How Vinman got shut out in SLC TR/ Bro review included
So yeah I got shut out. No pow pow for the Vinman on my pigrimage to SLC this year. But I still had fun.
Day 1: Skied with Stump.
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We met up at Collins and skied until Stump had to leave for work. Thanks for the tour mang. After stump left I headed for baldy and a 40 min suferfest of a hike for my EC legs and lungs after skiing hard with stump for a few hours. I got passed by several more acclimated hikers. But baldy was worth it. I skied the main chute (farthest/biggest skiers left) Although it was not fresh it was still pretty soft, prolly the softest snow on the mtn at the time. After that I was toast.
Baldy
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Looking Up Main
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Looking down Main
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Some other Dude in Baldy Main
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Day 2: Met up with altachic and bombed groomers for a few hours until she had to split.
While on collins we had a KIR moment with a touron.
He was the typical flatland touron with the dead giveaway being the sunscreen slatered onto his nose, goggles and upper lip, jacket battened down for the fridgid 40 degree bluebird day. Upon eyeing the Bros for a minute or two he asks "So do those help you in the air?" to which I am not sure what to say but reply "uhh.... I guess but I haven't hucked anything on them yet." He comes back with "hucking whats that?" to which I did not know what to say except "you know jumping off stuff". After that it was a blur of me and AC laughing at this guy and him not knowing what we were laughing at. Prolly funnier than it sounds, guess you had to be there.
After AC split I went in search of any kind of softness I could find. this ended up with me doing the left leg sufferefest up East Castle. I was rewarded with some soft avy debris and a few untracked turns here and there on some steep terrain. Followed this up with more left leg sufferage up EBT and dropping into perla's (sp?) for some soft snow. Note to self Bring skins and touring gear next time.
East Castle Left Leg Sufferfest
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Day 3: Park City with Mrs. Vinman and the Bro/Sis-in-Law. Basically crusied around the groomers in the sun. Later that night we went to the porcupine to meet up with some maggots for dinner and drinks. It was cool to put some faces to the names.
Mrs Vinman
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Day 4: Solisunday with BobMc. Got to the mtn about 11:00 and Bob gave me the tour. We found some of the best snow of my trip out in Crystal Point. Freshies almost a week after the last storm. Bob took a ton of pics and I got a few of him.
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BobMc in Crystal Pt.
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A Gincognito Armpit Steeze Impression
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Day 5: Snowbird with Mrs. Vinman. I have never really noticed this before since I don't ski the beginner terrain much, but snowbird is not beginner friendly. Mrs. V had a tough time with the narrow cat tracks and such. Combine those with the flat light and it made for a tough day for Mrs. V on her board. I was this close to chasing down a dickhead who buzzed her and rage called her for falling on the Dick Bass cat track. She came around the corner on the DBH and fell. Then Capt. Extremo Obvious comes flying around the corner and rage calls "not a great place to stop", as if she were just lounging around there on the cat track taking a break. Hey asshole DBH is listed as green on the trail map and shes a beginner boarder plus it is your reponsibility to be under control and avoid the downhill skier (sorry for the epicesque rant). I wish I could have caught him and punched him in the neck.
To top it off it starts to snow at 2:00 pm on the last day I was skiing.
All in all it was a good trip despite the lack of pow. It was good just to get out and ski some bigger terrain and meet a bunch of maggots.
The way back was more of the same. Shut out on pow. As we are flying back a storm is raging in VT dropping close to a foot or more in N. VT. But in the spirit of the trip I was shut out yet again, getting stuck in NYC overnight and missing the pow.....again. We end up having to get up at 4:00 am this morning to amke a 6:00 am flight to Boston so we can finally connect to Burlington. We got home roughly 28 hours after we left SLC yesterday. And then I had to come to work....and here I still am working on about 4 hrs sleep.
But it is starting to looking up. The snow continues to fall with some wind mixed in for good measure to fill in the trees. I'll be skiing tomorrow and the EC summit is this weekend.
****Stiff BRO REVIEW*****
Skier: 5"8", 145lb soaking wet.
Previous fat skis : scratch BC
I have now gotten to ski the Bros in almost every condition from thigh deep pow in the notch, ice, sun crust, moguls, groomers, trees, soft avy debris and everything in between.
The first couple days on them I struggled with finding my balance point on them. I just could not make them get up on edge and stay there. I think this was more a a skier problem than a ski issue though. But this is somewhat understandable considering that I had just come off a 66mm waisted 178cm all Mtn ski.
But after maybe 2 days on them they started to feel more and more comfortable. Now I can roll my ankle and lean in and giv'er hell just like Splat said to do. I truly am surprised at the versatility of this ski.
Groomers and ice: holds a good carve in "firm conditions"
moguls: while not the ideal mogul ski they can be finessed though some decent sized bumps without too much effort. Suprisingly quick from edge to edge.
Soft Snow: (cut up crud/soft avy debris etc) Plows through with no problem, stable and damp. Might be one of the best skis I have skied in this type of condition.
POW: :yourock: nuff said there
Trees: this was my main concern about buying a 188 cm ski. I was worried that they would be too long for tight spots in the trees. Wrong. The light weight of these makes them easy to throw around if needed.
Side Note: got to flex the soft bros with the fir core, and I am glad I went with the stiff. I think that ski would have been to soft for me. The only down note that I can find with the Bro's is that when I get tired, they start to throw me around. But some of that was related to my EC legs and lungs on the first couple days out in UT
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