All Days

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Loveland, CO: Sunday, December 8, 2024

Sunny, temps near 30, breezy. Midday GS session on Twist. Linked up with U16s; set was a little erratic and pretty tight. I r...

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Loveland, CO: Friday, December 6, 2024

Sunny, temps in the high 20s. SL training on Upper Switch. Top course about 16 gates, then the second was ~40 gates to the mi...

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Eldora, CO: Thursday, December 5, 2024

Sunny, temps in the mid-30s. First coaching day. Day started auspiciously, as I ripped the top lace loop out of my right lin...

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Loveland, CO: Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Sunny, temps in the low 30s. First day of training (for me)! Easy GS on Lower Switch with Alex, the new FIS coach. Three of u...

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Eldora, CO: Sunday, December 1, 2024

Sunny, temps in the mid-20s. Orientation/Masters coaches training day. After talking for a while, spent an hour sliding aroun...

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Loveland, CO: Saturday, November 30, 2024

Sunny, skiing in shadows. Temps in the high teens. An hour of SL freeski in the AM on the ’19SLs. Mambo had good snow, but wa...

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Loveland, CO: Friday, November 29, 2024

Sunny, but skiing in the shadow of the mountain. Chilly and breezy, temps around 10F. 45 min of freeski on the E100s. Much fi...

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Loveland, CO: Thursday, November 28, 2024

Sunny, but mostly skiing in shadow. Cold—temps in the mid-single digits. An hour of freeski on the E100s before heading back ...

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Eldora, CO: Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Snowing, temps in the high-20s. Fresh snow overnight and still coming down. First day out on the E100s. Mostly people dodging...

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Loveland, CO: Sunday, November 24, 2024

Snowing, temps in the high 20s. 45 min or so of SL freeski in the afternoon. First run on Mambo was really good, feeling high...

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Loveland, CO: Thursday, November 21, 2024

Sunny, temps in the mid 30s. 45 min of freeski to close the day. Didn’t tie the right liner super tight and boy did it feel w...

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Loveland, CO: Sunday, November 17, 2024

Sunny, temps in the low to mid 20s. An hour of SL freeski to end the day. Ran into Broc in the lift line and skied two runs w...

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Loveland, CO: Thursday, November 14, 2024

Sunny, temps in the high 30s. Mostly skiing in shadow. Three runs in the afternoon. Pretty choppy on the lower part of Mambo,...

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Loveland, CO: Sunday, November 10, 2024

Sunny, temps in the mid-30s. Day 1. Three runs in the afternoon. Feet killing me after the second run. Snow was surprisingly ...

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107

Arapahoe Basin, CO: Friday, June 7, 2024

Sunny, temps near 60. They’ve lost a ton of snow, but I had fun ripping around for 90 min or so. The road along west wall was...

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106

Arapahoe Basin, CO: Saturday, June 1, 2024

Sunny, temps in the 50s at the base. 90 min of freeskiing 930-1100 until it was just too crowded/long lift lines. Split laps ...

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Arapahoe Basin, CO: Friday, May 31, 2024

Sunny, temps near 50. A couple hours ripping around, trying to avoid people as much as possible. Groomers were soft and corny...

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Winter Park, CO: Monday, May 27, 2024

Sunny, temps near 50 at the base. About 2.5 hours of freeski on the E100s. Basically lapped Parsenn Bowl, trying everything. ...

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Winter Park, CO: Sunday, May 26, 2024

Overcast, flurries, temps in the mid 30s. About an hour of freeski. Snow overnight, and kind of sticky conditions except on s...

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Winter Park, CO: Thursday, May 23, 2024

Sunny, warm, breezy. 2 hours of freeskiing on the E100s. Really fun. Snowed recently helping coverage, and the corn harvest w...

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Winter Park, CO: Saturday, May 18, 2024

Sunny becoming cloudy, temps rising from the low 40s to the low 50s at the base while I skied for a couple hours on the E100s...

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Loveland, CO: Sunday, May 12, 2024

Mostly cloudy, temps in the mid-30s. About 6” overnight, so headed straight to 9 for a few laps before doing a bit of a mount...

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Loveland, CO: Saturday, May 11, 2024

Sunny, becoming cloudy, temps in the mid-to-high 30s. Just a couple hours freeskiing on the E100s. Might have been a better d...

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98

Loveland, CO: Friday, May 10, 2024

Overcast, flurries, temps in the low 30s. A couple hours of midday skiing on the E100s. Chet’s to Ptarmigan to South Chutes t...

