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Go ski with your niece and nephew. You wont regret it and they wont forget it.

Yes. Cost shouldn't matter when it's once a year and your making memories with nieces and nephews.

And take pictures of their faces when they see what an agile mofo you are on skis!

You should 100% go ski with the kids. Plus kids aren't know as first chair people so you can still go to Blue, have fun, have a beer or two, and then scoot over to Boulder to show them how it's done.

Looking like snow showers and maybe some sun today as the forecast is calling for the heavier snow to start at 8pm tonight. Supposed to get 2 to 4 in town tonight with up to 11 inches over 7k feet. Only 75 inches in so far this season so they need it. Unfortunately flat iron, white lightning and upper bowl are closed but some natural snow trails and tree shots are in play like the Gondi line and jeep trail etc. Looking forward to skiing some of that today. Solo today as my daughter is back on campus. Oh and Forgot to mention I won a free Smith Mission helmet yesterday courtesy of snowbeezy. Got entered into a raffle for answering a few safety questions my number was called. Pretty cool as I was looking at new helmets. Lady at the ski shop said I can switch it for another brand if I wanted but opted to keep it.

The Good, The Bad, The Ugly…. Good: Comfortable temperatures. Bad: No powder days although I’ve had at least 30 Pow days at JH before. Ugly: My foot early in the trip which caused me to skip the Hobacks…the boys even wanted to see it.. Good: The Crew…only thing that would have made this trip better would have been surprise appearances from Toast and Nazareth Jay. NMSki is always fun and may have the best demeanor of anybody I know. He’s a very polite guy and when I slipped on ice yesterday and ate shit, he even waited to laugh until he knew I was ok. I goof on Mute sometimes but it’s all in good fun, he’s a super nice guy and his skiing has improved tremendously since he skied JH with us four years ago. His Big Dick energy inspires me to be more active. Dirtwolfs first trip to JH and despite a bout of food poisoning, he got knocked down but got up again and made the best of his time in JH, a super laidback go with the flow kind of guy, and not fussy at all. And Atomic Jeff, like the strict dad I never had…has almost as many days at JH as me and PASRs resident Sommelier..and perhaps one of my biggest fans lol Bad: Service at some restaurants..JH is the only place starters arrive at the same time as entrees…or just sit for 15 minutes before you even get water, it’s almost comical..but It’s not easy being a service worker in one of the most expensive ski towns in America. Ugly: People in the airport and on the plane with crutches…

@Mixilplix I was looking for you but never saw you when I was there between 6-8. Rode from 6-8ish doing a handful of runs off of the triple then started doing some top to bottom runs and finished with a few more runs off of the triple. GFs progressing well, still mostly pizza-ing around but starting to carve a little bit more and handly speed better without panicking. Learning how to do full stops better and better each time out. Its pretty cool to watch somebody progress from hardly getting down the carpet hill to doing top to bottom runs in about 2 weeks/4 trips. Last night was the first night that she truly had fun!

Taken in Mount Snow, Vermont on 1/31/2024. Was this real life??

Maybe by Monday or Tuesday @Johnny Law and @Johnny Style

That's what I ultimately ended up doing. Skied the glades off of spur catwalk for the first time and it was stellar (pic below) As were the north rim glades. White lightning (also pic below) was open so I ran that as well. I feel like @JFskiDan would be in heaven in the woods here. It's actually weird getting lost in the woods at a western resort without Dan. Top notch ski day. Skied from 9 to 2. Didn't think I'd go that long but found some good stuff off trail that made me forget about the fog. Not to mention upper and lower ridge... any groomer for that matter was excellent as well. Weird cause it's sunny in town. But snows on the way. Lift tickets for Saturday are up to $300 lol.

Rode from 9-1:30 today. Nobody was there. First 2 runs down challenge were best challenge runs of season, then it went to shit. Coming soon was decent. ROTD was raceway to chute. Conditions weren’t that great

Gondi line to north rim glades is open and it's really freaking good. Snow is softer in that area due to what I'm guessing is a lack of sun bake. Ran that twice. Legs are screaming. Still foggy but a stellar day regardless

Sat and Sun

This. Then you can join us in trying to get 2 ski days out of 2 mountains on the same day in the stats.

Thanks man. I’m not 100% sure what it is but I just really enjoy being out here. Snowbowl isn’t Utah, Jackson or a lot of CO. But I enjoy skiing here as much as anywhere. I like the terrain, layout, look and feel of the mountain and the scenery is up there with anything I’ve been. It isn’t 2000 plus acres, cliffs, pucker up steeps or anything like that but it is enough; and Flagstaff isn’t pretentious…just down to earth people who enjoy being outside (with a lot of good eats). Maybe it’s just the older I get the less I feel the need to venture out of my comfort zone. I think I just like being comfortable.

Bluebird! Snow is excellent, chalk like on piste. Off is crusty. Excellent views today. Can see the north rim on the Grand canyon pretty clearly. Sunshine and groomers kinda day for sure. They do need snow though. Still fantastic... Demoing Nordica enforcers which I really like. May purchase after the season. Great day!!

Hey All, It’s almost another weekend, looks like some very nice weather. Is anybody planning on skiing Blue mountain the true mountains? I plan on Saturday and Sunday. My sisters family is skiing big boulder Saturday and I said maybe but now that it’s close, I have zero interest in slumming it there. ski some of you this weekend.

At BC from 5 to 6:30ish.....When I rolled in there were many buses but not a lotta cars.. ..Almost turned around....Walking in the courtyard was packed....After I made my way through the sea of humanity I was surprised to find a short lift line....Made my way to F chair and the line was non existent....Snow was good...Little chop at times but it kinda made it more fun...They have an OK base but there are spot that won't like it when Mr Sunshine returns...Bout 6:30 the lift lines started and called it... When I rolled out I counted like 18 buses....

