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My friend and I checked out a new area in the Indian Peaks Wilderness today. We had read it was super mellow and dog friendly. The weather was supposed to be partly sunny and not start snowing on the east side of the divide until evening. By the time we drove through the canyon it was snowing hard and very windy. Going up the snow covered dirt road to access our spot the wind picked up and the visibility was poor. We got there about 8 and there was another group about to skin in. We chatted for a bit about route options. I am glad someone else was there because it just felt better knowing someone else would be out there. Once we got in the trees the wind was tolerable. Skinned 1.75 miles in to an open area. There were several options. Some heartier souls kept going up to the ridge above us. It was a steep climb and the wind was whipping again since we were out of the trees. There was also a line below us that looked good, but we would have had to skin back up it to get out. We chose to just transition and go the way we came. Went through some tight trees but the grade was mellow. When I go back in nicer conditions I will play around some more. Some old mining cabin ruins. Open are where I am pointing out the guys on the ridge. On the way out there was some uphill. We couldn’t remember how much of that there was so at first we just kind of herringboned up it. That was gettin pretty tiring and we came across another group. We asked them if they thought it was worth it to put skins back on and they said absolutely. So skins went back on and we continued the last 1/2 mile or so to the car. Overall a stellar day out despite the weather. Of course the sun came out about 5 min before we reached the car. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Hey All, I’m back from a fun day at Blue mountain the true mountain. I arrived at the upper lot around 715am and in the house were Johnny Law, Atomic Jeff, MBike Mike, Toast, JFDan, Salty, MomSkeez, Justo, Rose,Slim, Mixilplix, Gary, Indiggio, Tarponhead, Mrs Snowbunski, TP4, BenM, Tele Matt, Jim Daily and many others. Temperatures were in the low 20s on the upper mountain and teens below..the snowmaking cannons were blasting on Challenge, homestretch, shuttle and random areas. Opening rope drop groundhogs day..second chair again ho hum..conditions very nice vista to midway to lower Main Street and upper Main Street nice frozen cord..lazy mile had some great snow and even with the race team wasn’t that crazy..will be way crazier next week when the six pack is open. Theyre charginf $70 and selling a boatload of tickets to people not showing up till 10 or 11..great stuff..I skied till 945am and how hungout in the lot till about 11am..get in get out have the rest of the day...Blue will be closed Monday to Wednesday with a reopening Thursday.

Fantastic morning up at Boulder with @RyGuy19. Great snow, sun, warmish temps, awesome setup on freedom and hardly no lift lines for the first 90 minutes. Took roughly 12 runs in a little over 90 minutes and got out of there. Looking forward to JF opening next weekend and more terrain at Boulder.

Yeah, after morning beers, @tarponhead and I headed back out for a few left side of Lazy laps that still had even softer and better snow than the opening runs. Made some Main Street runs and check out the lower right side which had some pretty nice snow, but light was flat on that side, The next run, met up with Slim at the top who told us about left ridge on Midway and almost guns n' hoses along lower left of Main Street that was bathed in late morning sun. We lapped that a number of times as the snow was just so good, it was hard to quit. Unfortunately the knees and thighs burned so bad, we retired for beer:30 #2. Best day and snow by far of the season!

Two runs in. Conditions are good to damn good for December 8th. Can ski main top to bottom. Minimal divots and shit on lower main. Festive crowd tonight including two dudes blasting Christmas music on the lift in front of me. Fun times.

Today was the best overall snow day so far I think. Lower main wasn't just negotiable but maybe even better than upper and coming into the blue cloud first run it actually felt like winter. Benm's herrs cheese curls were clutch.

It was actually like we were skiing today. Lower main wasn’t terrible, and upper main was a fucking treat even after several runs. JADIP.

Actually looked and felt like winter today. What a great start to the season so far.

Props to Blue for making the homely girl known as lower main look pretty good today....Lazy was really nice...a little thick on the bottom but hey........great morning on the snow...the best so far....

Hard to believe Blue mountain has been open for four weekends already and it’s still early December.

i took some photos omw back today, not sure if there's anything noteworthy, but here they are.

