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Absolutely phenomenal day. Sunny and no crowds. Perfect 12°F at 11 AM. Day 31 Canyon Creek Ridge Run North Bowl Face and the Ant Hill Ptarmigan Bowl

Did an afternoon session at Eldora today. It was a sunny warm day with no wind. So rare for Eldora. Started out on the front side. The snow wasn’t great. Hasn’t snowed in a while and things were pretty scraped off. After 4 different runs in the front I went to the backside to see if the snow was better there. And it was a bit. Corona trail was pretty scraped off as it’s the main one on that side. Then I did a couple on Muleshoe, that snow was much better. Did one more back there forget the name then called it a day. No lift lines whatsoever. I miss Crested Butte. Lol

Drove up last night to see friends and family and then stayed at the Holiday Inn Express in Dickson City. Ate dinner at Burrito Loco Cantina right down the street and it was pretty good. Table side fresh made guac and got the spicy pork tacos. Boo got tacos el pastor. There was a Primanti Bros within walking distance and I wish I knew that before deciding on Mexican. Ate the free hot breakfast at the hotel and then 30 minute drive to Elk. Upper lot was full so had to boot up and take the shuttle to redeem the passes. Standing in ski boots in corrals on the back of that truck is probably the most technical thing I had to do today. Learned they had the state slalom championship going on once we were on the snow and it was packed with racers. That combined with those fixed doubles helped us decide to stay lookers right and lap the quad. Those doubles reminded me how much I don’t miss dragging a kid on the MS/Burma chairs at Blue. Spoiled with the detachables now. Snow started thicc sugar but soften up with the temperature. Everything was running good and max 1 minute wait for the quad. For the amount of cars we were surprised how empty it felt. Did everything on that side besides Upper Tunkhannock. Skiers right looked pretty good when we so the boys on it Did 8ish runs and went to the Winter Garden Restaurant for lunch. Margarita flatbread was terrible but buff chicken dip and chili were pretty good. Caught up to @mbike-skiand @NastarGlennfor a couple runs on Tecumseh and Kickapoo after lunch. The kid is fearless now and handled everything grate. Split with the boys for 1 last run and Becky Boo said her legs were tired walking back to the car. Mission accomplished. 95 minutes lot to house to complete the trip to Vermont without the drive.

Nice morning, first chair on quad and first tracks (other than ski patrol) down Razors. Good condition. Nightmare getting a little tough. Spent most of the day on the new 6 pack. All slopes were nice, got softer but never mushy as the morning on. Not crowded, no lift line. Geezers out in force. The bathroom before opening always reminds me of that movie scene from Trading Places, except with us geezers instead of young traders. Brown spots are creeping in, kind of like a zombie take over.

23/24 indy pass is now available for returning passholders, just renewed mine

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*colleges. Plural. Please don't sell me short.

Pumped to see the price the same and that Jay stayed on.

Looking like possible snow tonight in the Lehigh valley and poconos. 1-2” for the LV and 2-4” for the pokeys

People soup

Must have been nice looking out in the distance and seeing snow and not just brown zinc hills.

I would have had a better memory of the place except I had two gay guys ask me to share a room. I declined sternly.

Dang, I would say that is a picture of Heaven except for the fact it's in Canada.

Google confirmed, he is the Pastel Prince

Saw you'ses guys today standing in a circle (jerk). Sickbird!

Pretty much the entire north face is ungroomed. Boomer and smoke are both bumped up...cannonball is looking rough but its soft snow at least. Rattler is ok, half assed groomed.

More runs on boomer. White lightning is great too, bumps but pretty soft.

Lunch...short rib grilled cheese at Midland

To anyone thinking of coming here, it’s a nice resort. Lots of different terrain, resort seems well run, workers all friendly. And the free bus into town is great! We had some snow almost every day, only had one day when visibility was terrible. We were lucky with the weather.

I prefer the 19th. Me and Schif arrive to PHL on Sunday 3/19 at 6:30am.. we’ll be jacked up on Red Bull but we’ll make it to the lot for the blue sess of the season.

Hopefully I’ll get some Mank turns early tomorrow.

