All Days
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Arapahoe Basin, CO: Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Sunny, temps in the mid-40s. About 1:15 of freeski. They've lost a lot of snow, and most of the ungroomed under Lenawee is no...
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Winter Park, CO: Monday, May 29, 2023
Sunny, temps climbing into the 50s. About 1:30 of freeski. They're really losing snow, and didn't do much (any?) grooming rec...
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Winter Park, CO: Saturday, May 27, 2023
Sunny, with clouds rapidly moving in. Temps in the 50s near the bottom, but up top where the skiing was, more like the low-mi...
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Arapahoe Basin, CO: Friday, May 26, 2023
Sunny, but clouds rapidly moving in, temps in the high 40s. About 1:30 of freeski, trying to avoid people. Bumps under Lenawe...
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Winter Park, CO: Sunday, May 21, 2023
Sunny, temps rising to the mid-50s. About 3 hours of exploring Mary Jane. Groomed trails were few and far between, but what w...
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Arapahoe Basin, CO: Friday, May 19, 2023
Overcast, threatening showers. Temps around 40F. Really tough visibility above treeline for much of the day, but sun poked ou...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, May 7, 2023
Mostly cloudy, with some sun peaking through in the afternoon. Temps in the low-to-mid 30s. Skied from 9ish to 3:30 on Lovela...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, May 6, 2023
Mostly sunny, temps in the low-to-mid 30s. Skied from 10-130, basically trying to find the decent snow. Chet's and Ptarmigan ...
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Loveland, CO: Friday, May 5, 2023
Sunny becoming cloudy, temps in the high 30s. Meant to get up there for 90 min to 2 hours and ... was more like 5.5. Oops. Ju...
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Loveland, CO: Wednesday, May 3, 2023
Sunny, temps warming from the mid 30s to near 50. Gorgeous day for some freeski from ~10-1230. Got on the lift, rock hard off...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, April 30, 2023
Sunny, temps rising from the mid 30s to near 50 at the base. Met up with some Masters folks at 830, and headed over toward 8....
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Loveland, CO: Friday, April 28, 2023
Sunny, temps in the mid 20s. An hour of freeski to close the day. Snowed 6" or so overnight, so snow was soft, and grooming w...
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Loveland, CO: Thursday, April 27, 2023
Snowing, temps around 30. Three runs to close the day. Not very good skiing. Seems like it corned up during the day, then ref...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, April 23, 2023
Mix of sun and clouds, temps in the low to mid 20s. Ran into a bunch of Masters racers in the lodge, which was cool. Chet's t...
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Loveland, CO: Friday, April 21, 2023
Quick afternoon ski, about 4 runs. Snowing, temps in the high teens. About 2 inches overnight, and looks like about the same ...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, April 16, 2023
Sunny, temps around 30. About 1:15 of freeski. Got one run off the ridge--not as good as it looked; the weird frozen surface ...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, April 15, 2023
Snowing, temps in the low 10s. Cold. About 3-4 inches overnight. Back to winter snow, and it skied well. Off the groom, it wa...
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Deer Valley, UT: Tuesday, April 11, 2023
Sunny, temps rising from the low 30s to the low 50s. Pretty low energy, so tagged on to the intermediate mountain tour after ...
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Brighton, UT: Monday, April 10, 2023
Sunny, temps rising from around 30 to around 50. Exploring a new place again. Tried to follow the sun--spent about 3 hours sk...
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Snowbasin, UT: Sunday, April 9, 2023
Sunny, temps rising from the low 30s to the low 50s. Gorgeous day. Snowbasin seems like it'd be a ton of fun with good (winte...
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Deer Valley, UT: Saturday, April 8, 2023
Mostly cloudy, with an hour-plus of sunshine in the middle. Temps in the mid-to-high 30s. First time here, so after a couple ...
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Eldora, CO: Thursday, April 6, 2023
Sunny, temps around 20. Just a quick 4 runs in the AM. Big arcs on the Enforcers, trying to find the top of the turn relative...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, April 2, 2023
Mostly sunny, warming from the high teens to the mid 20s. AM GS session to close the training season. Shorter distances today...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, April 1, 2023
Sunny, temps in the low 20s. Bluebird powder day. Horrific traffic since Rt 6 over the pass was closed, but ... Loveland repo...
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Eldora, CO: Thursday, March 30, 2023
Mix of sun and clouds, temps around 30. Last day of coaching, and unfortunately it was SL on LaBelle. My first time setting f...
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Loveland, CO: Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Mostly sunny, temps in the mid 30s. Midday GS session. Lots of swing down the pitch. Overall, when I focused on getting the i...
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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Sunny, temps in the high 20s. First bluebird day in a while. Softshell day #1 of the year. Midday GS session on Twist. Genera...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, March 26, 2023
Temps in the mid-teens, mix of sun and clouds. 2 SL day. First race set was very direct down the pitch, then full charge with...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, March 25, 2023
Overcast and cold, highs in the low single digits. Hotronics needed for sure. 2GS day w RMM. Relatively large field, around 5...
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Eldora, CO: Thursday, March 23, 2023
Mostly sunny, temps in the mid 20s. Foggy at home, but blue skies at Eldora. SL coaching day on Chute. A bunch of soft snow, ...
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Eldora, CO: Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Snowing, temps in the high 20s. GS on LaBelle for an hour or so. Hard snow with a lot of fluff around. I got three runs - 1 w...
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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Overcast, temps in the high 20s. A few inches overnight made for pretty huge piles outside our midday GS course. Pretty turny...
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Winter Park, CO: Sunday, March 19, 2023
Sunny, temps rising from below zero on arrival to the low 20s. 2GS on Lower Hughes ... huge left foot fallaway, short courses...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, March 18, 2023
Sunny, temps rising from -5 to around 20 F during an AM SL session. Day started very cold, skis barely moving, and I learned ...
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Eldora, CO: Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Sunny, temps in the mid 30s. AM coaching session - SL on Chute. Not much sleep last night (late work), and I forgot ski socks...
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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Sunny, temps in the low 30s. Midday GS session. I set for some reason, and it ran pretty well. Skied pretty well too--minimal...
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Eldora, CO: Sunday, March 12, 2023
Snowing, damp, temps in the low 20s. GS day after the time change. Super flat light, pretty fast snow, very grippy, bumpy sur...
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Eldora, CO: Saturday, March 11, 2023
Overcast becoming sunny, windy, temps around 30. PSL race day! First round course sets were very tight, about 13m, and tricky...
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Eldora, CO: Thursday, March 9, 2023
Sunny, temps in the mid 20s. Snowed quite a bit overnight, pretty heavy/dense. Set two different panel SLs on Chute - one at ...
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Loveland, CO: Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Overcast, temps in the high 20s. Three 10-gate sections of panel SL. Skiing on the 2019 SLs. Overall, felt pretty good. Need ...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, March 5, 2023
Overcast, storm moving in, quite windy, temps in the high teens. Top to bottom midday GS session. Fairly high tempo, decent s...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, March 4, 2023
Mix of sun and clouds, temps warming from the teens to the mid-20s for an AM SL session. Stubbies on top, and then a good cou...
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Eldora, CO: Thursday, March 2, 2023
Mostly sunny, temps in the low 20s. SL day on Chute. I set some SL on skiers left, and Brianna set some subbies/panel on SL l...
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Loveland, CO: Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Overcast, occasional showers, temps in the mid-to-high teens. GS training with DU. Pretty turny, fairly soft. I...started off...
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Keystone, CO: Sunday, February 26, 2023
Day started sunny, but clouds quickly moved in, and it was snowing to end the day. Pretty warm, temps in the high 20s/low 30s...
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Keystone, CO: Saturday, February 25, 2023
Sunny, temps in the 30s. GS day. As usual, I skied crap. I don't know what's happening. First run was super across the hill, ...
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Eldora, CO: Thursday, February 23, 2023
Mostly sunny, temps around 10F. Coaching day. We set GS on La Belle, and then I hung out at coaches' knoll for a while. A lot...
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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Mostly sunny, temps in the high 20s at the base but colder at the top of Ptarmigan. An hour of freeski on the Enforcers to cl...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, February 19, 2023
Very windy, snowing, temps in the single digits. Had hoped to make it a solid freeski morning, but ... just too windy. Everyt...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, February 18, 2023
Sunny, temps in the low 20s. Midday SL block on lower switch, starting right off the lift, 40 gates, with some rhythm changes...
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Eldora, CO: Thursday, February 16, 2023
Sunny and windy, temps in the low 10s. Three runs of SL freeski to close the day. Seems like I left by back wrap at Loveland ...
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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Mix of sun and clouds, some flurries with temps in the high teens. Afternoon GS session. Chris J set two short sections--from...
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Ski Cooper, CO: Sunday, February 12, 2023
Mix of sun and clouds, temps rising from the mid-teens to near 30. Super G day! Set was more across the hill but with good rh...
