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February 12th, 2019 Day 7 of 7 Hey All, I’m finished with another fun ski day at Jackson hole mountain resort. I believe it’s my 102nd ski day here since 2002. We arrived at the Gondola around 745AM and chatted with Bruce from Bethlehem while waiting for first Gondola. Bruce went to the University if Vermont 20 years for me and spent many years in corporate America before settling in Victor Idaho and Atomic Jeff plays golf with his brother. First civilian gondola with two girls one from Colorado and one from Reading PA. High tailed it to Thunder via Amphitheater which had a little bit of new snow on top of groomed. Then down Grand which also had some new snow on top of groomed surface. Up Sublette and the wind chill was 30 below zero at the top..brrrr..skied past the bottom of the kings and queens of Corbett’s in 10 sleep bowl and over to the Cirque and was rewarded with a creamy 6-8” of untracked snow..was really nice. Back to thunder lift and there was a pretty long line then found more fresh in Grand woods..up Sublette and went a little farther left into the cirque and was able to find some super nice untracked snow. I crossed some tracks but my turns were in the Perder and I was rewarded with snow billowing up above my waist. Back down to Thunder lift and there was more than a full corral of people so went on the Marmot lift instead which had no line. We did the Nastar Glenn woods and were rewarded with several hundred vertical feet of untracked barely 20 yards away from a main run..so good had to repeat them again after another ride up Marmot. My legs were screaming after 7 days in a row..ended up taking some woods and Sundance to the base and just had a nice lunch at the Handlebar inside the four seasons. All in all was a really fun trip everyday had really nice snow and good visibility on the majority of days..I only took two falls..one my first run of the trip and one in the middle of the busiest street in town..tomorrow is our travel day which means of course it’s supposed to snow a lot here..we might try to get out on an early morning flight to Denver instead of waiting until early afternoon for our direct flight to Newark..that way at least our plane will be waiting here. I did my best to take some pictures today and here they are. Thanks everybody for following along in this thread. I’ll post the Good, the Bad and the Ugly in the coming days.

Snowing pretty hard at the mountain. Very fine snow coming down, the type that lasts awhile. Hope it doesn't change over to sleet/freezing rain/rain too quickly.

I love flying out west. Sky is usually clear, and I’m always amazed at the scenery. Every time I fly on east coast, it’s nothing but clouds and haze.

I’m alright fam. I went and got checked out. Pretty much the worst if it is some bruised ribs. I need to follow up on something the CT showed and I probably won’t be skiing for a few days. I’m far too tired to put any more brain cycles into this today.

First in line again. Bluebird.

Thanks. Glad to be here too. You guys always make me laugh and the best part of my day is reading your trip reports and parking lot sausages and beers. It’s almost like I’m there. Thanks for that. I’ve been reading them for years on end. I’ve never been to Blue yet, but I can tell you that I’ll never park in the upper lot!

You need to eat some fruit and veggies

Don’t forget about selling gift cards for profit!

thx GSS, longtime lurker here, always enjoy reading your blue/true updates

The upper lodge is nicer than the lower lodge, but I started parking in the lower lot so I don't have to stand around in ski boots while conversing with Steeze et. al.

The only thing they do is hang out on Paradise and whistle at competent sliders, which is obviously a waste of time.

This storm is shit.

You could not be any more wrong.

Wearing a helmet is a good choice but it’s gonna be brutal on that beautiful head of hair you got.

Ayyyyeee look who it is, welcome to the board cuz! Nice first report and keep em coming. PS everyone, he told me he’s only posting for the likes! (Jk)

Yeah they’ve condensed many of the smaller bases to larger ones and closed them. My dad was at Willow Grove NAS until it closed. He was part of a combat camera unit and was responsible for the photography and videography of the air shows at the base. I basically got a pit pass for the runway. It was pretty awesome but I didn’t appreciate it as much as I would now. I just thought big planes and helicopters were cool.

I still occasionally see C130s do touch and gos at ABE. What was really cool is when Ft. Indiantown would fly A10s through the valley at Blue and you would be eye level with the cockpits.

There's the eaf we all know and love. And I was just beginning to see you in a whole new light after your sick Dolamite TR.

I know you’re new here but the admins are pretty resourceful and have a feature to show who’s online and how many are lurking. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yes, but is there train radar? I have railroad tracks next to work so it’s fun to see what they’re hauling. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Big fan of flight radar. Sometimes it is better than TV. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

They take photos too apparently. Not sure what they do with them.

Heal and

Pizza last night Australian style.

Let your voice be heard... https://www.governor.pa.gov/recreational-marijuana-feedback/

Root and I were up, I got an hour in before going to work. First two runs were a carpet, just a skiff over groomed. Root took a beater on razors first run, there are a set of sleeper rollers that werent marked. He did a complete roll in the air, he took a bunch more runs and seemed ok but it was a pretty good thump. Hope your feeling ok dude.

haha believe it or not we actually made it in line for opening 4 out of my 5 days in aspen

Up to 339” on the season.

geez you guys have patience

The snake river and the ski resort. About time to boot up and then wait in line an hour and fifteen for first gondola.

Last day drive to the hill.

If I only had one day to ski and it had to be in Pa. I'm on an Elk high at the moment....so I'd go there on a weekday for the terrain variety. Between Cb and Blue....I'd choose Blue but don't go on a weekend. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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The longer the trip the better the chance. Today was pretty great, but not the epicness of yesterday. Still probably 10+ face shots each today.

I wonder if there are more flights on flightradar24, or more ships on marinetraffic. Anyone care to count? At least two flights headed to AVP were diverted to IAD (Dulles), and one flight inbound from ATL turned back. Doesn't look like any planes were diverted to MDT (Harrisburg) despite the runway being available and not iced up.

I once sat on a plane in taxi for 6 hours waiting for it to be de-iced. Luckily it was a red eye so I slept almost the entire time, but was extremely confused when I woke up at 10am in Orlando on a flight that should’ve taken 2 hours and had a scheduled takeoff of at 2am. Got a $300 refund which essentially paid for all of it so it wasn’t the worst nap I’ve taken.

…..with vodka, sure

Blue balls specifically. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That was great!!!!

The dude on the parking lot shuttle a few minutes ago did. So of course I had to say,” it smells like pot” freaking druggies.

My ride up this morning from bucks co. was good, the ride home was quite bad, not so much the roads but drivers who should have stayed home. Sorry to heard about your fall Root, get well. Even though the snow turned to sleet the trails were all very good, challenge was much improved, the bumps on barneys and NM were great, as far as snow quality widow maker was at the top. New page.

Hope you feel better Root, glad it was worst.

But you don’t care about getting first tracks so all good.

Nightmare

WTGAI wanna adopt me??? I get good Father’s Day gifts..ask my dad Nastar Glenn.

It’s all good I’m eating Parmesan truffle fries and Atomic Jeff is chatting with people he knows from Harrisburg. My view before. And view now. With the mountain collective taking advantage of two days at Jackson hole is much advised considering day tickets are $153 each.

This is where I was getting faceshots yesterday on a fucking groomer. Still some great conditions with a couple inches of new. That’s Atomic Jeff way in the distance where is everybody???

We incorporated Gritty into the unofficial logo of our CommTech Jeopardy team this year:

Now you understand why I confused it with Vermont last year in my trip report.