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Snowmakers need a little more love. Blue has more terrain open than anyone else in PA.

I still own a retail store, now my great staff is running it, but I check the books regularly. [emoji16] Also I eliminated one of my departments and that allowed me to cut back. Plus I saw too many friends and employees die suddenly or slowly, and I said....F it and retired. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Guns on. Or, really heavy fog in the valley, take your pick. Gonna be a long stretch of snowmaking coming up.

I'm going to shoot for Thursday morning for my personal 2017-2018 opening day at blue. I think Hayata is doing the same.

I'm the only one here. I feel like I'm the griswalds at wallyworld only the lights are on.

Rummy, you have a lifestyle worthy of envy going on there.

Grill's comin' out Sunday!

Root won't be there.

I thought you would rather not lose a JH day when I posed that question. I would certainly like to go to JH, especially after seeing the pictures you guys posted, but the likelihood is low. Although my wife did give me her blessing to take a western trip, I was thinking more along the line of Utah if I was to go.

I'm doing both skiing and karaoke. YOLO

Good afternoon, I'm back from day 8 at Blue mountain the true mountain. I had to do a little mental math to figure out what time to leave this morning and the drive took about 3 minutes longer due to some moderate traffic on Root 22. I arrived at the upper lot around 732am and it was desolate. The combination of it being a Tuesday and Blue only announcing that they were reopening today late yesterday morning led to an eerily quiet mountain. Temperature was just just above freezing to start..guns were off and a few flakes and rain droplets in the air and very moist out. At the rope drop was just me and an 8-9 year old kid and one other guy..first run on vista to midway to lower Main Street was a carpet. Reminded me why I have to ditch work more often. Come around was amazing cord and Lazy mile was super good a little spicy around the second corner it's just narrower and some skeet spots. After two runs shadows was at the top the top and I skied with him the next two hours. We skied lazy mile and comaround to midway the most. Upper Main Street while a lot better than Sunday still had some small cookies but wasn't too bad could get mad steezy speed. They groomed a path of snow to the Burma lift and the Burma lift was running initially but was shut off sometime during my session. As the morning progresses the snow transformed from mid winter cord to almost the beginning of apple sauce..I would expect spring conditions this afternoon as more people descend on Blue mountain as word is getting out that they're open today and tonight snow should be fast. I quit at 10:45 skied either 15 or 16 runs..had a beer with shadows in the lot and soft pretzel. Was gonna have a beer in slopeside with shadows but he got screwed on the mug club so left Blue and went back to the mean streets..almost all the natural snow from the other day is now melted it didn't last long as it was so fluffy. People did manage to ski chute and under the Main Street chair below Come around above chute on Sunday skied right down to the dirt. I'll probably be out next tomorrow night for first night session of the season then likely not till the weekend. Ski everybody later.

Owner and operator. If you would sell it, you could make dozens on dollars. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Well it only took 43 years of working 50 - 60 hours a week......[emoji16] Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

That's called a flush it challenges agility.

Hurts a lot less when you have a pass too, and all you're out is time.

Yeah, the death cookies from Upper Main.

If you save receipt you can likely just get your credit card credited...you'll also likely get a reach around from the cashier in the ski shop for your resourcefulness..tell Teddy in the shop I said hi.

Keep the price tag on and return it

I can't find that info. Camelback has 166 acres of terrain and Blue has 162 acres therefore Camelback is better.

Save your voucher for when the valley is open. Or don’t.

Zero steps once the lower lot opens. Heck on a pow day you can ski to your car.

This is true. 5 years ago Camelback had ads on some cabs. Blue had billboards near Newark airport and Lincoln tunnel. Living in the Bronx I had a pass to camelback. When I was in Brooklyn the plan was to get a blue pass

The rocket and the asp are nothing like anything at Blue because they flatten out so fast.