BC frowns upon pop ups in the parking lot for tailgating. Will get a visit from security. I do see low key tailgating going on Saturday afternoons in lot. Just be cool and haven't seen any issues. Also haven't seen any grills going....... Snow today was pretty good, fast and firm. Got in my 16 runs in 2 hours. Started getting lumpy on Kodiak and Broadway by 11. Timberline, Grizzly both very nice.

Couple of hours this morning at Frost. 33 when I got there, 37 when I left. Most of the time on east mountain. Still a long ways to get Floyd’s open, but they are trying. Exhibition open. They widened the bottom headwall of River Shot by pushing snow off to the right. Slopes are in great shape, very firm with a little soft stuff on top. Nothing off piste. Holding up well when I left. Top speed almost 15 mph faster than yesterday at that other mountain. Started not having an empty slope in front of me about 11. First trips on new east mountain lift. Still as slow as before. Not running Tbolt lift weekdays.

Just got back from an afternoon session at Camel. It was drizzling when I left my house but that turned to a wet snow going up the access road to the Camel. I opted to go up the tubing road and park right by the Stevenson, it felt a bit nostalgic. Snow was quite nice, surface was mostly a natural wet creamy layer and little ice for the most part even on the steeps. The park is still dismal with only a down rail and small jump. Cant complain with some suprise winter scenery laps at the Camel today. All in all JADIP in the Pocohoes.

Saturday & Sunday

I second this.

Upper sidewinder is nice when it’s empty, by the last pitch, you are going as fast as on challenge which is a double black…maybe next winter will be cold and it will be open for 2025

Rode at BC for about an hour and a half late pm....Snow was straight up Idahoans....Steeper parts were again nice....but the flats were pretty lumpy....Not too many people there when I arrived....Most of the time got right on the lift...But as soon as I had to wait more than a few minutes I was gone....Some school buses there when I left...Looked for @antman12 but never saw him....

Got home from an evening sesh at Blue The True. Sugar lumps sugar lumps everywhere. Main Street top to bottom was reminiscent of Superstar in May at Killington. Kids freaking everywhere but crowds werent so bad with all 3 lifts running. Razors and Freefall were closed for ski team as was Nightmare and Dreamweaver for what looks like another race course build. I'm not a big fan of night riding but it was still worth it. Now a few days rest before Killy!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1zkchLLT80/?igsh=cXAzcnE0b3J3MjBw

All slopes were very carveable all morning, probably until closing. Be out tomorrow afternoon with the DW, hopefully.

ditto

Seems like fantasy

Would you pay $94 to ski a few runs at big boulder? I dont think I’d go there if I was paid $94.

Shoot. The real conversation should be who here wants to get together to buy Elk?

We've tailgated at every wedding/reception we've been to there.

Just made it back home. Travel was smooth…flight was supposed to leave at 2:09PM mountain time and left around 2:30PM but made it back to Newark on time around 820PM eastern. Took a solid 45+ minutes to get bags..but I literally walked onto the Parking spot Haynes bus and had my own bus..$5 tip for the driver cause he helped me with my bags. Since it’s only like 9pm on my time I’ll be up for awhile so I’ll start on the Good the Bad and the Ugly. Way more Good than bad and ugly this trip. Some parting shots of the ski area

Barneys line looked beautiful. The rest of main if you like VW bug sized sugar piles 🤣

I'll be up the next 3 days for sure

Have fun in Killington, may the Snow Gods bless you. Today was day 4 in a row for me at Blue. I thought conditions weren’t as bad as yesterday. Challenge was actually pretty nice- soft bumps. So irritating to have Razors and NMDW closed.. and NO ONE ON IT ALL DAY. We were drooling over the corduroy on NMDW as we went over it on the quad. Didn’t get crazy amount of runs in this week, due to conditions, but JAWIP. just another week in paradise.

50.7 going down the final drop of Rivershot. Long flat runout afterwards. They don’t have the race pressure to open Floyd’s.

Thanks for the update re Floyd's, RShot and glades. Better info than available on their site for sure. Might hit it for some turns tomorrow as limited time to ski this weekend.

I'll be there on Sunday, Tommy is a maybe.

Did you have to pay for parking?

I agree 💯. I always skip lower sidewinder. Unpopular opinion: don't care much for upper sidewinder either except the top of it is radical. Intersection at the bottom is too much of a PITA.

Been around for a coupla years. I think it's another option to connect both sides of the mountain resort.

Nice pictures, and now I have another forecast/webcams to watch for a potential powder day tomorrow for you.

Always enjoy the pics from out there! Looks great. Enjoy that snow tomorrow 😍

NASTAR is Tuesday and Wednesday nights. SL on Tuesday, GS on Wednesday night. Snow today was really good for first 1 1/2 hours then got mashed potatoes. Sasquatch and skiers right of Grizzly ROTD. Thursday and Friday nights this week lots of schools coming.

Arrived in flag around 12am local time. Ride up was smooth as always with a pit stop a del taco for a burrito (side note…del taco has the best fries. Sounds crazy but it’s true. They’re crinkle cut). Anyway…Since snowbowl road is a pain in the ass I asked the rental car place for awd and they gave me a pretty cool jeep gladiator. No new snow today but sunny skies and highs in the 30s. Should be awesome. Stoke levels are a 10 out of 10.

A few more pics. Boy I lucked out. Skiing in southern Vermont has been infinitely better than anything in Pennsylvania this season.

Have fun and safe travels!!!

Have a good trip.