RootDKJ Posted February 26, 2010 Report Share Posted February 26, 2010 Date(s) Skied: 2/25/10 Resort or Ski Area: Blue Mountain Conditions: Snowy. Not the powder day we were expecting... Trip Report: I left NJ around 1 and I got to Blue around 2:30. It was snowing the whole ride over, but the roads were perfectly clear. The snow was...um, well inconsistent at best. Very grabby, soft and just plain old weird. I was hoping to find some nice pow bumps that I could blow through but that wasn't in the cards. After 3 runs, I decided that I wanted to grab another layer, so I walked out to the car and saw AtomicSkier and Toast booting up in the lot. One run later and I met them at the top of the 6 pack along with Kevin.. We really weren't thrilled at all about the conditions. If fact Toast was down right miserable. Jeff was the so optimistic however, and it payed off. We decided to take a run down Sidewinder Park for Kevin.'s last run and turned into the best run of the night. For some reason, the snow was better in the park, and there was still lots of untracked spots. On our 2nd run down the park, I scored the only waist deep powder on the whole mountain. I was following AtomicSkier's line on the side of the trail, and all of a sudden the bottom gave out beneith me and I was waist deep in pow and came to a halt. As luck would have it Jeff just happened to turn around right before this happened and witnissed the whole thing. On another run, I took a nice line on the skier's right on Sidewinder and wound up on one of the Mountain Bike trails. That was mad technicial and a ton of fun. I think Toast might have some Go-pro footage of that. There was nice lines to be had on either side of the jump line and Toast found some nice action in the woods. We lapped the park about 6-7 runs in a row, and had noticed that the snow was changing over to a really nice packed powder. X-ing had some nice pow-crud-bumps to blow through and Chute was pretty good. I saw Gorgonzola absolutly ripping it down the Nightmare bumps. His exact words were "That was Fuxing Awesome" It turned into a very good night at Blue and the ride home wasn't all that bad. The drive up had some nice snow drifts. These were even bigger on the way home. Sidewinder Park A not-so-happy Toast Toast and AtomicSkier Central Park That's my line to the left of the Lift Tower Toast in a better mood Barney's Bumps on the left of Main Street Nightmare Paradise End of the night shot looking up the mountain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtomicSkier Posted February 26, 2010 Report Share Posted February 26, 2010 ahahaha toast looks so pissed in that picture...at least i have a 1/2 smile Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbike-ski Posted February 26, 2010 Report Share Posted February 26, 2010 yea it just kept getting better and better as the night went on - my legs gave out around 9:15. landmark night - jr spun and landed his first 3 on lower park Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootDKJ Posted February 26, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2010 ahahaha toast looks so pissed in that picture...at least i have a 1/2 smile Yeah, it was picture worthy for sure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootDKJ Posted February 26, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2010 Oh...I just remembered about Toast's little run in with the Ski Patrol. As Toast was skiing into the queue, a Redcoat on a snowboard got the tip of his board on the tails of Toast's skis and went down hard in the line. After he gets up, he proceeds to grab Toast's jacket to read him the Riot Act. AtomicSkier starts on the Redcoat about the simple assault he just committed and Toast had no clue what the dude was even talking about. Funny chit. Gotta love the Blue Mountain Ski Patrol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtomicSkier Posted February 26, 2010 Report Share Posted February 26, 2010 Oh...I just remembered about Toast's little run in with the Ski Patrol. As Toast was skiing into the queue, a Redcoat on a snowboard got the tip of his board on the tails of Toast's skis and went down hard in the line. After he gets up, he proceeds to grab Toast's jacket to read him the Riot Act. AtomicSkier starts on the Redcoat about the simple assault he just committed and Toast had no clue what the dude was even talking about. Funny chit. Gotta love the Blue Mountain Ski Patrol. That patroller had the deer in the headlights look He not only grabbed his arm, but he almost pulled toast back. It was pretty forceful, and I let him know that that wasn't going to be tolerated. And toast had the best line: "How is it my fault that your board got on top of my skis and hit my tails causing you to fall? That sounds like your fault" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
method9455 Posted February 27, 2010 Report Share Posted February 27, 2010 (edited) Conditions weren't great but I always have fun skiing. I looked for Doug before Jeff and crew got there but didn't see him. Nice to meet Root & Toast for the first time. I got about four hours in and then hit the road because I knew it was going to be a long drive to Poughkeepsie - sounds like I left when I should have. I'll be up every thursday until Blue closes and staying longer than yesterday for sure. Edited February 27, 2010 by Kevin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadows Posted February 27, 2010 Report Share Posted February 27, 2010 toast with the evil eye haha looks fun. my moms just went up tonight for her first day all year. probably only too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toast21602 Posted February 27, 2010 Report Share Posted February 27, 2010 stupid redcoats yelling at me because they werent paying attention. oh well. root, great picture of my miserable face haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootDKJ Posted February 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2010 stupid redcoats yelling at me because they werent paying attention. oh well. root, great picture of my miserable face haha. You were funny miserable until we found the goodness known as Sidewinder Park. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toast21602 Posted February 27, 2010 Report Share Posted February 27, 2010 You were funny miserable until we found the goodness known as Sidewinder Park. yeah it got significantly better as the night went on and my misery left me and semi-stoke filled it's place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootDKJ Posted February 28, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2010 Nice job with the gopro Toast! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtomicSkier Posted February 28, 2010 Report Share Posted February 28, 2010 Nice job with the gopro Toast! That looks dick deep to me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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