Well, in honor of Photo-John's sacrifice, I decided to put the new D300 through an afternoon of skiing. This is nordic skiing though, so no shots from the lift.
Anyway, I decided to see what the D300 would do on it's own, so I was either using aperture or shutter priority, no exposure comp, active D-light on normal, and the picture control was set to vivid with all settings on auto. The roof and groomer are straight out of the camera, just resized.