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97

Loveland, CO: Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Snowing, temps in the high teens. Over a foot of snow overnight. Freeskied from 1130-330 on the E100s. Chet’s to Ptarmigan do...

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96

Loveland, CO: Sunday, May 5, 2024

Sunny, filtered through some high thin clouds. Warm, temps rising from the mid 30s to the mid 40s at the base while I skied f...

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Loveland, CO: Saturday, May 4, 2024

Sunny, bluebird skies, temps rising from the low 30s to the mid-40s at the base while I skied from 9-1. No new snow, so the E...

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Loveland, CO: Thursday, May 2, 2024

Sunny, temps in the mid-to-high 20s, windy. 3 hours of freeski on the E100s. Started off on Chet’s a bit worried about how fi...

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93

Loveland, CO: Sunday, April 28, 2024

Snowy, windy, temps in the low-to-mid-20s. Took the E100s out for a few hours of fun. Visibility was tough, but … skiing was...

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Loveland, CO: Friday, April 26, 2024

Overcast with flurries, temps near 30. About 90 min of free ski in the middle of the day. Even though it was blowing hard and...

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91

Loveland, CO: Thursday, April 25, 2024

Overcast, flurries, temps near 40. About an hour of freeskiing on the E88s to close the day. Snow was tricky—it had corned up...

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Loveland, CO: Sunday, April 21, 2024

Sunny, temps near 30. Gorgeous day. Got a late start, and had to park at the Valley around 915. Eventually got on snow with t...

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Brighton, UT: Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Mostly sunny, temps in the mid-to-high 30s. Last day of this Utah trip. On snow with the E100s around 10, and headed to the M...

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Deer Valley, UT: Monday, April 15, 2024

Slept in a bit … started skiing around 1030. Wet snow, foggy, temps near 30. Limited terrain available, so mostly lapping the...

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Alta, UT: Sunday, April 14, 2024

Lazy morning, finally made it up to Alta around 1130. Sunny, temps near 50 at the bottom. Met up with Heather and cruised aro...

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86

Deer Valley, UT: Saturday, April 13, 2024

Sunny, temps rising from the low 30s to near 50. Got there early for parking, and decided on the E100s since it was shaping u...

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85

Loveland, CO: Thursday, April 11, 2024

Sunny, temps in the high 20s. An hour of freeski on the new Enforcer 88s. Just 5 runs, Chet’s to ptarmigan, down Bennett’s Bo...

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84

Loveland, CO: Sunday, April 7, 2024

Cloudy and windy giving way to sunshine; temps rising from about 10F to the low 20s. Helping at the Derby. Helped set, then f...

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Loveland, CO: Friday, April 5, 2024

Mix of sun and clouds, breezy, temps in the low 40s. PM SL session—last training of the year. Two sections—from the top to th...

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Loveland, CO: Thursday, April 4, 2024

Sunny, temps warming from the high 20s to mid 30s. AM SL session. Snow on switch was frozen corduroy, super rattley. Twist, h...

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Loveland, CO: Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Sunny, warm, temps near 40. Afternoon GS session. 2 courses…a 17m wall drill quick feet type course off the road, and then a ...

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Loveland, CO: Saturday, March 30, 2024

Cloudy becoming sunny, temps rising from the low 20s to near 30. Morning SL session on Twist. Two sections—fairly tight off t...

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Loveland, CO: Friday, March 29, 2024

Snowing, breezy, temps in the mid 20s. Afternoon SL session. First day without the knee sleeve since the big fall…felt good. ...

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Eldora, CO: Thursday, March 28, 2024

Sunny, temps in the low 30s. Last coaching day of the year. Started off with some directed freeski on Windmill, working on ma...

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Breckenridge, CO: Sunday, March 24, 2024

Overcast, becoming snowy. Temps rising from the low 20s to the low 30s. SG race day. Set was more normal, roughly 38m the who...

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Breckenridge, CO: Saturday, March 23, 2024

Partly cloudy becoming overcast, temps rising from the mid 20s to near 40 before cooling off again. SG training day. Hill is ...

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Breckenridge, CO: Friday, March 22, 2024

Mostly sunny. Temps rising from the high teens to near 40. SL race, RMM combined with Tatry, which is a Polish ski club based...

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Eldora, CO: Thursday, March 21, 2024

Sunny, temps rising from the mid 20s to the high 30s. Coaching day. Josh set SL on LaBelle and then we ran it. I mostly hung ...

