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Hey All, I'm back from another fun session at Blue mountain the true mountain. I arrived at the bottom lot around 725 and it was 34 degrees and overcast with fog on th upper 1/4 of the mountain. In the house were Atomic Jeff, JFBBDan, Matt Edge, Johnny Law, Indiggio, Tarponhead, MBike Mike, GSSucks, Ty, Nastar Glenn and many others. Firat run on challenge was great packed powder..maybe a little sticky on the flats but pretty nice. Sidewinder was a carpet early on very nice and Switchback third run was a hoot and hollering good time. I repeated Switchback several more times. Per usual Main Street was good on top not bad but choppy on bottom. Lazy mile was pretty nice fast enough and good snow and grooming. I tried barneys bumps which were hot and cold. Didn't ski the challenge or chute bumps. In the lot there was a cool wrapped truck with x man or some sort of green action figure..I'm out of touch like my fourth favorite Hall and Oates songs. Had some parking lot beers..cheered on PASRs own monoskier GSSucks and drank more beer.

Should know more about when I'll be back out after this week.

Yesterday we skied only Whistler. Spent some time on the Peak Chair and that zone down to big red. Spent some time in Harmony and Symphony. Skied some pretty good chutes in the Horseshoes and whatnot. Ryan's first bowl was Bagel Bowl which was a bit crispy but still good. We found some really good snow on certain faces. Still not expecting any snow, but should be party or mostly sunny. Today we spent almost the whole day on Blackcomb. We found the best snow over on the glacier and spent most of our times over there. I don't remember all of the runs and lifts that we took like rain man Doug, but it was pretty legit today. Found some good steeps, and lots of stuff to jump off of. Ryan has been crushing it as well. Tomorrow we are probably heading back to Blackcomb and skiing 7th Heaven area to start. Tonight is cougar night at one of the clubs, so that should be fun. Pics coming soon.

So rad!

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Fuck you doug im always there. Ive been left out of too many damn reports lately. ding ding

That monoski is so sick! I have many questions for gss sucks. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Very strange day today.... Bumps were actually pretty good, which let to 3 women asking Tarpon to teach them how to ski them, which led to some parking lot tailgating and camaraderie. I'm still reeling from this (or maybe it was the parking lot beers), as stuff like this just doesn't normally happen. Anyone notice any weird, space-time continuum disturbances or anything?

Ok conditions today. Some demos and races going on today. Hero snow in full effect. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Take it to the blue thread

mountain creek....an entire mtn of jerries....

Did you derive this part from the map, aerial shot or tea on the bottom of your cup? True skiers will never be seen at MC for they'll feel like cows on ice on Granite Peak. Which is indeed icy.

You just need to buy an alpine touring setup..maybe mount some marker Dukes on your Elons..Toast can help you with skins...that would be badass.

I was just thinking $100 per night lodging and $100 per day lift tickets..maybe a little less than that but then a lesson as well and waffles, mussels, salad bar, mcdoogles, calzones, wings, Capri sun, coffee and new gloves..plus gas, tolls, ferry ride...The ben and jerrys tour and seeing the mural in Burlington with me on it essentially free. I don't really think about food costs on a ski trip because when I'm at home I also spend money on food..not as much though.

Crowds? What crowds? Compared to BM on a weekend, those were empty slopes. Seriously though after seeing the parking lot at 8:30am I was fearing that the two slow lifts would be a bottleneck, but to my great surprise I haven't really noticed this. We've never been to Montage before. Bought some vouchers from the Sally's thread and initially wanted to spend them on the blackout weekend but after seeing weather forecast decided to go there today. And didn't miss! Not a single raindrop all day until 3pm. The mountain is funny, DD slopes are indeed DD, especially that White Lightning, but blue slopes deserve at most green rating. Initially we didn't like it, especially since the long haul lift didn't work, and we got stuck on DD slopes. Then it turned out that the long haul lift is also slow as hell, and it was taking 13 minutes to ride it... And people are complaining about connecting lift on MC Really, if it was an express, things would've been much, much better. Finally discovered not very trafficked and interesting trails and looped them. I think they were Fastrack and Canonball. The first one is remote, so not too many people, and Canonball is just an interesting sequence of drops with flatter parts in between. Snow was wet and spring, holding well. By 1pm some bumps formed and ice spots appeared. I got the feeling that snow conditions can really vary at Montage. The coverage on the top part looks thin, plenty of dirt spots here and there, and there were also talks on the lifts about some trails closed during the week. I'd love to spend more time there, the lower part of the mountain in the forest is quite beautiful, and the crowds are thin, but the commute is too long for us, driving 2:30 one way is only borderline worth it.

Wow. That's not usually what you read after a ski trip. Salty props for at least making the trip as well as your honesty.

Some old-school bragging: I saw Phish perform that song at a little bar in Syracuse called "Hungry Charley's" in the very-early 90s. Everybody in the crowd hilariously did randomly-timed pogo dancing throughout the song. It's one of my very favorite memories.

Snow was fairly heroic mid mountain down. Upper shady spots had some pow preservation going on. I swapped out bindings and skied on the Coombas which are my shortest fat ski and they did nicely on some glade runs. I skied 3 runs and called it a day. lift lines were a bit long and my body is beat up. skiing with a taped left index finger knuckle and joint, taped big left toe, and a golf ball sized ding on my right shin when it kissed the steps while I was hauling firewood upstairs. Due to weather, we'll be leaving for PA on Mon or Tues instead. More snow and a shot at some icing.

