Jack Frost 1/25

[C1erArt]

Nice morning skiing, 11 degrees and cloudy first thing. A lot of new snow blown in. Slopes pretty quiet.

 

Floyds was great - smooth and good snow. Very fast on both sides. (Even got dear wife to run it a couple times). River Shot was a little choppy with some ungroomed areas on both sides, some small rollers and bumps. Probably be groomed out tomorrow. Didn't see anyone go down the Vader.

 

TBolt was also a little rolly but pretty nice. Again, will probably be groomed flat tomorrow. Upper glade was nice, but lower was still pretty thin. Lower TBolt left of the towers still not filled in, narrowing the trail a little.

 

Challenge was in great shape - groomed out flat and very fast. Huge side to side carved turns. Don't like the bumps on the right - to short to get a good rhythmn going. Last Sunday, between the race gates on the left, bumps on the right, the headwalls got scraped off and there was carnage.

 

Run of the day, though, was Happyland (Challenge glade). Open top to bottom (including below the race house down to the E Mtn chair). The 'inner' trail was covered as well as in the trees. Just one rock just barely visible that I saw. Snow was very firm hard pack, but eminently carvable. Bumps in the trees on the headwall were quite manageable at high (for me) speed. Ears ringing a little now from having the music up too high. Cutovers to under the EMtn chair were still too sketchy though.

[Ride Delaware ?]

Glad to see they are putting the cold weather to use... Nice TR!!!

[RidgeRacer]

Good news on happyland.