It was hands down the best day I have spent skiing so far.
I arrived at the mountain nice and early, and wandered my way to the Paul Bunyan room.
I managed to beat the NS crew there, and only NS user Nacho_Macho_Man managed to beat me there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeaKovEu9FM
After getting my videos shot, I headed back down to the lodge.
I could see the llama on the deck from a mile away.
I threw my skis in a rack and headed up to meet the crew.
After awhile, they asked me if they could interview me about the Grand Tour on camera.
I’ve never been interviewed like that before, it was exciting.
Mousseau and I outside the main lodge at Loon.
Springboard however was excellent.
Springboard is pretty much right where I am at skill level wise.
When I returned to the lodge, quite a few members had arrived.
I introduced myself to several of them, and much to my surprise got a “You’re NH_Operator?
you’re able to’t just casually drop that, you’re famous!"-jkfreestylin.
I can’t thank everyone and the community on NS enough for supporting me.
Knfoley2, myself and jkfreestylin.
Once the NS crew got all their equipment in order, we headed up the mountain.
At some point on the way out the lodge, someone gave me the Llama head to hold.
Now it’s possible for you to’t just hand someone this thing and not put it on.
Here’s what I looked like.
The looks from random passers buy though were totally worth it, it was absolutely hilarious.
The NS crew pulled out a ton of super nice cameras and filmed/photographed everyone all day.
Calling out specific tricks, best one got some free swag.
Being a mascot is pretty fun!
We spent a good long while on a long flat box in the park.
After we moved down to a jump, having a spin to win contest for more gear.
I believe the winner of that one was knfoley2 with a 900 off a pretty small jump.
The Llama watches you sleep…and throw 9s.
From Springboard we rolled into the progression park on Little Sister.
We trained our way through that, with someone tapping the llama off a hip for maximum steeze.
It was already past noon, so we headed into the lodge for lunch.
The NS crew preparing the concoction of doom.
We finished up lunch and headed back up the mountain.
I asked him some stuff about the journalism program, among other topics.
In between sets of people I would hit the box, working on some stuff.
at about 3 I had to head out, leaving the session early.
I said goodbye to everyone, leaving mid game-of-SKI, so I have no idea who won unfortunately.
I took a few closing pictures, and headed down, taking my last hits in the park.
Again, Mousseau and I right before I headed out.
I was frankly amazed at how hard the NS crew worked while they were there.
I thank everyone who made it happen (including Loon for hooking us up with cheap tickets!
), and hope we get to do it again real soon.
As far as my opinion on the parks, as always Loon does a great job with them.
Anyone who has photos of me from the meetup, c’mon let me know!
I would love to get copies of them!
