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Day 2 in the books and what a day it was. Knowing it was gonna be a blue-bird day, the plan was to get first tram to the top and check out Corbet’s. @toast21602 was very interested in checking it out and only had a couple of hours before his flight to do it. I told him we were getting the 7:30 bus to the base, which is what we did. We arrived at the base about 7:40 to 4 degrees and sunny. There was already some back-country dude, so we queued up behind him. Shortly thereafter @toast21602 rolled in. Slim has been on the tram yesterday and knew that the platform switched sides and also saw a ski patroller standing on the side opposite the side to view Corbet’s, so we lined up behind him. He let us in on the secret that most times that side’s gate opens first, which it did and we all bolted for the Corbet’s corner windows.to get a view of it on the way up. Out the tram and down to Corbet’s to have a look. The entrance was like a freaking vertical half cylinder! @toast21602 and I had a chat on how to drop in and nothing seemed feasible. I really didn’t think he was gonna try it, but the next thing I see is him dropping in, turning the corner and disappeared from my view. Someone above yelled that he’d made it and was good. We tried to get together afterwards, but never did and he had to leave to catch his flight. As we went down Rondezvous, people were talking about @toast21602 and our man Rick yells to them “He’s from Pennsylvania!” The rest of the day was pretty much a carbon copy of yesterday, since the only good snow was on Northern aspects. We did a bunch of Thunder woods which seems to hold the snow quite well and there’s lots of places to play. They groomed Bivouac, so Thunder was the bump run of choice. Apre was at the Moose again, where many beers were drank, some in celebration of @toast21602‘s achievement, others just for having another day in Jackson Hole paradise! At the top Random view Anither random view Band setting up at the Moose

Finalizing a CO trip for early April. Flying out after work April 3rd and back home late April 6th. I booked the flight via Southwest a month or so ago for a whopping $ 117. I figured if the trip didn't work out, Southwest is good about flight changes/cancellations. Planning on hitting Loveland and A-Basin. I should be able to get 3 full days in. Normally I do a week, but this is my first trip out west since my daughter was born, so it's not really fair to the wife to leave them alone that long.

Hi dickheads, today was a ridiculously good Taos day for me. I met up with some TGR guys and had to step the game up a bit. Did 5 west basin hikes which might be a record for me. Hit Meatball, Hidden Chute, Waterfowl, Zdarsky and Stauffenburg. Had never hit hidden chute and waterfowl before, but it was nice to have a couple crash test dummies to follow down the gnarly lines. Aside from West B, I skied Pollux twice, hit the Bambi chutes, longhorn, als run and Werner trees. Had shin deep powder on a few runs, and there wasn’t a rock to be found. Coverage is soooo good right now (for Taos). Kachina still closed, maybe manana! Went almost bell to bell, I’m fucking exhausted. I’ll have a bunch of good pics of me, but waiting to get them sent to me. For now... Longhorn choke Meatball apron New buds exiting Zdarsky Stauffy Bambi chute Obligatory kachina shot Laters ya pieces of shit.

I just wanted to let everyone know that, after consulting with friends, family, former high school classmates, book club members, neighbors and random strangers, that I've narrowed my season pass choices for the 19-20 ski season to the following 5 areas... 1) Blue Mt. 2) Blue Mountain the True Mountain 3) Blu 4) Booter Mountain 5) Little Gap ski area I just wanted to keep you all in the loop. I'll have my decision made by Thursday March 21st at approximately 4:49 pm. Thank you.

Fuck you. Looks like a great time! PASRs have been getting some great trips in this year!

Abasin announced their season pass prices. $399 no black out dates. That is an amazing deal since their season is so long. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Actually we have a few good cooks on the trip. We plan on heading into town tonight, since we’re skiing Grand Targhee today and won’t want to cook when we get back.

Hey All, I’m back from a fun night session at Blue mountain the true mountain. I arrived at the lower lot at 642pm and in the house were Atomic Jeff and Johnny Law. Temperatures were in the low 20s with moderate winds. There were only five buses but those darn kids were annoying AF Ski conditions were good..id say a 7.25 out of 10 mainly packed powder some chop not much of any ice snow a little snow I skied ten runs in total from 655-840 including five razors, two NMDW, one challenge, one Main Street and one paradise I liked razors the best and challenge and lower Main the least The base is rock solid and deep I see no reason that they don’t go till the second weekend in April for the culture!!!

