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Awesome day even with low vis. Couple pics including the 49er breakfast

The boys are doing the Hobacks, I’m saving them for when there’s some deep fresh. Skied 7 runs so far today.

Fun day with the boys

The steps might be more challenging than the slopes today

Not sure how conditions at Saddleback will be today. Super windy so some stuff may be slick, but trees should be great. Tomorrow should be good, supposed to be another few inches through tonight and tomorrow will be sunny and less windy Condo is pretty nice. Two extra beds upstairs if anyone wants to make the trip (doubt it but just putting it out there)

What @GrilledSteezeSandwich said, but @mute1080and I did a quick Saratoga bowl and then Washakie Glade. The snow was great and fingers crossed for some good cowboy pow. Some pics of @mute1080 and @NazarethSkier from the Hobacks and Saratoga.

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Upper and lower Peachys Peril (I think). Getting choppy after 3 runs on it but still a lot of fun

Today was my 100th day skiing at Jackson Hole.

Hopefully I'll at least get to check it out tomorrow That traverse and high line traverse are both closed. Cut through the glades and hit the lift line and one other trail. Gonna go get lunch and go back out.

Both flights were delayed about a half hour but both my bags and I made it on time. I planned on taking Uber to the hotel but from when I landed until I got my bag, it went from $35 to $85 for the trip to town. One of the no wait taxis outside did it for $40. Room was ready early so quick change and headed to redeem my Indy pass. Full view of Snow King from the hotel room so had to do it. Little bit of a struggle for the ticket agent but we were on the snow by 1245. Lines were non existent and I had the Gondy and quad to myself. I didn’t even know they had a backside but the Sun Bowl had the best snow and ended up there for half of almost two hours I got to check it out. Milder terrain on the back side and slower lift but some trees and ungroomed to play with. Got scooped by Atomic after SK and he even had a beverage waiting.

Who's breaking out the Bermuda shorts and headed to a balmy Blue mountain this weekend? We got sunshine on Saturday and highs looking like me.... hot in the mid 40s. On Sunday we'll see some cloud cover with highs again in the 40s. Maybe we'll see some spring conditions as opposed to sugar. LFG

Finished off the day with a run down woolly bugger glades. Only rated a single black diamond but craziest glades of the day. They start off mild pitch but tight trees... But then... ends relatively flat and you can cut right or left to get to another trail (can probably keep going too) After that, I saw an untouched cut to one of the condos...not the one I'm staying in, but do I hit it anyway and walk back to the next trail? Back at the condo now, probably go to dinner in an hour or so

Ok now its getting good. They dropped the ropes on Professor. Unfortunately spilled my beer on the unexpected drop

Glades and trails off the Kennebago lift are pretty much all closed. Hopefully they'll open later. Trail report says everything is open so maybe just delayed opening

Pleasantly surprised with my first run. Groomer was smooth slightly frozen cord...ungroomed intermediate was kinda dense powder but fun

Wow! Wonder how many drunks fell down that set of stairs? Better not start out with the left foot at the top!

FIFY. Looks great guys. Can't wait to read about the powder days upcoming!

1/25/23…Day 1 of 7 Hey All, I’m back from a fun first ski day at Jackson hole. I was up super early which I love cause I can just relax and catch up on the internet. Went to bagel place, got a toothbrush from the front desk cause I forgot mine and at 755am me and atomic Jeff loaded up the Giant Jeep and picked up Nazareth Jay at his hotel. Despite a semi late arrival we were second or third civilian gondola. Temperatures today were in the single digits rising into the teens at the base under cloudy skies with a few flakes initially becoming party sunny. First run down Amphitheater and so good best run of the season so far..2” of Perder on top of groomed…The thunder lift was down so we skied over to the Casper chair and took a run down Casper to black tail to Sundance to the base which was super good. I usually don’t ski that terrain so early in the day so was a real treat. Since Thunder was down we took the Tram to the peak to access Sublette terrain. We had a walk on Tram but it was a full one and very uncomfortable. The most contact I’ve had since my rubdown by security yesterday at Newark airport. Down Rendevous bowl which was ok conditions..semi solid giant bumps with a little fresh..first bumps of skied of the season to Rendevous trail to the Sublette chair and Jay and Atomic did Bivoac. R trail wasn’t skied off yet as it was before 10am. Up Sublette to ten sleep bowl to the cirque to amphitheater to thunder chair which was running. First time ever on the new Thunder high speed quad and you exit the lift sideways which is progressive, I guess because the unloading area is compact. Then cut over to below the expert chutes which was filled in and yielded some fresh to Nez Perce traverse, as I was crusing along moderate speed some goob turned right into my path uphill blind…then a few seconds later his buddy did the same thing and nearly collided with atomic Jeff..that’s a pretty dangerous move on their part and they’re lucky they didn’t get destroyed. Then back into Casper area up Casper and down wide open to the Teton lift then up Teton which was the busiest lift and the day with maybe a 1 minute liftline then down Crags run towards Apres vous which was super good so went back to Teton again and did crags run again then to the base of Apres vous and finished out under the top of the Apres vous lift to St. John’s to buck to the base. Nice lunch at Osteria, I had very good Bolognese and an Arnold Palmer. Today was a fun ski day, wasn’t really a pow day although we skied some pow but it was very pleasant. Right now Mute and Ryan are at snow king and NMSki is probably charming the front desk lady with his sparkling smile. I didn’t take many pictures but I’ll post what I took. Looks like the real snow arrives tomorrow afternoon through Saturday night. Probably about 15-18”+ total.

Ate dinner at the pickford pub at loon lodge inn...Terrible pic but had duck breast and a marsh island ipa. Then a dark and stormy that was pretty much a pint glass of rum...maple ginger creme brulee for dessert (didn't take a pic). Great food and really cool place

January 26th…day 2 of 7. Hey All, I’m back from another fun day at Jackson Hole. Today was in the single digits to start with a trace of new snow that skied more like 1-2”. Second civilian gondola today and I saw my snowboarder buddy from Florida who’s always here this time of year and exchanged a few pleasantries..then it was time to ski. Amphitheater was really good again and I milked it about because visibility was bad. Up Thunder and down Grand which was some of the best non pow day conditions..up Sublette and a run down Rendevous train then up Sublette again to Bivoac woods to Bivoac…the boys wanted to ski the Hobacks and I didn’t really want to do split up for a few runs and while they were in the Hobbers I did a quick lap off thunder the. Went all the way to the base via Nez Perce traverse, Casper area, south pass traverse and teewinot..I was at the base a bit early so went up teewinot and at the top of that had a text from atomic Jeff that they were on union pass so went back to the base and even on the lower mountain the snow was really good. The only bad snow was in Casper area cause it was busy there. Up Apres vous and some did saratoga bowl some St. John’s and buck and I skied a combination of stuff. I think Ryan, mute and NMSki also skied Moran area. It was supposed to be just cloudy but it snowed the entire day base to summit. Had a nice lunch at the mangy moose and some pitchers and left a fat tip for the waitress because she deserved us for putting up with a bunch of Chuckleheads. The old man at the next table even gave us some of his sausage..that was kind. Not many pictures today but I’ll post a few.

This is hands down the best trip report of the year so far. Keep on killing it! Major jealousy right now.

Intimidator glade. Much better snow, well spaced trees. Still not much open off kennebago lift, really hoping to hit Casablanca glade. You can also hike above treeline so may do that tomorrow

But it mostly looked like this:

Going to Hatch which is high end Mexican food. I’ve never been at the mangy moose at night. We were there earlier. It’s not going to snow 50” all at once but overnight it’s supposed to snow 8-12” in the mountains and 11-17” tomorrow.

You guys take really good pictures. Love that one with the Black Crow skis in the shot.

Thai chicken pizza and a Boothbay ipa. The pizza is awesome

Hopefully is high of 36 low of 26 like Blues website says. Ok my phone is getting wet. @saltyant is in charge.

Ive always been intrigued by saddlebacks above treeline stuff. Not much photo/video of it out there. Saddleback looks incredible. Maybe next year I will finally get there. The year I had a trio actually planned, they closed.

