Cannon Mountain Ski Day

Boysweekend comes to the Ski Day Blog.
Me & Petee escaped on Thursday for the Cannon 2for1 special.
Glad we did it!

Cannon is a great mountain. They had quite a bit of snowmaking going to recover from the January Thaw and deluge earlier in the week - and an inch of 2 of fresh stuff really helped smooth out the rough stuff. There is some awesome terrain there, we have to come back for a powder day. The glades and the run under the Tram look really interesting!

'Buck a Run' Ski Day at Wildcat

The Holy Grail of Skiing..."A Buck a Run", at least back from the old days... Not too easy to do these days, unless it's $9 for a lift ticket.

So who actually got a run count?

Pretty spectacular ski day - not too cold - sunny - & a perfectly clear Mount Washington!










The Collins Ski & Debate Team in a quiet moment.



Watch out for the gnarly snowmaking!


Here's a poorly (UN)edited video!
The fades & transitions would not save correctly--same goes for the titles, but I got the Y/T annotations to work - no time to add music this time - and now I know how to get the titles to SAVE before it uploads to YouTube...what 'til next time ;-)

Nick's First Ski Day RACE/Sunday River Weekend

The Sabbag Ski Team got out to Sunday River this past weekend to see Nick make his UMass Lowell Ski Team Debut. Way to go Nick! Good Job!

It was Nick's first time ever running gates. After a full week of Training at Black Mountain they competed on Obsession, the same course the NorAM racers used earlier in the week.

Nick got a taste of race record keeping as he got to help out the starter keep track of the racers.
Oh yeah, did I mention it was about 5 degrees and windy!





As for the rest of us - we did our best to stay warm and make the best of some pretty good Sunday River snow. Where the snow guns were going (and they were aplenty) the snow was fantastic. Best runs were on Wildfire and Tin Woodsman with really good man-made fluff.

Claudette was having a blast at the top of White Cap...a blast of wind that is, I'm surprised she wasn't going backwards here ;-)
















Here's a run down Dream Maker with great snow and sun. It was so good we went back and did it again.

Cross Country Ski Day with Special Guests

I talked Paul into a quick am scoot thru the Fells and our riding buddy 'Cairo' joined us too.









Cairo 'rides' with us when we mountain bike thru the Fells and he was pretty excited to 'ski' with us as well.





He proved to be a tough subject to get a good photo as he was constantly on the move & keeping an eye out for any squirrels who dared to show themselves.


I used my BlackBerry Storm to shoot these pics and I wasn't that impressed with what you get for photo quality.


Cairo was pretty happy he got to go for a run, you'll have to ask Paul what he was thinking --

2nd X-Country Ski Day

Sunday January 3, 2010

Another nice snowfall here and I couldn't pass up a cross-country workout. So much better than slogging to the gym - more sweat, more exercise, more fun. Then off to see the Patriots stink up their last game...

The snow was much better this time - packed & tracked - hopefully it lasts for a while and we get another storm to build some base - nothing worse than hitting a rock on the downhills ;-(