Scuff Posted January 8, 2023 Report Share Posted January 8, 2023 Snow was great today! Consistent, firm, and dry like mountain cord, so carves held well. No clouds and lots of smiles from me. Kiddo did well with ski lesson too! Hi @flatcokeNice to meet you! Yes - looking forward to riding. Sunday AM is often my best time, but hoping I can also get out more T/Th over lunch once the semester begins. @bobbleOn my way out, met another guy who just acquired his first alpine board! We might get our numbers back up again for the Sunday morning carve-carve-fest. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobble Posted January 8, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2023 1/8/23 great day. unusally crowded for sunday morning. lasted until 12pm. on my last run the main chair stopped working for about 10 minutes. i took that as a hint to leave. @flatcoke will have to catch up. i am usually at buck weekend mornings. i sometimes ride over lunch break during the week (work from home). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flatcoke Posted January 9, 2023 Report Share Posted January 9, 2023 Sounds good, I'll be there most of the Sunday mornings for the race. See you guys soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobble Posted January 10, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2023 1/10/23 rode over lunch. foggy conditions. can't see the moguls. snow however felt great. trent and his daughter showed up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobble Posted January 12, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2023 1/12/23 rode over lunch. flat light. couldn't see. very fast snow. olympic would've been great if i could only see. the cord is virtually untouched but there were some bumps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobble Posted January 13, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2023 i went back out in the evening and it was not good for carving. too crowded. crossroads was rutted up. milkrun had races. warners might've been okay. the lifty at the main chair wasn't doing his job. i boarded with some skiers and the chair slammed into all of us. the lifty was too far forward to hold back the chair. he didn't use any effort to hold back the chair... just simply tagging the chair with his fingers as if that counted for credit. this continued for an hour while i was there. the shock of bumping the chair started to hurt my elbow. being a minnesotan passive aggressive type, i sent a message through buck's contact page to alert them the guy needs proper training. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobble Posted January 13, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2023 1/13/23 rode at lunch. lousy light. fast snow. ski racing all weekend. might not get out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobble Posted January 15, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2023 1/15/23 sunday morning. ski races continue. didn't bother riding yesterday. i was so bored that my biggest accomplishment was clearing out a sink drain pipe using a wet vac. i didn't think it would work. when i turned on the wet vac, i felt the mass of gunk course through the wet vac hose. the experience was cathartic. warm temps today. blue bird skies. crossroads was already a mess by 9AM. i tried it, too bumpy to maintain an edge. rode olympic exclusively. excellent cord. felt great. it was getting busy. left after an hour. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobble Posted January 19, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2023 1/18/23 made 2 runs in the evening and left. rain on MLK didn't help. this evening the snow was sugar on top of ice/hard pack. all runs had race courses on it. took one run down railyard and it sucked. went back up the chair and then kicked my around the back of buck to ride down teachers pet to leave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobble Posted January 19, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2023 1/19/23 got about 4-inches of light snow. when i arrived at noon the temperature was above freezing. seemed like it was misting. the snow was sticky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobble Posted January 20, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2023 1/20/23 disappointing conditions. IF you enjoy riding over bumps, ice marbles, or pockets of grippy snow that immediately slow you down. THEN this is your day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobble Posted January 21, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2023 1/21/23 visibility was terrible. it was foggy with some precipitation that was freezing on my goggles. snow was okay. very fast. if visibility was better the snow would've been fun. for a while it was hard to commit to carving because of my goggles. i ended up removing them just to be able to see. i tried riding olympic but it was still difficult to see the terrain. it's somewhat choppy. all i could do was skid down the run. there's an invisible small mound in the hill somewhere near the middle that caused a slight adrenaline rush. milkrun was difficult to carve. too many depressions in the snow from ski races. crossroads was at least doable. towards the bottom i was getting a little vertigo from not being able to see where it flattens out. tried going down redtail to cross onto teachers pet. kind of sketchy where trails merge. ended up riding with @flatcokeover on warners. snow was just okay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobble Posted January 22, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2023 1/22/23 early morning it was lightly snowing with tiny flakes. the hill was almost fogged over. difficult to see. unusually busy for sunday morning. there was a dusting of snow over cord. if visibility wasn't bad it would've been decent conditions. the cord is soft. couple times i fell because the snow gave way. some of my turns left wide trenches. i rode mostly crossroads and olympic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobble Posted January 24, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2023 1/23/23 rode in evening. milkrun had races and was rutted. crossroads had training. they left the run with large ruts. olympic unavailable warners. there was training on warners. skiers right was open but it was rutted from drills. only run i could do was railyard along the path around the jump line. should've stayed home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobble Posted January 24, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2023 1/24/23 rode over lunch. very fast conditions. big turns. hard to main an edge with all of the bumps from ski race training. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flatcoke Posted January 24, 2023 Report Share Posted January 24, 2023 On 1/12/2023 at 8:56 PM, bobble said: i went back out in the evening and it was not good for carving. too crowded. crossroads was rutted up. milkrun had races. warners might've been okay. the lifty at the main chair wasn't doing his job. i boarded with some skiers and the chair slammed into all of us. the lifty was too far forward to hold back the chair. he didn't use any effort to hold back the chair... just simply tagging the chair with his fingers as if that counted for credit. this continued for an hour while i was there. the shock of bumping the chair started to hurt my elbow. being a minnesotan passive aggressive type, i sent a message through buck's contact page to alert them the guy needs proper training. Seriously on the lifties. I know the guy who barely touches the chair. But worse, there was a guy who was genius enough to figure out by using the slow button for EVERY chair he can get away by not touching the chair. As a result the ride uphill is twice as long and you get carsick from the constant slow-fast-slow-fast. On Sunday we also saw lifties in the top hut completely oblivious and didn't see a kid failed to unload. He was about to ride the chair back down until a skier took notice and threw the emergency bar over to stop the lift. Snow wasn't so great since the rain and I fear for the upcoming cold spell. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scuff Posted January 25, 2023 Report Share Posted January 25, 2023 2 hours ago, flatcoke said: using the slow button for EVERY chair Noooooooo... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flatcoke Posted January 25, 2023 Report Share Posted January 25, 2023 Planning on being there 9am Friday to catch last warm day before the North Pole relocates itself... Hope the snow would be okay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobble Posted January 26, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2023 1/26/23 at lunch. milkrun was far better than crossroads or olympic. crossroads had no cord whatsoever. still has bumps from race practice. olympic had terrible grooming and really fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flatcoke Posted January 27, 2023 Report Share Posted January 27, 2023 Looks like it snowed and they didn't groom? Noooooo.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobble Posted January 27, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2023 1/27/23 yep, it snowed. maybe 2+ inches. place was crowded. lots of kids bombing the runs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobble Posted January 28, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2023 1/28/23 saturday morning. bitterly cold, about 3F. flat light. activities on almost all the runs. could only ride milkrun. snow was great for carving. the cold wore me down. only lasted an hour. my toes had crystallized. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobble Posted January 29, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2023 1/29/23 sub-zero temps but blue sky. snow was great today. only complaint was olympic still has some bad bumps that i always seem to hit on heel-side. had to take a 20 minute break in the chalet just to warm up. rode until noon. warmed up to about 3F when i left. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobble Posted February 1, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2023 1/31/23 rode in evening. crossroads had gates. same with milkrun. same with olympic. warners had ruts. railyard has turned into railyard -- there's a very narrow lane to bypass the jumps and rails. i just did the backside and spilled onto teachers pet. the snow felt good. after racing stopped on milkrun, i tried making a run but it was too chopped up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobble Posted February 1, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2023 2/1/23 rode at lunch. crossroads had a clinic with gates. after they finished i tried taking a run. too many deep ruts. i asked the ticket office if they were going to have gates on crossroads tomorrow. the owner was confused and said there were no gates on milkrun. i said that i was talking about the ones on crossroads and pointed outside. again she was confused until one of the employees explained that crossroads was on the other side of the chairlift. she honestly thought that milkrun was the entire hill. anyways someone said there will not be gates on milkrun tomorrow (thursday). i believe buck blew snow on olympic. there are two large mounds, one at the top and the other near the bottom. if you hit the bottom one at speed, it can launch you onto flat ground which would not be fun. i rode twice and only got 4 decent turns before i had to skid. grooming sucked. warners was okay. milkrun was fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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