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73

Eldora, CO: Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Sunny, temps climbing to the mid-30s. About 90 min of SL on Chute, testing the knee. Didn’t feel great sliding around, but ac...

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72

Loveland, CO: Saturday, March 16, 2024

Sunny, temps in the low 20s. Loveland got about 2 ft of snow on Thu, but the skiing didn’t really show it. That’s ok though b...

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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Overcast, temps near 30. Freeski to end the day. Chet’s to Ptarmigan, then ripped Bennett’s Bowl—a bit bumpy but skied fun. O...

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Loveland, CO: Sunday, March 10, 2024

Sunny, temps rising from near 10 to near 30. Full length GS race. Since the clocks jumped forward last night, warming up was ...

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Loveland, CO: Saturday, March 9, 2024

Sunny. Temps rising from the single digits to the low 30s. RMM SL race. I was the ref, so started the day helping with the se...

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Eldora, CO: Thursday, March 7, 2024

Overcast, flurries, temps in the low 20s. Coaching day. Helped set some GS, then giving feedback. Not much skiing, but made a...

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Loveland, CO: Monday, March 4, 2024

Overcast with flurries. Temps in the low 20s. Afternoon GS session. I forgot pants (what a dope), so was wearing the sweatpan...

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Loveland, CO: Sunday, March 3, 2024

Snowing, very windy, temps in the mid-teens. Powder day—over 8 inches overnight and more coming down. Visibility was tough wi...

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65

Loveland, CO: Saturday, March 2, 2024

Sunny, temps near 30, very windy. Midday SL session. Three sections: big offset rhythm section on top, pretty standard set fr...

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Loveland, CO: Friday, March 1, 2024

Sunny, temps in the low 30s. Midday GS session. Snow was a little weird since it was so warm and they hadn’t groomed for a co...

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Eldora, CO: Thursday, February 29, 2024

Sunny, temps in the mid-30s. Coaching day. Set some SL on La Belle and then gave feedback. Course ran pretty well. Pulled aro...

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Loveland, CO: Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Sunny, temps in the mid-20s. An hour of free skiing to close the day. Nice to get out on the Enforcers, making some arcs on s...

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61

Beaver Creek, CO: Sunday, February 25, 2024

Mix of sun and clouds, warm … temps rising from near 20 to close to 40. SL race day. As a change, they put the younger me (i....

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Beaver Creek, CO: Saturday, February 24, 2024

Sunny, temps rising to the mid-30s. GS day. First run was really direct, and I ran 2nd to last in the field of roughly 150. B...

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59

Beaver Creek, CO: Friday, February 23, 2024

Mix of sun and clouds, temps in the mid to high 20s. SG race day. I ran DFL in a field of roughly 120. First run was delayed...

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Beaver Creek, CO: Thursday, February 22, 2024

Overcast and flurries, temps in the high 20s. SG training day. Started free skiing the hill twice, which was kind of dumb bc ...

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Beaver Creek, CO: Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Overcast, temps in the high 30s. Super G fundamentals on the race hill. Not super organized, but that’s okay. Four sections: ...

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Loveland, CO: Sunday, February 18, 2024

Overcast, flurries, temps in the low 20s. Was super cold in Steamboat so decided to head to Loveland for a midday SL session....

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Steamboat, CO: Saturday, February 17, 2024

Gorgeous sunny day. Temps rising from a bit below 0F to around 20F. Two GS day. First run was super bumpy and grippy and I ...

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Howelsen Hill, CO: Friday, February 16, 2024

Night SL. Snowing (wet, sticky), temps in the 20s. Tried to get the legs going. First run was poor … goggles started foggin...

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Loveland, CO: Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Flurries, windy, temps around 20F. Midday SL session on Twist. Just three Masters athletes. Two shortish sections—one across ...

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Loveland, CO: Sunday, February 11, 2024

Sunny, temps in the high 10s. Midday GS session. Jake, a new coach, set for his first time, and it kind of showed. Super tigh...

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Loveland, CO: Friday, February 9, 2024

Overcast w flurries, temps in the low 20s. Midday GS on Twist as a welcome back to winter after a few days in the sun in Mexi...

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Keystone, CO: Sunday, February 4, 2024

Sunny, temps in the low 20s. SL race day. Soft surface, so I went with the ’22 SLs. First run I skied alright, a little behin...

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49

Keystone, CO: Saturday, February 3, 2024

Snowing, temps in the low 20s. Windy. Well, it snowed a bunch, and the lift broke down in the AM, but we ran some GS today. ...

