2019/2020 Midwest Stoke Thread

[Tom_H]

Does Wild still have the best fries in the known universe?

The fries are pretty solid when they don't undercook them, but the cheese curds are better imo.

Picked up some older minty FIS GS skis over the weekend for a song (~23m R ones) - fkna were those fun - been a while since I've been on full race-stock anything - surprisingly compliant to a bunch of different turn shapes but absolutely planted/stable through everything. Now, I'm thinking of getting a SL in the stable again.....

[mn_teleswede]

Something to be said about having a fully cambered ski still in the quiver. Took mine out for the first time in 2 years at Welch this past Sat. Fun times were had banging out high angle carves.


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[Harry]

Yesterday my texts were blowing up from maggots at Welch Village. I can’t wait for my knee to heal up so I can ski with these idiots.

[mn_teleswede]

[emoji638]][emoji640][emoji639]][emoji637][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji640]][emoji639][emoji639][emoji638][emoji638]]Yesterday my texts were blowing up from maggots at Welch Village. I can’t wait for my knee to heal up so I can ski with these idiots.

Today was fun at the “Epic & Classic” Welch. The new snow last night + wind depositing + flurries all afternoon= best conditions this month. Nice to see some new faces along with the usual suspects.

[Harry]

I met up with AxeBiker at Trollhaugen, it was a powder day with several inches of fresh. Naturally he grabbed First Tracks, as is expected of maggots.

I still can’t ski, but it feels good to hang out with skiers.

Best event of the day was the table of Instagram influencers in leather ski pants who were striking poses with their selfie sticks. JFC.

Après-ski we hung out in the parking lot adjusting bindings for my eventual return to skiing. DIN is set real low.


Troll was not crowded at first.



AxeBiker mid-run, displays his PSIA approved steeze.



Instagram chick.



Waxroom on wheels



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[Ima gapper]

Thanks for the weekend stoke! I was stuck inside at a swim meet the last few days, so it’s nice to see people out enjoying the snow.

Next weekend I’m headed to chestnut. It will be the first time on skis since tearing up my knee last winter. It’s feeling good so hopefully skiing is a success. If all goes well I will make a decision about heading north for the lutsen meetup. Has dates been set for that yet?

If anyone’s skiing chestnut next weekend hit me up I’ll be there. I would love to meet some more local Midwest mags.


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[Harry]

the lutsen meetup. Has dates been set for that ?

Everybody who wants to attend the mini-summit at Lutsen send me a PM with your preferred dates.

So send me your PMs and I will see what everyone wants. I am super flexible.



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[Harry]

Wow, less than 5 minutes since posting and PMs are already coming in.


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[Tom_H]

Ah damn, I was down at Welch yesterday too (kids' races), but didn't ski since an $82 lift ticket is bananas when I'll be standing around most of the time waiting for their runs. About 25 of us took over the basement at King's for burgers after - love that place. They about choked when I told them how many we had coming but they got it done. Kids had a good time - got some racing in, got some park time, brought home some ribbons (1st and 3rd). The younger one that doesn't give two shits about racing of course won his age group..... Couple more practices Monday/Tuesday at Wild, then over to Troll on Thursday for a high school race. Likely be back at Troll on MLK if I can get the kids into the head-to-head slalom invite, if anyone wants to make some turns.

[axebiker]

$82?!?!?

Man…glad Im a pass holder…

[uglymoney]

Thanks for the weekend stoke! I was stuck inside at a swim meet the last few days, so it’s nice to see people out enjoying the snow.

Next weekend I’m headed to chestnut. It will be the first time on skis since tearing up my knee last winter. It’s feeling good so hopefully skiing is a success. If all goes well I will make a decision about heading north for the lutsen meetup. Has dates been set for that yet?

If anyone’s skiing chestnut next weekend hit me up I’ll be there. I would love to meet some more local Midwest mags.

