Ski Day 5: Last day of fall was a great day to ski. And once again the place was empty. Everything was packed pow at least, and in some spots better. I didn’t see anything gray all day. We got maybe 2″ on top last night and in a lot of places that was on top of the corduroy. I checked the website in the base lodge at 7:30 and they were only listing the Cave and Pinebrook as open glades. That turned out to be BS as most of everything was open, without a rope.

In the Gondi, I connected with another tele guy I’d never met – Zach. We skied together almost the whole day. Hard to find a tele skier whose not a total ripper, that I can keep up with. This guy was perfect – maybe 20% better than me.

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Ski Days 3 and 4: With two first ever season passes in our family, this blog will be about Gore in 07/08. The mountain was great this weekend. One gripe… NO TELEY GEAR at the demo on Friday… is that normal? First time I ever even approached a demo event. In any case, I’ve finally learned what snappy means, and what stiff is…by having a ski that is the total opposite of that. I basically learned to ski on Atomics, TM-22s.

Then, last year, I bought these K2s, on the phone, in the car, driving up 87 towards the snow, the day after Valentine’s day. While my new skis really can navigate anything…they are like wet noodles on the firm stuff. They can handle it, but it’s not like my Atomics..they don’t push back.

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Ski Day 30

Skied the mountain today. I’m over at the Garnet Hill Lodge now scoring free internet, having wings and a Smittick’s. Today was pretty good. I skied alone all day. The website said “10 inches at the summit.” Maybe.

It squalled most of the day today. Everything that had been groomed recently, but not last night, – was killer. There wasn’t much of it. I thought the best piece of onpiste skiing that hadn’t been groomed was the cutacross from Hawkeye to Chatiemac, down along the left to the opening of the Straighbrook glades.

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