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Eldora, CO: Thursday, February 1, 2024

Sunny, temps in the mid-30s. Coaching day, GS on La Belle. Jim set, and it was a good one. Fun morning, but ended with skirti...

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47

Eldora, CO: Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Sunny, temps in the mid-30s. About 90 min of SL on Chute. A variety of talls and stubbies. Skied ok, really focusing on tru...

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Eldora, CO: Sunday, January 28, 2024

Sunny, temps in the high 30s. SL on Chute from 2-4. Snow was pretty soft, but we got two sets. Skied pretty well, keep focus ...

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Loveland, CO: Saturday, January 27, 2024

Sunny, temps in the low to mid teens. First sunny day of skiing in a while. Enforcer free ski for 2.5 hours. Did a bit of a m...

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Eldora, CO: Thursday, January 25, 2024

Beautiful sunny 30 degree day. Coaching day…GS on La Belle. Pretty big crew, with 20 or so USCSA athletes and close to 10 mas...

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Eldora, CO: Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Overcast, temps in the upper 20s. GS on Chute. First course was quick foot to foot. After mid-session reset, the second set w...

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Loveland, CO: Sunday, January 21, 2024

Snowing, temps in the high 20s. Midday SL session on Twist. Two sections, one from the road to the saddle, and another with a...

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41

Loveland, CO: Saturday, January 20, 2024

Mostly sunny, temps in the high 20s. Took almost 4 hours to get there…just so much traffic. Ugh. 90 minutes of free ski on ...

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Eldora, CO: Friday, January 19, 2024

Mix of sun and clouds, temps in the mid-20s. Got there at 940ish and had to park in the upper upper lot that I barely knew ex...

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Eldora, CO: Thursday, January 18, 2024

Overcast and super windy. Temps in the low 20s. About 6 inches overnight, but we somewhat foolishly decided to run GS on La B...

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Eldora, CO: Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Snowing, temps around 20. My right knee is feeling a bit tender after slipping and catching myself last weekend. Still, spent...

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Keystone, CO: Sunday, January 14, 2024

Dumping. Temps in the mid-teens. Planned SL races quickly cancelled due to the foot-plus that fell overnight and was still co...

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Loveland, CO: Saturday, January 13, 2024

Mostly sunny, windy, temps in the mid-single digits. We were supposed to race at Keystone but after 90 min of the wind blow...

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Eldora, CO: Thursday, January 11, 2024

Mix of sun and clouds, temps in the high single digits. Windy. Coaching day! I set a GS on La Belle and had to shop for snow ...

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Eldora, CO: Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Overcast, temps in the high single digits. About an hour of SL training on Chute. I got a late start due to some work calls, ...

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Loveland, CO: Sunday, January 7, 2024

Overcast, temps around 10F. Midday GS session with U16s. Only the second day in GS gates this year, not ideal, and the set wa...

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Loveland, CO: Saturday, January 6, 2024

Mostly sunny, temps in the high single digits. Midday SL session ... was a bit of a disaster. Quite a bit of snow (3-4") over...

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31

Loveland, CO: Monday, January 1, 2024

Mostly sunny, temps around 20F. New Years Day ski on the Enforcers. Still waiting for terrain to open, so tried to get a litt...

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Loveland, CO: Sunday, December 31, 2023

Cloudy, temps around 20F. Morning SL session. Generally feeling like garbage post-Covid and flu shots. Still, made a go of it...

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Loveland, CO: Friday, December 29, 2023

Sunny, temps around 20 F. Six runs of GS freeski before the crowds rolled in. Really tried to focus on making a patient move ...

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Loveland, CO: Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Sunny, temps in the low 20s. Midday SL session with the U16s. Two sections, one from the road to the saddle, and a second fro...

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27

Loveland, CO: Monday, December 25, 2023

Mostly sunny, but skiing in the shadow of the mountain. Temps around 0F. Windy. Quick few runs before heading back home to h...

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Loveland, CO: Saturday, December 23, 2023

Snow showers, temps in the high 20s. Scheduling snafu, so we were scheduled for midday SL at the same time FIS kids were trai...

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Eldora, CO: Thursday, December 21, 2023

Sunny, temps in the low 30s. Beautiful day. Coaching - GS on La Belle. I set, and while I had some control of what I wanted t...

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Eldora, CO: Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Mix of sun and clouds, temps in the mid-30s. Tried to join for some SL on Chute but they'd been moved to La Belle. Slow to se...