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Ski Cooper, CO: Saturday, February 11, 2023
Sunny, temps rising from around 0F to the low 30s. DH Race Day! The track seemed to firm up pretty nicely overnight, and stay...
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Ski Cooper, CO: Friday, February 10, 2023
Sunny, temps rising from around 0F at 9 AM to the high 20s by midday. Felt positively toasty. Official DH training runs today...
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Ski Cooper, CO: Thursday, February 9, 2023
Overcast with flurries. Breezy. Temps in the mid single digits. DH camp! Two runs of slipping (a couple inches of snow overni...
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Eldora, CO: Wednesday, February 8, 2023
Temps in the 20s, becoming colder, windier, and cloudier throughout the morning session. Coaching day-GS on Chute. First set ...
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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, February 7, 2023
Sunny, temps in the high 20s. Warmer than I expected. Afternoon GS session. Graham set a fairly arrhythmic, very straight/fas...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, February 4, 2023
Sunny, temps rising from the low to mid 20s. Morning SL session on lower switch. Timing. Pretty short distances, lots of comb...
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Eldora, CO: Thursday, February 2, 2023
Sunny, temps in the mid-20s. SL coaching on Chute. Set a course, then reset about halfway through. Not feeling great--super l...
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Loveland, CO: Wednesday, February 1, 2023
Sunny, temps around 20. GS training day. Perfect surface, pretty decent course set. Really tried to focus on being pretty cle...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, January 29, 2023
Snowy and windy, temps around 10. GS race. Feeling pretty under the weather, so got out of official duty, and tried to ski. J...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, January 28, 2023
Cold, temps around 10F, snowing. SL race day. Ton of soft snow on the hill, and really took forever to get in. I got roped in...
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Eldora, CO: Thursday, January 26, 2023
Sunny and windy, temps around 10F. SL coaching day on LaBelle. Frank was there too, so we both got a few runs. Started settin...
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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Overcast, flurries, temps around 10F. Took the day off (happy birthday, me!), slept in, and made it up for a midday GS sessio...
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Keystone, CO: Sunday, January 22, 2023
Sunny, temps in the mid-teens. SL day. Left ankle and shin were a bit tender, but after a couple warm up runs, it seemed like...
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Keystone, CO: Saturday, January 21, 2023
Overcast, flurries, cold, temps in the mid-single digits. GS day. First run, I skied okay, but super tentative--sliding the t...
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Eldora, CO: Thursday, January 19, 2023
Coaching day. Sunny becoming cloudy, temps around 20. SL on LaBelle. Started on the hill at 8, helping re-install B-net. Then...
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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, January 17, 2023
Snowing (storm moving in), temps around 20F. An hour of freeski in the afternoon after a pretty miserable morning (water heat...
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Ski Cooper, CO: Sunday, January 15, 2023
Temps around 20, day turning from overcast to driving snowstorm. Headed up for an afternoon SL race w/ a split RMM and Midwes...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, January 14, 2023
Sunny, temps rising to near 30. AM GS session, joining up with the LSC U16s. 20 gates starting at the top flat. I skied okay,...
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Eldora, CO: Thursday, January 12, 2023
Sunny, temps near 30. Coaching SL on chute. Set on skiers right in some fresh snow. After slipping, the track chunked weirdly...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, January 8, 2023
Sunny, temps in the low 20s. Gorgeous day. I was "coaching" the Masters group since Ron can't go back-to-back yet. I forgot s...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, January 7, 2023
Snowing, slowly becoming sunny. Temps around 20F. Nightmare traffic-about 2:30 to get to Loveland for the AM SL session. So s...
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Loveland, CO: Wednesday, January 4, 2023
Breezy, cloudy but becoming sunny. Temps in the single digits for an AM SL session. Three sections: about 10 gate panel SL of...
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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, January 3, 2023
Dumping snow, temps in the mid-teens. Four runs of freeski to close the day. Really beautiful snow ripping from Chet's to Pta...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, January 1, 2023
Overcast, temps in the 20s. Really fun couple hours of skiing to start the year. Ripped around on the Enforcers, from Chet's ...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, December 31, 2022
Brutal drive up, but made it for AM SL session on Twist. Quite a bit of snow overnight, and it was absolutely dumping during ...
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Loveland, CO: Friday, December 30, 2022
Braved traffic for an hour of freeski to end the day. Temps in the teens, snowing. Basically trying to make good GS-y turns o...
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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, December 27, 2022
Overcast, temps near 30. Windy, but calming. Afternoon GS session on Twist. Set was pretty quick, not much offset, but very q...
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Loveland, CO: Monday, December 26, 2022
Overcast, temps in the low 20s, started out snowing, but stopped early on. About 90 min of freeski on the Enforcers. Generall...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, December 25, 2022
Overcast, precip, very windy, temps in the mid-20s. Precip seemed almost like rain, freezing on the goggles, helmet, and jack...
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Eldora, CO: Friday, December 23, 2022
Overcast, windy, temps in the mid-single digits. Brought out the Enforcers for an hour of freeski to end the day, but ... it ...
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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, December 20, 2022
Overcast, temps near 20F. About 45 min of SL freeski to close the day. Wasn't hydrated well enough apparently, and my feet we...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, December 18, 2022
Sunny, temps in the low 10s. SL freeski for about an hour. Started on Chet's, down to Ptarmigan for a couple of runs down Fir...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, December 17, 2022
Sunny, temps rising from the mid-single digits to around 10F. Morning SL session on Twist; '19 SLs on the feet. About 25 gate...
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Eldora, CO: Thursday, December 15, 2022
Cold, overcast, and windy. Temps in the high single digits. Day 1 of coaching masters; GS on La Belle. Not much skiing today,...
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Loveland, CO: Thursday, December 1, 2022
Mix of sun and clouds, but in the shadow. Temps in the high 20s. SL freeski, with laps on 2, Chet's, and the newly opened 6. ...
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Loveland, CO: Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Sunny day, but in the shadow of the setting sun. Temps in the low 20s. About 45 min of SL freeski, alternating between Chet's...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, November 27, 2022
Snowing, temps in the low teens. SL freeski for about an hour. Made some fun really high-angle glalom type turns to start out...
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Loveland, CO: Friday, November 25, 2022
Sunny, temps in the mid teens. About an hour of SL freeski, mostly off Lift 2. Working on getting to the new ski early, and b...
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Loveland, CO: Thursday, November 24, 2022
An hour of SL freeski before heading back home for cooking. Skiing in the shade, temps in the low teens. A quick run off Chet...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, November 20, 2022
Sunny, mostly skiing in the shade on Chet's and 2. Temps rising from around 15 at 830 to nearly 25 at 1030. 1:45 of AM SL fre...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, November 19, 2022
Sunny, skiing mostly in the shade. Warming from around 10F at 830 to around 18F at 1030. '18SLs again for some laps/mileage. ...
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Loveland, CO: Thursday, November 17, 2022
About 45 min of SL freeski to end the day. Winter for real. Temps in the low teens, windy, snowing. Took 5 laps: two off of C...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, November 13, 2022
Sunny, temps in the high 20s. About 45 min of SL freeski midday. I guess I didn't hydrate nearly well enough, because my feet...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, November 12, 2022
First day! Sunny day, warming from the high teens to near 30 between 830 and 1030, when I quit, but much of the hill was in s...
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Arapahoe Basin, CO: Friday, May 27, 2022
Sunny, temps in the 50s. About an hour of freeski before heading into work. Probably the last day of the year. Just made some...
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Arapahoe Basin, CO: Thursday, May 19, 2022
Took the day off and skied for 2.5ish hours at A-Basin. Really getting kind of rough up here, though there's a big storm comi...
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Arapahoe Basin, CO: Saturday, May 14, 2022
Sunny, temps climbing from the mid 30s to low 50s. Skied from a little before 9 to a little after 11. Mostly lapping Lenawee ...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, May 7, 2022
Sunny, temps around 50 in the parking lot. Four hours of freeski for what is probably my last day at Loveland this year. Star...
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Loveland, CO: Thursday, May 5, 2022
Mostly sunny, temps in the mid-30s. About 90 min of freeski to close the day. Met up with Marty, and mostly lapped Ptarmigan....
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, May 1, 2022
About 1:30 of freeski on the Evolv90s to start the day before heading back to hang with the parents. Sunny becoming overcast,...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, April 30, 2022
About 1:30 of freeski in the AM before heading back home to hang with the parents. Gorgeous day, sunny, temps warming from th...
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Loveland, CO: Thursday, April 28, 2022
An hour of freeski on the Evolv90s in the morning. Happened to run into Marty and Marko in the lodge, and did an early tour w...
