Hey All,

I'm back from a fun day skiing at Killington. The road-trip began yesterday at 12:30PM when I picked up Atomic Jeff in Bethlehem. We got on the road and made great time to Rutland despite the fact that I drive like a grandma. Phillycore took his own car up from Philly and he passed us while we were at a rest stop but then we caught him right before the final 48 miles from I-87 to Rutland. We got a suite at the Best Western 3 miles east of Rutland for $108 including tax so only $36 each. After settling into our accomadations we hit up the Sirloin saloon and then went back to the suite to drink some beer. I freaking love Long Trail Blackberry Wheat. I should have brought some home with me. At one point I got into all my gear and jumped off the couch and there is a youtube worthy video that A-Jeff will put together.

After a clear cool night with tons of stars..the morning was very sunny with thick frost on our cars..we took advantage of the free breakfast and then drove to the mountain. There were a decent amount of cars at 9:25AM but nothing crazy..they were already letting people on the gondola ahead of their 10AM opening. We booted up and got our tickets for $65 each. I saw PASRs own Skidude scanning passes at the base of the K1 gondola. At the top we took the only route down from the peak..Great northern which had nice chalky manmade but lots of snowguns blasting..that led to lower great northern, Rime and a section of East falls..from the top of the Northridge triple was also Reason. Only the lower mountain bunny buster was open with snowguns blasting. Early in our session we mainly skied off the triple to stay out of the snow guns. At 11:00AM I saw Roark, Bostonian, Treeskier, and Mondeo at the top but I didn't ski with them until a little later..Of the AZers..we saw and skied with Mondeo the most..it's the first time I saw the Cabcrawler bump skeeze..and they're cool. My favorites of the day was the left side of Rime and the wide section of great northern to the right of Rime because it was a good place to open it up a bit. I took it really easy and skied at about 60% speed..there were far to many people and ski condition types to push it..plus it's only November 2nd. In total we skied for 4 hours from 9:40AM until 1:40PM with no breaks except when the gondola stopped for about 10 minutes..a total of 12 rides up the triple and 4 rides up the Gondola..The bottom with all the snowguns blasting was a bit of a clusterf8ck but the runs off the top were quite pleasent. I feel really good and I'm sure there will be pictures soon..What a great first day of lift served..woo hoo..well worth the 5+ hour drive and $65 lift ticket..I'm guessing there were several hundred Killington passholders and several hundred people bought tickets..they blew snow right until I left and I'm sure the guns are blasting tonight. The people who get to ski there the next few days can expect nice coverage, snow quality and light crowds..

Killington is Back!!!!

Jeff your pants look too tight. Buy bigger pants.

They look fine in person? I plan on losing even more weight so it's no big deal.

They're too short as well.

you wasted $65 to ski 3 trails? damn. thank god i didnt go.

Your vagina was too sandy to even go skiing today.



sandy vagina #2....you can look at houses any day of the week.

How did that broken leg work? Any pain?

Nope In fact, like the Doctor said, skiing could only help The top section of the trail under the lift was nice chalky scraped off snow (heaven for me) and I was laying down some arcs reminiscent of when I was healthy (and on race skis)

I can't think of a better way to spend $65..where were you???

14 runs good for 13612 vertical feet per Killington's lift stats.

We made it back from the sandwich place on the Kton access road to my apartment in south side Bethlehem in 5 hours and 7 minutes. 315 miles exactly. Not bad.

I made it from my house in boyertown to my dorm room at slippery rock in 4 hours and 41 min today. 320 miles.

100 miles of that 315 miles was not on a 4 lane highway.

We skied 16 runs...12 on the triple and 4 on the gondola..

The Phat Italian?

yup...excellent selection of wine and steeze...

ahh ya...i got the vertical right, the # of runs wrong.

yeah, nice clean place they have there, good selections

The bathroom was nice, large, and clean for changing out of your ski clothes

AtomicJeff..how is the video coming along? I really think I'll get groupies from the video if you include the jump off the couch and the Milli Vanilli sing along..

I'm going to bed...maybe ill get to it tomorrow.

I'll keep that in mind, thanks for the good tip

i didnt hit 4 lanes at all. the turnpike and 80 are only 2 lanes.

That is 4 lanes.... 2 on each side...



It was a good time.... My legs got burnt out around noon and I had 2 real shitty runs. Of course it was when we were skiing with the AZ guys so they'll probably talk shit, but whatever.. Caught a little break when the gondola stopped and finished the day out pretty good. Skiing on Nov 2nd on the east... can't complain whatsoever..
Good weekend for me...
Phillies parade Friday with my eldest son, followed by Halloween with the kids
Sat drove to K-ton and ate steak with Steeze and Jeff
Skiing on Sun followed by the drive home...
That was a long drive for only 1 day of skiing though..

Yes of course, my choice to paddle good whitewater over mediocre snowboarding was a poor choice. I didn't sack up at all, and the good were not gotten.

No skiing is mediocre on November 2nd.

True words. The coverage looks good and I'm sure my first day out won't be 4 trails with 1000' vertical.

lmfao

Try driving to Mount Snow for 4 hours of skiing a hike park, haha.

There you go bitching about last weekend again lol

You know it was awesome.

They had a little park with about 3-4 features set up on Reason and I gave everybody a lesson on Smartstyle..it's important..

Round trip for me was just under 770 miles...

That's less than 50 miles per run you skied..

It'll be on YouTube as soon as it's finished processing.

i know i'm a snowboarder, but i could have sworn these are powder skis (minus the the on on the right). isn't that the point to a fatter ski? i saw no powder, and i know damn well neither of you were riding switch. please enlighten me.

of and that video is def the bomb-deezy, but not really.

Those skis are considered mid-fat all mountain skis..true powder skis would dwarf those..and for variable condition including piles of thick manmade snow..a wider platform is better..and I skied switch a bit yesterday...

sick video haha. kinda reminds me of seth rogan when hes singing. the snow looks real good though.

To me, those were powder skis, but to the rest of the ski world, those are just all mountain skis. Mine are only like 85 in the waste (widest skis I've ever owned). I was definitely impressed with the grip, stiffness, and radius of my first pair of twin tips

not powder skis at all. maybe for PA.

nice video..is that retard really almost 30?

still laughing... we had fun for sure..

210+ views in 5 hours lol

LOL at the video.

and all those lost brain cells.......

Unfortunately I don't have any groupies from the youtube video..

I SWEAR TO GOD I thought you were a chick in that pic and that's why someone made the tight pants comment.




Oh you made my day with that one. If it makes you feel any better my Chippy is totally crushing on you... especially after that video.

hahah i thought so too. my jacket isn't actually that light blue...it was just really bright and thats how the camera captured it. But, i think it's the way im standing

no jeff... your pants are just too tight and too short. deal with it.

they're steezy north face gortex pants that i got at 1/2 price at nestors....with my weight loss they fit perfectly, actually.