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Season Report, Crested Butte, Long?
Like the song goes :" It was a very good year..." Right after the area
opened on man made snow (just before Thanksgiving) we got a goodly dump that made it possible to open most of the mountain. Snow accumulated at a decent rate and then at the end of December, start of January we got the first of this season epic snow falls. In a week from 80" to 100" hit the ground. After lots of hard work by the patrol and both controlled and natural avalanches the area was really open, even the extreme limits. Eventually you could ski terrain from Sunset Ridge on the front side through Third Bowl on the North Face. The new owners managed to get permission to open Teocali Bowl for the first time in years. There was enough snow fall that the area closed April 10 with a 72" base at midway. It was a snow year you shoulda seen. I managed to ski 123 days this season -- a benefit of being so old that no one will give me a job. My skis, and Mr. Truckee won't like the lengths, we Fischer Scenio 500, 170cm.; Head Monster i.M 75 Super Railflex II; 163cm: Head World Cup Slalom, Race Stock, 156cm; and I took some demo runs on Head i.XRC 1100 in both 163 and 170cm. The Monsters were purchased this year, the others have been around awhile. All the skis have Tyrolia Bindings. My boots are way old Tecnicas with custom inserts that are "adjusted" at the start of the season. A lot of days in all kinds of weather on skis I really like. Skied most every kind of terrain and conditions, even did a bunch of timed runs on our Nastar course. Surprisingly maybe, the Head Slaloms handle most any kind of snow very nicely, for me. Even powder up to 7"s or so. Things were so good here this season I had no reason to ski elsewhere. Was it boring? Not for me. What if was a proctologist? That would be boring, but some people do it. I'm looking forward to the next ski season, hope you are too. Jack |
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Jack Nixon wrote:
Like the song goes :" It was a very good year..." Right after the area opened on man made snow (just before Thanksgiving) we got a goodly dump that made it possible to open most of the mountain. Snow accumulated at a decent rate and then at the end of December, start of January we got the first of this season epic snow falls. In a week from 80" to 100" hit the ground. After lots of hard work by the patrol and both controlled and natural avalanches the area was really open, even the extreme limits. Eventually you could ski terrain from Sunset Ridge on the front side through Third Bowl on the North Face. The new owners managed to get permission to open Teocali Bowl for the first time in years. There was enough snow fall that the area closed April 10 with a 72" base at midway. It was a snow year you shoulda seen. Bite me, oh, wait, I got a bunch of day in the Sierra as well as on my "normal" LoudPowder(tm). I managed to ski 123 days this season -- a benefit of being so old that no one will give me a job. Well, no wonder we didn't see you around here very much. I'm also TFO (too old) for somebody else to give me a job, so I have to be self employed so I only got in about 50 days total this year. My boss is sometimes kind and sometimes a hard taskmaster. My skis, and Mr. Truckee won't like the lengths, we Fischer Scenio 500, 170cm.; Head Monster i.M 75 Super Railflex II; 163cm: Head World Cup Slalom, Race Stock, 156cm; and I took some demo runs on Head i.XRC 1100 in both 163 and 170cm. The Monsters were purchased this year, the others have been around awhile. All the skis have Tyrolia Bindings. My boots are way old Tecnicas with custom inserts that are "adjusted" at the start of the season. Mr. Truckee (having skied with him, I feel I can call him LAL) skis on what he likes, as do you and I. He skis very well on them I might add. A lot of days in all kinds of weather on skis I really like. Skied most every kind of terrain and conditions, even did a bunch of timed runs on our Nastar course. Surprisingly maybe, the Head Slaloms handle most any kind of snow very nicely, for me. Even powder up to 7"s or so. Amazing things, modern skis. My most usual pair were some Fischer MountainX, probably a rip of of XMountains. Skied well, had a hard time on "real" ice, but did everything else pretty well. My "fun" skis (the fischers were for "work") are a pair of Volkl 6stars 166cm. NICE skis. Hold well, but crud admirably and even handled slush much better than expected. No chance to try them in any kind of powder, however, so no report there. I have a couple of other skis rigged as AT skis and my best boots are 3 year old Salomon XWave with the Lowa Structuras coming in second. I'm trying a pair of Rossi Soft/Light from last season to see if they will be adequate for "work" as they are supremely comfortable but have some performance issues, which even the softer Lowas don't have. Things were so good here this season I had no reason to ski elsewhere. Was it boring? Not for me. What if was a proctologist? That would be boring, but some people do it. Most of the season here in central Vermont was fairly short on natural snow. We didn't get any appreciable storms until the first of March. It's been great ever since. Up 'til then we had to rely on man-made, which tends to form ice/boiler plate much faster/sooner than does the "real" thing. After March 1, when I got back from a couple of days in the Sierras two of them with LAL, the conditions were superb (for the east). Lately it's been wonderful spring conditions, which I happen to like a lot, probably due to my favorite skiing partner of years past, sadly not skiing much lately due to injury. I'm looking forward to the next ski season, hope you are too. Sure am, but I'm not giving up completely on this season. I figure three more weeks to closing with this weekend being quite good and falling off later in the month. Jack, great thread to start. I hope other pick up on it and give quick overviews of their personal ski seasons. VtSkier |
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