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I’ve been away from this place for a week and it looks 100x better. They are pushing out Razors/back, lower park, Central Park, and blowing on NMDW, Switchback, and still parts of Razors along with other random fan guns. Challenge is a nice addition and WidowMaker is open as well. I guess the only things not being targeted right now are Sidewinder and Lower Sidewinder? Conditions were decent this morning compared to other Blue Mountain days. Challenge was cookies but then it was closed for a few race team elites. Everything else was 7/10 for grooming and snow quality. Flurries were flying all morning and it was cloudy. Called it quits at 10:00 before I have to head in to work. I’ll probably be up Friday morning next. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Me and my Junior All Mountain team kids at Loveland on Saturday. Got on the snowcat and caught the rope drop on Velvet Hammer. It was pretty sweet!

You should email the PPL guy and get their side.

Maybe fluffy is out of jail and in charge of ticket sales now

Paging Rain Man...

They should've just increased ticket prices by $3 and nobody would've even noticed...

Ah, some stupid pictures that don't really show anything, but still have snow in them.

So, JFBB did confirm that vouchers bought before Jan 1, will not have a surcharge. New ticket sales will have the $3 surcharge. They stopped communicating with me when i asked why other mountains serviced by PPL were not issuing a surcharge.

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All the open trails were in good shape today, Main St. and lazy were excellent. Got one run on challenge before it closed. Upper and lower sidewinder were the only trails that are still grass. The snow produced by the gun at the intersection of Paradise and Dream weaver is extra sticky.

Dreamweaver 2008-09 season...nightmare 2009-10 season.

If given the opportunity to pay a few extra bucks and stay on site for a wedding I'm doing it every time. Getting bused to and from a venue sucks.

Hey All, I’m back from a fun night sesssion at Blue mountain the true mountain. I arrived at the lower lot around 640pm and in the house were Atomic Jeff, Shadows, Steve(guy who brewed beer for sausage Sunday) and Johnny Law. The temperature was in the upper 20s to start and fell into the lower 20s during the session The snowmaking cannons were blasting on Razors, nightmare-dreamweaver, switchback, tubing, Widowmaker and Central Park...lower park is just about ready and razors is just about ready as well. Challenge is now open and was in ok condition for its first day..the cookies were pushed to the sides and it was pretty much frozen granuler but smooth. Main Street was nice on the top slick in the middle and nice lower. Lazy had pretty much packed powder and paradise had the best snow and we were even treeated to fresh cord one run on the right side. I skied a total of 10 runs between 7-840..4 paradise, 3 main streets, 2 lazy to the falls and one challenge. After skiing we hung out in the lot until just about 10 had some beers and ended up being just about the last people there since they close at 9 early in the week. All in all pretty good skiing and good fun. I’ll be back Thursday night and looking like there could be some pow pow on friday morning. JADIP

5 ways down now. Nice

Top 15 deepest snowpacks in the US. Smuggs is #4. Deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.................. https://unofficialnetworks.com/2018/12/07/ski-resoerts-with-the-most-snow/

say what you want about fluffy, but he and his co-d's beat the shit out of their drug case. they were facing dozen of felonies and got off with misdemeanors and no jail time

I’m back in VT this weekend, so it looks like I timed that one right...

Maybe they read @Shadows post??

false, it was home to the big dawg booters

The swing set was 100x better than the sliding board.

Why am I the only person that remembers anything. Root the season ski patrol aired was the year the ski patrollers at Blue were the worst 2008-09 and that was also your first season regularly skiing at Blue. Remember you carpooled up to blue on Root Friday with Hardline from Alpinezone. That’s back when you were a gaper.

Pretty sure it always has been until racing moved to Razors/Razorback. It was still raceway in 2008.

pleasantly surprised they are blowing on switchback. cool that they opened raceway

Not a new page.

I thought conditions were decent for a night sesh. Still ripping these skis.

I am the shop that’s putting them on. Yup, hopefully by this weekend if I can get around to it.

I hope you’re ready for western groomers.

mañana por la noche. I'm excited

This storm could be good for the base.

It’s fantastic tonight.

fun fact: when new, the winch on the winchcat can reach from the anchor point on top of challenge all the way to homestretch. 3150 feet

I’m glad Blue has steps again...those were always fun to ski down

And that ridiculous swing set

Don't go chasing it!

Funny thing about that, guy I work with lives at 12th and federal and gets off at broad street and he told me the next day he got home in about 45 minutes that night which is damn good time from Glenn mills.

Probably eyes were off the road while chasing waterfalls (rivers)

STFU

It’s a river though.

That sucks. But this has nothing to do with waterfalls.

NEW PAGE, NOT A NEW PAGE! Reminded me of this..

So does that mean we’ll see you at Blue sometime soon?

Ok.

Heading up Thursday morning. Hope to ski with Justo’s parents.

i will. if they get back to me i will sort of string them along for a little while.