I have been up at the Nut so much lately, no time to post, even though I read this thread everyday. Unfortunately I have other ski plans this weekend (Park City>>>Crested Butte>>>Sundown race the following weekend). So I won't be up to Chestnut again till the following Tuesday. After that we have a break in races for a while and so I'll go back to being a weekend regular and will hopefully run into you or some other mags. Chestnut is skiing really, really well right now. The lastest snowmaking push has things in top shape, on winter snow. Hopefully the mini warm Thurs/Fri doesn't hurt it too much before the artic air returns, but it won't help.

This weekend was really cool for my daughter at the Chestnut WIJARA race (read please....this is not USSA...but with some good USSA racers in attendance). She came out of the gate strong and posted a time 2 seconds faster than the next nearest girl (all ages) on the first race of the morning combined GS run. After the second race her combined time was the 4th fastest on the hill - U14 -U20 Boys and Girls, 1st Girls U16, 1st girls U14-U20. Same story with the afternoon race, 3rd overall fastest time on the hill boys and girls, and .70 faster than the next fastest girl. About 200 ish racers on the big kids hill.

She showed glimpses of this kind of GS speed at the end of last year with an amazing result in one race, but she had a smooth reset course and was an early racer. This weekend she did it 4 times in a row on the longest steepest course on the circuit (once was a re-ride on a torn up course after the didn't get a time on her first afternoon run). Pretty cool. Being a ski dad who's identity has always been somewhat tied to skiing can be a very dangerous thing when you have children racing. I see it first hand in others and in myself, the good and the bad of a race dad or mom who never had their own shot at competing. Days like this Saturday, I just have to keep my head from exploding, but at the same time enjoy the moment and be proud of my daughter. It was really, really cool.

Sunday, as ski racing will always do, it was back down to earth for a 4th and a 5th in Slalom U16. This is a nice improvement for her year over year for the first race, U16 has the fastest girls this year, and her SL time held up against the pack nicely. She's working hard at figuring this slalom thing out. Time in gates.

[Ima gapper]

Congrats to your daughter and to a supportive dad! Those are great pics. I love the first one with the shadows and the lifts in the background.

Have fun in park city. I found some fun stuff on the canyons side when I was there last season. Hopefully they will have some of it open by the time you get there.

Hopefully we can slide on snow together later in the season.


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[GSinister]

I’m also at Park City this weekend. I’m pretty familiar with the Canyons side. I'm hoping to show them around.

[skuff]

Hey ugly$- Congrats to your racer! Kicking ass and taking names

Safe travels, have fun out west

[Harry]

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Man…glad Im a pass holder…

Christie Mountain is $[emoji639][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]]] on Fridays.

Edit: Dafuq is with this emoji bullshit ?

Thirty bucks on Fridays at Christie Mountain!

Fact.

[jdoyle]

Different variety of stoke today.

[axebiker]

Not a good upcoming 48 hours or so to be skiing in the Midwest…

[Mustonen]

Unless you’re in a lake effect machine.

[m2711c]

speaking of which, has it been piling up at mt bohemia? hows the snows there lookin’ in the next few weeks?

inquirin’ minds wanna know.

[Mustonen]

Better than last year. From what I hear there have been some good days up there, though I haven’t made it there yet myself. Maybe next weekend.

Weather is all off and I dunno how to look at it anymore. Some lake effect now, but used to be a NW wind and cold weather was a lake effect sure thing and that just hasn’t been as true lately.

[Harry]

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[uglymoney]

The uglymoney clan had a blast skiing with GSinister at PC earlier this week. One of those days that started cold and slow and ended sneaky awesome. I even borrowed my wife to our new midwest maggot friend so Sage and I could keep lapping some stuff up high.

Thanks for meeting up, ripping some sweet smooth turns in the steepz, and hanging out! That was really fun.



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[Mustonen]

Face shots and pow laps, giving way to crud laps and seeking out the odd leftover face shot.

Good times.

[Holzinger]

Nice, where?

[BFD]

My son is headed to the lower 48. He is blowing me off to go ski Mount Bohemia. So how does a place that only has 585 acres of skiing have 4 trail maps to cover the area? How is that extreme backcountry? He thinks they are having an epic year.