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Loveland, CO: Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Mostly sunny, temps near 40. An hour of freeski to close the day. On the Evolv90s for the first time this year, as the Enforc...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, April 24, 2022
Overcast with flurries, temps in the 20s. About 2.5 hours of freeski to start the day. Went from Chet's to Ptarmigan and down...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, April 23, 2022
Big change from yesterday. Skiing in a snowglobe ... temps in the teens, extremely windy, and snowing pretty hard. Based on t...
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Loveland, CO: Friday, April 22, 2022
Overcast, becoming very windy, temps cooling from near 50 to the mid 30s. Weather really moving in when I arrived around 2 - ...
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Arapahoe Basin, CO: Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Sunny, temps in the low 40s at the base, probably closer to freezing at the top. Freeski for about 1.5 hours in the AM; was s...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, April 17, 2022
Skiing in a snow globe. Temps in the mid 20s. Super windy. Visibility was pretty rough, but there was quite a bit of snow ove...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, April 16, 2022
Sunny, becoming cloudy. Temps rising from the high 20s to the mid 30s while I was there from 830-1200. Basically, headed from...
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Loveland, CO: Friday, April 15, 2022
Overcast, snowing off and on, temps around 30F. About 1:15 of freeski to end the week. Met up with Marty and his brother and ...
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Eldora, CO: Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Snowing, cold (around 10F) and breezy. About an hour of freeski off the 6-pack, trying to make the most of the 4-ish inches t...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, April 9, 2022
Day started sunny, and then pretty dark clouds moved in around 1030. Warm, temps in the low 40s at the base, and around freez...
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Loveland, CO: Friday, April 8, 2022
Sunny, temps near 40 at the base. Two hours of freeski with Marty to close the day. Up Chet's, down to Ptarmigan, and then do...
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Eldora, CO: Wednesday, April 6, 2022
Overcast, cold, and windy. Temps in the mid-teens. Two hours of freeski, trying to find some soft snow. Did a decent mountain...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, April 3, 2022
Snowing, temps in the low-mid 20s. Skied from 830-1130, mostly off of Ptarmigan and 6. About 2-3 inches of fresh, so 9 was pr...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, April 2, 2022
Sunny, temps in the mid 30s at the base. Got there around 10, and had to park at the Valley and take a shuttle. Not a fan. An...
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Loveland, CO: Friday, April 1, 2022
Afternoon 1:15 to close the day. Sunny, temps around 30. Headed from Chet's down to Ptarmigan, and then to South Chutes on 9....
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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, March 29, 2022
Snowing, temps around 30. Midday SL session. Pretty hard surface, but relatively grippy. Two ~30 gate courses. First one off ...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, March 27, 2022
Sunny, temps in the mid-40s. Started with a midday GS session on twist, with rock hard snow to start and then it got softer a...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, March 26, 2022
Mix of sun and clouds, temps in the low 40s. Softshell weather for a midday SL session. Stubbies across the top flat, and the...
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Loveland, CO: Thursday, March 24, 2022
Sunny, temps in the mid 30s. About 1:15 of freeski to close out the day. Started on Chet's, took Mambo down to Ptarmigan, and...
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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Mostly cloudy, temps in the high teens. Midday SL session. Three courses on Twist: (1) about 13m, open, with a bit of swing a...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, March 20, 2022
Sunny with clouds moving in. Windy. Temps rising from the mid-20s to the low 30s. Masters SL race on Twist, full length. Firs...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, March 19, 2022
Sunny. Temps rising from the mid-teens to around 30 by midday. Masters GS, full length on Twist. Really strong field. First r...
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Loveland, CO: Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Midday GS session. Cloudy and becoming snowy, temps near 30. Full length GS on Twist. Four full length runs plus a run of sec...
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Eldora, CO: Tuesday, March 15, 2022
Quick freeski in the afternoon on the '19 SLs. Sunny, temps in the 40s. Three runs to try and feel the full arc. First run wa...
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Eldora, CO: Sunday, March 13, 2022
Sunny, temps near 40. Masters GS on La Belle, with a finish on Hot Dog. I was start ref, and it took me out of it a bit for t...
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Eldora, CO: Saturday, March 12, 2022
Mix of sun and clouds, starting very windy but becoming calmer, temps rising from the low 20s to mid 30s. Parallel SL on Chut...
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Eldora, CO: Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Snowing, temps in the single digits. Traffic was awful trying to get to Loveland, so I diverted to Eldora. Joined up with tha...
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Eldora, CO: Sunday, March 6, 2022
Snowing, temps around 10F. Just up for an hour. Skiing was ... actually pretty bad. Surprised. Just sugar over ice. The Enfor...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, March 5, 2022
Snowing, temps in the high teens. About 4 inches of snow so far. We set some GS and slipped a lot, and actually got to a good...
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Eldora, CO: Friday, March 4, 2022
Mostly sunny, temps in the mid 40s. Weather supposed to be moving in, but it was clear up high, and actually warmer than at h...
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Loveland, CO: Wednesday, March 2, 2022
Sunny, temps rising from the high 20s to near 40. Morning session (9-11) of SG training. Setting took a while, so only got ab...
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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Sunny, temps in the 30s. Beautiful day for some midday SL. Set from the "usual" race start all the way to the timing shack on...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, February 27, 2022
Sunny, temps up near 30. What a difference from the last couple of days. Midday GS session on Twist, which we shared with Oke...
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Ski Cooper, CO: Saturday, February 26, 2022
Sunny, temps rising from about -5 to around 10F. Felt a ton warmer than yesterday, even though it wasn't actually. GS on Blac...
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Ski Cooper, CO: Friday, February 25, 2022
Mostly cloudy, very cold, rising from around 0F to the high single digits. Here for a masters SL race. Only 25ish on the star...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, February 20, 2022
Sunny, temps near 30. 2x SL from the leaning tree start. Not ideal, since it cuts off some flats skiing, but ... good because...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, February 19, 2022
Sunny, temps in the high 20s. 2x GS from the lower start to the SL timing finish. Pretty good field. I skied okay...just not ...
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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, February 15, 2022
Mostly sunny, temps in the high 20s. Midday SL session. Full length set, 2 runs, then reset, 2 runs. Really, full length is p...
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Keystone, CO: Sunday, February 13, 2022
Sunny, temps rising from the low teens to the low 30s. Here for a Masters SL, but ... I forgot my boot liners. What a disaste...
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Keystone, CO: Saturday, February 12, 2022
GS Race Day. Overcast, with sun occasionally poking through. Day started very cold (-2 ish) and warmed to the low 20s. I was ...
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Loveland, CO: Thursday, February 10, 2022
About 45 min of freeski to close the day. Sun setting behind the mountain, temps around 30. Pretty soft snow - looks like the...
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Loveland, CO: Wednesday, February 9, 2022
Flurries then becoming sunny, temps around 20. Full length GS on the race 27s for the first time. I don't know if it was the ...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, February 6, 2022
Sunny, temps around 10. Midday GS session, full length on Twist. About an inch of snow overnight, so the surface was kind of ...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, February 5, 2022
Sunny, temps around 20. Midday SL session on lower switch with a small group (5?). I skied really well. Happy. Felt good to t...
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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, February 1, 2022
Snowing, temps in the high teens. Midday SL block on Twist. Storm coming in should bring almost a foot of snow in Denver, so ...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, January 30, 2022
Sunny, temps in the mid-30s. About 90 min of freeski to end the day after sleeping in following the AO final. Enforcers and b...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, January 29, 2022
Sunny, temps around 30. Felt warmer. Midday SL session on Lower Switch. First course was about 9.5-10m, and it was definitely...
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Loveland, CO: Friday, January 28, 2022
Sunny, temps in the mid-20s for an afternoon hour of skiing to close the week. Testing out the toe, and after a bit, it settl...
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Loveland, CO: Monday, January 24, 2022
Took the day off for some birthday skiing. Sunny, temps rising from the low teens to the mid 20s. Started the day with some G...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, January 23, 2022
Midday SL session on lower switch. Sunny, temps in the mid-20s. About 24 open gates and then a 4-gate flush, with timing. Gen...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, January 22, 2022
Sunny, temps in the mid-20s. Midday SL session on lower switch. Terrible traffic, took almost 3 hours to get there, but ... a...
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Loveland, CO: Friday, January 21, 2022
Snowing, temps around 20. An hour of skiing to close out the day on the enforcers. Really fun day. Started on Chet's, down to...
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Loveland, CO: Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Sunny (setting behind the mountain), around 25 degrees. About 90 min of freeski to end the day. Really great snow. Did a bit ...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, January 9, 2022
Sunny, temps around 20. Midday GS session. Full length to the SL finish, relatively quick tempo and a decent amount of swing....
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, January 8, 2022
Snowing, temps in the teens. Late afternoon SL session. Two courses, both all rhythm, 4 stubbies, 4 tall gate. A good group o...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, January 2, 2022
Afternoon GS session. Sunny, with the sun setting behind the mountain, as temps fell from the mid-20s to the mid-teens. Set w...
