express lift again and did two runs in the little bowl below Abbas Alley and after a full day of mostly bumps decided to go down, up Moonbeam Express and carry our speed past that lift to ski right to the car. I dropped off the little cat track next to the parking lot and almost got hit by a car coming down the lane but no one else besides me and the lady driving seemed to see it happen. All in all a great sunshiny day where I spent most of it with sunglasses on instead of goggles and enjoyed the super comfortable weather and some great groomers. The slick bumps on most of the mountain were a major drawback and occasionally I would take a left when @skiincy would take a right and wind up on some not so great snow or just scraping through the bumps for a while but still it was fun. I would love to go back and get to explore more of the mountain because some of the terrain looked amazing but with the look of the snow it wasn’t worth going for. I’m sure there are some here that would disagree but miles of bumps isn’t the most fun for me. Weather 10/10 Snow 5/10 Fun 8.5/10 Pics to follow

Getting my second shot Tuesday morning, then going directly to Blue. 1st one didn’t hurt at all getting the shot. My arm was a little sore the next day, but no big deal. I’m hoping I don’t feel crappy Wednesday, since I’m planning on skiing again. A little Motrin and wine and I’ll be fine 👍👍

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Sunrise on Christines Hill...

EPIC day at Hunter w/ @GSSucks and @Justo8484. @GSSucks caught up with me somewhere on 87 and arrived at Hunter ~6:50am. Geared up started our skin right as the sun was coming up. This was my first real skin adventure, as my Jacobsburg State Park adventure with @toast21602, @mbike-ski, and @Mixilplix was more to test the gear, and practice changing the skis from uphill to downhill, etc. It was low 20s when we started with a nice breeze which helped regulate body temps. The alpenglow was spot on as we headed up hill. It's a ~1.75 mile tour with 1600ft-ish of gain (I think) and it took us about 50ish minutes with a few stops to adjust venting, take pics, etc. Pretty efficient method to travel uphill. Gear test was pretty successful I thought. We were back down at the car a little after 8 to meet up with @Justo8484, change into dryer clothing, and head back out for a day shredding the gnar. First few runs were 10/10 awesome groomers but lines started to form and stuff got more scraped off. Skied until about 1:30pm with a beer stop somewhere in the middle. Well worth the drive to ski some nice conditions, fast runs, and get a little uphill practice in. TFTI @GSSucks.

Is that like a Ferrari badge on a Volvo?

I had the honor of skiing a run on @GSSucks S2P1 skis. Extremely impressed that he was able to make those in his basement/garage. They ski like skis, and perfectly matched my kit. Couple more tweaks and he'll be ready to make a pro model for me...rocket ships and all.

Day 2 - Solitude I don’t have a ton of pics from this day... i snapped a pic towards the Honeycomb Chutes and Boundary Chutes. Someone had a really fun day. Zoom in for some symmetrical lines. after Solitude, we hung out at the Airbnb for a bit then explored the downtown. Wally is looking like a fluffy stegosaurus. turns out they’re doing a major overhaul of the Temples foundation. this is a really interesting video of how they’re doing it if you like geeking out on construction videos. After the deserted Temple Square, we popped over to Pie Hole. We got 3 slices .... Potato, bacon, alfredo Chorizo, brown sugar, roasted jalapeños, olives Candied jalapeños, potato, onion The style kind of reminded me of fishtown. then, the pizza was stacked on top of each other and put in a styrofoam container 😳

Claimed by shit chute, lol. That damn thing just pops out of nowhere sometimes. Damn I miss 50-60 day seasons at bird, time for a move!

