Jason Training Update – Week of Jan 18

Monday – 25 min run

 

Tuesday – 1550 yard swim

 

Wednesday – OFF

 

Thursday – 25 min run

 

Friday – 1650 yard swim

 

Saturday – Snowboarding at Killington.  35,000 vertical/64 miles distance.

 

Sunday – OFF

 

Week Summary

Swim – 3200 yards

Bike – 0

Run – 50 min

Other – 35,000 vertical/64 miles distance of snowboarding

 

 

Snowboarding report:

I’ll keep it simple and let the pictures speak for themselves.  Great day at Killington.  Bluebird conditions.  Temperatures in the high 20’s and no wind.  For a weekend, a pretty small crowd.  Snow was excellent – groomed runs were nice packed powder with some freshies on ungroomed trails.  Woods had a few powder stashes available.

 

Elevation profile and overhead map

 

Parked in the Bear lot, as the Skyeship gondola was on hold at 8am for a hydraulic issue, which was fixed within an hour.  Snowmaking in progress on Outer Limits.

 

First couple of runs were Wildfire and a trip thru the Stash – the natural terrain park.  This was cut 2 years ago using the old 4 Way and Frostline trails off of Skye Peak and then linked to the old Bear Claw trail.  No pics of the Stash, but as you can see the new path on Google Earth which does not reflect the recent trail changes.  Pic from the top of Skye Peak early in the morning.

 

 

After a few more laps off the new Skye Peak Express, and then it was over to the Superstar pod via Skyelark.  Did several new trails today.  Here I did Nivis Walk and a groomed Superstar.  Shots from Nivis Walk looking west and toward Pico.

 

Then it was off to the K1 gondola.  I saw some snowmaking in progress on Double Dipper.  Last year I rode it with no problem so figured I’d give it a shot.  Disaster.  Couldn’t seem to get it together and the steep section was quick changes between wet snow and scraped off moguls.  From there moved over toward Snowden to give Patsy’s trees a try.  Never done these before as it always looked tight at the official entrances.  However, I spotted some other entrances and found it opened up significantly further into the trees.  Found many powder stashes in here.  Here were my lines and a few shots:

 

 

After an early lunch sampled the Ramshead woods off of Swirl which have even more widely spaced trees and surprisingly even more powder available.  Even better, you can link the run to the small/medium feature terrain park on Timberline.  Hit some nice jumps which actually had a transition to the landing zone – by far the biggest I have attempted (although still relatively small).  Pic from the top of Swirl looking down the trail, back at the abandoned top of old Ramshead, and across at Superstar.

 

Here is a shot of the basin with the path of the runs:

Did a few runs off the Snowden triple, including Racer’s Edge which I had never done before.  View of Conclusion from the triple, and a shot of the Peak from Killilink.

Starting to get a little tired at this point so it was time to switch to some more cruising type runs. Took a spin on Solitude which was groomed and actually somewhat fast in places.  Then some runs on Bear Tracks, Bear Cub, Great Eastern, Home Stretch, Launchpad, Northway, Cruise Control, Bearly and Bear Claw.

 

View of Peak from Solitude and South Peak Quad:

 

Finally, here is a shot toward the Presidential’s with Mount Washington visible 85 miles away.  Really shows how clear the skies were all day.

 

 

Thanks for reading.