Tackled Tiehack Today! Say that 5x’s fast. There are 3 uphill routes at Buttermilk and Tiehack is the hardest. I had planned to bust it out by the end of the season but my friend is up here with me and it’s her birthday today. So I asked her if she wanted to suffer and she said yes. The x games begin this weekend so getting her pass was a challenge w parking in the main lot. Then we drove over to the Tiehack lot snd it was full, luckily someone was just leaving and we snagged that spot. The lot is right below the lift, so convenient. forecast was for clouds but we did have a bit of sun. Temps about 16 degrees. When looking it up the stats show 1.75 miles up with 1700’ of elevation gain. My watch tracked 1.5 miles and 1847’. Let’s just say it was steep. The skimo crowd was passing us like we were standing still. It was funny after a while. I could barely speak I was so out of breath and they would come in hot on our heels and say hello with no difficulty. Almost to the top. The ski down was fun, we were pooped. Snow quality was really nice too.

I think Doug’s drop is named after Doug Lewis who was an Olympian and born in middlebury Vt..definitely not me as I’ve never skied Burke

Sickbird !!!!

Fkna ! Killing it and AS on the 98's on 2" in Amphitheater is straight slay. Hobacks looking full

My God their trees !! The same guy did Massif du Sud as v2 which I want to get to but is boarding on just go out west. Your killing it dude !

Been snowing since like 11 so hopefully tomorrow will be even better. I'm pretty surprised at how nice the groomers were this morning. If visibility wasn't awful, it would have been even better

I was there last Saturday and Long Haul was running. Upper Runaway and Upper Fast Track weren't open so I was surprised it was running. Conditions were better than expected. Hard but carveable.

You got the goods!

That trail is super flat, but the real tragedy is what they did to timberline. It used to be a nice narrow winding trail, now its just a trail. before After

Thats what i said last week, about this week. Look how well that panned out.

Geez! They may has well saved a little space and just put in a ladder! Talk about vertigo!

Yup, 2+" last night when I went out, nothing left this morning.

Way to get after it.

We should communicate our plans better and include @mbike-ski too. Would be fun to do a little xc together again if it snows ever.

2/3 afternoon?

Yeah Burke was awesome. I'm excited for Saddleback too. Everything is open and with another 10 or 12" of fresh snow it should be great

Holding down the fort while people fly off to have fun somewhere else. Fairly light crowd today, no lift lines and slopes weren’t too crowded. Upper parts of the slopes were in pretty good shape, but pretty much all the lower parts had heavy sugar snow develop, especially lower Main, lower paradise (both have some very sketchy cover areas), and homestretch. Razors was a lot smoother than yesterday. Lazy was pretty nice, with sugar snow piles starting to develop after the turn. Even Falls was starting to get fluffed up. First flakes started about 1130, snowing pretty heavy now.

Wilderness, sasquatch glade, some other trails (upper dipper, dipsy doodle or something)

It was a good day at Elk. First ski day of the season for me and the closest I have got to Vermont since March. Freezing temperatures in the morning warmed up to 40s for a blue sunny day, but not too the point of too warm I don't think. Snow surface softened up nicely on most of the trails and was quite good except for a few heavily trafficked or shaded spots. Generally the trails got slicker again in the afternoon. There is still natural snow cover in the area. I am not sure what conditions will look like later this week with the temperatures, they may or may not be able to blow tonight yet. It was busy but lines were not bad at all especially after they started up the north double next to the quad to get all lifts spinning. Ski on north lifts, lodge side was a minute or two wait until after lunch. Excellent snow surface for telemark skiing and there were a half dozen other guys I spotted. I switched over to downhill at lunch to avoid the slicker spots later in the day and to rip some runs. Also I did leg day tuesday for the first time in a while which was not a forward thinking move. Tunkhannock - nice snow, icy patches, not quite bumped up yet but it was getting there Lackawanna - ungroomed, bare spots, was somewhat icy Seneca - ungroomec, bumps starting to appear, bare spots Wyalusing - very good shape Susquehanna - mint 👌 Slalom - good Delaware - narrow spots got icy but it was regroomed mid day from like 2:30-3:30 and was pretty nice afterword Tioga - slick, crowded 🎳 West slope - soft, nice condition Lower tunkhannock/spurs - good soft surface Wissahickon - crunchy but not too slick Lenape - good shape in morning becoming icy in afternoon Natural cover has been poached and there seems to have been attempts to make snow on the yet to be opened trails. Terrain parks are not open. The ticket printer by the north lifts is convenient even if you order on your phone while already there. Just make sure you get the email because there is nowhere else with your qr code unless you talk to guest services... Also it would be nice if you could ski back to the north side parking lot at closing time rather than taking the shuttle since patrol ropes it all off like half an hour before although I do understand they need to sweep it.