Welcome all you crazy,
snow starved, white powder miscreates!
May 5, 2009. It is officially over. I've actually talked to a few people that didn't get to ski
once this year. Shame, shame, shame. Life's to short not to ski ONCE!
For those of you that did ski, what an awesome
year. And, I'd like to send a special thanks out to the members of the 'All Funked Up' ski team, Artie,
Lisa, Kurt, Bette, Heidi and Brooke. We had an incredible attendance record at every race, and all your hard work and training
(at the Funky) brought us First Place in the Budweiser Series Locals Challenge. Good game (big spank on your butts)!
That
about wraps it up for this year. Keep posted for weather reports and snow conditions this fall and winter. This is Captain
All Funked Up, signing off!
Tuesday April 21. Well if you haven't been out training for this soft stuff all winter long and you try
to put in a day now...your body is going to hate you! It has been another phenominal ski season and there is still plenty
of snow on EVERY TRAIL. If you think the mountain looks like your back yard, you are gravely mistaken. There is still plenty
of skiing to be had. So make the best of what is left, put on your sun block, pack your cooler and get out on the hill...and
live the Dream.
It is Friday February 20th. There is more snow piled in the end of the Funky parkinglot than I have seen
in our 4 years in biz. The mountains needed it, and the good Lord delivered. The skiing is awesome. A week ago my girls and
I were saying you could smell spring in the air...and you could. It's just around the corner. If you haven't been
on whatever moves you over the white gold yet this year, what the &%#@ are you doing. It's almost over. We'll
be boating before you know it. See you on the hill...livin' the Dream!
It's Tuesday February 10th. Rather mild in the village, around 30 degrees. The skiing has been very
fast with a lot of the trails being groomed out. Not a bad place to be. The rumor is that we've had more snow fall than
this time last year, and it's not even March yet. Get those edges sharpened and get out early. Should be a fairly decent
day tomorrow if it doesn't rain...then again, if your skiing and not working, who cares if it rains!
Monday January 12, flurries. So ends another great weekend of skiing...and the start of another great week
of skiing. For those of you that have things to do that have kept you away, don't worry, you still have 4 months left
to get in a day...but whose counting.
A word to the wise, no matter how good the fresh powder looks down deep in Last
Tango, bail out on Right Stuff while you can still see it, before you end up hiking out through the water in the ravine.
It made for a nice work out for Dickie and me.
The skiing (other than the wind last week) has been epic. Yeah,
all the ski resorts have snow, but that showed up 3 weeks ago. Sunday River keeps pumping out the snow on an already incredible
base that makes for the best skiing and riding around. See you on the hill.
It is Saturday December 26, about 3 a.m. There is a little dust falling from heaven, but not going to
amount to anything. But it doesn't matter. Unless you have fallen off the face of the planet, you are well aware that
we've been burried in snow (I think someone might have predicted that a few months ago). The Chondola is pretty awesome.
It gets you out of South Ridge fast. Conditions couldn't be better. Sorry to tell ya, but we've hit the winter solstace
and the days are getting longer. Ski season is gonna be over before you know it... so stop coming up with lame excuses of
why you can't fit in a day of skiing this week. Take it from me, "It all gets done." If you put your mind to
it, you'll git er done! Live the Dream.
It is Tuesday December 2. North Pond is completely covered with ice. Sunday River has been
running the Chondola to get the kinks out. It's pretty awesome watching them run it. In the Village we ended up with about
three inches of snow, and it turned to rain for a bit. The way I see it, we got about three inches of snow, and the Mountain
probably ended up with more. Do you remember when you would turn off of the Maine Turnpike onto 26 and you would look on the
side of the road to see IF there was any snow, or WHERE the snow might start to appear on the way to the Hill? It IS on the
side of the road and it just gets deeper the closer you get to the Hill. The season has started. Every day that you decide
not to go skiing, is one day closer to the end of the season...get it? Got it? Good! See you on the slopes Zingg!
Sunday night November 30. It's snowing like hell !!!
It's November 18. This morning it was 22 degrees on Mason Street. The puddles that remained from the
weekend have frozen over. As a matter of fact, while heading back to G-town this morning, North Pond had a wafer thin
glaze of ice forming out about 15 to 20 feet from the edge. We have had two or three flurries every day. I'm telling ya...it's
coming. Yesterday my buddy Kurt (not the Irish Freighter) told me that surprisingly, with
all the rain this weekend, the River was able to keep it together and maintain the trails they had open! They are going to
be running full tilt starting this weekend, so get sharpened up and don't forget to your Funky Stickers!
Today is Friday November 7. It's a balmy 60 degrees out. Word was that the skiing last week at Sunday
River was the greatest anywhere...actually, the only skiing anywhere! The River is open Friday thru Sunday with the Locke
Mountain Triple running and Barker Lodge Open. By the way, check out the new tables and benches at the Funky and it might
give you the feel of being in Barker. You might even find your initials carved in them. Get those fall chores finished,
because it is almost time.
It is Wednesday October 29, about 11:30pm. The temp is about 33, I'm sure a lot colder on the
Hills. Like most people, we have plenty of leaves to rake and wood to stack. So when I saw those first flakes fall from the
sky this afternoon, my first thought was, Oh Shit! Then it hit me. We are going skiing very shortly. This is the third year
in a row we have had snow in October. We have had a lot of snow in the last two years...and it snowed
in October. Today wasn't just a flurry, it freakin' snowed. The kind of snow that makes you say...damn, I think I
need to get the shovel! It has been between 19 and 40 degrees
in the village at night, but I'm sure a lot colder up on the Hills (Sunday River and Mt. Abrhams of course). In the morning
we usually see white dust on the hills from the driveway. I
am predicting snow, and lots of it. It has been a long, wet, rainy summer, or have you forgotten. I think were gonna see all
that precipitation fall from the sky like white gold from the heavens. So get your projects done and sharpen, wax and tune your junk and slap a Funky sticker on it, because it's time!
Yeah baby it's time.
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