TR: EXTREME MEGA GNAR!!!! tux TR
I spent thursday night through sunday up at tux skiing various stuff with allenataylor, backcountryben, and soul_skier. All the pictures are jumbled and out of order so rather than doing this "Dear Diary.." style in chronological order with a story for each one, I'm just going to do it warren miller style with some lifestyle shots up front, followed by some gaper crashes, and then some actual skiing pictures.
Lifestyle:
all food was meat, cooked with bacon, or had bacon greese dumped on it.
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yes, that is a burger being deep fried in bacon grease
the final product:
http://www.uvm.edu/~aataylor/Mt.%20W...20-%205947.jpg
soul_skier was stoaked on bacon
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(those beautiful cooking hands belong to yours truly)
in continuing with this spectaularly out of order TR, allen and soul longboarded a bigass hill on the way home
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last stop on the way home was the lunch buffet at the HOUSE OF TANG
http://www.uvm.edu/~aataylor/Mt.%20W...20-%205956.jpg
its in vt's capital right on rt 2, i highly recomend it. Who would want to take taekwondo at "gentle dragon"?
GAPER SHOTS:
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the air guard decided to do a flyby on sat morning
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ouch
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Now some actual skiing:
soul on dodges
http://www.uvm.edu/~aataylor/Mt.%20W...20-%205927.jpg
me, opening it up for my first straightline of the weekend.
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happy to have survived
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wes, first run in the bowl
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no turning
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soul, also happy to be alive
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soul flying again
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EVERYONE LOOK AT ME, I'M GOING FAST (soul)
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EVERYONE LOOK AT ME (allen)
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me
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pink haired tele dude had some huge falls and spectacular saves all day
going airborne
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and eating shit
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Who is that guy in all orange making SG turns across 3ft deep runnels? oh, gpetrics of course
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gpetrics
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pink hair again
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soul_skier - IT'S GOOD!!!
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allen dropping out of the diagonal line
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I jokingly threatened to ski a bunch of the lines that gpetrics skied in his last TR naked, one of them was dodges. I didn't quite have the balls for full on dudity, but i did ski dodges in just boxers and a fullface.
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allen jumped into dodges
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allen lower down in dodges
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me dropping into my last top speed line of the weekend
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this line got fairly exciting because i had to cut across a bunch of runnels at top speed in order to hit the clear runout, all went according to plan though.
gpetrics dropping into the line that i warmed up for on the weekend, its a really really fun line with a mandatory first turn at high speed on some very steep snow.
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random guy hucking the big one - he ate it really really hard in the runout
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soul_skier opening it up for his last straightline of the weekend after hitting the cliff thats behind him
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We all had a great weekend up there partying and camping in luxury and skiing some great lines. Friday the bowl was in great condition for all the high speed technical stuff we came to ski, by saturday afternoon though it was pretty destroyed.
Sorry for the sub-par quality of this TR. I'm in a bit of a work crunch as we approach finals week at UVM but I wanted to get the pictures up while they were still relevant. If soul or allen want to add their accounts of the weekend, I'm sure they will, there were certainly some very good stories. We all survived the weekend unharmed without so much as a fall from any of us. It went so well that I didn't even get that badly sunburned.
thanks for looking,
Sam
