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Pretty sweet today, their website said 1in when we left the house (they had 10 on tuesday). We drove through the notch, with about 10 inches of fresh at cannon, my family was with me so, skinning up cannon was not an option. We relented at ticket prices (however a college id got me a $25 ticket).
Got on the hill and we were impressed! LOTS of snow for thanksgiving, they'd groomed a little bit down the middle, but the sides were ungroomed. Awesome light fluffy snow, about 5 different ways down. We were happy.
First day on tele's had a little learning curve but all in all it turned out well.
My new set-up is:
Atomic Stomps (05/06, I worked at Atomic in the US marketing area this summer so I got a prorated price) 118-88-110 -- 176cm, worked well as far as im concerned, a soft twin tip with atomic like edge hold, not as fast a transfer as I'm used to on my 78 waisted elans, but a good ski I would say
G3 Targa bindings (medium activity tele binding, got at a 30% off sale at EMS), worked well, but being a newbie can't compare to others.
Garmont Syner-g Boots (found new online for half price), worked awesome, kept my feet warm, controlled those big boards, and kept me on center. The thermo-liners rock!
Anyways, it was a good day and we had fun, I learned two valuable lessons though:
1. I like my trails like I like my eggs: poached
2. Ice sticks to mustaches
Bwoods had plenty of snow to open many other trails, the two attached movies are off the beaten path...
-Porter
Dwyer (brother)
Me (bad video, hard to tell, bad tele technique)
PS there were a lot of cannon'ers that were bitching about them not opening up, they definitely have plenty of snow...
Got on the hill and we were impressed! LOTS of snow for thanksgiving, they'd groomed a little bit down the middle, but the sides were ungroomed. Awesome light fluffy snow, about 5 different ways down. We were happy.
First day on tele's had a little learning curve but all in all it turned out well.
My new set-up is:
Atomic Stomps (05/06, I worked at Atomic in the US marketing area this summer so I got a prorated price) 118-88-110 -- 176cm, worked well as far as im concerned, a soft twin tip with atomic like edge hold, not as fast a transfer as I'm used to on my 78 waisted elans, but a good ski I would say
G3 Targa bindings (medium activity tele binding, got at a 30% off sale at EMS), worked well, but being a newbie can't compare to others.
Garmont Syner-g Boots (found new online for half price), worked awesome, kept my feet warm, controlled those big boards, and kept me on center. The thermo-liners rock!
Anyways, it was a good day and we had fun, I learned two valuable lessons though:
1. I like my trails like I like my eggs: poached
2. Ice sticks to mustaches
Bwoods had plenty of snow to open many other trails, the two attached movies are off the beaten path...
-Porter
Dwyer (brother)
Me (bad video, hard to tell, bad tele technique)
PS there were a lot of cannon'ers that were bitching about them not opening up, they definitely have plenty of snow...