Not so at blue this afternoon, really bad. No VIP line and non maskers made for a short afternoon... fuck that shit Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Day 2. Snowbird. The Bird is the word. 9am-3:45pm 21.276 vertical feet // 15 lifts Woke up early and got ready to head to Snowbird, UT for the day. Made some eggs and tried to stay hydrated. Threw a few things in the car, dropped off the dog, and started the drive into Little Cottonwood Canyon. About 35 minutes later at 8:15am, we got a nice parking spot near Snowbird Center and booted up. Walked up to the ticket window which is located in the Tram building and had to wait a few minutes for it to open. Just as a heads up --The sign read "Friends & Family: $98" but that rate is only valid for Snowbird passholders, not Ikon. Ikon passholders get 25% off the combo Snowbird/Alta ticket. Snowbird only gives the 25% off the Snowbird/Alta combo ticket, which is significantly more expensive than just the Snowbird alone one. It still works out to be a little bit less than window price but not the kind of discount that you would expect. Ticket was acquired and we went to the line for the tram. They are pretty serious about masking up all over the resort and Buffs or bandannas don't cut it. There was a girl walking around the line handing out masks, if you didn't have one, and everyone was pretty good about keeping their distance. They are only letting 25 people in each tram so they actually had a number of barrels filled with water for ballast. We got first tram of the day and dropped down the back side right away into Mineral Basin. Not having any idea where we were -- we stuck to the Lupine Loop and then down to Bassanova, occasionally popping off of the cat track but coming back onto it fairly quickly. Back up Mineral Basin Express and down Path to Paradise where we both dropped into the bowl at different spots but wound up at the bottom of Mineral Basin Express. Went up Mineral Basin Express and @skiincy had to jump on a call, so she went into the Summit at Snowbird and I took another run. This is the point where Snowbird really started to hit me. The size of this place was stunning from the first Tram ride but at this point I realized that Snowbird, like the Honey Badger, don't care. Outside of the marked "easier way down", which has pitches towards the lift that are as steep as Razor's Edge, there is absolutely no signage and it's a complete free for all. As I'm writing this, I had to reference the trail names on Nancy's Ikon ski tracker - otherwise, we would have no idea of some of these names. On this solo run I hopped off the cat track pretty early and dove down through some fun steeps and wound up in a pretty gnarly and narrow chute that came out of nowhere. I got down to the bottom of the Mineral Basin lift and was really sucking wind. Thankfully I didn't get altitude sickness but I had no idea how high Snowbird really was (11,000 feet at the top of the Tram). After these 3 runs my boots were a little too tight so I popped into the Summit at Snowbird and took a 10 minute break where I downed a few glasses of water. Back out with Nancy this time and we explored Mineral Basin a little more. It was sunny and beautiful over there. The snow was a little crusty but not bad. We went back to the front side of Snowbird at this point and took Chip's Run down occasionally dropping off of the trail onto Hot Foot Gully, and Who Dunnit before ending at the Peruvian Express lift. Up the lift and through the Peruvian Tunnel back to Mineral Basin where we did two laps off of the Baldy Lift. I would try to list the trails we took but honestly with the complete lack of signage it could have been almost anything. Back up Peruvian Express and our day at Mineral Basin was over. We headed skiers left now and dropped down Old Ladies to Regulator Johnson and Barry Barry Steep until we wound up at the bottom of the Gad Valley at the bottom of the Gadzoom lift. At this point I was really sucking wind and my foot was hurting so we hopped on the parking lot shuttle and got dropped off at the car for lunch. We had some sandwiches and I had lots of Gatorade and water before we walked over to the Tram again. Had to wait for one Tram before we headed up on the second one. Weather at the top of the tram was rough with clouds blowing over the top of the mountain and a strong wind. Back down Regulator Johnson (or there abouts) and down to the Gadzoom lift for two laps. We hit up the Gad 2 lift for one run because Nancy wanted to go down Bananas as a last run which turned out to be ungroomed and a long bumpy last run of the day to completely drain our legs and my lungs. The drive back to Salt Lake City was pretty simple, we picked up an exhausted Wally and the three of us crashed almost immediately.

Sweet! I'm opting for the butt cheek administered version of the shot instead of the arm. Hope that's ok with you. In all seriousness you're a good man sir. Much respect. Truly. Ps... automatically pre registered if you have an lvhn account.

Correct! I leave the orange Dynafit seals on for show like the splitter guards on a Charger right?

Also got a few laps on them yesterday. Leave @AtomicSkier's pair completely unchanged from these, he looked like he actually enjoyed being on a "playful" ski! As he said though, amazing to hop on these knowing what went in to them and them skiing really well. I'd be curious to get them into some moguls; I think they'd be pretty fun in some soft bumps given how maneuverable they felt.

You bought the 100mm ones, right?

I rode this morning with Ben M, they were blowing all over and first couple runs where an absolute carpet. Softer and drier than their normal slop for sure, it went to smaller cookies pretty quick after that. Big ass piles on NM/DW

I think they look rad..bit of a hippie vibe.

As we had discussed on the lift that Blue really had their shit together this year, they fall short in this area. They need to enforce this better.