Post Utah recap. Knee issues. Limited range of motion, like stairs start to become a big issue. Thursday morning was rough. I found out right away the biggest issue was going to be the lift. Bending that knee to sit on the lift hurt like hell, and with a ski attached to it you dont have much choice but to sit like u are sitting in a chair. I figured out to let the chair push me almost off the platform, then sit down at the last minute, then i didnt have to bend my knee as much. Deer Valley - i have never been, never really on my radar with the posh treatment, but i really like the oppurtunity to check out new places. Sweet groomers. Big time speed runs. I think its true mostly pretty people ski there, and most wont venture off trail. I think the day after a storm, trees might still be good. I was just happy i could actually ski groomers, so nothing off trail for me. “The Bird” (day 2) I have been here a few times, and skied just about every condition possible. Powder day/sun, powder day/zero vis/97 mph winds (same storm that knocked out power to JHMR) and bluebird. So the Bird being the bird, the day starts with real low vis up top, so we made it down to gad valley area to where we could see. Clouds rolled out quicker than anticipated and it lead to a really nice day. Somehow i went from barely being able to walk in ski boots in the am, from the car to the base area, to actually feeling better, which i never would have imagined anyways, the Bird is still just a beast. If you are looking for big vert in one run, this is probably where you do it at. Real good day here, finished off with a nice beer on the deck at the top with the boys. Take time to absorb the view from there sometime. Celebrate the small victories in life Brighton - Bluebird, perfect temp, nice day. i forgot how much i love this place, and i am still in love with it. The whole place has the “blue parking lot vibe” to it. Smaller vert somewhere around 2k, but just super playful. Plenty of off tral stuff when the snow is good to keep those with ADD occupied. We skied this Sat, and it was actually kinda crowded, but we did a decent job of avoiding the longest lines by skiing off the Great Western. This was probably my best day knee wise. We dabbled around a little off trail, Toast found some stuff to jump off of, and i figured out with the knee thing im not super confident making quick turns on steeper, somewhat crudy stuff. I cant lift my leg high enough and bring that ski around, nor can i pressure that ski like i can my right. Brighton has super fun groomers with more character than i think anywhere else i have skied. They run through the trees, go up and down, twist and turn and always keep you looking around. I would say Brightons groomers could be like riding the coolest roller coaster ever. Finished off a great day at the miley lodge for a beer and some tater tots in the sun. Right close to the miley lodge is where the blue crew would set up with apres ski activities. I did not end up skiing into someones driveway this year. Alta (day 4) Cold start to the day. BTW, the collins lift opens at 9:15, so we had a little wait in the corral thinking it opened at 9. Once we got off the collins, we were in the sun, so we just stood there for a few absorbing some heat. Skied off the Supreme since thats where the sun was in the am. Met up with Ryan who was able to guide Toast and Aj to some better skiing being the local. Hiking and sidestepping werent going to bode well with my knee, and i wasnt going to put me or anybody else in a weird way thinking it would be a good idea for me to go with. We met back up at the lift, i stuck to the groomers and they found some other stuff to play in. We called it a day early afternoon. Day 4 and the legs were feeling it. Alta is a cool place, maybe something like a bigger brighton, or smaller snowbird. You always sort of have the feeling its a little agro there, like make sure your pass works or you will be trampled upon. Big shout out to Toast and AJ for letting me tag along. Good people to hang out with. I cant keep up with them at Blue, let alone anywhere else, but they made it work even with my busted wheel. I told them they could ditch me at anytime when they wanted to go explore. I was just happy i could actually ski, and ski something different than the rinse and repeat stuff we have going on at home. We skied the whole time on real snow that God dropped on Utah in great quantities. The only sugar out here went in my coffee. I spent the wait time at the airport this morning setting up Dr’s appointments to hopefully get my knee drained, so hopefully its better for Jackson Hole were we are just gonna get pounded with snow. Oh, and i thought Nmski was the most flatulent Pasr. Toast wears that crown. Dude just farts all the time.

Skijoring is pretty fun! Traffic was awful since it was a powder day. Took us 3 hours to get to Frisco when it should have taken less than 2. My friend and I planned to get up there early before the class and snowshoe. There wasn’t time for anything long so we just went to a trail at the edge of town so I could walk the dog a little. There were several large female moose hanging around the parking lot so I had to keep him on his leash. There were 5 of us in the class and the first half of class all the dogs wanted to play and everyone was getting wrapped up in leashes and falling down, including myself. By the end, the dogs started to get the hang of it. But when we were standing around I quickly learned I had to be in a dug in snow plow because at any given moment my dog could want to run after something. The equipment is less than $100 so I am going to buy a setup and take him to local places. There were times he was running so fast I couldn’t ski I just tried to stay upright and he was doing all the work. Group shot the instructor took. I have never seen my dog more tired. He totally crashed in the car as soon as I loaded him. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Found some little and not so little things to jump off of too. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk