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Jackson hole booked 1/28-2/5

Skied Jay 2 days. they've gotten 34" of snow so far. Powdergasms for 2 runs. Skied FIS and Dempsey glades this morning. 6 degrees in the lot, prolly around zero up top.

That makes too much sense. He won't do it.

You should cancel and just get an Ikon if you are planning to come to CO in the spring. Full Ikon gives 7 days at JH then you can use up to 7 days at Abasin and unlimited at WP and Copper. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

@JFskiDan we all have access to these webcams.

this. people on this site can be miserable lol Camelback is reading this and remembering what 50 Cent told us 16 years ago..."If n****s hate then let them hate, and watch the money pile up." Meanwhile, Blue is begging investors for money to install lights on "Coming Soon"

In recent years Camelback does not feel like skiing. It feels like attending an amusement park. Seeing anything besides lifts, rocks and trees to me throws the experience off a little. So when you're dodging mountain coasters, looking at laser light shows in the distance and hearing the sound of a zip line overhead it just takes me out of the element.

Those sparkles you see? They're titties.

I can hear the guns cranking when I walk outside early in the morning. It’s getting exciting!

The Sesame Place of skiing.

Thursday evening session this week, in preparation for the resort openings this weekend. No session on Saturday, get out on the snow! Thursday 11/14 5-8 PM Skiers and snowboarders of all park abilities welcome. Don't be a Jerry on opening day with summer legs and broken tricks!!

I love the ok boomer thing. It's about time we lose the uneducated boomer opinions of the millennial generation, that are based on romanticism of the past and unrealistic expectations of younger people with an entire different set of challenges than what they had when they were our age. But hey, none of this belong in the Skison thread. Let's go ski.

True story ...50 cent at one point lived in the Poconos, near Shawnee. Even he probably thought CB was the equivalent of Cirque Du Soleil.

Me Root and TP4 had a blast at camelback this past April. Of course the price was right...free.

I like the view from the bar at Camelback.

Circus tent in background.

This morning in the MRV. About 6” and still snowing when we left about 8 AM...

I'll ski with you at CB Saltman. And you not posting isn't something I'd want actually...maybe when you were new but definitely not now. I'd say around 50% of your posts make me chuckle and in the summer you ball out on your bike and travel to the rockies to take decent shots with your semi jitterbug. I think the stakes should be a little higher...maybe something like if you can convince Dan and Toast to ski with you at CB for a full day, you'd have to sing a karaoke version of "Old Town Road" in the Blue parking lot while dressed like a cowboy using your RTMs as the horse.

You're far from a boomer lol, both by definition and age

Delco has something to say about that

Salty I said I had fun skiing camelback last season with Root and TP4...it was actually worth the price of admission that day. Oh wow you almost got me with the for a week thing...clever...OK millennial hehehehe

I agree with this! My oldest was on a youth football team for one season and it definitely interfered with ski season. I told him the same thing you did, that was the end of the experiment and next season would just be skiing.

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being Facebook friends with baby boomers is fun because the stuff they post is fucking outrageous lol. they really think something has to be true to be posted on the internet. My 2 favorites are the picture of obama and osama bin laden hanging out, and the group of customers who collectively walked out of a grocery store because the muslim clerk told someone to hid their cross necklace.

I feel like youth sports have taken away from families skiing for the entire winter season. It’s impossible to take more than a weekend or two off during the winter if your kids are involved in basketball. I told my girls their winter sport was skiing and that was it.

Damn, oldschool. I remember we used to bump this a lot with @librider and @Shadows back in the keystone days.

not my purchase, but somebody bought sugarbush: https://vtdigger.org/2019/11/13/sugarbush-resort-sold-to-colorado-firm/

@Ride Delaware ? great news!!! https://freeskier.com/stories/alterra-mountain-company-plans-to-acquire-sugarbush-resort?fbclid=IwAR3SpRbo7PywErqt5g2YKCetpvgsMmR103ulkEXzI6daQrAZjP38S_xkPyo

ugh let that shit dry out a bit

I think they will be there this weekend! Bring out your nice hat!

I did earlier. I thought I was viewing the ocean with all of the whales that I saw!

Groomer on Main Street! Groomer on Main St!

Activity on Main.

They are going balls to the wall and it looks sooo dope. Main st will be titties deep

Wow @saltyant even your local station WNEP did a story on Blue mountain. https://wnep.com/2019/11/12/blue-mountain-ski-resort-plans-earliest-opening-ever/

and its smooth as butter - Doug's favorite food and color.

