sibhusky

I have had problems with SOME fresh stuff and the right hot wax has fixed it, but usually it is at colder temps than that. Especially to go on all day, as opposed to just the first run, is surprising.

When you say "powder" was it from the sky or a gun? I find freshly laid down manmade stuff to have a tendency to grab your skis if yours are the first skis over it. Otherwise, the WRONG wax is worse than NO WAX. However, if you had skied on those skis after the first day, it shouldn't have been an issue.

Great race, skidude. Best of luck at finals!

I heard he had on a helmet, but it may have been a slalom helmet.

I was there the day it happened. Friends told me they were on the list and he was headed just straight down the Asp, didn't hold an edge on a turn and went into the trees on the right side of the hill and smacked into a boulder. Helmet didn't do a darn bit of good at the speed he was going. Now, remember these were NOT racers watching, so the actual truth may be that he was in fact training, but they said he was just showing off for the coach. This is why you sign these horrible waivers every year from USSA, FIS, the mountain, the team, etc. all talking about the possibility of dying.

The Corchnoy race is named in honor of one of the team members who died on the mountain a few years back. It varies as to whether it is for J1's and J2's or J3's, depending on what the local needs are for races. I wouldn't say it attracts the "best skiers in the East" as it is rare that folks come down from New England and that is where most of the best Eastern racers are. It does naturally attract from PA, NJ, and NY. But since Siblet once finished third there, I can assure you that the competition isn't THAT tough. It's just a notch above normal Pocono competition.

I can't see this listed on the USSA site as an scheduled event? I found it on the PARA site in the revised schedule, but not on USSA.

Yeah, you. They will have to buy more gates and that will be in next year's race fee.

I am guessing that the soot mixed in with the P-tex will not perform as well as clean P-tex. Soot isn't just dye. Why would you not have time to do the job right?

It used to be on the right side of 33 coming up from Allentown.

Gosh, they had that billboard about three years back and I remember mocking it on their board, particularly because that season we had a lot of mud. I can't believe they went back to that.

Well, winter is back. We only got about an inch at our house, but I think there's about 8 inches of fresh powder on the mountain. Now, if we could just get 8 inches more.....

Huh?

I am pretty sure that, although that old ski area is east of CB somewhere, that the area to the east of upper Nile is state land. We've hiked there in the summer. I think the old ski area is quite a bit down the hill from Nile, possibly just above and to the west of that condo neighborhood.

Sounds like dogsledding with the dogs sitting on the sled!

Don't get me wrong. We've got plenty of lovely soft snow and expecting about six inches this weekend. But, it's like spring -- get out the sunscreen -- and we follow the sun around as it warms up the hill. I rode up with two different people today from Seattle who had nowhere else to go to other than our mountain. Now that's a drive!

They are not miles and miles off the interstate. They have a pretty good variety of trails. They have great grooming and manage their snow well. You can always find a lift with a short line if you look. Even at 2 PM there are runs that are not a straight sheet of ice (although Birches and Honeymoon are SO BAD by then they should be re-rated as blacks.) They have a great deck and plenty of choices about where to eat. (The Glen Lodge is GREAT!) They have really smoke-free eating areas (unlike Blue the last time I was there...the smoke is unavoidable!) There are plenty of ladies rooms without lines if you know where to go.

? What happened?

It looks like temps will be dropping a bit over the weekend, and maybe we'll get a few inches of snow, but we need a foot! Thank god are trails are relatively rock free in summer time, unlike many of the places in CO. If an area makes sure it's got nice meadows, they don't need the snow depth compared to areas that leave boulders all over the place when they cut a trail.

As you may or may not be aware, the Northwest has been having a heat wave the last few weeks. We have serious spring conditions, so much so that the NorAms were cancelled. Ole2planker is lucky he got here when he did. He must have taken our cold weather back east with him when he left. Schweitzer, which some would consider our "twin" mountain, has had closure issues (note that, skimom) and is supposed to only be about 10% open. We are advertising that we are 90% open, but I think they must be counting "named trails", because as acreage goes, I'd say it's more like 60%. Fortunately we got a bit of snow a couple days ago, but if it hasn't been groomed, it's just dust on crust. Big Sky, if you remember, was full of rocks. Red Lodge was only 50% open. Most of the ski areas in Washington are said to be closed. I think the way things are going that some of the more marginal areas will be taking it on the chin and unable to open next year...you can't afford to lose an entire January in the ski industry! I hear they've had snow down in Colorado, but I don't know how the extended time has been going. Just make sure if you are planning trips out West, that you check what's been going on this year!

Nah, 35 years of luck.

Too bad they're teaching stuff that's ten years out of date.

That's a good one!

There are other ligaments that you work on strengthening to compensate.