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Loveland, CO: Monday, December 18, 2023

Mostly cloudy, temps in the low 30s. Midday SL session. Molly set a super long distance SL course ... probably 12-13m the who...

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Loveland, CO: Sunday, December 17, 2023

Sunny, temps in the low 30s. Midday SL session. Molly set a pretty tricky SL for us - 12m sweeping back and forth on the top ...

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Loveland, CO: Saturday, December 16, 2023

Sunny, temps in the high 20s. Mostly skiing in the shade. About an hr of SL freeski on Mambo. Skied ok. Forgot socks, which w...

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Eldora, CO: Thursday, December 14, 2023

Sunny, temps near 30. Coaching GS on Chute. Started the session with a corridor section on the top half and a 27-ish meter se...

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Eldora, CO: Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Mix of sun and clouds, temps around 30. Joined the masters crew as an athlete/helper for some GS on Chute. I helped the coach...

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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Overcast, temps in the high 20s. An hour of freeski on the Enforcers for the first time. Just tried to be focused on rolling ...

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Loveland, CO: Sunday, December 10, 2023

Snowing, temps in the low 20s. Mid-day GS session on Twist. My first day on not-SL skis and ... well it was awkward. Booka se...

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Loveland, CO: Friday, December 8, 2023

Snowing, temps in the mid-teens. Midday SL session w/ Keeli. Ran into Bobby Jones, who is out here with a couple girls who we...

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Eldora, CO: Thursday, December 7, 2023

Sunny, temps in the mid 20s. Coaching day 1, GS on Chute. Had some trouble with the scanner, so took some time to get going...

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Eldora, CO: Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Sunny, temps in the high 20s. A few runs as a debrief with the other Masters coaches. A run on Chute and a couple on Eldora, ...

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Loveland, CO: Saturday, December 2, 2023

Snowing, windy, temps in the mid-single digits. Cold. Afternoon SL training session on Upper Switch. Just me and Reto from Ma...

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Loveland, CO: Friday, December 1, 2023

Snowing, temps in the high teens. About an hour of freeski on the '19 SLs. Might be one of the last times taking these skis o...

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Eldora, CO: Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Cloudy, temps in the mid-30s. A few runs of SL freeski in the middle of the day. Snow was ... okay. Pretty scratchy in spots....

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Loveland, CO: Sunday, November 26, 2023

Sunny, temps in the mid 20s. Midday training session on lower switch - today with stubbies. Booka set about 35-gate rhythm SL...

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Loveland, CO: Saturday, November 25, 2023

Overcast, flurries, temps in the mid-teens. First day "training" at the Valley. Basically just ripped some SL brushies on low...

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Loveland, CO: Thursday, November 23, 2023

Overcast, temps in the mid-20s. About an hour of SL freeski before heading home for Thanksgiving cooking. First time this yea...

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Loveland, CO: Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Sunny (though mostly skiing in shade), temps in the high 20s. About an hour of SL freeski to close the day, no back wrap. Fel...

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Loveland, CO: Saturday, November 18, 2023

Overcast, temps around 30. About 6 runs of SL freeski to close the day, mostly off lift 2. Took two runs off Chet's to start,...

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Eldora, CO: Friday, November 17, 2023

Overcast, sun behind the mountain. Temps around 30. Just 3 runs sliding around. Snow was pretty terrible, but managed to make...

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Loveland, CO: Thursday, November 16, 2023

Snowing, temps around 30. Three runs of SL freeski. No back wrap, just to try it out, and ... it was okay. Made some big swee...

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Loveland, CO: Sunday, November 12, 2023

Sunny, temps in the mid 30s, though most skiing in the shade. Four runs of SL freeski on Mambo. Not super crowded, so was abl...

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Eldora, CO: Friday, November 10, 2023

Sunny, temps around 30, but mostly skiing in shadow. Three runs of freeski in the afternoon. Super crowded, but was able to f...

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Eldora, CO: Sunday, November 5, 2023

Sunny, temps in the mid 40s. Three laps to start the year on International. Snow was okay, but there were just a ton of peopl...

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Arapahoe Basin, CO: Saturday, June 3, 2023

Overcast, flurries, temps in the 30s. About 90 min of freeski, mostly off the top. Skiing was okay, but it was mostly about s...

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Arapahoe Basin, CO: Friday, June 2, 2023

Overcast, flurries, temps rising from the low 30s to near 40. About an hour of freeski in the AM. Visibility was tough, but t...

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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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91

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...