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Although I’ve made many March trips to Whiteface this may the first true Spring day. Lookout Mountain was soft and bumped on Wilmington, Hoyt’s and Lookout Below. Lookout and Castlerock are my two favorite pods in the East We headed up to the summit and the slides looked juicy, hopped off the lift to Gold status! said adios to Mrs S and boot packed up and traversed over to 2b. So good and felt I ski’d it well, unexpected check off the bucket list ! Another great day at da Face

I’m on the edge of my yoga mat wondering who it could be and Rajeev is the type who’s loud as a motorbike but couldn’t bust a grape in a fruit fight..and he lied to me said they were out of Boston cream donuts..good thing I like other donuts but gosh shiver me timbers

I forgot to mention I also passed @indiggio and I forgot to yell "UNITED AIRLINES UI SUCKS!!!"

Yes I know who you mean. @RajeevGuptaSucheeta was likely watching the webcam as he is stuck in Gulmarg this year due to monsoon season and can't cook the donut in Tobyhanna yes yes

I bet there was at least one PASR watching the webcams with his pecker out..the name escapes me but same run the race team uses is last half of the name I’m thinking. Gotta be discreet here

It was a cloudy and foggy day in mid March at the former Little Gap Mountain. As I ascended to the apex of the Challenge Express ski lift with one Grilled Steeze, excitement arose in every fiber of my being. It was spine tingling anticipation to ski the perder on Challenge. I disembarked the lift with Steeze near by and pointed my Elon skis to the east. I began to pole plant to gain acceleration as I approached the headwall of Challenge, one of the steepest slopes in all of Little Gap. As I breathed in the intoxicating aroma of the seemingly endless view of mountains on the horizon, which I knew was obstructed by the clouds which robbed our eyes of such a magnificent sight to behold, I closely examined the snow flakes on the surface. While being shortly after nine o'clock, a glimpse of unskied courdoroy caught my eye and I marveled at the perfectly parallel lines which were put down so pristinely by one of Blue's finest groomers. I contemplated thoughts of ingenious machines driven by snowmakers and how wonderous it is that they can turn a sloppy mushy slope into a carpet as smooth as marble. As Grilled Steeze and I approached the pinnacle, my speed began to increase. I pointed my skis to the left, then to the right, then to the left, then to the right, then to the left, then to the right, then to the left again. My speed built as a marveled at the miraculous conditions of cold snow on the slope even after surviving torrential downpours (good for the ponds) and a sweltering mid-March sun beaming down and gradually melting all the perder. I felt the soft granular ski snow beneath my Elons and it was an out of world experience. I witnessed Grilled Steeze also skiing on Castle skis down Challenge while enjoying some patchy spots of freshly groomed courdoroy on such a fine morning. I may even have caught a glimpse of various PASR celebrities ascending the chairlift while we descended the steep, steep slope like @NMSKI who is famous in all of NM. Our speed increased to a maximum of probably 20 or maybe even 21 mph as the windless nature of the day offered little to no resistance to diminish our respective velocities as we continued down and down the steep mountain on the Kittaninity Ridge. We finally approached the beginning of The Falls and saw some gapers and jeralds lollygagging and blocking our paths as usual, so we skirted around them and skied down The Falls in like five seconds. Then we whizzed down Homestretch and smiled and waved to the webcams to our thousands of fans watching at home and missing out on this glorious experience. Overall what a grate run at The Challenge slope at Little Gap Mountain, Pennsylvania.

Agreed…

Is Root still a mod? And anybody like trains?? I do and so does @toast21602

@saltyant this isn’t the food and bike thread tell us about the skiing…weren’t those last 3 runs on challenge good…thats my kind of spring snow.

Oh cwap I posted this on the wrong thread. @RootDKJ please use your mod powers and move this to the 3/15/25 trip report. Thank you

Today was rad. I got to ski at the True Mountain, actually did some runs with @GrilledSteezeSandwich, and I even think I caught a glimpse of Atomic Skier on the chairlifts. Definitely a top 20 day this season, maybe even top 19. Enyoralas cooked grate food and I even reunited with his cousin, aka Cuzzo. Afterwards I started biking and felt grate so ended up riding to Wind Gap and up Blue Mountain Drive. Unfortunately I didn't bring food, hydration or money because I initially intended to go out on a brief ride. By the time I hit Blue Mountain Drive I was very hungry. Fortunately I found a gel pack in my kit to provide sustenance to ascend the big mountain. Next time I'll have to pack some Captains Wafers in my bicycle bag.

Should we go next week? Do we want to risk pushing to the weekend of 3-29/30?

Foggy as fuck, but soft snow. Breakfast sandwiches were super good. delish.

Days closed for cost control gets subtracted from last day bragging rights.

If they're closed next week I'm going tomorrow rain or shine. Today was fun. Snow was good. Visibility not so much

This week? Not supposed to rain tomorrow until 3pm. Setting alarm now for tomorrow yeah closed this Monday to Thursday. I think of next as the following week. Bastards…

Looks like Blue is closed Mon-Thursday next week. Anyone up for skiing in the rain tomorrow morning? looks like Jack Frost is open next week.

They need to bring this commercial back.

Hey All, I’m back from another fun day at Blue mountain the true mountain. I arrived at the lower lot around 720am and it was in the lower 40s under cloudy skys with dense fog on the top 3/4 of the mountain. In the house was almost everybody except Matt Edge, Zonked, Nancy and Toast. Second civilian chair and began on a very foggy paradise which had nice groomed hero snow…I was a little slower than the pack but for second lift ride rode with Salty, Mute, Boo and Becky boo and ended up skiing with Salty the rest of the session. Second run Lazy mile which was alright then paradise and lazy again…I then skied switchback which was super nice..was only bare near the bottom. I also skied sidewinder which was pretty bare near the top. It had to happen eventually, I made my return to my nemesis Challenge which put me on the injured reserve list whatever you sportsball fans call it for almost two weeks. Wow was challenge soft..the top was so soft like bottomless slush..middle was a little more put together..I skied that three times to end the session. Fun parking lot and Enjorales did some seriously cooking today..now posted up like a thumbtack in Allentown and would love to do THC experiments on myself but am meeting a friend at 3pm for coffee so will put that off a few hours. JADIP

Guns and hoses. And it was real nice at 3 pm. wicked warm temps brought out some really grabby slow stuff on homie stretch. Nobody home. Razors was fun AF.

It's like taking peyote

Day 54. Stellar conditions over most of the mountain. Took an off piste run, which is rare at my age.