Badass. Love it when the top comes off in the summer. This Jeep seems to nice to take off road compared to the WJ. Though most roads seem off road in PA, it’s about the small wins. PS 248 was just paved on the way to Blue from the south and it goes for anyone coming that direction. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

2-3" would have made me go straight to NOAA.

if the totals were not like kinda off the charts for November, you would have had me digging around some other sources. That, of course was before reading the disclaimer at the bottom first.

Hubby has an older Jeep Wrangler. Don’t think they make them anymore. It’s a great vehicle for out in the woods and camping.

That building makes night skiing more fun because it's basically a free light show.

1. Blue 2. Elk 3. Camelback 4. Montage 5. Jf

wtf ski bag lasts a decade of air travel?

I had a grand Cherokee and loved it. The handful of times I had my kids in it they complained that it was too small, so I got a Durango RT. I’m grabbing a 2 door JL soon for the girls to cruise around town in during the summer.

That Jeep Grand Cherokee is the same one (and same color) my husband has. I don’t think our is 75th anniversary edition but they are so nice. Whenever I take a road trip with my friends I always use his car. Those heated seats in the back are great. I got a Jeep too recently, but more for summer Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Lol. I got a new whip last month to hopefully avoid anything like that this winter. Swapped the Jeep for a Jeep! ‘16 Grand Cherokee 75th Anniversary Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Nom nom nom!

Unfortunately, we had to head home today from VT, but the silver lining is that Killington happens to be on the way and is still the only mountain open in New England. The storm had dropped 6” at Sugarbush, but the conditions report seemed to indicate that the storm underperformed the further south you got, but since options were limited, we went for it anyway. We got a later start than we had hoped, but considering we had to clean up the townhouse and pack the car, it was to be expected. Route 100 was dicey and completely snow covered from Sugarbush to the intersection of Rt. 100 and 107 just outside of Pittsfield. It cleared up there until you got to the access road. Overall, it was a slow drive, but there were no close calls, so I’ll take that. All the parking lots at the K-1 are only accessible via Vale Rd, but luckily there were far fewer people today, and we could park in the main lot just below the ticket booth. The only downside to having the parking so far from the front of the lodge, and having to walk around the gondola garage, is that parking lot booting is a must. There is no drop off at the lodge. I always PLB, but for the snobs out there who like the finer things in life, I’m sure it’s a hassle. The snow guns were going t2b including the lower fan guns on Superstar, and the mercury showed a balmy 23 degrees at the base. We had reloaded our One Pass cards the night before, so straight to the lift we went. In stark contrast to Sugarbush, there were only about 2” of new snow on the ground. We were told that there was a decent amount of freezing rain, which was obvious from some of the cars in the parking lot, but luckily it never got warm enough for it to “straight rain” and effect the base. Also much different from yesterday, was the lift line situation. Every single lift all day was ski on, no gondolas were completely full, and my wife and I never shared a quad chair with another guest. We noticed on the first gondola ride up that there was definitely some wind today. It wasn’t an uncomfortable amount of wind, but considering the temp at the top was only 12, it made it chillier, but still quite manageable with proper layering. We started the day out with a pleasant t2b run off the gondola. Conditions were firmer than yesterday due to the precip, but Killington did a great job grooming and nothing was unedgable. Our second run was down Downdraft, which I had skipped yesterday. It was man made bumps, but there was enough traffic that there was enough snow to push around and it was surprisingly enjoyable. After that, we basically alternated between Rime, Reason, Double Dipper, Upper East Fall, and t2b runs. Double Dipper was the other trail I didn’t do yesterday. It was definitely thin. They clearly only made enough snow to give it bare bones cover and then let the natural snow fill it in. However, it had the most edgable snow, so every downside did have a silver lining. I know that Killington is in expansion mode, but it shouldn’t be that obvious. All of the original trails except Downdraft, Great Northern from the gondola to Rime, Upper East Fall, and Reason, need to be resurfaced. Rime is the primary early season trail and it is really thin and down to the ice/hard pack base. Great Northern to Bunny Buster is just getting thin. It was obvious that they wanted to get t2b, and it’s not bad for November 12, but it is also obvious that it doesn’t quite have the depth they prefer to have on it, especially in 2-3 specific spots. They were running the Snowdon Triple and Snowdon 6 Pack today, while also blowing snow on both, so I expect they will open this weekend with the temps they have until then. Overall, today was a B-. If it had been all snow, it would have been a top 5 early season day. We took 7 runs off the quad today and 3 t2b. The thermometer in the car registered 19 nearly 2.5 hours later. I would have liked another run or two, but we have a 7.5 hour drive ahead of us, so we made the smart call and headed out. Not to mention, it was only my second day and my wife’s first, so it was also smart not to push too hard too early. It was significantly colder, so I didn’t take as many pics, but as usual, they are below.

Time to start planning Elk day sir.