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Hey All, I’m back from a fun morning session at Blue mountain the true mountain. I arrived at 835am and it was 36 degrees in the valley and 43 at the upper entrance..mad inversion Yo!!! In the house were the Bethlehem ford crew, C1, Rodney, Oz, ZZSlope and a couple hundred boomers. First civilian quad with Oz and I started off with Coming soon which was smooth but a little stiffer than I expected. Razors was better cord and I give it an 8 out of 10…upper Main Street and lower left was the nicest snow initially I give that an 8.5. Widowmaker was closed for racing but they hadn’t set up gates yet so I did one run on it and it was glorious to chute which was a little stiff but smooth. I skied Lazy to the falls once and it was decent until right before the turn where there were mini cookies, I revisited coming soon and also some little pebbles but not bad. Razorback had a few slick spots. Crowds were light but enough that there were people on almost every chair but no line. If it was only the quad running, there’d definitely be a short lift line so it shows the improvement of the brand new summit safari six back. I ended with Main Street which was turning choppy and spring like and peaced out right before 1030.

I got this new board but it broke right in half. Never Summer Icon Split board and Spark R&D Surge ST bindings

Today was one of those bluebird days that make me happy my friends took me on that first ski outing so many years ago. Skied a morning session with Hyata from opening bell until noon. Some morning stiffness but everything softened into nicely carvable snow quickly. Can't complain about any of the trails while I was there. I do wish challenge and switchback were open. Bummer to see them full of snow whales but not groomed out, although it was evident that there were quite a few skiers who poached runs on switchback. Enjoyed a lift ride with root, good to see him again.

Conditions are really good tonight. Coming soon is $$.

Tonight was pretty good, edge able with a few slick spot here and there to keep you on your toes. Spent more time shootin the shit on the way in with gahskier George, NazSkierJ, and BMRmugsy on the way in and the way out with the Mute’s and NastarGlennsSonsFriendPuffy then actual skiing, huh, imagine that…

Yesterday was fantastic. Rode with my cousin from 930-1215. Went out to the parking lot had a little lunch and met up with my coworker and rode from 1-2. haha I really did make the video on the video board by the quad.

Everything else is decent. Hard but edgable in the middle. Some sugar on the sides but not the dry ankle deep shit we were skiing 2 weeks ago. Got the headphones on, weather is nice. Life is good

Great time riding with @antman12 and @Mixilplix Pretty crowded but snow wasn't bad

Another fun night there...Skied from 5:30ish to a little after 7....Great conditions again...No real crowds to speak off when I got there but just before seven the lift line got to be painful...Was gonna do a NASTAR run but didn't want to go through the pain of the lift line....Really having a good time going back there....

Lapping bumps on grizzly, had had plans of setting some slush bumps but things are pretty firm. Down Samsquanch once

aw c'mon man. Didn't you hear? you can have an EPICTM time at hunter, its like skiing on the cross bronx expressway, with a longer drive!

1 extra hour in the air to dallas. I wad ready to start climbing the walls. Delayed to gunnison, but at least im in the right place.

Between work, getting ready to go to Vermont and being in Vermont, today was the first day I skied Blue in 2 weeks😳. Lots of surprise ice patches all around. ROTD probably NMDW. Main Street and TCS not bad. I’ll be back tomorrow for more fun.

This was Feb 2. Another Headwall hike over to Casper into Beartooth. And always ❤️ a pic of Grand Teton

Safe travels @JFskiDan!

Short but fun session with @PSUFlyand @antman12..Once the sun dropped the snow started to firm up a bit...Only got four laps in cause the lift line was just maddening...Not the biggest fan of riding there when it gets a crowd...But always feels good to get out and slide on the snow....

I thought the crowd with ease as the night went along, but it seems to have gotten busier. I had enough I’ll be back tomorrow afternoon anyways. Fun night.

Sweet it didn’t get much traffic earlier.

I couldn't do today but knew waking up it was a nice one. Razors has been mad finicky of late, it's good but only for a short window.

Skiing with friends from New Zealand.