You know when the beer hits when PSUGuy starts barking at dogs and Matt edge starts howling at the ski school shuttle golf cart lol.

Hunter liftees were rigorously enforcing masks today. If your nose was showing, you got called out.

Here’s my snowbird recap in photos. It’s quite a humbling mountain. Trammy tram was not as crowded as usual View from the tram looking towards SLC whaaat. The views are incredible. the quinsential photos for our moms to prove that we’re still alive. It’s not @enjoralas’s sausage Sunday, but we picked up some meats and snacks at Smiths. the beer is Czech your head and Lei Effect by Proper Brewing. here’s a cool pic of @Schifboarding. Cloud cover was heavy at times. And once, just off a green trail, a snow snake got me. It was funny and my legs were so tired. Snowbird is humbling. im all about skiing as much mountain as possible but please - no more election hoopla. I will not ski the election trail. And PS: bananas was bananas.

I figured I'd get a cheeky comment like that from you 😘

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Swwwweeeeeeet. Not sure what you do for a living but if it's not designing / building skis you should really re consider. These are awesome.

Sick! Nice job @GSSucks, thanks for taking us through the process and results. I hope she has a bunch of rockets on the next pair.

Those are sexy AF 😍

[emoji1694] We’ll find out tomorrow

Can confirm. Line for the flyer was pretty bad yesterday, line for the F triple was not great, but the lines for the lift at north and west were pretty nonexistent. Unfortunately that stuff never really saw much sun so visibility was a little flat and snow was a little scrapy. At blue if I'm there past 10-1030am on a weekend, I find myself riding the doubles a bit more than I normally would. I haven't seen the quad and sixpack lines meet yet, but I think this coming weekend might be the true test of how reduced ticket sales actually are at a lot of ski areas around here.

But I want to ski Wednesday... I need it to avoid going into crisis mode.

Have you ever done goat yoga? My friend did in the fall and it looks like a bahhhdass time.

Pfizer. I’ve heard several people say they didn’t feel well after 2nd. I have my Motrin and have some Zofran if needed. It’s better than getting COVID. If I don’t feel something I’ll be thinking my I’ll be one of the 5% that doesn’t develop immunity 😷😫

That’s gotta be from 2005. Nice find!

Awesome stuff!!! Now I really want a touring set up!

Sounds like I missed a pretty epic Sausage Sunday. Ski you all next weekend though

Belt Parkway I believe.

Wow he’s so salty.

Salty is done with PASR. Apparently he’s on Alpinezone now.

I did the,”excuse me, can you tell your friend to pull his mask up” in the liftline today. I forgot the really tall guys name, Joan’s husband and Alex’s dad but I’m gonna start calling him out everytime. He totally doesn’t give a fuck.

Yeah they need better enforcement.

No he doesn’t..I’ve talked to him in past seasons..Blue let’s him take empty cans and bottles which he cashes in.

Stellar day, fun tour with Jeff to start it off. An early uphill lap always makes me feel like I did something besides drink beers with the boys. The early laps were great, lift lines got a little rowdy but that’s part of skiing Vail East. Let’s do that again before the end of the season, maybe with a few additional friends! Got to test out the new skis as well, not spot on but much more fun than the last pair. More on that to come. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Fact. I dislike tomato juice but you created a delicious liquid meal 👌

They’re still out there...

Blue was good day. Congrats on creaming in your snow pants Doug!

Wednesday 10/6/2021 Flew into Salt Lake City after a layover in Denver on Wednesday. Very easy flying right now from PHL to DEN on Southwest. I actually had an entire row to myself so that was nice. As an update, economy parking is closed at the Philadelphia airport right now so they are only charging $3 more per day to park in the garage that's right next to the terminals. Got picked up at the SLC airport and went to neighborhood dog park (Herman Franks) where Wally got to run around for a little while and showed off some of his leaping skills. After that we went to Wasatch Brewery in the Sugarhouse section of Salt Lake City. We had Wally with us so we ended up eating outside on the patio in one of those igloos. It was actually really nice, there were lights strung above it, Wally could hang out off his leash and there was a space heater and blankets though it wasn't terribly cold. I had a Buffalo Burger and @skiincy had a turkey burger with grilled mushrooms. Nancy had the Apricot Hefeweizen and I had the Evo Amber Ale, both the big 22 oz pours. Went back to the AirBnB, unpacked and went to bed early in preparation for Snowbird the next day