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Whats wrong with your air vents? Got fraggles in there?

We really should be more specific. RTM81 is a jerry ski, while the RTM84 approaches a frontside carver. 171 length is still too short though.

You weren't at Blue when Beau was in charge of traffic control for the six pack. He was a legend and his short pole and ability to count to 6 in multiple combinations made him great at his job. You six come on out..5 and one..4 and two singles..4 and 2..3 and 3...3,2,1..2,2,2 and my favorite 6 singles..I even ate one of his famous Jell-O shots a few years ago at the end of season party and didn't trip balls 🏀

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Not getting any new snow while here, but sunny. Good times. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Great Eastern is probably the best trail on the EC, when it's empty it's 3k vert of just super fun arc arc arc ok now lets look around and back to arc arc arc. Lots of skiing tips and shit (btw learn how to put your boots on or buy a WC horn because nothing says I don't know what the fuck I'm doing like some random dude grunting like he's an 90lb asian women pushing shaq's baby out) but nobody asked you the most important question. Are you fucking feeling this shit man ? Lets get real, your a great skier for only skiing two years but in the overall sense you ski like shit. Now that's cool because you've only been doing it two years but before you left you had lost your mojo no ? No emotion, no zest and you'll be the worst skier of all time which is one that lacks passion. Do you feel the passion ? When you stood up top at K1 and you clicked in were you half way to midnight ? When you got to the bottom of gondolier, before you tried to ski into the gondy did you want to ask the cute waitress if you she ever got the Cleveland steamer from a rural PA state worker at the Mansfield Inn ? You should have because that means you got the passion, lots of peeps will spend their lives on X&O's taking lessons and get no where because they lack the passion to giv'r. You took risks when you went glades but you jerry'd right out of it by taking the skis off. Your a young man to be wound so tight, slip it, step it, shit ride your poles like amateur night at Delilahs but keep the skis on and figure out a way down. You learn alot of shit fucking around in EC woods. If you found your passion back then this was a successful trip.................................... plus get another pair of skis if you want to run untracked in the woods, can't catch a 500lb tuna on a mickey fishing rod with a bobber.

Who doesn’t love being a VIP anywhere, anytime? I do.

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You were talking about Shawnee in a montage thread..ding ding for you and from 8-10'at blue this morning I skied as much vert as 5 hours at jackson frost or montage. In 2.5 hours Eaf you could be at Hunter mountain

even if it did, that's still pretty good for as long of a time as you spent up there. for a long weekend i figure it's gonna run us about $700 to $800.

At Montage, you pretty much have to ski either the top half or the bottom half of the mountain. Top-to-bottom runs are fun but it takes so damn long to get back up to the top. Long Haul doesn't always run, so then you need to take Phoebe Lift and ski down the narrow cat track to Iron Horse to get back up to the top. Takes forever. Most people ski the bottom half because, as you found out, that's where all the best terrain is. Their blue trails are, IMO, the least trafficked blue trails in the Poconos. Last year they never even opened Upper Fasttrack and Runaway. All the green and blue trails basically feel the same with little variation - just a straight shot down to the lift with 1 or 2 short steeper sections. The blacks, on the other hand, have a lot more variety and many consider them the best expert terrain in PA. Glad you got to check out Montage, but yeah, 2 hrs 30 minutes is a long drive considering how many other options you have.

One of the only conversations i participated in at cb yesterday wss initiated by the other party about how no one can beat blue

Just had enough skiing for a while. I like it but I'm not as passionate about it as everyone on here. Plus I got spoiled from virtually crowdless skiing all week (except Thursday morning), so when I saw the long lines at 9:30 I felt it was time to move on and return home after scoring a killer sale.

Doing big business Salty..that $60 can go towards a lot of mcdoogles and 5 packs of root beer

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you are probably right, i just like to bitch about things lol. but honestly, you could make the argument blue has more room to make high ticket prices than vermont, because blue relies 100% on snowmaking

Doubled over laughing at how a boilerplate announcement about ticket prices immediately turned into a double-takedown of Eaf and Salty. This place is comedy gold!

If I'm not mistaken, the rocker profile I'm looking for is "freeride rocker" or at least that's what some online retailers are calling it. Of the two places for which I'm a finalist job candidate, one is a ski academy and one has a mandatory faculty backcountry ski trip every year, so yeah: I'll be able to get some solid advice on ski choice when I get where I'm going. I'm just daydreaming about living in each place and what the skiing would be like.

Yup it says 1pm showers and supposed to last until Sunday night. Wow just wow. Anyway I'll enjoy the skiing and mild temperatures this morning and won't need any SPF 45

None of these guys have ever even skied the RTMs. They sound like a bunch of jealous haters. Johnny law said they are Jerry skis but I think he was referring to the RTM 81 not the 84s which is the hot ski in Jackson hole along with the Kastle 78s. Anyway this thread was good until Eaf came along.

You know what else Blue or anyone else for that matter has anymore? Half pipes. Not that I miss them or anything but with the olympics coming up you remember that those existed back in the day. RIP Sno Mountain's gigantic entirely snow super pipe. Best million dollars they ever spent.

Fingers crossed!

I actually saw three people with RTMs here in Jackson hole.

Im a look/rossi fan as well. I think only an alien would want to put a demo binding on a new ski. That makes no sense to me. It doesnt make much sense to me either that you are going to buy this ski, but you really want the wider one. Whatever. Jlaws comment is priceless.