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went up wednesday afternoon to meet up with another family at the new digs. woke up thursday morning to 2" fresh snow and steday continuing snowfall. open trails were in great shape and poached a few wood shots as well. cover in the trees was a little thin maybe 6-10 but a few knee deep shots in spots - just enough to cover lots of lurking snow snakes. new years eve was cool with a decent buffet at the base lodge, torchlight parade, kick ass fireworks, some sammy winters and a big fat ashton. back to the hotel lobby to toast in the new year with champagne served by the owner/builder himself - great hands on kinda guy new years day more of the same for a total of about 6" or so for the weekend. ski'd solo from 8:30 until bout 10 when my kids texted me they were on there way over. ended up running boot deep leftovers on the elysion mini bumps for a few before hooking up with everyone and heading over to mars #5. my buddy was poaching the woods there and said there was even better cover than ronnies. skiid til about 2 then headed over for my xmas present from mrs snobunski - a facial and massage! a few cell phone pics: looked a little breezysaturday morning so i headed into the woods for a little xc before checking out stayed ahead of the groomer for a while until my loop back gettin my glide on the fresh cord can't wait to get back up

or sports chalet on 309 in allentown

$10 lift tickets tomorrow Bear Creek celebrates our 10 year Anniversary on Wednesday, 12/23 and to celebrate they are offering $10 extended lift tickets. Since everything is open, this is a great deal! There's some other stuff going on as well. Check out the website for more details. http://www.bcmountainresort.com/winter/custPage.aspx?id=70

it can work that way and does every once in awhile - i had a gold/14 or something silly hc day a few years back at greek. i had a good run - not quite that good tho it works pretty well most days

the pacesetter concept is that in any given race your racing against the national pacesetter - us ski team member darron rhalves in the past, not sure this year - based on a mathematical formula determined by the local pacesetters performance on the course. If my times give me a 25 handicap it basically means i'm running it 25% slower than the national pacesetter's theoretical time if he were on the same course.

last year was a little frustrating, mike meyers was the pacesetter most nights and must have been bodie'd up or something during the national pacesetting trials then would come out and kill it thusday nights - somewhat skewing the handicaps. add on top of that what i thought were some pretty difficult course sets most nights resulted in higher handicaps for hacks like me one of the fun things for me about racing and nastar is you typically see a real quantitative result/progression as your skiing improves. last season i felt i was skiing better but the result were going the other way. still a good time any way you cut it though

thats good news!

good to see yer gettin some johnny! hey nastar glenn was asking about ya - i told him you were livin the dream then headed back for some tuesday night gate action

i dig the first 2 shots of pc and parr - looks like frickin mt mansfield

nice way to start the winter! i was hoping to hit a bike ride in the snow but mrs snowbunski needs help with the christmas candy

yo happy winter soulstice everyone

yea unfortunately i'm out this year but its a blast and real easy to enter a team, all the info is here

great spring-like conditions tonight

dont understand these wednesday openings with the rain we had and marginal snowmaking temps between now and then

i think i'm gonna go up after work

3 weeks greep peak opened thursday but i don't feel like doin the drive again for 1 t2b run what time you hittin jordan? was thinkin about doing the same in the afternoon after it watms up a bit

well i guess it's ridin the bike for another week did you have to call them or anything to activate it for this year?

yuh huh, debbie downer

from bode's blog on universal sports... ouch So here's what happened. The top of Levi has these rolls in it. I was going really fast forward into this off-rhythm turn and was focused on absorbing this big bump and being ready for the next gate. It's quick up there. The gate slipped through my hand then got on the inside of my shin-guard. The gate went down on top of my thigh. It sort of wrapped around my thigh then sprang up really hard and whipped me right in the face. So it was a series of things. It can happen but it's really not that common. It's not common to hit the gate right in that position where it can work that way. It hit my nose and lip and cut the bridge of my nose in a couple little spots. I was lucky I had my goggles on because it was a really, really hard hit. It was pretty intense. It almost knocked me out. I couldn't see for a second and slalom is so quick that I was out of the course before I had a chance to do anything. It hurt really bad for about five minutes, then it went numb and felt OK after that. It wasn't that big a deal it just sucks I didn't finish obviously. My face is still sore today but the swelling has gone down a lot. It was just massive and swollen at first.

no need to worry about that - along with us hacks theres a few gamers too. i'd say they might embarass you but i've seen you do a pretty good job of that on your own

awright! welcome aboard, its definately a good time!

if only it was that easy

cool, lookin forward to it. even bought myself a xmas present so my hands don't get so beat up this year

nice recap - there a good pic of bode's busted up nose on the universal site. gonna be an interesting year interesting that you put equip sponsors vs nationality

duuude, i was just lookin for a little hope last night after seeing 73 on the way home from pittsburgh - i know they cant predict yesterdays weather! i believe theyre right this time. thanks for pissin on my parade!