Was at BC from about 5 to a little after 6...Some pretty meh conditions..which surprises me cause most of the time it's good...Semi crusted chop...but some spots had decent stuff...Place was ghosted ....These next few days are prolly gonna be my last here....I hope they have the priest on call....

I dabble. A little here, a little there. Winters don't exist anymore. Doesn't really get me excited when you get like less than 2 months to ski brown spots.

Haters gonna hate…at least I didn’t fail out of college.

Have fun and look into renting fat skis.

I will be there before 9 to investigate. 🤔

Banff Springs Hotel . Looks like the same Architect

Spent both Saturday and Sunday mornings up at Bear this weekend with 2 different cousins. Gonna be there a few nights this weeks teaching somebody and going with somebody else before the season ends. Its frustrating...I tell people year round "anytime you wanna go just let me know". Then they all wanna go the week they close. No official closing date yet but I cant imagine they make it past this weekend.

@Ski2Live Live2SkiIndy Pass talk

@RajeevGuptaSucheeta Does the 19th work for you?

Switchback was next level bad by 9am it was almost impressive. Between the Air Force buzzing the lot and the cavalry shooting up in the hills I'm just glad @JFskiDan stayed safe. Cool aerial pic too. You can tell that's actually us because even just as a pixel JLaw manages to exude swagger.

Good runs early on. Unfortunately working through some back pain. Still fun.

Epic trip, thanks for the great pictures.

As hard as this winter season has tried to be on us skiers and riders, I have had some very good days at blue. Today was one of them, nice weather, decent snow. Yeah switchback was mashed potatoey, and come around was pretty slick but everything else I skied was ok, and barney's had hero bumps. One thing about Blue Mountain, it teaches (forces?) you to get used to wildly variable conditions. I think that's a good thing. I shared a lift with Matt Edge, enjoyed our conversation. Speaking of lifts, when are people going to learn to wait for their friends outside of the lift loading areas?

Hey All, I’m back from another fun session at Blue mountain the true mountain. I arrived at the lower lot at 715am and in the house were Johnny Law, Atomic Jeff, Schifdawg, Salty, BenM, Airhead, Pops, Enjorales, Mixilplix, MBike Mike, Nastar. Glenn, Bethlehem Ford Crew, Mute, BooBear, Becky Boo and many others. First run I skied challenge which was nice soft smooth snow but some mini rollers…Razors was better as no rollers and I skied that twice and then hit up nightmare to dreamweaver which was also good but a lot of mini thin spots showing. Main Street was full on spring conditions and Widowmaker to midway was quite nice. Lazy mile to the falls was also really good and empty which was a treat and paradise had the same hero snow as the other trails..no edges needed. I ended up skiing 11 runs by 930..then hungout in the parking lot and enjoyed some beers. No chips today as JFDan was gone. It also only rained for a few runs lightly and was foggy a few runs as well but not bad. All in all conditions were better than expected and crowds were less than expected. JADIP

Thanks! They are definitely way better than I was at their age. Hopefully they have a lifelong hobby.

Was @Benm there? His stats say he hasn't skied since 1/8. @GrilledSteezeSandwich as the stats manager you should be all over this.

Definitely a great day! Thanks for the pass Salty first few runs were a bit drizzly. Had some warp speed runs early with the PASR gang. Sun popped out for a short time in the afternoon. After a beer in the parking lot I headed back to ski bump’s which were awesome. Skied with the bump crew for a while. All the young bucks bailed leaving the geriatric crew . Myself Paul and Marvin quit around 2:30 after my legs had enough. Beers in the lot with Paul and mbMike . Pauls brother got married in VT and there were some leftover beers . Left 3:30 ish

Wrapped things up nicely on Friday, which was a beautiful sunny day. Started out with a nice long perfect groomer from the very top of lift 2 all the way down to the bottom of the backside. Perfect corduroy and no people so I could really let them run. Seas really hoping that the Kachina peak lift would open since it hadn’t run since Monday and there was fresh snow the past few days. My wish was granted at about 10:30 when I saw it was loading and I immediately hopped in line. I was probably about the 20th or so chair, and even though it was tracked up under the lift from patrol, i traversed out to the K chutes and was able to get an untouched foot or more of powder straight down K4. Brought my son up a couple times and brought my daughter up as well. Aside from a nice lunch at the Bavarian, I basically just skied Kachina peak all day in the sun and it was magical. Back in Albuquerque now and heading back to PA tomorrow.

Waaaay to much in the way of logistics with this. At least @Benm got on the lift with 2x4's on his feet. This thing wont get near the lift. However, you may be able to get this to go at JF with skiitoolives on Sunday, since you can just throw it on the snow there and go down. Might have a hike back up tho. I would shoot for the glades, since he heard they were "skiable".

Just got home from another afternoon at the Blue the Only True mountain Pennsylvania has to offer. Arrived in the lower lot at 1:15 to see no PASR activity or much of any activity at all. I knew I made the right decision to sleep and then come in the afternoon. Started the day lapping Come Around 9 times from the Main Street Express without ever sitting next to another person. Bounced around for another 11 runs on snow that never got slushy as one might have thought with the temps hitting near 60! Some poop 💩 stains resurfaced in the usual spots. Especially the bottom of Switchback was quite bare. Coverage otherwise is still great and deep enough to push around to for hopefully another 3 weeks. All in all JADIP.

Was really nice tonight, pretty soft smooth and fast, I love when expectations are exceeded!

Friday 2/24: We flew United from PHL to Denver flight 3:30pm flight. The airplane seemed old and didn't even have movies to watch which sucked. We arrived with no issues. I think it was in the 40's when we landed. We got off the flight and headed towards baggage. Our bags showed up very quickly and so did our ski bags. Unfortunately, we saw a guy take a ski bag that looked exactly like ours but we assumed he would have checked the sticker. He clearly didn't because we grabbed "our" ski bag only to find out it wasn't ours. So we rushed to customer service who called and got in touch with the person. He was on this way to his rental car so he eventually looped back around. It was really frustrating because who doesn't check the name on the bag. He was very apologetic though. We headed over to Budget to get our 4runner. It took quite a while but no issues. We were finally on our way to Breckenridge around 8/9pm. Dark drive but clear roads which I was thankful about. Our house was about 15 minutes outside of Breck and sat about 11,500 in elevation so we were all huffing and puffing. Saturday 2/25: We slept in a little bit and headed to the mountain around 9am only to find traffic was terrible because it was a gorgeous blue bird day. After about 45 minutes of driving and finding parking, we got a spot and finally headed to the gondola to hit the mountain. Perfect day of skiing. A bit warm but we cruised blues all day on Peak 7 and 8 with 2 of the people who aren't super great skiers. We stopped for lunch and a beer than headed back out for more runs. We ended up calling it quits around 3pm. He headed back to the house and sat in the hot tub. The other half of the group went off and skied alot of the mountain. it was super crowded since it was such a nice day but it was a nice low key day Sunday 2/26: A lot less crowded. We had no issues driving into town and finding parking. We were on the mountain around 9:30am with clear blue skies again. We skied Peaks 7 and 6. We ended up calling it a day around 1pm so my husband and I could walk around town and grab food and drinks. We had hopes of doing a group dinner in town Saturday night but it was snowing pretty hard. By the time we were ready to leave 1 car was stuck in the snow so we stayed in and made dinner. Monday 2/27: Best day of skiing. No crowds, fresh snow, blue skies. We got to the mountain early and took a few easy runs to warm up. We did a bunch of tree runs. After lunch we headed up the t-bar to horseshow bowl. We got on the t-bar and Nick sat a little hard and the bar disappeared from my behind and I was dropped haha Luckily it was only about 20 feet so we skied back down and got in line again. Second attempt at the t-bar was successful. We had alot of fun in the bowls. We skied until close and took the easy trail all the way down to the parking lot. The group met up and we headed to dinner at the Kenosha Steakhouse. Food was alright but good atmosphere. It was our last night so we ate and walked around a bit. Tuesday 2/28: Flight home was uneventful. It was a fun trip. I hadn't been out west skiing in a few years so it was nice to be back. That's all I got for now.

it made the trip to the western peak great again.

Booked flights for Utah, flying out Monday evening 3/20, return flight is late Friday 3/24. Should get 4 full days in

I also became heavily invested in tournament Bass fishing after the injury which kept my mind occupied.

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The teeter totter is maxed out to the west.....it's been snowing for 3 days straight in UT and I would settle for 3 days of cold