Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 7:37 pm
As all great redneck stories begin, "There I was..."
except it was to think, "If you go down that, you'll kill yourself" That kind of summed up my whole time there when it came to anything black. The only one I hit was the rollercoaster which was bumpy and pretty steep but covered with powder. The only reason I went down it was because I saw some old dudes do it and they seemed to have survived without breaking a hip.
I'd always half way dismissed the "this would be a blue out west" statement as snobbery, but it's true. Easier blues were probably about like upper omg at cat or the blacks at app, mid diffifulty blues would'e been comprable to mogul ridge at ober or white lightning, while the harder ones were like whoopdeedoo at sugar or the bowl at wolf
It's cool how immense the place is. From any point at the resort you're only able to see about a third of it even though it's all wide open. Pictures don't do it justice. That being said, on to the pictures....
From our room at the Inn, those were the views....^
Lipht shot from Apex
Looking back from Apex
Looking across the resort from the eagle express
Sundancer
I spent a lot of time on the Sunshine Bowl
I was told Park city is on the other side of that hill
A view from the top of the eagle
I only went down this one once....
Looking down from the top of the sunshine bowl
Looking at trees from Sunrise on day 2
This run under the lift line was the one black I tried.
I followed the sun most of the day on Monday, visibility is important to me despite impression given by my wearing a camera between my eyes.
So much snow there was some really cool layering on all the roofs, reminiscent of miniature glaciers
The snow could be measured in 1.1 Katy's
My view while I ate lunch at the grill mid mountain
Lunchtime sunshine
More lunchtime sunshine
Some notes:
Snow conditions were "bad" by their standards and matched the best day of skiing I'd ever had (12-28-10 at cat)...people were constantly complaining and all I could do was laugh....
These people freak out about ice....
I got some atomic fat skis as my demos and they took a little getting used to but were great once I got used to them. Lots of float....
My new blind spot mount worked beautifully, an eye bolt and some jb weld did the trick...wearing my camera in it got me my own private seat on any lift I got on.
The package I got included a lot of food and this was a good thing. The food was awesome and most of the places you went were staffed by college kid ski bums who were all very nice people. It was pretty expensive though.
don't get me wrong, it was worth it, especially the breakfasts.
Getting back was pretty rough, 2 canceled flights, one routed through Dallas, then one routed through Chicago were canceled. Finally a direct flight from SLC to ATL got us back.
Now for all the video goodness my blind spot mount can deliver. In glorious HD
This is mainly the sunshine bowl. The tune is Alo****ra by Pogo
These are a couple of laps off the Apex lift. The tune is a remix of the doomsday zone from sonic the hedgehog.
This was a lap of fun off the sunrise lift
That's all...it was fun and I emerged unhurt which ended up being my goals. After looking at honeycomb canyon and a lot of the areas around I have loads of respect for Kendog and those with him as well as skiing rules.
except it was to think, "If you go down that, you'll kill yourself" That kind of summed up my whole time there when it came to anything black. The only one I hit was the rollercoaster which was bumpy and pretty steep but covered with powder. The only reason I went down it was because I saw some old dudes do it and they seemed to have survived without breaking a hip.
I'd always half way dismissed the "this would be a blue out west" statement as snobbery, but it's true. Easier blues were probably about like upper omg at cat or the blacks at app, mid diffifulty blues would'e been comprable to mogul ridge at ober or white lightning, while the harder ones were like whoopdeedoo at sugar or the bowl at wolf
It's cool how immense the place is. From any point at the resort you're only able to see about a third of it even though it's all wide open. Pictures don't do it justice. That being said, on to the pictures....
From our room at the Inn, those were the views....^
Lipht shot from Apex
Looking back from Apex
Looking across the resort from the eagle express
Sundancer
I spent a lot of time on the Sunshine Bowl
I was told Park city is on the other side of that hill
A view from the top of the eagle
I only went down this one once....
Looking down from the top of the sunshine bowl
Looking at trees from Sunrise on day 2
This run under the lift line was the one black I tried.
I followed the sun most of the day on Monday, visibility is important to me despite impression given by my wearing a camera between my eyes.
So much snow there was some really cool layering on all the roofs, reminiscent of miniature glaciers
The snow could be measured in 1.1 Katy's
My view while I ate lunch at the grill mid mountain
Lunchtime sunshine
More lunchtime sunshine
Some notes:
Snow conditions were "bad" by their standards and matched the best day of skiing I'd ever had (12-28-10 at cat)...people were constantly complaining and all I could do was laugh....
These people freak out about ice....
I got some atomic fat skis as my demos and they took a little getting used to but were great once I got used to them. Lots of float....
My new blind spot mount worked beautifully, an eye bolt and some jb weld did the trick...wearing my camera in it got me my own private seat on any lift I got on.
The package I got included a lot of food and this was a good thing. The food was awesome and most of the places you went were staffed by college kid ski bums who were all very nice people. It was pretty expensive though.
don't get me wrong, it was worth it, especially the breakfasts.
Getting back was pretty rough, 2 canceled flights, one routed through Dallas, then one routed through Chicago were canceled. Finally a direct flight from SLC to ATL got us back.
Now for all the video goodness my blind spot mount can deliver. In glorious HD
This is mainly the sunshine bowl. The tune is Alo****ra by Pogo
These are a couple of laps off the Apex lift. The tune is a remix of the doomsday zone from sonic the hedgehog.
This was a lap of fun off the sunrise lift
That's all...it was fun and I emerged unhurt which ended up being my goals. After looking at honeycomb canyon and a lot of the areas around I have loads of respect for Kendog and those with him as well as skiing rules.
