Anyone going to Snowshoe this coming wkend?
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I'll be skiing the Shoe from the 25th through the 28? Any fellow DCSkiers going to be there at this time?
The Colonel
The Colonel
Colonel, my wife and I will be at SS this weekend. How 'bout we meet outside Arbuckles at 11 on Saturday and make a few runs together on Cupp and Shay's?
Tom
Tom
Sorry Colonel,
We wont be there til Mar 10-12. Let me know if anyone will be there during that weekend. Have a great time Colonel, and make a couple of turns for us.
We wont be there til Mar 10-12. Let me know if anyone will be there during that weekend. Have a great time Colonel, and make a couple of turns for us.
Last week Lower Shays had +20" of fresh powder. Very challenging; if you hit a "bump" head on you'd explode through it, not ride over it 'cause I sank down 6 inches. And hit it sideways from the top, you'd just compress (into a laying-on-your-side LOL) position. This past weekend it was a total groomer (they do way too much of that this year) and total Michele Kwan ice. Monday it was Vanila-Ice cubes.
How would we recognize anyone @Arbucks' ... 11:00ish ?
How would we recognize anyone @Arbucks' ... 11:00ish ?
I might be up for a day trip if the snow is good.
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Last week Lower Shays had +20" of fresh powder. Very challenging; if you hit a "bump" head on you'd explode through it, not ride over it 'cause I sank down 6 inches. And hit it sideways from the top, you'd just compress (into a laying-on-your-side LOL) position. This past weekend it was a total groomer (they do way too much of that this year) and total Michele Kwan ice. Monday it was Vanila-Ice cubes.
How would we recognize anyone @Arbucks' ... 11:00ish ?
I remember that snow on Shays when we were there too. They weren't really moguls, just large piles of crud spaced out by hard ice. I find it nearly impossible to have fun skiing that stuff -- at best I can get 3-4 good turns in sequence before sideslipping and re-setting my line. If they had real bumps, that would be OK. For Shays, I'll take grooming anytime, at least I can actually "ski" on it.
Skier,
Your description of Lower Shays is exactly what I had last weekend. My last run down it, it was so boiler-plate, I just ended up staying on top of my skis as I ran down the hill (50+ mph
) until I could find some hard-packed, actually carvable snow further down the slope.
-Warren-
Your description of Lower Shays is exactly what I had last weekend. My last run down it, it was so boiler-plate, I just ended up staying on top of my skis as I ran down the hill (50+ mph
) until I could find some hard-packed, actually carvable snow further down the slope.-Warren-
