joegm
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WV on wed: Packed Fake all over. no ice.. partly sunny. about 10 at the top with wind gusting to about 20 at times.. cold but tolerable. the comp bump course was still in and open to the public on tyler too 
of course , no one was skiing it :roll: ... it got very challenging though after 12 as it started to hardpack and rut out. ... they were blowing hard everywhere. no crowds at all.
K on thurs: saw a liveshot of the weather channel live from K on wed morning heading out the door to WV.. donna weinbrecht was being intervieved live from the hill to celebrate day one of winter. that plus dan dipiro's info of a possible comp course on skylark left over from the weekend and a wed evening shot again from K had us roll the dice and make the brutal drive over on thurs morning. that plus the ridiculous refusal of Loon to put in any bumps at all :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: had us leaving lincoln and 5:45 and pulled into K by 830 .. oh man , did we make the right call. Mighty K had the goods.... probably 70% open with not a spec of ice / hardpack anywhere...that's the groomer report....but we were there for obviously different reason... set up out of bear and headed for skylark for the recon. the comp course was still in but it was in tough shape...on the way to skylark we spotted what turned out to be the mother load... needles eye lift ,,bumped up top to bottom with powder bumps and NO ice. a good 1000 ft of medium pitched bumps off the HS needles eye gave up about 35 laps :shock: :lol: for the day :shock: . temps were dramatically different on bear and needles eye side than the k1 and superstar side... even if the comp course was in good shape on the superstar side, it would have been tough as the wind was nuts over there... but wind off of needles and bear was nothing.. temps about 25 and blue sky... no lines to speak of. epic day didn't see any of the local mogul posse out but did see our buddy upper ny state joe killin in on the eye ... absolutely exhausted , we said goodbye to one of the best december days in memory and snow for about 10 days for the CHRISTMAS WEEK . observations: K has the superpipe open ( holy moses is that thing scary.. it's gotta have 16 ft walls at least. the dedicated rope tow for it is spinning ( why everyone, especially loon does not do what they have to do to get something like that in is just a mystery :twisted: :roll: ) they were blowing snow on an amazing number of trails including O.L of bear. O.l was open ( not bumped but soon will be if they let it ) wildfire has killer bumps on the top part. we didn't ski it much as the needles Q was a lot faster and got more quicker. K is pretty much up and running for sure. they showed why they are pretty much the king. anyone going to K this week would be wise to work out of bear. back on jan 2 and 3 hopefully
of course , no one was skiing it :roll: ... it got very challenging though after 12 as it started to hardpack and rut out. ... they were blowing hard everywhere. no crowds at all. K on thurs: saw a liveshot of the weather channel live from K on wed morning heading out the door to WV.. donna weinbrecht was being intervieved live from the hill to celebrate day one of winter. that plus dan dipiro's info of a possible comp course on skylark left over from the weekend and a wed evening shot again from K had us roll the dice and make the brutal drive over on thurs morning. that plus the ridiculous refusal of Loon to put in any bumps at all :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: had us leaving lincoln and 5:45 and pulled into K by 830
.. oh man , did we make the right call. Mighty K had the goods.... probably 70% open with not a spec of ice / hardpack anywhere...that's the groomer report....but we were there for obviously different reason... set up out of bear and headed for skylark for the recon. the comp course was still in but it was in tough shape...on the way to skylark we spotted what turned out to be the mother load... needles eye lift ,,bumped up top to bottom with powder bumps and NO ice. a good 1000 ft of medium pitched bumps off the HS needles eye gave up about 35 laps :shock: :lol: for the day :shock: . temps were dramatically different on bear and needles eye side than the k1 and superstar side... even if the comp course was in good shape on the superstar side, it would have been tough as the wind was nuts over there... but wind off of needles and bear was nothing.. temps about 25 and blue sky... no lines to speak of. epic day didn't see any of the local mogul posse out but did see our buddy upper ny state joe killin in on the eye ... absolutely exhausted , we said goodbye to one of the best december days in memory and snow for about 10 days for the CHRISTMAS WEEK . observations: K has the superpipe open ( holy moses is that thing scary.. it's gotta have 16 ft walls at least. the dedicated rope tow for it is spinning ( why everyone, especially loon does not do what they have to do to get something like that in is just a mystery :twisted: :roll: ) they were blowing snow on an amazing number of trails including O.L of bear. O.l was open ( not bumped but soon will be if they let it ) wildfire has killer bumps on the top part. we didn't ski it much as the needles Q was a lot faster and got more quicker. K is pretty much up and running for sure. they showed why they are pretty much the king. anyone going to K this week would be wise to work out of bear. back on jan 2 and 3 hopefully