Man thanks, i probably wont ski for another week or two.
~CHris

Matt Duffy wrote:

>        ....the mountains are right now. Just got back from Sugarbush and
> gotta hurry, so I must be brief.
>
>      I arrived at 1pm wearing windpants and an old cotton, faded-pastel
> looking, plaid button up 'sweatshirt' with a hood. I had the hood pulled up
> over my head and it hung over my eyes. Not unlike a Jedi Knight in ragged
> attire, I played my mind tricks on the evil lift attendants before uploading
> on the Super Bravo.
>
>      After I got off that, I was treated to a minefield of concave, dirty
> little puck-marks caused by warmth & wind. The snow was already starting to
> set up and was getting firm near the top, and anywhere on the way down that
> wasn't getting broken up by the handful of skiers that were there. What a
> swing from a week ago- windblown, firm craters on snowmaking trails, and
> muddy brown everywhere else. Some mud was even invading and tresspassing out
> into random places on the trail. It was perfect...
>
>      That is, perfect for testing out my new Igneous skis in totally crappy
> snow conditions. Obviously, the terrain wasn't available to really put them
> to the test, but it was a good indicator of what they will be like when
> winter comes back (starting tonight...). Whenever I was stopped and someone
> went by, there was that unforgettably horrid skidding-on-granular sound as
> people winced, jarred & vibrated through the craters. They would gravitate
> back to the "goat paths" of softer, broken up snow that wound around the
> trail. I didn't experience any of that. My skis tore through everything like
> a buzzsaw, complete with that piercing, high pitched whine as I really
> leaned over and layed the steel into the firming snow. Jester was _really_
> fun to run 'em on flats and scream around the corkscrews in long, speedy
> carves. The feel to those things are totally different. Even on that
> completely horrible surface, they go edge to edge _very_ smoothly & swiftly.
> Also, as was the case everywhere & always, they were totally stable when
> landing jumps. In the windpucked moguls, it was a little tougher to stay
> right on top of them at first, but after a couple of runs I was doing so
> comfortably. This may have been more of a case of getting used to the "snow"
> than it was getting used to the skis. I am REALLY looking forward to using
> them in GOOD snow conditions...  CHris, If you don't already know, you're
> gonna LOVE em!
>
> mpd
>
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