Got our tree today 🌲🐶

Take it to the shut the fuck up thread.

Did they beg you to play your Christmas song on the drive up?

I made the right call to go today instead of yesterday. @GrilledSteezeSandwich funk yeah!!!!!!!

Excited for a terrain expansion. Hopefully this weekend.

Snow making assault in the valley right now.

Great time today. Lazy and Upper Main were nice. Lower Main Street was brutal. And GSS never mentions I’m there. Next skiing for me on Wednesday.

Was so nice having more terrain today. Lazy and Upper Main were awesome to start but started chunking up. The last 500 feet before the right hander on Lazy was 10/10 though. Grippy and scraped off. New boots were pretty damn comfortable given that this was their inaugural day.

@saltyant regardless of your change to bluetooth in-helmet speakers, you're still that guy.

Take it to the pet peeves thread.

I'd also like to just say that I can't stand when people blast their music in public spaces, especially in nature. Ruins my zen almost as much as Matthew Edgerton.

I was the one bitching.

Today kicked Saturdays ass. that is all.

Cuzzie and I’s third wheel for the weekend, at the end of the weekend. (He kept up well all things considered!)

After a slight delay in getting the custom work done, I picked these bad boys up last. Giddy up!

Oh hello everybody. Full Main Street and Lazy Mile opened so it made the limited terrain more tolerable. Conditions were good to start but deteriorated as more traffic came through. Big crew as well. Nice to have more to ski today. JADIP.

I will say that I used to be that guy when I started skiing in 2016 - blasting down Fanny Hill at Roundtop while blasting classic Helloween. At least I had the common courtesy to turn the volume down on the ski lift, so people didn't have to listen to my music for 6 minutes in a row. Then I got bluetooth earbuds which were great, but I got tired of them being jammed in my ears. Tried another pair and they were even worse - couldn't hear a damn thing around me. At Elk one guy was talking to me and I said "Huh"? He made a comment about staying away from me on the slopes, for some reason. Then I finally spent the money and bought the in-helmet speakers, and they are great! Outstanding quality, and I don't even feel them in my helmet. And that's all I got to say about that.

Only appropriate on PASR gaper day. It should never be the norm.

I don’t know about all of y’all but I’m simply having a wonderful Christmas time and I shared that Xmas video with my friend who likes it but she’s the church going type lol she needs Jesus

Nice report Antonio!!

I love how you are getting after the park scene and crushing it! WTGAI!

Indiggio May add but was following Slim and Indiggio for the best ditch skiing of the season. Skiers left midway was a lip/ditch top to bottom (some mandatory evac spots) and ditch mostly all open lower main. Leg burners and fun. Watch out for ice chunks Indiggio kicks out if you ever follow him... This was session #2 by the way

Awesome thanks for taking those and sharing!

Someone on Blues Facebook said they skied telluride and even post a picture and said they’d never ski PA again. Well then why are they on blues Facebook.

I had my own sausage Sunday at Sheetz now at work counting money..

Also the cheese doodles BenM brought were on point!!!

Good one!!!

Still don’t know how you make that drive so often. I still have nightmares about how brutal it was on a Friday night.

wow just wow the vis today.

Dont feel bad. I rode the lift with and talked to him for an hour in the lot afterward and he missed me too. There's just fa la la...la la la...la la lot of people for him to remember.

Yeah but blue would make it a piggyback ride...

Well we won't do it on the 17th then...10th?

Looks like closing day foot attire will be interesting...[emoji38]

The $70 daily lift pass once lazy mile opens makes a season pass a no brainer. I’m happy to give Blue that season pass $$$ ahead of time it’s good for their cashflow. Salty tomorrow looks like a good day to ski are you gonna beat us to lazy mile by taking Vista first..asking for a friend @Metz the Jersey boy

Paragliders earlier were badass..I sometimes wanna touch the Sky..maybe next week when tuts lane is open a solid 4 foot base on there.

Lazy was great today and the parking lot was mad steezy. I’ll post a full report in a few. Knocks Saturday I guess.

I’m coming from 80 miles away and it don’t cost me $30 in gas. What you driving? A hummer or 75’ Impala?

TFTI