TR 2/18/10

[RootDKJ]

Date(s) Skied: 2/18/2010

 

Resort or Ski Area: Blue Mountain

 

Conditions: Very hard surface. It got very crowded as the night went on.

 

Trip Report: I got to Blue around 4pm to bright blue sunny skies and no crowds. Conditions were less then stellar however. The snow was very packed down and in some cases glossy. I wouldn't call it ice (or boilerplate) though, because I could easily stick my pole in the snow. If you kept your speed up, you could dig your edges in to it. In fact, it was extremely fast, to such a point that the wind was pulling my helmet's earpads away from my face.

 

The top of the Quad was porcelain-like all the way down to the 6-pack on Tut's and to the Slow Skiing sign on Paradise. The wind was not friendly either. Tut's, and the last straightaway on Paradise were pure wind tunnels. Razor's was solid and rutted up. Dreamweaver and Lazy skied ok later in the night as the crowds scraped off a nice layer or sugar. Paradise was pretty good, but there were 2-3 speed traps set up on there. I got the "slow down" arm wave once. Oh yeah, there's now two kickers on Challenge. They both appear open to the public.

 

 

 

 

 

Kicker #2

 

Razor's

 

Nightmare (the bumps are way larger then they appear in this pic)

 

 

That's it for pics today. I forgot to charge my camera's battery.

[mbike-ski]

nice tr, never made it up last night will try again tonight