RidgeRacer Posted January 13, 2010 Report Posted January 13, 2010 Hey all, Just back from a wonderful afternoon session at Jackson Frost. I skied with my Brother who was out on the snow for the first time in two years. We pulled up to the lot under blue skies and sunshine. We decided to make our first run down Lehigh then over to Exhibition to warm up. The snow was the famous JFBB Packed Powder / cold smoke - excellent. We headed over through the gateway to East Mt and up the East Mt Lift for a Elevator Glade to Elevator Combo. My Brother was impressed with how steep Vader is. He stayed out of the Elevator Glade since he was a bit rusty but skied Vader successfully, which BTW is very skiable...the edges had no problem on it for the most part. The right (skier's right), not as steep side, of the Elevator has bumps forming and the steeper left side is flat for the most part - definitely more challenging if you enter it from the left side. We moved on to the Challenge glade which is a leg burner if you make the short turns through the bumps / trees. We headed back over to East Mt for a run on Floyd's and back to the Elevator / E-Glade until almost closing time. Floyd's is really good right now. Overall it was another great day at JFBB. Elevator Glade.. Elevator from the top...can't see the bottom! Challenge Glade... The sun sets on the Elevator...Another Great day. Quote
JFskiDan Posted January 13, 2010 Report Posted January 13, 2010 seems like playing hookey worked out pretty well for you. today was kinda nice in philly.... anyways, i hope condition are similar this weekend. Quote
RidgeRacer Posted January 13, 2010 Author Report Posted January 13, 2010 Nice report does the elevator have a smooth runout if you were to straightline it??? Yeah it flattens out at the bottom and it's smooth. I wouldn't straight run it. You may be doing 90 mph by the time you get to the bottom. Quote
C1erArt Posted January 13, 2010 Report Posted January 13, 2010 No once you hit the bottom you have to turn to your left to avoid the trees between the bottom and floyds. But you can start on the right at top and traverse down and to your left across the face o the hill and shoot out onto the bottom of river shot carrying a lot of speed. But it's more fun to make linked turns down the face. Quote
AtomicSkier Posted January 14, 2010 Report Posted January 14, 2010 Yeah it flattens out at the bottom and it's smooth. I wouldn't straight run it. You may be doing 90 mph by the time you get to the bottom. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Quote
RidgeRacer Posted January 14, 2010 Author Report Posted January 14, 2010 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA You do know that I was kidding when I said 90 mph right? Quote
AgentRider21 Posted January 14, 2010 Report Posted January 14, 2010 park was fun today...nice setups..maybe add another jump? Quote
phillycore Posted January 14, 2010 Report Posted January 14, 2010 You'd need to head skiers left at the bottom otherwise you'd get folded in half straightlining it... Michael (Serch) has straightlined it once or twice.... probably because he was going to fast to turn and it was his only option. It's much better with turns though... I made 3 or 4 turns in the video I posted and it lasted a whopping 8 seconds from top to bottom going at it with speed. Normally I try to make it last a little longer than that....straightlining it would take less time... Quote
SERCH Posted January 14, 2010 Report Posted January 14, 2010 The elevator is defenetley better with turns than just going straight down, I normaly make a ouple of turns on the top throuhgout the middle of the trail then i normaly just gun it at the bottom of the trail. I find the elevator my favorite trail there. I am still trying to get the Elevator Glade run down. ill probley be able to do it at the end of the seaason succsesfully! Cant wait to back to JFBB!! Quote
phillycore Posted January 14, 2010 Report Posted January 14, 2010 definitely normally throughout probably successfully Can we add a spell checker on PASR for my son please!!! Quote
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