ellbiddy
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So as my trip winds down I'm relaxing at my brother's place in CT and there's only one thing that keeps running through my head.....one more run! 
My week started at Belleayre where I came a few days after some the snows last weekend, the place was a blast and the conditions were pretty good. I had to ninja through a few sections to see some untracked snow, but even the groomed runs were in awesome shape. After arriving at 9am I was getting a little tired of rocketing down the mountain (the western end was starting to get scraped off too ) So I hit up the park and started making a doofus on myself, boy oh boy is that fun. Rinse and repeat the same cycle at Mad River Glen and Saddleback and that was my whole trip, ski the slopes in the am and the park in the PM. The only difference being that I caught mad river on a delayed powder day on the single, I ran into line early and went down the (skier's) right side, holy powder batman! I was sitting in like 4-5 swells of the soft stuff. I stuffed my tip and went over at some point I felt like I fell into one of those rubber ball play plens :rofl: Mad River has got to be the best place I've been to on the east. Saddleback didn't compare (although the mountain stats are pretty good), their so-called "largest advanced skiing complex" was a little meh for me. The upper portions of the runs were all blown down to ice and the lower run outs were chopped up heavy snow It's not the mountain's fault, just shitty timing. Their glade runs were really fun though.
The two small park sections at saddleback were made for me, not too big, but not too small. I had a blast. I think my skiing elevated quite a bit over this trip, I've been sticking a lot more shady landings and moguls went from being a friend I'd occasionaly have dinner with to an intimate love affair (the bumps down the lift lines at mad river were a BLAST). All in all the skiing in this trip rocked, I ended it off with 2 days of boozing in boston. I kept on the bicycle trainer 3 out of these 7 days, but I miss pedaling on my bikes but with all this snow I might get a few days in at the local hills and then back to the trails for spandex and sweat :getsome::getsome:
My week started at Belleayre where I came a few days after some the snows last weekend, the place was a blast and the conditions were pretty good. I had to ninja through a few sections to see some untracked snow, but even the groomed runs were in awesome shape. After arriving at 9am I was getting a little tired of rocketing down the mountain (the western end was starting to get scraped off too ) So I hit up the park and started making a doofus on myself, boy oh boy is that fun. Rinse and repeat the same cycle at Mad River Glen and Saddleback and that was my whole trip, ski the slopes in the am and the park in the PM. The only difference being that I caught mad river on a delayed powder day on the single, I ran into line early and went down the (skier's) right side, holy powder batman! I was sitting in like 4-5 swells of the soft stuff. I stuffed my tip and went over at some point I felt like I fell into one of those rubber ball play plens :rofl: Mad River has got to be the best place I've been to on the east. Saddleback didn't compare (although the mountain stats are pretty good), their so-called "largest advanced skiing complex" was a little meh for me. The upper portions of the runs were all blown down to ice and the lower run outs were chopped up heavy snow It's not the mountain's fault, just shitty timing. Their glade runs were really fun though.The two small park sections at saddleback were made for me, not too big, but not too small. I had a blast. I think my skiing elevated quite a bit over this trip, I've been sticking a lot more shady landings and moguls went from being a friend I'd occasionaly have dinner with to an intimate love affair (the bumps down the lift lines at mad river were a BLAST). All in all the skiing in this trip rocked, I ended it off with 2 days of boozing in boston. I kept on the bicycle trainer 3 out of these 7 days, but I miss pedaling on my bikes but with all this snow I might get a few days in at the local hills and then back to the trails for spandex and sweat :getsome::getsome:
