Perfect Run

Sam.Carson

Sam.Carson

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possible repost but hey, who cares.

this year is going to be a damn good year says all the weather people and stuff, so why not post your favorite run of the year so far. but since the year obviously has not started just post your perfect run from last year. it can be anything. powder run, jump line, jib line. explain it alittle bit, whatever you want. name the place and get some people aware of some awsome resorts for the coming year. when this ski year does start post it.

GO!
 
me and some of my friends got first tracks down octo at mad river glen. it was so sick right after a huge snowstorm. face shots all the way, something we don't get a lot of here in vermont. it was the best day of the whole winter
 
Snowbird first tram after 2 foot dump over night basically. Got to the top first tracks all the way down gad 2. Actually got first chair on gad 2 got freshys all the way down sth woods. Went back up gad 2 then down to little cloud and timed it perfectly so that i got to the top just as they opened mineral so i got first tracks all the way down that. Rode up with a patroller who told me they were about to open the bookends so i Then traversed all the way out to there and waited for 5 min and got first tracks down that.

By far the best runs of my life i was so surprised by all my luck but i guess thats what happens when u get to the tram line at 6:30 in the morning.
 
This was my most epic day of the year. On the biggest dump of the year at Vail I got invited to employee breakfast. Left early and got first tracks all the way down to chair six. Got to chair six before it opened and got in line. Then we seemed to time every lift as they kept opening towards blue sky. At 11 we gave up on inbounds and hiked up and got first tracks on mushroom bowl. Then hiked and got first tracks on the racquet club shoots. Took the bus back got free lunch, laughed at the suckers who didnt have the day off an were digging out the park and got one last untracked run on the area past the Park towards the golf course. Best day ever!! First day when I had my avi stuff and good group to do everything i had been thinking about all year.
 
Same day as Ian Provo's POV vid up at The Canyons. Went up solo and randomly met up with 2 tele kids. One was friends with a patroller who was throwing bombs, so anytime they were about to open a lift he'd give them a ring and tell us to head over. Got within 5th chair of 3 or 4 different lifts and lapped all day with no lines.
 
dedication pays off. sounds like such a sick day. So sick when things just keep opening as you get to them.
 
last year over Christmas, Mt. Bachelor opened the northwest lift for the first time after a three day storm, it was amazing
 
Waited for 3 hours for Alta Utah's Devils Castle to open after 2 days of insane snow. I was first in line and stayed first on the initial spring/hike to the bowl. I got snaked by a couple people but they dropped to early. I kept on going past underneath the chutes and then had a good 30 incredible powder turns.
 
One of the best runs I've ever had was at Stowe the last day it was open. Perfect corn snow, and we just bombed every run and jumped over everything in sight. There was a slushy pipe and you could poach whatever you wanted. It was great.
 
3 days in a row of amazing new snow. Stayed at my friend's condo at Deer Valley, demoed some S7's for the weekend. His condo was about 50 feet from the lift, so we got first tracks every one of those days. Someone had built a little gap at the bottom of X-Files, so we lapped that until it was tracked, then found an awesome run where like 50 trees had fallen, and the wind made perfect lips over them. You could hit one of the drifts and go probably 20-30 feet and land in nothing but dry blower, and just keep boosting the wind lips down the whole run. I definitely want some S7's now, and hopefully this year we'll all need some new fatties.
 
One the day of my birthday Vail got a 2 foot dump and me and a buddy headed straight back to Blue Sky and rode one of the greatest lines ever. Cornice to about a 12 foot drop and then to about an 8 pillow pillow line. It was one of the best lines I have evere skied. Always remember that one.
 
its not cause pow is better than park, its because you can go do park whenever you want, but good pow is only sometimes
 
Alpine meadows two years ago. Bluebird 1ft pow day, rode up summit chair then hiked to the top of beaver bowl and dropped in, crossed like three tracks the whole time. skied down to the top of the park and hit the epic fourpack on Roo. then hopped right back on summit.

man that used to be my line whether it was a pow day or spring day. you get to shred some serious gnar (beaver gets as rowdy as you want it to) and then get to hit the best jumps in tahoe in one smooth run.
 
best jib line of my year

baby crusher to back two out on down rail

270 on to flat box

back swap front 2 out of flat skinny box

revert to regular

then fs 2 out of up rail

revert to regular

nose to tail tap 1 on a little barrel bonk

just a feel good run
 
There are a few options.

The first would be a pow day in late January. There were 2.5 feet of fresh. The Paranoids area of Mammoth rarely gets blower, it usually slides, or has the wind pack it a bit. Deep windbuff is insane there, but it is nice to get pow. I got lucky, took a chair up the backside as they were opening it. I got P3 all the way down, only crossed a couple of tracks, in 2.5 feet of blower fresh. P3 is sick, about 40 degrees, maintaining that pitch for about 2000 vertical. Just a good, consistent steep pitch. An insane pow run when it gets like that. Later that day I got to ski Philippe's in fresh, which is sick. Philippe's is steeper, closer to 50 degrees and an hourglass chute. It is a great line, with a rollover in the middle, which usually produces some sluff. Those two runs stand out, although we did have a great year last year.

There were many great runs for me. I skied more pow than anyone who is only at Mammoth 2-3 weekends a month has any right to expect.
 
Pow runs? Last season had a waist deep day in Whis, skied untouched from start to finish of the day.

Park? Could not remember, I don't keep track of everything I do, just cruise and do whatever you feel like.
 
early january on mt. ellen at sugarbush, had to leave at like 12. first time actually skiing pow. got first tracks everywhere i went, after i learned what i was doing, i knew what all the fuss was about.
 
not of this year...

but let me just say freshies at Alta

nuff said, it was puking all day, by the time you made it back up you were having a hard time seeing where you skied.
 
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