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Eldora, CO: Saturday, January 1, 2022
Snowing, temps in the single digits. New pants (green) for the new year. Continuing the tradition with my 29th consecutive ne...
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Eldora, CO: Thursday, December 30, 2021
Traffic diverted me from Loveland. On snow around 9:30, and about an hour of freeskiing. Just couldn't get into it, hard to m...
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Loveland, CO: Wednesday, December 29, 2021
Midday GS session. Like yesterday, snowing with temps in the low 10s. Started after the first pitch on the mid-flat, since th...
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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, December 28, 2021
Midday SL session. Snowing, temps in the low 10s. First day on the '22 SLs, and they really came around nicely. Two 20-gate s...
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Eldora, CO: Sunday, December 26, 2021
After diverting from Loveland due to traffic on 70, got to Eldora around 10:30 and freeskied for about 2 hours on the Enforce...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, December 25, 2021
Christmas morning ski for about an hour and a half. Temps in the teens, very windy. It snowed a lot yesterday and the night b...
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Loveland, CO: Wednesday, December 22, 2021
Midday GS session. Sunny, temps around 30. Really perfect weather. Snow was pretty hard and grippy except for a few sections ...
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Eldora, CO: Sunday, December 19, 2021
Temps near 30, in the shade of the setting sun. About 1:15 of freeski to end the day. Enforcers are ... not sharp ... and the...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, December 18, 2021
Up for an hour to close the day. Freeskiing on the Enforcers. Temps in the teens, in the shade of the setting sun. Started on...
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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, December 14, 2021
Mostly sunny, temps around 30. Breezy. Midday SL session - top was ~15 stubbies, then a ~40-gate course from about the saddle...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, December 12, 2021
Sunny, temps around 30, extremely windy. Midday GS session. Got there early and got 4 runs from midstation on the 30m skis. T...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, December 11, 2021
8:30 AM SL lane. Blustery, temps rising from low single digits to the mid-teens. Glad I had my boot heaters. Stubby SL on Twi...
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Loveland, CO: Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Overcast, temps in the 20s. Midday GS block. Two 10-gate courses with a decent amount of swing - one off the top, and one sta...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, December 5, 2021
Midday GS block. Sunny, temps near 30. First go around with the new back protector - I liked how light it was. Two short cour...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, December 4, 2021
Sunny, with disappearing light for an hour of SL freeski on the '19 SLs. Felt pretty good, especially on the terrain by Lift ...
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Eldora, CO: Friday, December 3, 2021
Sunny, but flat light since the sun was behind the mountain. Temps in the 40s. Snow was wet, hard, and slick - felt like earl...
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Loveland, CO: Wednesday, December 1, 2021
9 AM GS lane on Lower Switchback. Sunny (but mostly in the shadow of the mountain), temps rising from the low 30s to the low ...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, November 28, 2021
Up at the end of the day for about an hour of freeskiing on the Enforcers. Setting sun, temps around 40. Snow a bit softer t...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, November 27, 2021
Overcast, temps around freezing. An hour of freeskiing to close the day (3-4p) on the Enforcers. On Mamba, snow was a bit sli...
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Loveland, CO: Friday, November 26, 2021
Sunny, but in the shadows. Temps around 30F. About an hour of GS training on upper switchback. A lot of off-camber swing off ...
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Loveland, CO: Thursday, November 25, 2021
Thanksgiving SL training session. Sunny, though the run was mostly in the shadow of the mountain, temps rising from around 12...
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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, November 23, 2021
Sunny, temps near 40. Softshell GS training on lower switchback. Similar set to last time, with a bit longer tempo. Skied we...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, November 21, 2021
Sunny, temps rising from around 15F to around 20F. GS on Lower Switchback. Skis felt predictably long, and had some trouble m...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, November 20, 2021
First day of training. Mix of sun and clouds, temps in the high 20s. Stubbies on lower switchback. '18 SLs. Pretty open sets...
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Loveland, CO: Friday, November 19, 2021
Overcast. Temps in the 30s. Breezy. Snow was pretty wet and starting to refreeze. 1 run on Chet's, then 3 runs off Lift 2 on ...
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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Overcast, temps in the low 30s for a 1-hr SL freeski. Very windy. Fairly crowded due to demo day. Best snow so far for carvin...
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Loveland, CO: Friday, November 12, 2021
Snowing, temps in the high 20s. More snow overnight, so Enforcers again for about 45 minutes in the afternoon. Four runs toda...
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Loveland, CO: Thursday, November 11, 2021
Snowing, temps in the mid-20s. Enforcers! 3 runs in the afternoon. Feet didn't hurt as badly as last week, but still not supe...
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Loveland, CO: Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Day 1! Super happy to be back on snow. Mostly cloudy, temps in the high 30s. Three runs on Mambo. Snow was pretty good, if a...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, May 9, 2021
Sunny becoming overcast. Temps around 30. Closing day. A bit of a late start, but skied from 9:15 to 1:15. Found some Masters...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, May 8, 2021
Sunny becoming cloudy and snowy. Skied from open until 1:30 on the enforcers. Day started on Chet's which was bulletproof dow...
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Loveland, CO: Thursday, May 6, 2021
Sunny, temps near 50 in the parking lot. About 1:15 of freeski to wrap up the day. Absolutely gorgeous out. Took out the Evol...
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Loveland, CO: Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Snowing, temps around 30. About 4" of snow last night and I was hoping to ski some of it, but ... the enforcers were SUUUUPER...
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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, May 4, 2021
Overcast, becoming snowy. Breezy. Temps near 30 for an hour of freeski. Started off Chet's and took Mamba down to Ptarmigan, ...
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Loveland, CO: Friday, April 30, 2021
Sunny, temps in the mid-50s in the lot, probably high 40s at the peak. 1:15 of skiing (245-4) to wrap up the week. Snow was ....
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Loveland, CO: Thursday, April 29, 2021
Gorgeous spring afternoon. Up for 1:15 of freeski to close the day. Sunny, temps near 50. Slushy, sticky snow in parts, perfe...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, April 25, 2021
Sunny becoming cloudy; temps around 40 at the base. Met up with Marty, Oleg, and their friend Marko and generally had a great...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, April 24, 2021
Mostly cloudy, temps in the mid-to-high 30s. An hour and a half of freeski to close the day. Took out the Evolv90s, and ... I...
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Loveland, CO: Friday, April 23, 2021
An hour of freeski to round out the week. Temps in the mid-20s, starting in a snow squall and then overcast. Overnight about ...
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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Sunny, temps in the mid-20s. About 1:15 of freeski to close the day. Absolutely gorgeous day, and 4" overnight, hoping to cat...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, April 18, 2021
Mix of sun and clouds. Temps in the low 20s. Skied from 830 till around 3. Really fun. Mix of cruising/skiing by myself and ...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, April 17, 2021
Mostly cloudy, flurries, temps near 20. Despite the relatively low temps, was way overdressed in the normal Volkl puffy - sho...
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Eldora, CO: Monday, April 12, 2021
Sunny, temps rising from the low 20s at 10 AM to the mid-30s when I left at 1 PM. Had a voucher for a midweek pass so I used ...
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Loveland, CO: Friday, April 9, 2021
Sunny, temps in the mid-20s. Breezy. 1:15 of freeski on the Enforcers till close. Skis ... definitely need wax. A bit sticky....
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Loveland, CO: Thursday, April 8, 2021
Temps around 40, cloudy. Seems like parts of the mountain never really softened, and the groomed seemed like it was just hard...
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Ski Cooper, CO: Sunday, April 4, 2021
Mix of sun and clouds, warming from the mid20s to the low 50s. Masters 2SG. On borrowed 205/33m DH skis from Ron. Slipped and...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, April 3, 2021
Sunny, temps around 50. Gorgeous spring day. Midday SL session, and the sun really took a lot of energy out of me. Snow held ...
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Loveland, CO: Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Sunny, temps around 20F. Gorgeous day. Got there around 10 to catch the end of the AM GS session; skied pretty well, starting...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, March 28, 2021
Sunny, temps in the low 30s. Gorgeous day for some midday GS. We mirrored CU's set, and it was pretty fast and open. After a ...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, March 27, 2021
Mix of sun and clouds, flurries, temps near 20. Midday SL session. Started with a couple runs to move all the snow (3-4") off...
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Loveland, CO: Friday, March 26, 2021
Flurries, temps in the high 20s. An hour of freeski at the end of the day. Never really got into it - just frustrated/irritat...
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Loveland, CO: Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Temps in the teens. Day started with unexpected sunshine, and then clouds and snow rolled in for the afternoon (run 2). Maste...
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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Snowing, temps in the high teens. 3 runs of full-length GS. Super grippy, soft snow. First run was super conservative, not ve...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, March 21, 2021
Mid 20s, snowing, very heavily at times. Midday GS training block. Spent three runs slipping to get a decent surface and a re...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, March 20, 2021
Sunny, temps in the low 40s. Gorgeous spring day. Started by catching the last couple of runs of a midday SL session. Skied o...