NMDW was pretty damn nice. Super grippy. I'll just leave everyone with this picture...

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Snow is moving in!!! Looks decent on the radar...get ready to put the hammer down..the gondola to thunder to sublette start is perfect on a perder day..get high but tram not always great because rendezvous bowl can be zero visibility and not as forgiving of a start as amphitheater and grand or Laramie..

Decided on Peak Pass. Will get it fairly soon to use it some this Skison.

Same. See you and Saltman there!

This is great!

Not significantly for sure. And let's not forget that in order to get decent skiing on any mountain here you need to hit it in the early morning. The longer drive will make wakeups unbearable, and hotels will negate all the savings. Plus gas. Plus you'll be tired. Plus "are we there yet?" This thread is gonna have an Agatha Christie kind of an ending with a purchase of another round of BM passes.

That sucks. I cant imagine too many Gettysburg area /Maryland locals are going to see the hunter, Crotched, Mt. Snow etc. options as a perk. I wouldn't drive 7 hours or so for Mt. Snow. That's insane. Would be quicker and easier to fly to Denver for SLC.

ski2, whats your blood pressure like?

Congrats

This TR reminds me of Mad Libs where Saltman just filled in the blanks. GSS should get royalties.

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Home, waiting for my bag. Comp’d 2 scotches JAC to ORD and another to ABE. Must have been my lucky day. Awesome trip, especially seeing the other PASR’s out there and Toast hitting Corbet’s. Back to reality tomorrow. Couple photos of the way home. Lady sleeping at the sushi bar at O’Hare Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My work schedule didn’t allow for me to travel to Blue today, so I took the opportunity to go Nordic skiing. I did 5 miles in the beautiful woods of Loantaka. I had to break trail for the first 1.5 miles. Tiring and it took me a while to find my stride. After that, there were enough skiers out and one I was in the tracks I really found my groove. A beautiful sunny day and no wind. I don’t do this often enough.

I’ve had a couple real nice days in Albuquerque, a nice run, some hiking in an old volcanic area with ancient native drawings all over the place, some good New Mexican food and beers. Packed up this morning and heading up to the mountains now.

Hey all, Just got back from a fun session at Camelback, and it was the best session I had there all season. In da house were Enjoralas, Enjoralas's Dad, and many many others. I arrived at the CBK Lodge bright and early at 0828 and had the first civilian parking spot, which was only 26 steps from the snow. This spot was easily the best parking spot I've ever had at any ski resort. I skied down to the Stevenson Lift at 0846 and there were maybe 12 people in line already on the hotel side. But since they dilly dallyed around, I got the first civilian chair of the day which was sick and I only had to share it with one other dude. First run down Pocono Raceway was deeeeep - 3, perhaps 4 inches of fresh Powder. I gasped for air because I forgot my snorkel, but it was an amazing run. Then I did Nile Mile, which was groomed, and some other very exciting runs. Shortly before 1000 I ran into Enjoralas & his dad, and we did several runs together. Enjoralas referred to the new terrain park as a Toboggan Sled, since skier's left is narrow AF, and there's no barrier on the left to prevent accidental skiing into the woods. This trail was not so great and had thick ice sheets at the top. Rest of the trails got choppy, and there were moguls on all black runs, Cliffhanger (a true double black), and Big Pocono. Enjoralas did Big Pocono and then we did The Rocket together which was ROTD. Lots of nice fresh purd and not a whole lot of ice. Then we split and met up again later in the day, and I went inside for some coffee and a double Steezeburger. It was baffling because they put the sugar by the ketchup, outside of the cafeteria area, instead of next to the coffee, cream, stirrers, etc. A worker admitted it's a stupid arrangement. Overall it was a very fun day, one of the best of the skison without a doubt. Nile Mile and Julius Caesar became downright rowdy by the afternoon, despite being easy runs, with plenty of Rollers which gave me mad air (about 2 inches). I think it was gaper day because there were so many gapers. One guy was sitting right under a huge jump on Pharoah, in the blind spot. You know just hanging out. I heckled him and told him that's not the smartest place on the mountain to sit. Also getting off lifts was hard today, and 50% of lift disembarkings involved dodging fallen jerrys. Two interesting interactions on the lift. Some girl told me she works in an ER and sees traumatic brain injuries from skiing all the time, yet she doesn't wear a helmet so I called her out on that. Also some guy called me a giant fucking toolbag because I accidentally cut in line... I thought there were 3 people in the row I joined but there were 4, so I went ahead. This is the second time I accidentally cut in line, yesterday I did by accident at the Dollar General buying a giant bag of Meow Mix and some guy said "How Wude" or something. Maybe tomorrow I'll make it 3 in a row. Overall JADIP SU JO PO. Please post all dinner pictures and related discussions in the comments below:

I offered Zonked mine and she’s not biting so I offered it to the PSU montage guy.

I’ll sell Ski2Live my buddy pass for $22.75

Kachina looks wild

Good decision. You should still try and get to Blue one day next year.

I just ate a roast beef hoagie from Primos

I watched both shows..Mrs. Cunningham is a told babe..almost as hot as the mom from that 70s show. Well it’s that time to get ready for skiing. Salty make sure people stay on topic!!!

I dunno, you were getting kinda sendy yesterday

They are psyched for NY, VT, NH

At least they like camelback better than Blue.

By the time you go to JH you’ll be competent skiing bumps and steeps abs trees and there’s more than 3-4 groomers.

People die in their 50s all the time. We’ve set entire truckloads of tombstones of people born in the 50s and 60s but luckily most people make it to at least age 75 for men and 80 for women...

Thanks Salty I’m blushing.

I miss @SallyCat'swell written reports

Just raise rent. Buy both

Peak released its pass info today and I am leaning towards that. It would cost $1427 for 3 unlimited passes, but we probably would not make a full family Western trip - which would save a major chunk of that (I might still make a trip with a buddy). Most likely the plan would be Winter and/or Spring break trip to Attitash/Wildcat, Mt. Snow on MLK and Presidents weekends (and any longer breaks we did not go to NH), and otherwise ski either Frost or Hunter, maybe checking out White Tail once. At only $70 more than ORDA for the 3 of us, it is a better deal than that because the Jack Frost option is attractive for when we want to drive less. Similarly the NY, VT, NH options make it worth paying $140 more than for Blue. Kids are not real into CB option so that is out. With Montage we would probably spend more in the end by taking some other trips to further destinations like NY, VT, CO. Still considering Ikon (and waiting to hear word re Epic), but I consider Peak the front runner at the moment.

Yes and yes. Great report.

Good to see y'all enjoying Jackson, fingers crossed you get hit hard with snow from the upcoming storm!

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday could be pow days for you guys..

It’s so steep you’ll be climbing up on your hands and knees..I’m sure he got the skis somehow but by the time you’re back into your skis and get your bearings your skiing will suffer because it’s so mental. The highs and lows of being a skier. This guy went heli skiing and was hit by a snow snake..insane

Took a nice scenic drive up north. We checked out the rio grande gorge which was cool. Lots of clouds covering the mountains, hoping a nice layer of fresh snow is up there. I noticed that Kachina has been closed the last several days due to control work. Maybe it opens again tomorrow if I’m lucky!

Nice to see you’re giving the Mangy Moose some more business. I’ve helped bands there put equipment on the stage cause I’m such a nice guy. A shame there’s no more Village Cafe, you guys would have loved that..it was in the 7 levels building which is where the Calderra house currently is, the building next to the Tram building. It had a coffee shop, T-shirt shop, rental shop, was home to Teton gravity’s offices and the bar was on the bottom level..played ski movies from a projected, had pizza slices and back in the hippie days people would often get naked and run to one of the base area pools or hot tubs and jump in. Not long ago like 10 years ago Bob Dylan showed up at the Village cafe during an open mic night. Imagine that..he’s no Huey Lewis but still legit.

Current status

Some nice lifestyle shots

Corbet’s ✔️ Took an early bus, met up with PASR round 3 crew for first tram. Dropped Corbet’s, down to the Cirque, and into Amphitheater. Now time for a few cruisers before taking the bus back to town for an afternoon flight. JA-fucking-DIP

This is @toast21602's 3rd trip to Jackson Hole. You're still a pussy.