Bear creek, seven springs

15 days.

I’ll be up tomorrow for the opening ding dong. Worked 6 days straight since I’ve been back from JH I need that weekday cord with the boomers and WFH peeps and at least a run or two on Razors hopefully.

Always happy to see them blowing snow and challenge/particularly the top of switch have some serious piles but it did leave most of the hill with a nice topping of cookies. BFG has returned but otherwise it was pretty empty. Everytime the new lift stops and then immediately e stops they call down some master lifty who seems to be the only one who knows the magical buttons but 10 secs after he shows up and it runs.

Last day at Blue ....Chinese Downhill ......?

Nice lights in the view. You could get some Mad steezy air off those moguls.

Nope the boys are just having to much fun. I enjoy your 4am reports from out west.

Did I miss yesterday's report?

@antman12 @PSUFly..I should be there by six...

If you weren't being such a jealous hater Ski2Live and I might invite you on a road trip with us to Hunter, you can use my Buddy Ticket and ski Hunter all day long for just $71. But you have to agree to sit between us on the lift at least 3 times

I just saw that the Blister Summit is taking place while you are out there. Keep your eyes peeled for some pro skiers cruising around!

I went to Hunter last Thursday and there were like 50 people there. Never waited in line for more than 25 seconds. You guys are just hella jelly because Ski2Live and I have an Epic Pass. We're saving a lot. We always save a lot.

Nice! I've contemplated getting a split board, just not sure how much use I'd get out of it. Never Summer boards are awesome, I may get another if they do the end if season sale again

I thought I saw you on there. Looking forward to a night sesh this evening. I think it'll be good

I go to JFrost rarely, but it is worth reporting on its status and conditions in a PA skiing forum. Closest thing I have to a home mountain is Hunter (4 of my 15 days this skison) which has at least double the open terrain Blue has.

Blues open terrain is at least 2 times what Jf has open but pat yourself on the back extra for choosing Jack Frost.

That’s rad..they probably wanted to show a snowboarder to promote diversity.

Yep that should work see you then

https://www.firsttracksonline.com/2013/05/15/pennsylvania-ski-resort-loses-lawsuit-over-water/ I don't think they can ban someone from buying a season pass because of where they live. No further info could be found.

Sorry, you'll have to post it. I'm not allowed to post anything stupid.

@saltyant can you post the haters gonna hate video. That’s one of my favorite ski videos on YouTube.

Crew who was there. my apologies I got roped into some work b*llsh*t Monday afternoon and went right back to town so they would not bug me rest of week. Yea Monday morning was about as cold as I ever seen it as long as I kept moving I was ok. These pics are from Headwall hike over to Casper into a line called Fremont Loved it, nice sustained pitch.

But where is the cement mixer?

Great TR so far. Bison chili sounds amazing. I bet if you showed your unpunched card next chili bowl you get they would punch it twice. Why would you have a card at all if you didn’t already buy a bowl? You should definitely go to the Jane side and take the Panorama all the way to the top. Views are very nice and you can take blues all the way to the bottom. The last part of the cat walk is a quad burner trying to keep your speed up. WP seems to have a lot of cat walks. Deno’s restaurant in town has good food.

First day on a western trip so of course everyone was up way too early despite not getting nearly enough sleep the night before travel day. Pope was up from about 4am to 7 then managed about an hour more of sleep before breakfast. I was up from about 6 and stayed up. Not sure what time Homie woke up but he was awake on the living room sofa when I hit the head at 6. Took a look out the window and saw that there was about 3 inches of fresh snow covering all the chairs and tables down around the hot tub, a nice bonus. Breakfast in the room, we had ventured back out the night before for room provisions and a dispensary for Pops and Stephen. Stephen decided to make eggs and bacon and home fries for breakfast. Good, but much more than I typically eat that early, ski trip or no. While prepping all the gear for Day 1 the night before, gave Pops his lift ticket. Homie says “Oh yeah, where do I get my lift ticket?” Uhm, in the mail, at your house. Turns out he remembered that it did come and he even packed it — and then switched to a bigger bag, and left it in the other one. 🤦‍♂️Luckily he stopped by the ticket window first thing and they were able to cancel the old card and issue a new one. Didn’t even charge him $20. So with Pops feeling shitty enough that he wasn’t even coming on Friday night, we decided it would be smart to stay low on the mountain for the first day and ease into things. During the previous evenings excursions he was price comparing those Oxygen boost canisters. Funny enough, the mercantile at the WP base village was cheaper than Safeway so he popped in to get one. But it also got me thinking that renting an oxygen concentrator for him for the room could only help increase our chances for a successful week so I went ahead and ordered one for delivery this afternoon. At the base area there was a pretty decent corral for the gondola, but we bypassed it anyway and took the Gemini express over for a couple of short green runs to get the day started. Hopped on the Discovery double and skied down to the Prospector express. Made 6 runs off the Prospector hitting all the various green and blue groomers accessible over there, and mixed in a ride up the Looking Glass lift, first center pole no bar lift for us. It’s also a “passes over your head” after you disembark lift, thankfully no head injuries. After our trip up Looking Glass and down Mock Turtle, Pops was feeling alright to go a bit higher so we took a ride up the Olympia express so we could run Whistlestop to March Hare to White Rabbit. Where March Hare split to White Rabbit I elected to continue on March Hare while the others zagged to Rabbit. The bottom of March Hare ended up being a nice pitch, but short, filled with mild soft bumps so glad I was alone, but I enjoyed it. Took another ride up Olympia because I wanted to run Lonesome Whistle. Doodled in some super low pitch, wide spaced trees on the way down Hook Up to get to Lonesome Whistle. Very enjoyable run down Lonesome Whistle and it was about noon by this time, so we decided to grab a bite and get in to warm up. I knew exactly what I wanted to eat. The Bison chili at Sunspot. WP is having a promotion in Feb, they have 9 different spots that have chili on the menu around the mountain. If you eat 6 bowls you get a free celebratory beanie and sticker. (Also 25% off each bowl of participating.) As a big chili fan, challenge accepted. Where last years Jay Peak trip was the trip of poutine, this week will be a chili-fest. Took the Looking Glass up from where we were so we could ski down to the Explorer express. Went via the green Alan Phipps which was the most popular run of the day for Pops and Homie. Could really let them run down that trail and we all notched our fastest run of the day on it, for as much as the WP app can be trusted for that stuff. Explorer up to Sunspot and we went in for lunch around 12:25. Got my bison chili and it was quite good. Got my punch card to keep track of my bowls. Realized afterward that the cashier gave me my punch card and didn’t punch it. Now I have to eat 7 bowls of chili this week. Starting to seem unlikely. Spent about 45 minutes there and we decided we were about done for the day. I had been wanting to run Cranmer all day so I decided to take that to Larry Sale for a nice blue run down, and Stephen joined me until he took a wrong turn off Cranmer and went down Village Way instead of Larry Sale. Pops decided he wasn’t pushing any more and downloaded on the gondola. Overall a great first day. We put in 14 runs for 9300 vert, skied 10 miles. Got a bit of a late start with the side missions, and combined with staying low on easier slopes we didn’t get much use out of the fresh, but it made for a nice surface at least, and found a few small pockets to cover the tips in a few places. The fresh snow seemed a bit sticky, especially around the lift boarding areas, so Pops and I were looking to try to drop the skis off for a tune. But when I realized the only place in the village to do so was farther than I wanted to walk in my ski boots right then, we decided to just head back to the condo. We’ll drop them after skiing tomorrow Ended up just spending the rest of the afternoon and evening lazing around the condo. Didn’t even hit the hot tub today, though Its definitely on tap for tomorrow after skiing. Burgers and fries in the condo for dinner. NEXT - Ski day 2 or can you take me high enough?