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Loveland, CO: Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Overcast, occasional flurries. Temps in the high teens. 2 SL races. A few inches of overnight snow meant we had to do a lot ...
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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Short midday SL session. Overcast, temps in the 20s. Super soft surface, extremely rutty. I got there late, so only 2 runs of...
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Loveland, CO: Monday, March 15, 2021
Snowing, windy, temps in the 20s. About an hour and a half of freeski on the Enforcers. Snowed about 2 ft at home over the we...
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Eldora, CO: Thursday, March 11, 2021
Sunny becoming cloudy, temps rising from the low 10s to near 30. Parallel SL on Chute. Started early, since I was the ref, wi...
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Loveland, CO: Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Cold. Blustery, overcast, occasional snow squalls, high of around 15. Apparently about 6 inches fell overnight, which made ru...
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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Sunny, temps in the mid-30s. Midday GS block. 4 runs from the SL start to the bottom. I generally skied really well. Super wa...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, March 7, 2021
Sunny becoming cloudy, temps in the high 30s. Midday GS session. Snow was surprisingly good and while it did get a bit peely,...
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Keystone, CO: Friday, March 5, 2021
Sunny. 30s, but felt warmer. Masters SL race. Course sets were pretty direct, but the snow was just terrible. Really granular...
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Keystone, CO: Thursday, March 4, 2021
20s, snowing. Masters GS race. I don't know, I just didn't have it today. Low energy and not mentally in it to win it, and it...
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Loveland, CO: Monday, March 1, 2021
Sunny, temps in the high 20s. Gorgeous day. Midday GS session. Started the session with a couple runs of running sections wor...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, February 28, 2021
Sunny, temps rising from around 5 to 15F. Midday GS session. Full length set, around 26m with a decent amount of swing, then ...
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Ski Cooper, CO: Thursday, February 25, 2021
Sunny. Temps in the teens. Calm becoming breezy. 2 GS races on Black Powder. 2 courses, redress for each race. AM race was f...
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Loveland, CO: Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Sunny, temps rising from the low teens to around 20. Morning (9-1130) GS session, mirroring the full-length DU course with a ...
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Loveland, CO: Monday, February 22, 2021
Sunny! Temps in the low 20s. Midday GS block, full length, with timing. Pretty open set (slightly moved DU's set from the AM)...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, February 21, 2021
Mostly cloudy, sun peaking through occasionally. Cold, temps around 10F, and very windy. Lots of blowing snow. Midday GS sess...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, February 20, 2021
Cloudy, temps in the low 20s. Midday SL training block. Joe was coaching us, it was great to get feedback and a couple of ne...
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Loveland, CO: Friday, February 19, 2021
Snowing, temps in the teens. An hour of skiing (3-4) to close out the week. Day 2 all-time on the Evolv90s. Liked them much b...
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Loveland, CO: Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Flurries, damp. Temps around 10F. An hour of skiing 3-4 on the Enforcers; very flat light. Pretty fun, though I wasn't feelin...
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Loveland, CO: Monday, February 15, 2021
Snowing, windy, temps around 10F. About 1:15 of skiing on the Enforcers until close. Boot heaters on. Started on Chet's with...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, February 14, 2021
Sunny, temps rising from 0 to 5F. Midday GS session. Surprisingly good surface, given all the snow recently. Pretty open set,...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, February 13, 2021
Storm skiing afternoon! Training cancelled because of snow, so slept in a bit and then headed up to ski the 6 inches of fresh...
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Loveland, CO: Thursday, February 11, 2021
Snowing, breezy, temps around 20. One hour of freeski 3-4. Day 1 on the Liberty Evolv90s. Did a bit of a tour, starting with ...
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Loveland, CO: Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Flurries, very windy, mostly cloudy skies, temps in the low 20s. 1 hr of freeski on the Enforcers from 3-4. Apparently it sno...
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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Snowing and windy. Temps in the mid-20s. Ski 2-4 on the enforcers. Start with a run from Chet's to Ptarmigan. Pretty nice sno...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, February 7, 2021
Sunny, temps in the low 20s. Extremely windy. Everything on windhold except for Lifts 2, 3, and 7, so ... super long lines fo...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, February 6, 2021
Overnight snow, so training cancelled. Terrible traffic on 70 in the AM, so I waited to leave until 1:15 or so. Ended up on s...
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Loveland, CO: Wednesday, February 3, 2021
Weather moving in, temps in the mid 20s. Started as a mix of sun and clouds, ended up with pretty driving snow. Morning GS la...
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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Mix of sun and clouds. Temps in the low 30s. Midday SL block. I was way overdressed. Really overheated and short of breath. ...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, January 31, 2021
Sunny, temps near 30. Midday GS session. Set was relatively open with good swing. Snow was variable - some gates had good sno...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, January 30, 2021
Snowing, temps in the high teens. Midday SL block. Two courses. I just didn't have any snap in my skiing. Movements were good...
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Loveland, CO: Thursday, January 28, 2021
Mostly cloudy, temps near 30. Another afternoon (3-4) hour of freeski on the enforcers. A bunch of carving, felt really good,...
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Loveland, CO: Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Sunny, with clouds moving in. Temps near 20, pretty windy. About an hour of freeski on the Enforcers to close the day (3-4). ...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, January 24, 2021
Snowy. Temps around 20. Birthday midday GS training session. Suuuuper turny, and I had trouble bending the ski with how slow ...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, January 23, 2021
Snowing, around 30 degrees. Midday SL training session. Unbelievably crowded - I had to park at the upper lot at the Valley. ...
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Loveland, CO: Friday, January 22, 2021
Overcast, flurries, temps in the mid-20s. 1 hr of freeski on the enforcers to wrap up the day (3-4). Found Marty and lapped C...
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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Late afternoon ski (2:30-4:00). Sunny, temps in the low 20s. Cruising around on the Enforcers for the first time this year, t...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, January 17, 2021
Cloudy, becoming snowy. Temps in the low 20s. Midday GS block. Set was weird - nice and open off the top, then weirdly arhyth...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, January 16, 2021
Snowing, temps near 20. A bit windy. Midday SL block. Super crowded, lots of lines. Seems like 3-4 inches overnight. Super gr...
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Ski Cooper, CO: Friday, January 15, 2021
Sunny, temps near 20F. Masters SL race in the afternoon. Low snow year, so not much coverage, but what there was was pretty s...
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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Temps near 30. Sunny. Midday SL. Broc set a tough super short radius (~3m) swing brush course on the top, then a ankle-rollin...
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Loveland, CO: Monday, January 11, 2021
Sunny, temps rising from 16 to 25F throughout the midday GS window. Fast, relatively direct set. Joe and Broc coaching, and s...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, January 10, 2021
Skied more than I have any other day this year, starting with a training session 11-130 and then freeskiing at the Valley wit...
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Loveland, CO: Wednesday, January 6, 2021
Sunny, temps near 20F. Midday SL lane. Shorter section up top, then a ~45-gate course from the mid-flat to the bottom. It sno...
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Loveland, CO: Monday, January 4, 2021
Sunny, temps near 30. Midday GS lane. Apparently it snowed ~5" overnight at Loveland (unexpected). Still, we ran GS using bas...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, January 2, 2021
Sunny, becoming cloudy, temps in the high teens. Midday SL block. Stubbies on top, then a short full-gate course on the first...
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Loveland, CO: Friday, January 1, 2021
Sunny, temps around 10F. One hour of SL freeski to start the year. Really skied better today with a focus of getting the shou...
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Loveland, CO: Thursday, December 31, 2020
Cloud sitting on top of the mountain, but otherwise sunny. Temps in the teens. About 90 min of skiing (830-10) before the cro...
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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Overcast, snowing, temps near 10F. Went up for a SL session, but cancelled due to about 6" of overnight snow. So, took four f...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, December 26, 2020
Sunny, temps around 30. Midday SL lane - three sections - one up top (stubbies), one in the middle through the saddle and the...
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Loveland, CO: Friday, December 25, 2020
Sunny, temps in the teens. Went for 90 min ski from 830-10 on the '18 SLs. Mostly lapped Ptarmigan, where the snow was good. ...
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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Temps near 30, but very windy. Sunny skies transitioning to cloudy and snowing. SL midday lane, about 40 gates from the pitch...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, December 20, 2020
Cloudy, occasionally with sun peaking through. Temps in the mid 20s. Full length GS with various distances and changes in rhy...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, December 19, 2020
Blustery, cloudy with sun occasionally poking through, temps in the teens. Midday SL lane. I skied okay - I started weak on t...
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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Blustery, snowy, and cold. Temps <5 F for a midday SL lane on Twist. Traffic horrendous again, and got there a bit late, but ...
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Loveland, CO: Monday, December 14, 2020
Death drive up (2 hours!), but on snow for 2 hours of GS training on Twist. Overcast, temps in the mid-20s. Course was pretty...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, December 12, 2020
Snowing, temps in the low 10s. Midday lane, mixing in with the LSC academy kids. Top portion was some pretty open panel SL, n...
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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Sunny, temps in the 30s. SL on Twist in four very short stubby sections, and then an intro to full gates on the runout. I s...
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Loveland, CO: Monday, December 7, 2020
Midday (11-130) GS training lane again. Insane traffic, so I got on snow just before 12. Sunny, temps in the 30s. Like yest...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, December 6, 2020
Sunny, temps in the high 20s/low 30s. GS day 1 on Twist; midday lane (11-130). Two short sections - one across the top flat t...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, December 5, 2020
Sunny, temps in the 20s. SL (stubby) training 11-1:30 on Twist; I got there a bit early and got a free run. Snow was okay - a...
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Loveland, CO: Friday, December 4, 2020
SL freeski for a couple hours in the AM. Sunny, temps in the 20s. I forgot my shell, but luckily it was alright in just the n...
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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Late stubby lane on lower Switchback. I had work, so I just had the last 90 min (2:30-4). Snowing, temps in the mid-teens. I ...
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Loveland, CO: Monday, November 30, 2020
Sunny, temps warming from 10F to 20F. Lane on lower Switchback for some stubbies - late change, was expecting for drills at t...
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Loveland, CO: Friday, November 27, 2020
Early AM training session on Switchback (0630-0845). Cold (temps <5F), and even with heaters, my feet froze bc a ton of snow ...
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Loveland, CO: Thursday, November 26, 2020
Turkey day morning ski. Overcast, temps rising from around 10F to 20F between 830 and 930. SL freeski on the '18 SLs. Start...
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Loveland, CO: Monday, November 23, 2020
Flurries. Temps near 30. SL drills with the Masters crew. Bit of a mixup on Valley vs Basin; but eventually got a solid 1.5 h...
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Loveland, CO: Friday, November 20, 2020
Mostly cloudy, temps near 30. An hour of SL freeski before heading back for work. Best snow of the season, IMO. Grippy, fun s...
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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, November 17, 2020
An hour of freeski in the AM. Sunny, temps around 30. There were a lot of racer kids here first thing in the AM, so I decided...
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Loveland, CO: Monday, November 16, 2020
Sunny, temps around 40. Went up for an hour in the afternoon (~2:30-3:30). About 4 runs off Chet's, and while it was okay, th...
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Loveland, CO: Thursday, November 12, 2020
Day 1! Snowing, windy, temps in the high single digits. COVID protocols in place (wearing masks in lift line, distancing, get...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Sunday, March 15, 2020
Sunny. Temps rising from the mid 20s around 7:45 to the mid 40s when I wrapped up around 12:15. SL freeski on the short lift....
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Saturday, March 14, 2020
Sunny. Temps rising from the high 20s to the low 40s. Skied 8-12 with Mango. Day started off with absolutely rock hard slick ...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Thursday, March 12, 2020
Overcast. Temps in the low to mid 30s. A quick 3 runs before work. Pretty empty, but the snow was pretty great on Challenger ...
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Butternut, MA: Monday, March 9, 2020
Home for the day to hang out with the parents. Came up with my dad to ski Butternut for an hour and a half in the morning. Br...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Sunday, March 8, 2020
Temps rising from the high 20s to the mid 40s. Bright, sunny day. We set some panel SL for the whole team on Face. Got down t...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Saturday, March 7, 2020
Bluebird day, temps in the 20s, rising into the low 30s. I set a ~30 gate SL on skiers left of Face, and it was a true search...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Thursday, March 5, 2020
Sunny. Temps rising from the mid 30s to the mid 40s during the hour of freeski before work. Started with a couple of laps on ...
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Nashoba Valley, MA: Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Night league finals! Warm - temps falling from the high 40s to the mid 30s. Course sets were interesting - turny out of gate ...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Monday, March 2, 2020
Night GS - "fun night". Super warm - temps dropping from the high 40s to the low 40s during the hour or so I was skiing. Cour...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Sunday, March 1, 2020
Mostly cloudy. Temps rising from the low teens to the mid 20s. Snow was pretty sugary over a bulletproof base. Started the da...
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Burke Mountain, VT: Saturday, February 29, 2020
Temps in the low 10s. Snowing. Blustery. All-around cold day. But, it snowed a bunch overnight (maybe 4-6 inches) and it cont...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Thursday, February 27, 2020
Last week of Night GS (though a fun night next week). New GS suit. It was tight but will stretch out a bit. Temps dropping f...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Monday, February 24, 2020
Sunny. Temps rising from the high 30s to near 50 during the hour I was there before work. Snow was ... interesting. Corn/slus...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Sunday, February 23, 2020
Sunny. Temps climbing from the high teens to the low 40s throughout the day. Started off by setting a combo-happy SL on Clean...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Saturday, February 22, 2020
Sunny. Temps warming from the single digits to near 30. Set GS to start the day on skier's left of Face. It ran pretty well, ...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Friday, February 21, 2020
Made it up early from work. Sunny, temps in the mid-20s. 1 hr of SL freeski on the '18 SLs before the lifts closed. Met a cou...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Thursday, February 20, 2020
Night league. Clear skies, temps in the low 20s. Pretty reasonable course sets, and pretty boilerplate surface. Pretty grippy...
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Nashoba Valley, MA: Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Rain. Temps in the low to mid-30s. Pretty miserable weather. Feeling pretty under the weather. Got matched up w/ Ben, so a pr...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Sunday, February 16, 2020
Overcast, temps in the low-to-mid 20s. Big crowds in the AM. Set SL on Clean Break - a bit hard to find enough snow at the bo...
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Cochran's Ski Area, VT: Saturday, February 15, 2020
Sunny and cold - temps rising from about -10F first thing to the mid-teens in the afternoon. SL race for four Q athletes. Co...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Friday, February 14, 2020
Overcast, temps in the teens. A few runs of SL freeski before work. Snow was pretty inconsistent - some places were relativel...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Thursday, February 13, 2020
Night GS. Warm and wet. Temps in the high 30s, rain/drizzle throughout the day. Super slushy snow. I brought out the 30m skis...
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Nashoba Valley, MA: Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Misty, muggy, temps in the high 30s. Seemed much warmer than that. Snow was extremely slushy - could barely turn. Huge ruts i...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Sunday, February 9, 2020
After a quick break after returning home from Pats Peak, headed to Wachusett for night GS, a makeup from Thu, which was cance...
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Pats Peak, NH: Sunday, February 9, 2020
Day started clear and cold (around 0F), and gradually warmed up to the high 20s as the clouds moved in. Really small field (1...
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Middlebury Snow Bowl, VT: Saturday, February 8, 2020
Sunny and cold; temps rising from the low single digits to the low 10s. Breezy, with the wind picking up through the day and ...
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Purgatory, CO: Sunday, February 2, 2020
A quick 1.5 hour ski before heading back to Durango to pick up Joy and then head back for food tasting. Beautiful day - not a...
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Purgatory, CO: Saturday, February 1, 2020
Flew down to Durango last night. Went up to Purgatory for a couple of hours in the AM before cake testing. Mostly cloudy, tem...
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Loveland, CO: Friday, January 31, 2020
In CO for some work and wedding planning. Up to Loveland for a couple of hours. Overcast, temps in the low teens. Blustery. A...
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Nashoba Valley, MA: Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Warm. Temps near 40. Snow was just terrible. Sugary slush on nothing. Course sets were very turny on the top, then crazy stra...
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Okemo, VT: Sunday, January 26, 2020
Overcast. Temps in the 30s at the base, but well below that at the top. Occasional flurries. There for a GS race with 4 athle...
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Middlebury Snow Bowl, VT: Saturday, January 25, 2020
Temps in the high 20s. Damp. Very windy (from the south), which was weird - wind going downhill! Main lift was on wind hold a...
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Ski Sundown, CT: Friday, January 24, 2020
Mix of sun and clouds. Temps climbing from the high 20s to near 40. Couple hours of SL freeski with the family for my birthda...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Thursday, January 23, 2020
Night league. Temps in the low 30s. Course sets with a ton of swing, which was unexpected. Snow was a little sticky, and the ...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Sunny. Temps rising from the mid teens to the low 20s. Just an hour of SL freeski before work. Met up with Steve and made som...
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Nashoba Valley, MA: Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Night league week 3. Reverse order. Clear skies, temps in the high single digits. Really good snow for the most part - pretty...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Sunday, January 19, 2020
Mostly cloudy (sun peeking through at times), with temps warming from the teens into the low 30s. About 4-6 inches overnight,...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Saturday, January 18, 2020
Overcast and COLD. Temps rising from 1 F at 8 AM to around 10 F at the end of the day. Started with setting SL with Bernard a...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Thursday, January 16, 2020
Temps around 20 for week 2 of night GS. Course sets were a bit less straight than last time, but still pretty open. Snow was ...
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Nashoba Valley, MA: Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Temps over 40 for Night League Wk 2. Nashoba lost a TON of snow since last week. It's really bad. Snow was unbelievably soft ...
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Suicide Six, VT: Saturday, January 11, 2020
Warm (temps rising from the 30s to near 50), overcast, with occasional showers. Here for a SL with four athletes. Course sets...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Thursday, January 9, 2020
First week of night league. Temps in the low 20s. Fairly clear. Snow guns everywhere except the section of Challenger with th...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Mostly cloudy, temps in the high 20s. 45 min of skiing before work. Met up with Steve for the first five runs on the '19 SLs....
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Nashoba Valley, MA: Tuesday, January 7, 2020
First night of Nashoba night racing. Pretty ideal night - temps around 30, pretty clear. Snow on the race trail was nice - wi...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Sunday, January 5, 2020
Mostly cloudy. Temps in the high 20s. Kind of winter like. Snow was pretty weird - the surface layer froze, but below that it...
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Middlebury Snow Bowl, VT: Saturday, January 4, 2020
Snow/rain. Temps around 30. Only the double running. Pretty soft, very wet snow. I set some GS on Cameron for our crew, and g...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Thursday, January 2, 2020
Practice race night at the Wa. Temps in the mid-30s. Took four runs through the course, and all within about a second of the ...
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Ski Sundown, CT: Wednesday, January 1, 2020
Mostly cloudy, temps in the 30s. A couple of hours of SL freeski to start 2020. Started with my dad on a mountain tour. Snow ...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Temps rising from the 20s to the 30s, overcast skies. We set stubbies out of the start and about 18 gates of full-gate at the...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Monday, December 30, 2019
Temps in the 20s. Consistent, driving sleet/freezing rain. Snow was fantastic - hard but fairly grippy. However, skiing meant...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Sunday, December 29, 2019
Colder than the previous few days - temps starting out in the low 20s and rising to the low 30s. Day started pretty sunny, bu...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Saturday, December 28, 2019
Cloudy skies becoming sunny and clear by around 11 AM. Temps warming from the mid-30s to the low 40s. Didn't freeze meaningfu...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Friday, December 27, 2019
Showers. Temps in the mid-30s. Day 1 of Q holiday camp. Small group, '17 SLs. Made turns all over T-Bar and Face all day. Rea...
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Butternut, MA: Wednesday, December 25, 2019
Christmas day turns with my dad. Sunny, temps in the mid 30s. Since it was only my second time ever at Butternut, we went on ...
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Ski Sundown, CT: Tuesday, December 24, 2019
Mostly sunny, temps rising from the low 30s to the low 40s. About 3 hours of SL freeski on the '18 SLs. Met up with some clas...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Sunday, December 22, 2019
Slept in, so headed to Wachusett to ski for an hour after dark, hoping to avoid some of the crowd. Definitely succeeded on th...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Saturday, December 21, 2019
Overcast. Temps rising from the mid-single digits to the teens. Only stagecoach to T-Bar was open. Took a few laps with some ...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Wednesday, December 18, 2019
A quick ski before work. Sunny, temps in the mid 20s. Felt much warmer than that though. With several inches of snow/sleet ye...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Thursday, December 12, 2019
Bluebird morning before work - just up for a couple of runs. Temps in the low 20s following a few days of warm and rain. Blow...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Sunday, December 8, 2019
Sunny. Temps rising from the mid-single digits to the mid-teens over an hour in the morning. SL freeski on Challenger and Ral...
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Ragged Mountain, NH: Saturday, December 7, 2019
Sunny yielding way to overcast skies. Temps rising from the high single digits to near 20. Went up with Deniz for a day of sk...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Thursday, December 5, 2019
Mostly cloudy, temps in the low 30s. Cut out from work a bit early and got to Wachusett around 4:15. Took my time before gett...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Sunday, December 1, 2019
Mostly cloudy, temps in the low 20s. Storm moving in tonight. Today, made 4 runs on Ralph's and Challenger. Ralph's was simil...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Saturday, November 30, 2019
Sunny. Low 20s. First below-freezing temps in a while, so they were blowing snow everywhere except on Ralph's and on the begi...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Friday, November 29, 2019
Temps in the mid 30s. Sunny. Six runs of SL freeski in the AM. Snow today was more like early-season eastern skiing. Scratchy...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Sunday, November 17, 2019
Sunny, temps in the low to mid 20s. Lapped Challenger and Ralph's for an hour in the morning before the clouds moved in. Felt...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Saturday, November 16, 2019
Day 1! Bluebird skies, temps in the low to mid 20s. First day in the new boots. One hour of lapping Challenger w/ Steve. Skis...
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Loveland, CO: Monday, April 22, 2019
Last day. Mostly sunny, fairly warm. Took a bit of a mountain tour on my own, but really focused on the great runs in Super B...
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Loveland, CO: Sunday, April 21, 2019
Pretty low motivation today. Was a bit dehydrated in the morning, and that probably played into it. Had a good breakfast, hyd...
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Loveland, CO: Saturday, April 20, 2019
Day started sunny with temps in the low 30s, rose to the mid-40s, and then the clouds came in around 1. Started the day on so...
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Loveland, CO: Friday, April 19, 2019
Cloudless bluebird skies. Temps rising from near 30 to the mid 40s at the base. Met up with Broc by chance and a couple of hi...
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Loveland, CO: Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Day started with it just nuking snow. About 2" fell between 9 and 1030. The light was pretty tough, so I lapped Chair 6 and P...
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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Picked up my 2019-20 season pass and got on the hill. Day began sunny, temps near 30 and rising to near 40 before the clouds ...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Saturday, April 13, 2019
I got another day out of the eastern season! Overcast, temps around 60 F. Last day at Wachusett, and it was basically glacier...
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Cochran's Ski Area, VT: Sunday, March 31, 2019
TGFS SL w/ 4 athletes. Really challenging weatherwise. Day started in the high 40s and overcast, and then warmed up to nearly...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Saturday, March 30, 2019
Mostly cloudy, temps in the high 50s. Super warm, slushy snow. Got there around noon for an hour and a half of skiing. Enforc...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Friday, March 29, 2019
Overcast, threatening showers. Temps in the high 40s. Slushy snow over a solid base. Really starting to lose snow quickly her...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Wednesday, March 27, 2019
High 20s to mid 30s. Sunny. Absolutely gorgeous day. Met up with the Bishops for an hour of SL freeski. Learned my lesson fro...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Temps around 20, sunny. SL skis. Went to the summit for five runs with Steve and Frank, and the snow was surprisingly bad. De...
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Sugarbush, VT: Sunday, March 24, 2019
Sunny. Temps rising from single digits around 0730 to around 40 by 2. It snowed about 2 ft here on Fri-Sat, and Mt Ellen hadn...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Saturday, March 23, 2019
Gradually clearing skies, temps rising from the high 20s to the high 30s. Day started with some rock hard glazed snow that wa...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Thursday, March 21, 2019
About 1:15 of skiing before work. Overcast, temps in the high 30s. I don't think it got much below freezing overnight, so I b...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Sunny, temps rising from the mid 20s to mid 30s. Snow was a mix of hard and scratchy and bottomless sugar. Still, snapped off...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Sunday, March 17, 2019
Mix of sun and clouds. Temps in the high 20s to low 30s. Full day of bashing gates with a group. Steve set SL in the AM at 9-...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Saturday, March 16, 2019
Mostly cloudy. Temps above freezing, peaking close to 40. Set a panel SL with Steve and a bunch of athletes from all age grou...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Sunny, temps in the high 20s. An hour of SL freeski before work on the '18 SLs. What a difference a day makes (and some lower...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Sunny. Temps in the low 30s. Snow was ... not consistent. Under the short chair, sugar - nothing to push against. Skiers righ...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Sunday, March 10, 2019
Snowing! Temps in the mid 20s. It snowed about 3" before getting to the hill, and in the AM it probably snowed about that muc...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Saturday, March 9, 2019
Came back to Q after the Pico race for about an hour and a half of freeskiing with the Bishops and Dr. Cunningham. Really fun...
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Pico, VT: Saturday, March 9, 2019
Beautiful day. Sunny, temps rising from the single digits to the low 30s. One athlete, so I did a bunch of skiing off the low...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Thursday, March 7, 2019
Sunny, temps in the mid teens. Really great snow again. Made a bunch of good SL turns, today focusing on getting more deflect...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Tuesday, March 5, 2019
Sunny, temps in the high teens. 1 hr of SL freeski before heading to work. Met up with Steve for a few turns. Really got the ...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Sunday, March 3, 2019
Overcast, temps in the low to mid 20s. Set SL to start the day, and I skied it! Super fun, can't believe I've waited this lon...
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Stratton, VT: Saturday, March 2, 2019
Cloudy, temps in the mid 20s. One athlete for the U16 boys State Champs means I got to ski! Course sets were pretty straightf...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Thursday, February 28, 2019
Temps in the low 20s, clear, great night to wrap up night league. Course sets were pretty decent - good swing on the bottom, ...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Overcast and cold, temps in the high single digits. Just a quick four runs before work. I don't know how, but the conditions ...
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Nashoba Valley, MA: Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Clear, temps around 20F for the last night of Nashoba race league for the year. Super icy, and pretty turny course set. Reall...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Sunday, February 24, 2019
Snow/Sleet/Rain, temps rising from the high 20s to low 30s. Set SL in the morning off T-Bar in about 2" of fresh snow that wa...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Saturday, February 23, 2019
Sunny, temps in the mid 20s. Gorgeous day. Set a GS in the morning and it ran pretty well. In the afternoon, brought out the ...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Thursday, February 21, 2019
Warm, temps near 40. Soft snow, and very odd set tonight - really inconsistent distances and some crankers. I knew it was goi...
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Nashoba Valley, MA: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Temps near 20F. Pretty grippy, hard snow. Course sets more across the hill than usual. A couple slick gates. I skied okay - j...
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Pico, VT: Monday, February 18, 2019
Snowing, temps in the high teens to low 20s. Here for a race. Surfaces were ... interesting. Rock hard and slick in places, a...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Sunday, February 17, 2019
Sunny. Temps in the mid 20s. Gorgeous day, and really good snow in the morning. The '17 SLs had some issues though - the heel...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Saturday, February 16, 2019
Partly sunny, temps crawling into the low 30s. Started the day by setting a GS on Face. Kids skied pretty well, but ... it's ...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Thursday, February 14, 2019
Temps in the high 20s for night GS. Course sets were reasonably normal, but SUUPER choppy. I wasn't on it today, and I'm not ...
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Nashoba Valley, MA: Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Snowing, temps in the mid 20s. Racing cancelled because of the impending snow, but I couldn't pass up 4 inches of fresh snow....
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Monday, February 11, 2019
Mostly sunny, temps in the high 20s. Came mid-morning for a quick few runs on the '17 SLs. I don't know if this is normal, bu...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Sunday, February 10, 2019
Sunny, temps in the low 20s. Gorgeous day at the Q. Started off with a SL set on Face, which still had decent snow depth. Had...
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Cochran's Ski Area, VT: Saturday, February 9, 2019
Mostly sunny, temps in the high teens. Really rock-hard surface for a SL. Only 4 kids from the Q, but we had a good time raci...
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Nashoba Valley, MA: Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Super warm. Temps in the mid-50s. Incredibly soft snow. Huge ruts. Felt pretty sick, but still, even for that, skied ... so t...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Thursday, January 31, 2019
Night GS. Clear and very cold - temps right around 0F, with a decent breeze. Course sets were not especially turny, but the t...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Quick five runs before work. Sunny, temps in the mid-teens. It snowed 3-4 inches last night here, so the groomers were super ...
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Nashoba Valley, MA: Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Night SL. Temps in the mid 20s. Snowing. Still very low energy after the ski day. Snow was very soft, and the course set was ...
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Ski Sundown, CT: Monday, January 28, 2019
Home for a day to visit the parents, so came to Sundown for the AM. Met KJ there, which was unexpected - didn't think he was ...
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Sugarbush, VT: Sunday, January 27, 2019
GS Race for the Q athletes. Had 5 here today. Temps in the low teens to mid-20s. Day started out partly sunny, but quickly tr...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Saturday, January 26, 2019
Mostly cloudy. Temps in the teens. Snow was ... kind of awful. Weird bally icy stuff on top of a bulletproof surface followi...
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Nashoba Valley, MA: Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Reverse order week. Clear, temps in the high teens. A lot like last week, starting to feel a little sick and completely drain...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Monday, January 21, 2019
Cloudy, cold, and windy. Temps between -10 and -6F, and blustery. I stayed up in Q last night in order to avoid driving home ...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Sunday, January 20, 2019
Powder day! Snowed about a foot overnight, and it continued to snow (probably close to another 6-8 inches) throughout the day...
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Middlebury Snow Bowl, VT: Saturday, January 19, 2019
Cloudy and cold. Temps in the mid-to-high single digits, with snow starting to fall in the afternoon. At Middlebury with a gr...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Thursday, January 17, 2019
GS Race night. Clear, temps in the high teens. Still pretty low energy. Got there early to try and get home and into bed quic...
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Nashoba Valley, MA: Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Race night #2. Temps in the high 20s, clear. Snow was a little scratchy, but still pretty good. I was super low energy, start...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Sunday, January 13, 2019
Beautiful day - sunny, temps rising from -5 in the morning to around 15. Snow was absolutely perfect. Hard, dense, and grippy...
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Suicide Six, VT: Saturday, January 12, 2019
Sunny and cold. Started the day at about -11 and temps rose to the mid-teens. Here for a SL race with some athletes. Relative...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Thursday, January 10, 2019
Night GS. Cold and breezy under clear skies, temps near 20. Course sets were very quick - icy not too turny, but a high tempo...
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Nashoba Valley, MA: Tuesday, January 8, 2019
First Nashoba race night. Temps in the low 30s with a light mist that turned slowly into a drizzle. Pretty good snow though. ...
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Middlebury Snow Bowl, VT: Sunday, January 6, 2019
Temps in the high teens/low 20s, and dumping snow. We joined with MSC for an AM training session on Cameron under the double....
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Saturday, January 5, 2019
Overcast, temps in the 30s. Started the day with a SL set on Face. Kids skied pretty well; it was fun to see some of the prog...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Thursday, January 3, 2019
First night league GS of the year. Temps near 30, clear skies. Sets were relatively turny, and the snow was perfect. The trac...
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Ski Sundown, CT: Tuesday, January 1, 2019
On the 25th anniversary of my first day on snow, it was warm and overcast. Temps in the high 50s for the annual 1/1 ski with ...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Monday, December 31, 2018
Overcast, temps in the high 20s. Started the day by trying to set tall-gate SL for the 14s and 16s on Face - worked surprisin...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Sunday, December 30, 2018
Mostly cloudy. Temps in the mid 20s. Set stubbies on face in the AM. Conditions were pretty brutal - a lot of sugar on top of...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Saturday, December 29, 2018
Partly sunny to mostly cloudy, warm, temps in the mid 30s. Toby and I set some brush SL on Face in the AM, which was ... inte...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Friday, December 28, 2018
Rain. Temps in the mid 30s. Really miserable. Still, the new rain pants were extremely effective, and I was happy with the ra...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Thursday, December 27, 2018
First day of holiday camp. Mostly sunny, temps in the low 20s. Snow was pretty mediocre, but after a morning of drills, start...
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Quechee Ski Hill, VT: Monday, December 24, 2018
A couple hours cruising around with the coaches. Pretty awful snow, and only two ways down the Q are open (Face and T-Bar). R...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Tuesday, December 18, 2018
About an hour of SL freeski after work. Temps in the low to mid 20s, and blowing snow all over the lower mountain. The '17 SL...
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Jay Peak, VT: Sunday, December 16, 2018
Day 2. Temps in the high 20s, mostly sunny. Snow was weird - pretty icy up top, really perfect for about 500 vertical feet in...
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Jay Peak, VT: Saturday, December 15, 2018
Day 1 of a 2 day preseason camp with the Q. A bunch of rain at the base last night - driving in was a challenge - but the sno...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Practice GS night league. Temps in the mid 20s. Really nice, grippy snow for the first time all year - or maybe I was just on...
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Ragged Mountain, NH: Sunday, December 9, 2018
Cloudy, temps rising from the low single digits to the high teens during the morning. Made a bunch of turns with a Q athlete ...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Saturday, December 8, 2018
Sunny, temps in the teens. Making snow all over the short lift side. Challenger and Look Mom closed for snowmaking, so I took...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Night skiing for an hour after work. Temps in the mid 20s. Some quick laps on Challenger and Ralph's. Snow was very mixed - s...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Sunday, December 2, 2018
Skiing in the (cold) rain with Frank, an annual early-season tradition, apparently. Temps between 30 and 34, with a consisten...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Saturday, December 1, 2018
Mostly sunny, temps in the low-to-mid 30s. A group of kids from the Q out for a couple hours of directed freeskiing with some...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Friday, November 23, 2018
Sunny, temps in the teens. Making snow all over the mountain. The '17 SLs out for their first turns of the season, and I forg...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Sunday, November 18, 2018
Temps in the low 30s, overcast. Quick 1:15 of SL freeski in the morning. Lapped Ralph's before it got too crowded. The '15 SL...
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Wachusett Mountain, MA: Saturday, November 17, 2018
1st day on snow. Mostly sunny, temps in the 30s. Several runs on Ralph's, getting used to sliding and seeing if I could stand...