I thought you caught my post last year. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Exactly, your clone liked my first post. See above. I wouldn't really count Sunday as a full day. I would never leave CB early because they have high speed lifts running at all times, even during preseason... (waits for incoming tactical nuke for last comment)

Sorry dude. They still got a good team. If it makes you feel better the Patriots sucked so much ass last night.

A like for you good sir. Was not expecting that.

if i was taller, id saw my leg off and give it to wentz

Are you on Tinder???

It's lemonade stand economics. It's so simple. I truly think they would have sold at least 50% more tickets today at $39 vs $52 and since skiing is a service and there aren't any additional marginal costs for more skiers and riders coming the goal is to pack in more people. Each extra person could potentially have to rent, need a lesson, buy food or maybe buy something they forgot like gloves or a face mask. Back to the numbers if Blue sold 100 tickets during the daytime today at $52 each I'd be surprised and that's $5200 in revenue. If they charged $39 a ticket and even sold 150 tickets that's $5850 and im being very conservative with my figures I think the difference between $52 and $39 is just so psychologically huge. $39 is a great early season price point. Over $50 seems expensive especially with just the loser lifts running.

What about Root??? I actually don't drink any more. I don't drink any less either..yuk yuk yuk

That's gotta be the closest skiing to Reverand Runs house who's house??? runs house lol

That is huge!!! Camelback is only staying a few steps behind Blue mountain. Way to get after it camel.

cant do anything but salute blue for their effort so far. as much as i like to moan and bitch, all in all they run a pretty good ship. they've been on top of their game this year. should pay off for them with a busy Christmas week.

I think you mean rahtard.

You mean the time they spent blowing on Lazy Mile and Upper Main Street to open them? Look at how thin Lower Lazy is! I bet they go back and redo that either before or while they hit Home Stretch. Sent from my R1 HD using Tapatalk

Congrats on your retirement rummy. I'll raise a glass to making it a long one. I can't wait for the day I can stop working. What??

For 15 months. "The Passionate Pursuit of Personal Pleasure " Rummy Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Sorry I dont speak hippy.

It's a Tuesday was empty. No lines.

Seven Springs is a fun mountain. Not very steep, but pretty big acreage wise. I think only about half is lit for night skiing.

I was out there when they recorded ~250” that season and snowed the day I stopped there. Somebody on the lift asked where I was from and I responded ‘back east’ because I legit felt like I was out West. If you go, hopefully you have a similar experience. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Atomic Jeff is the owner and I think the hosting is done in Calcutta India

Ok, we're kewl. Once lift lines were 15 minutes long around 10-11 am, I knew it was going to get exponentially worse the way the chip readers were slowing down the line. Afterwards, when we were chilling in the parking lot, the stream of cars coming in was crazy. I promise not to judge Blue based on this experience... too much! This is my first preseason experience, since last year at this time I was working as a lift attendant and not skiing. So I'm comparing the best times I had last year to current preseason conditions, which is totally not fair. Now I know what to expect next year early on and I won't be surprised when these kind of things happen.

Maybe I'm just a funny guy.

That's unbelievable. People actually think that's how you teach your kids to ski too. I'll bet you dad can't even whirlybird. Pathetic.

Yup because shitty and unpredictable skiers and riders stay off Blue and black runs.

Pretty cool shot Doug snapped of me skiing Grand first thing in the AM... on the way down to the Sublette chair on an inversion day.

This is what happens when you go ass over tea kettle in 23” of snow halfway down the Hobacks

Going to post some of my favorite JH photos to date. Some of the best ones are from Toast / GSS. Not many taken by me. The first picture is at the top of the Cirque . The Tram and Thunder lift can be seen on the ridge top in the distance. The second picture is from the top of the Hobacks. Really not that steep, just made for a good photo. Thanks Toast! Jackson Hole experiences a ton of inversions. Frequently -10F at the base and +20F at the top of the Gondola and creates a wicked fog at the base. Both of these photos were from inversion days.