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March 2007 - Posts
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As I stood shivering at the top of my first run this morning, (not because it was that cold, probably, but because I am used to 60 degree days), I realized that despite the one inch of blower pow on top of scary blue ice that I had just skied, what lay Read More...
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Another day of fun in the sun, and the wigggle scene continues to rule in my world. The people who are still stoked on skiing are really stoked, and the little jib lines, and worker's wiggle laps, and trips to the base for the halfpipe never get tiresome. Read More...
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Springtime, blue skies, warm weather...empty gondola cars, empty chairlifts, empty slopes, and an empty base area...isn't this the time of year when everyone is supposed to be out? Yet, they are not at the village skiing, they are not at the pass, and Read More...
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Early morning at the hill was pretty empty, with not much soft only the groomers were skiing good. The lifts were close to empty, and little groups of people gathered here and there, waiting for the sun or something to happen. Luckily the sun didn't come Read More...
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Saturday afternoon at the freeskiing comp at the hill, competitor after competitor charged their line on hard snow...until one skier....bib-less, shirtless, pantless....came ripping down out of the treees, hit a few little airs in toilet bowl, threw a Read More...
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Over the weekend, all the snow around my house melted. The snow markers are down from the highway, and the rapid melting up on the pass is leaving piles of mud and rocks across the road. People are digging out their funny old school ski suits and thinking Read More...
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This morning we got a nice alpine start to skiing, of, oh, about noon. It was incredibly warm at the base, and required the immediate ditching of layers in the gondola. We also OD'd on sunblock, to try to stave off the inevitable bad goggle tan, although Read More...
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Water drops were plopping in the roof of my cabin this morning, but one glance outside, once again, was all it took to motivate me out of bed for 9 am at the village. Hitching on the road my friend picked me up immediately, on her way to work at the resort...sometimes, Read More...
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Well , mid-week in Snowbird turned into a powder week after all, for all the freeskiers gathered to compete in the US Nationals and the World Tour. We were greeted by giant flakes hammering the hill on Thursday morning, which was day 2 of the qualifiers. Read More...
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You can't get drunk on 3.2 beer, no matter how hard you try, unless you are 11, probably. Which is good, at least for the earliest part of the week here in Snowbird, where the competitive freeskiing world is converging for stop #3 of the US Freeskiing Read More...
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Yesterday we were suffering from frostbite; today it was pretty close to tropical (from my perspective) up in the mountains as the sun beat down on my black jacket, and gooballs rolled down from rocky, thermal areas even up high. Point releases dotted Read More...
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