Another BDay - Ski Day @ Sunday River

We finally got to Pete's SKI DAY for his BDay!
It took until December 21st to pull it off, but we had some good company with Bob & Petee joining us. It sure was a cold, windy day and being the first day of winter, not the brightest day as the pictures show. Sunday River had quite a few snowguns blazing - top to bottom on multiple trails. We were looking to do some trail poaching under the guns but held off. Here's a shot of White Heat getting blasted...

This is at the top of White Cap heading down Obsession. What you can't see is the wind blowing up trail and sandblasting us with chunks of ice pellets.

One 'Bright spot' ;-) on the day (not to mention Petee getting himself out skiing & pulling the condo connections) was this shot of blue sky looking up into the Chutzpah glade at the top of White Cap. It did seem to be about 10 degrees warmer over this end of the mountain and White Heat was actually protected from the wind.


This video clip is another test with the Zi8. I'm finding it not to be the best action photo cam. It's tough to keep the distance right, hold the subject in the window and ski. But someone's got to test it -- sorry guys, compression problem from the Kodak software - I've had some issues with that too. Will try it again & RE/upload ASAP - hopefully with some tunes too.

BTW - who's slogan is it? Ski Day Blog goal for the season = "NEVER pay full price"
(we'll see, that could go down the drain fast with a big powder day approaching)
Sunday River 12 Days of Xmas special - MA residents pay only $39
I'll take it! ;-)