Meathead East Coast Skiing Adventure Movies & Films

By Will Wesson

The last lift serviced skiing in Vermont this year was available at Jay Peak and Sugarbush. After a great snow year, the most dedicated skiers made it out for one last wet, foggy weekend of skiing. Radio Ron and the Hammer were obviously in attendance... Andy, Geoff and myself joined them for some fun at the Bush.

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With a few trails to play on, the group split in two: bumps and jumps. The bump crew no doubt consisted of Radio Ron, the Hammer and friends. The jumpers were Geoff, Andy, and myself... all skiboarding.

There were no big jumps to play on, so we had no choice but to scale down everything including our skis. Skiboards were the perfect answer to our problem. Suddenly a bump became equivalent to a 10 ft table and a log on the ground was a rail. When we got bored with skiboarding on snow, we picked out lines in the grass between snow patches.

 

Late in the day, Andy decided to lead us down a patchy looking trail on which the snow ended about a fourth of the way down. Geoff found out the hard way how extreme skiboarding can get when he ripped open a scab on the decent.

On Sunday, we came prepared. With shovels and salt, we built jump after jump going down on the side of the trail until we had our own personal slopestyle course. It started with a 3 pack of jumps followed by a flat section for buttering into two log grinds and a couple more jumps. Backflips, frontflips, side flips and many, many crashes went down over the course of the day.

The mogul diehards lapped Stein over and over. Rain and low visibility only momentarily slowed the 20 or so bumpers. The end of the day brought epic mogul runs with the Hammer and Radio Ron, both in top form, laying down perfect lines to finish up the season.