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The first few runs were so money. Was thinking of course thinking it was only a matter of time before that disappeared. Surprisingly however conditions held up fairly well. Really fun day today.

Hey all, I’m back from another fun day at Blue mountain the true mountain. I arrived at the lower lot before 720am and it was 20 degrees under mostly sunny sky’s. In the house was everybody except Atomic Jeff, Johnny Law, TP4, Zonked, Toast, Root and Nancy. First run on Challenge was super nice almost western groomer, second run was similar..then Switchback was pretty nice although super dark. Lazy mile was alright and I enjoyed the left side of Nightmare to Dreamweaver park. A revisit to challenge and it got trashed in the first 45 minutes a pit of ice and cookies. They blew some snow on tuts lane, Widowmaker and I think chute and all those areas weren’t very good. Coming soon was decent and I did a full run on Burma which was good except one of the corners was porcelain boilerplate..I ended on lazy for ten runs by 945am. Fun parking lot and pleasent weather. All in all better than expected since they had all three high speeds going. It got super busy the last few runs and after I quit for the session. JADIP

Got to Greek around 9 this morning. Did Olympian and another 2 runs off the quad while waiting for the other lifts to open...then hit Aesops Glade and another glade off of the oil rig lift a few times. Then over to lift 4 for a few runs. Coming out of Labyrinth glade, I decided to straight line back to the groomer towards the bottom. Good thing I had some speed, as I had to jump over a creek bed. Not a big gap but it was probably a 5 ft drop if I fell in. Hit Electra which had some good powder...unfortunately I kept following the trail and ended up below the lift at another creek bed. I had to hike back to the lift, which kinda sucked. Hit a few groomers after that and back to the car to switch boards...then most of the same trails on that board Pretty good day overall. Most of the glades and mountain bike trails were open. Rode until around 2 and hit Beer Tree Brewing on the way home

Floyds is fast and good. Mad Tree Glade is in. Looked icy but was OK. Nice day today.

Picked up 2 new boards on clearance this week. Been riding the Salomon Super 8 all morning, love it so far. I'll test out the Lib Tech T Rice Pro after my beer and lunch break. I know, snowboarders aren't cool but I'm having fun

Trying it without the angle iron. Moving it every 20 minutes and adding a log .

A mix of solo and with peeps. I've gotten around a bit but home base has been the Kedron Inn, Ransom tavern is there and all the places on the access road are skanky to some extent.

Pizza oven/flattop combo

Bet I could cook on it.

Binford Fubar 1 Mobile driveway ice melting system. Lol

Basic oil tank : Cut vertical vertical slot with sawsall after cutting a hole with grinder ( diamond blade) fastened two hinges with self drilling screws , cut remaining opening out. The angle iron I just laid on the ground and lifted the tank with a shovel to get the piece underneath . Flue opening: cut a circle leaving 4 tabs that I bent upwards and fastened 6” 26 gage flue pipe with self drilling screws. Craigslist used oil tank that the seller delivered for $200.00 hinges and a few handles $24.00 Wish I would’ve done this a month ago!

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That is fucking amazing

its going to be in the 50s this week. I think you'll be okay.

That's some dope fucking shit and I can't think of another hill that so directly calls peeps out on a traverse.

I had it next on my list to keep the weirdo tour going but peeps showed up and I wanted to ski with them. -----‐--‐------------------------------------ 2/20 Killington Was dope, conditions were prime the sun was out and it was quiet but nothing worth reporting on. 2/21 Loon I will preface this by saying this is snow sports industry type stuff and may be interesting to no one so feel free to stop reading. If you are familiar with the snow sports industry you are familiar with the Vail vs Ikon/Ksl but there is a third player we often forget about that is blowing unprecedented amounts of money to try and eat both their lunches in the NE. Boyne at some point realized all of boston is driving by nh and loon to ski the River and the loaf and VT 2 hrs west has people hanging off the rafters. So in 2020 they went all in and announced Loon 2030, their plan to build the most advanced resort in the US. You can read it here if your interested - https://www.loonmtn.com/flight-path-2030 In 2020 they put in the most advanced lift in NA to go 900 vert and like 2/3 of the way up the hill. Every lift has loading conveyors and two have laser overlays for your loading position. If you know me I had to go check this out. What's the verdict ? The lifts are impressive and what they want to do would put an truly insane number of people on the hill. The 8 can do 3500/hr and there plan is to put in like 6 more. The terrain is good with alot of blue twisty crusier types and some reasonable steeps. The views are quite excellent with alot of peakyness around for the NE. That's the good but the reality is they don't currently have the lodge infrastructure to support 1/20th of the people they stuff in there and even more importantly the acreage. No where in NH is above 400 and that isn't nearly enough during the week let alone on a weekend. Cool place with a dope 4 person gondy and lots of narrow old school NE twisties and there plan is impressive but not nearly there yet. If they really want to play with the big boys they will have to add a sizeable amount of terrain and more expert type steeps. I would only go there Monday through Wednesday, no shit, though I did have a good day there. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I have more skiing to do but none of it is probably interesting in a report kinda way. It's been awhile since I spent this kind of time up here and I what I'll always come back for is the straight up uniqueness of it all. There is no state with anywhere near the number of super famous wooden bowl makers or artisinal llama cheese. The snow was most excellent, like February 2014 kinda depth and it was dope as fuck to ski it.

Just picked these up. Can’t wait to try them out.

Early runs put a smile on your face.Chilly first thing but soon warmed up.Had fun riding with a high school bud today.

I fucking love this so much @AirheadD8 so you welded angle iron to it and added a smokestack in two hrs or was it already like that

I like it...pretty quick edge to edge and handled the trees better than most of my other boards. The funky sidecut (magne traction) will take some getting used to

I don't understand how it works. Do you push it around your driveway? A video would be helpful

We need to see video..Looks sick

@Schif and I missed a ski weekend — but — we have a lot of leftover wedding cake that we’ll bring to Bleu soon!

Not sure if you're interested in trying them out but i have two pairs of that same ski. Only thing changed between the three is the topsheet. Bsl is set to 315.

Well my current pants are only like five years old. Are people gonna think I’m a rich guy with two pairs of ski pants. I’ve also never had ski pants that aren’t black…can almost say the same about one of my friends boyfriends lol until Tremaine did her dirty.

I know not many here have yoots, but Costco has a heck of a deal on kids base layers, $4.97 for a set. They had M (8-10), L (10-12) and XL (12-14) in stock.

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