Day 1 cont. - Landed at DEN and pulled out my phone and checked on the rental car while taxiing to the gate. Was offered a couple of Kia Sportage 2WD options, a couple of minivans, a 2022 Mitsubishi Outlander and a 2023 GMC Acadia. Looked at the differences between the Outlander and the Acadia and decided to get the GMC, but when I went to reserve it it wasn't available anymore. Refreshed a bunch of times while heading to baggage claim and saw a bunch of options. Always the Kias amd minivans, and several different Outlanders. The most interesting one was a 2022 Ford Expedition that popped up on about half of the refreshes. About 2/3 of the times it showed up it said "Upgrade $33 per day" and the rest of the time it was a free upgrade. Was ready to take the 2022 Outlander with about 16k miles, did one last refresh and there was a 2023 Dodge Durango with 1195 miles so snagged that. Took awhile to get luggage because the ski carousel was jammed and they were bringing ski bags out on a cart 6-8 at a time. Finally got the ski bag amd headed to the Avis shuttle. Got to the lot, straight to the car and after a longer line than there should have been (Preferred exit closed) we were on the road to Winter Park. No traffic to speak of and got to Winter Park at about 2pm. Can't get I to the condo until 4 so decided to cruise past the resort and get the lay of the town and nearby Fraser. We were also hungry so decided to keep an eye out for the Mexican good joint that PSUFly recommended to me 6 or 7 times. Okay, it was only 3x, but I figured when someone mentions you should eat somewhere that many times, it probably doesn't suck.I couldn't remember the name but I knew that it was short and simple and I would know it when I saw it, something like The Shack or The Dump. We drove through Winter Park and through Fraser and down the road awhile more and weren't spotting it. Spun around and headed back and figured we'd look some more and eat somewhere in WP. On the way back I asked my sisters BF Stephen whonis with us where he rented skis from so we could pick them up while we were in town. He didn't remember the name. Uhm, okay. Can you look for an email? Can't find an email. Has a text message from them confirming pickup for 2/5 and a price. No name? No name. No address? No address. Google the number. No good hits. Called it and it was a computer. Driving back through Fraser and WP amd Stephen is in the backseat calling like 4 different ski rental jawns off "Winter Park Ski Rentals" and asking if they have a rental in his name for pickup today. Can't make this shit up. 🤣 Almost back through Winter Park and still haven't spotted The Hut or whatever so pull the car into a garage to figure out where to eat and where homie's rentals need to be picked up. Walking toward the shops there trying to decide between the brewpub and a couple other places. "Hey, we should go to The Ditch. Right across the damn street, lol. Walk up and get seated amd now have the difficult decision of deciding between all the delicious items on the menu. The burgers all sounded awesome, including the sliders on the app menu. But going to a place like that and getting a burger would be like going to a cheesesteak place in Philly and ordering a hot dog. (A brother in law did that.) So I got the Murphy which was their basic burrito (which is anything but basic) but also stuffed with a Chile relleno amd topped with French fries and cheese before being smothered in their red or green chili sauce, or Xmas style, both. Went Xmas style, natch. It was phenomenal, with the relleno being the star. Smashed the whole thing and probably would have eaten another relleno if one happened to be present. Great food and a great rec by Fly. At some point during the meal I started helping Stephen track down his skis. I figured if I made started making a dummy reservation amd it was the same price it could help. First place I went to asked for renters name amd DOB, put his info in and got "Welcome returning customer!" Mystery solved, lol. Picked up his rentals and headed back to the resort just in time to get into the room. Very happy with the room and location vs price paid. Good view from the balcony. We were all looking forward to hitting some good snow in the morning. First trip out west for Stephen. NEXT - ski day 1 or everybody get low low low low

Super fun time up there tonight..Firm with a top layer of Slurpee type stuff...Bumps on Sassy L side and bumps on Grizzly..Not the best but serviceable......It looks like they have decent coverage but it could just be a trick of the light...Decent amount of cars in the lot ..but the F chair side was pretty quiet...Only lift line was when they held the line for patrol sled...

NMDW, along with park features and you finish off the run by going thru a giant inflatable clown mouth. 😇😇

What a great morning! CB reported 2” overnight but it skied like more. The only ungroomed run I did was the last bit back to the base. Legs got a workout today!

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