News Item: : Baldface Blog - Friday Feb 29th
(Category: Baldface Stuff Dept.)
Posted by UnRed Dave
Friday 07 March 09:24:38AM
The hits just keep on coming. Ryan and Homie A had fired up Eyeball with the intention of mounting the spare passenger cabin just in case the replacement hose for BobaFett didn't arrive. On their way to the cabin lift the machine lurched and slowed and started to bleed profusely. Blown drive hose. These are 5000psi drive lines that have 50mm fittings and are as just about as thick which power the tracks so when they leak they really leak. We might have a spare line on hand but it is a huge pain to change so they swapped the hose off that was needed on Boba so he's up and running again instead.
Started off the morning with Terrys group in BobaFett with a short one down BB Bowl. It had snowed a little bit overnight, taking some more of the edge off of the crust so the turns were better than expected. Third guy in on the first run tagged my tips for todays close encounter, funny, they always laugh when I ask them not to hit me... Next run, one of our crew had an equipment malfunction half way down Cherry Bowl so we had to return to the Lodge to get a replacement part for his binding. Double bonus for me as I had forgotten to bring a hand held and as I hate being out of the loop, was glad to have coms again. Out we went again heading for the Grohman side via Goobs Gully to the Hockey Stick. Loaded up, next stop was the Great Escape. The sun was starting to poke through at this point and the light was getting better by the minute. Nice turns down under Nates brought us back to the GE Pickup when bad news crackled across the airwaves once again.
The old Edge, Zoidberg, had blown a driveline on the Elevator. Not only had we blown two main drive hoses on two machines in one day, they were the same damn hose on both machines. We are well and truly f**ked now. The solution, hot lapping three groups with two machines. I decided to jump in with Heaths group in Gretchen who were on their way to Kubin with the intention of hiking to free up their machine to pick up another group. I blasted down from Blazing Saddles to meet them on the road and we were off. The other groups had dropped into the same zone so we'd all hit a common pickup, Triple Creek. Kristy pushed the road up Kubin almost to the top so it was a pretty short hike. Even so, a couple of the guys were wheezing pretty hard by the time we topped out. After a short break, we dropped in and I shot the Heaths group from the bottom of the big path we call Kuhiba. Lees group was right behind so I opted to stay where I was and shot his gang as they licked up the rest of the run. The rest of the run was a bit of a slog and we were cooking by the time we hit the pickup. Andy took an air temp and asked what we all guessed it was. No one was even close to the +7.5C (shaded) he was reading. By this time, Ryan and Homie A had repaired the blown driveline on BobaFett with the part we had ordered for Eyeball so we had all the buses back in service. I was done shooting with 1200 shots in the can so I blasted back to the Lodge to do my thing. Slideshow was great, it's always nice when I can shoot all three groups in a single day.
A huge bonfire with lard bombs and fireworks in front of the Lodge after dinner capped off a wicked day.
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