powderfreak
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For some reason the video links do not work on this post...not sure why. Marc?
I noticed if you click on the links here, they dont work but if you right click, copy the shortcut and paste the address in then it works too.
If you really need to just click and have it pop up,
I've posted this over at skivt-l and the links work there:
http://tinyurl.com/5gsws
Best day of the year...Hands Down. Oh yeah, it snowed all day too. The
weather outlook looks sketchy on Monday night but we might sneak out ok.
Then the season starts after that. I think we have a two week period
coming up of the best skiing we'll see this year.
Woke up well before dawn, made it to Stowe by 710am...caught the quad
opening. We knew the quad didn't open yesterday, so we figured anything
up top would be golden. It was. Straight down the double liftline with
one track in front of us. Drifts were unpredicatable, some were soft and
thigh deep, others were rock hard and sent you flying. Powder inbetween
the drifts was sublime. Face shots were had. Second run was straight
down Bypass to Nosedive Glades...Bypass had no right being that deep.
Wind loading, and no one had been there since Thursday. Easily knee deep
fluff. More face shots. I took one hard fall in there and found myself
going backwards really fast w/out skis on and hitting my back into hard
things. Then into Bypass chutes...oh my god. One person had postholed up
there and we put down the sidestep ski tracks. Again, more accumulation
in there then I've seen this season in any one place.
http://tinyurl.com/3vfza
http://tinyurl.com/6kx6d
Dropping down the first main chute with totally untracked 20" of fluff was
amazing to say the least. Snow billowing everywhere. Four skiers. Each
taking their own route. See you at the bottom. Snow flying between
trees. Random sights of skiers covered in snow, surrounded by their own
wake. Snow covered smiles. Everyone saying *their* line was the best.
Quad line was building by 9am, so we headed over to the gondola and took a
run down the Outter Planets. Sweet. Decided to go all the way to RT108.
There's a small cliff band thats usually good for 10-20 feet of air 3/4ths
of the way down to the road...so we sessioned that. I wasn't skiing the
best today (4hrs of sleep and gnuh over, nmad UVM Friday nights) so once i
dropped this small cliff and blew up on impact, I knew it wasn't my day to
be flying through the air.
http://tinyurl.com/55uqb
This cliff had us stumped. No one landed it:
http://tinyurl.com/499sr
http://tinyurl.com/45lgv
After wandering down to 108 and making our way back to the gondola, we
started eyeing the waterfall under the gondola. It was good to go. I was
still trying to get range of motion back in my left arm after my fall from
the last drop, so I went around to get some video.
Geller was the first to stick it from skiers left.
http://tinyurl.com/48cps
Joe and Dave hit it as well. But Joe wanted to hit skiers left. The
largest part. Is it 30 feet? I don't know but he went as big as you can
go off the thing...and couldn't quite pull out of the landing. He said he
sunk wayyyy further in than he expected. There was at least 4 feet of
wind loaded powder under that thing:
http://tinyurl.com/587xp
But Joe wanted to stick it. He wasn't walking away. Next run. Next run.
With quite a large crowd gathering to witness this, he went even bigger
than last time. And stuck it.
http://tinyurl.com/4l7sh
The day was filled with snow, powder everywhere. Another couple inches
fell in the morning and throughout the day. Its good up there. Face
shots were the norm. Everything is pretty much covered up. Even the
lower elevations were pretty good. Still some brush in places but with
more significant accumulations possible in the next 7-10 days, that could
become a thing of the past.
Get out there. Enjoy it.
-Scott
For some reason the video links do not work on this post...not sure why. Marc?
I noticed if you click on the links here, they dont work but if you right click, copy the shortcut and paste the address in then it works too.
If you really need to just click and have it pop up,
I've posted this over at skivt-l and the links work there:
http://tinyurl.com/5gsws
Best day of the year...Hands Down. Oh yeah, it snowed all day too. The
weather outlook looks sketchy on Monday night but we might sneak out ok.
Then the season starts after that. I think we have a two week period
coming up of the best skiing we'll see this year.
Woke up well before dawn, made it to Stowe by 710am...caught the quad
opening. We knew the quad didn't open yesterday, so we figured anything
up top would be golden. It was. Straight down the double liftline with
one track in front of us. Drifts were unpredicatable, some were soft and
thigh deep, others were rock hard and sent you flying. Powder inbetween
the drifts was sublime. Face shots were had. Second run was straight
down Bypass to Nosedive Glades...Bypass had no right being that deep.
Wind loading, and no one had been there since Thursday. Easily knee deep
fluff. More face shots. I took one hard fall in there and found myself
going backwards really fast w/out skis on and hitting my back into hard
things. Then into Bypass chutes...oh my god. One person had postholed up
there and we put down the sidestep ski tracks. Again, more accumulation
in there then I've seen this season in any one place.
http://tinyurl.com/3vfza
http://tinyurl.com/6kx6d
Dropping down the first main chute with totally untracked 20" of fluff was
amazing to say the least. Snow billowing everywhere. Four skiers. Each
taking their own route. See you at the bottom. Snow flying between
trees. Random sights of skiers covered in snow, surrounded by their own
wake. Snow covered smiles. Everyone saying *their* line was the best.
Quad line was building by 9am, so we headed over to the gondola and took a
run down the Outter Planets. Sweet. Decided to go all the way to RT108.
There's a small cliff band thats usually good for 10-20 feet of air 3/4ths
of the way down to the road...so we sessioned that. I wasn't skiing the
best today (4hrs of sleep and gnuh over, nmad UVM Friday nights) so once i
dropped this small cliff and blew up on impact, I knew it wasn't my day to
be flying through the air.
http://tinyurl.com/55uqb
This cliff had us stumped. No one landed it:
http://tinyurl.com/499sr
http://tinyurl.com/45lgv
After wandering down to 108 and making our way back to the gondola, we
started eyeing the waterfall under the gondola. It was good to go. I was
still trying to get range of motion back in my left arm after my fall from
the last drop, so I went around to get some video.
Geller was the first to stick it from skiers left.
http://tinyurl.com/48cps
Joe and Dave hit it as well. But Joe wanted to hit skiers left. The
largest part. Is it 30 feet? I don't know but he went as big as you can
go off the thing...and couldn't quite pull out of the landing. He said he
sunk wayyyy further in than he expected. There was at least 4 feet of
wind loaded powder under that thing:
http://tinyurl.com/587xp
But Joe wanted to stick it. He wasn't walking away. Next run. Next run.
With quite a large crowd gathering to witness this, he went even bigger
than last time. And stuck it.
http://tinyurl.com/4l7sh
The day was filled with snow, powder everywhere. Another couple inches
fell in the morning and throughout the day. Its good up there. Face
shots were the norm. Everything is pretty much covered up. Even the
lower elevations were pretty good. Still some brush in places but with
more significant accumulations possible in the next 7-10 days, that could
become a thing of the past.
Get out there. Enjoy it.
-Scott
