December 11, 2008. Jay Peak

Day 2 at Jay Peak

It was a beautiful day with bright blue skies and no one around. It was pretty hard packed snow, but great for cruisin'. We started off with our traditional warm-up run (River Quai) then moved onto Beaver Pond. Dust over crust. Wasn't too good.

A few more cruisin runs, then we warmed up for lunch. Afterwards, we headed over to Stateside to check out Jet and others. It was pretty... fast. And then we decided to take Taxi back to Tramside, even though it was closed.... for good reason: Snowmaking in the begininning. Really really sticky manmade snow and 0 visibility made it a tough time to get going. It was pretty funny though.

We left around 3pm to head back to Montreal. THEN, ATTACK OF THE BUSES... AGAIN!!! It sucked. AND traffic was terrible in Montreal because of whatever happened at UQAM.

Oh, right, almost forgot. Ran into some pretty nice Vermonters... the way too over-qualified border guard who wanted to chat, and Mr. This is a 25mph zone guy. Phew.


Run of the day: River Quai

Pics of the day:

Jay Peak 12/8/2008

1st day of the season!

It was pretty good for December 8. They had got about 4-6inches last night, so we had some fresh powder here and there. After our first run on River Quai, I decided it'd be fun to slam my head face first into hard pack. After getting up to start skiing again Trav saw me and responded, "SHIT EVAN ARE YOU OK?!" I had no idea, but a waterfall of blood was gushing out of my nose. (See pic). So that was fun. Then Tony wanted to put his arm in the orange turny thing for the tram. "DOOOONNNNN'T!!!!"




But after that, we discovered that nobody was going to Beaver Pond and Andre's Paradise, so we tore that up! Fresh lines and some pretty good powder falls. Seemed like mid season. Took 2 runs on that and then headed over to stateside which sucked.

Run of the day: Beaver Pond/Andre's Paradise

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