phillycore Posted January 28, 2008 Report Posted January 28, 2008 Going to be really short here as I need to get to work... Went with my son to Shawnee for an overnight trip through our Church's youth group. Sat Night was really icy and the lifts were slow as all hell. I spent the first hour or so teaching a first timer how to ski then he went off on his own with my son. He did great for a first timer and I'm sure he'll be going out again. I made my first couple runs down the terrain park and bennekill as that was the chair I was nearest to after the lesson. Moved on trail trail towards the skiers right as the night progressed. I couldn't figure out whatn they use to classify these trails but all the blues, and blacks seemed the same to me. The mountain basically has two pitches... the top of it is one and the bottom is a little steeper.. Hard to judge though as it was night and the conditions were crap as expected for any mountain on a sat. night. Sunday... Got up early to get first tracks... Was on the mountain to score first tracks on arrowhead. Got in as many runs as possible then found a little gem called renegade which is easily the steepest trail there, I guess it's not lighted because I never even saw it sat night. Got in a ton of runs even though the lifts are dog slow.. Tried nastar for the first time and my first time ever skiing around gates... Yeah I suck... Probably would have done better had I tried it earlier before the course was all ice, but what the hell.. I did like 43:14 or some shit... either way I suck on twins with no edges and ice.... yeah it was fun. work calls Quote
phillycore Posted January 28, 2008 Author Report Posted January 28, 2008 Holy Crap I just logged into that nastar thing and man I suck even worse than I thought I sucked... I was like 65th out of like 88 racers... Now I know exactly why I never did it before.. My only excuses are... the course was nothing but ice when I did it late in the day My skis needed to be tuned no edges or wax I was the only one there attempting to do it on twins and the #1 reason... I'm fat and I SUCK!! Quote
RidgeRacer Posted January 28, 2008 Report Posted January 28, 2008 Nice TR...Renegade is not lighted. Nastar at Shawnee is fun. I did it last year and scored a bronze Quote
poconoceancity Posted January 28, 2008 Report Posted January 28, 2008 Holy Crap I just logged into that nastar thing and man I suck even worse than I thought I sucked... I was like 65th out of like 88 racers... Now I know exactly why I never did it before.. My only excuses are... the course was nothing but ice when I did it late in the day My skis needed to be tuned no edges or wax I was the only one there attempting to do it on twins and the #1 reason... I'm fat and I SUCK!! Look on the bright side...You were probably 1st in the heavy weight division. Quote
Timeless Posted January 28, 2008 Report Posted January 28, 2008 and the #1 reason... I'm fat and I SUCK!! never stopped Bode....you probably just had the wrong wax.... Quote
phillycore Posted January 29, 2008 Author Report Posted January 29, 2008 lol... I haven't waxed my skis in like 4 trips or tuned my edges... I just suck.... I basically slid around every gate... at least I didn't miss any or fall.. Quote
Ski Posted January 29, 2008 Report Posted January 29, 2008 lol... I haven't waxed my skis in like 4 trips or tuned my edges... I just suck.... I basically slid around every gate... at least I didn't miss any or fall.. Philly, is it okay to tease you about the 5 yr old boy with the 42.79? Quote
phillycore Posted January 29, 2008 Author Report Posted January 29, 2008 At least I beat the 80 year old lady!!! Quote
Ski Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 At least I beat the 80 year old lady!!! You rock, Philly!!!! As long as you're having fun it doesn't matter who beats whom... Quote
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