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Great weekend at Snowmass. Had a friend come visit. Bluebird and warm both days. Light crowds surprisingly. New boots are $$. That bootfitter at Highlands knows his shit. Natalie in Powerline Glades skied Longshot for the first time. I think it just opened last weekend. It is indeed long. 3 miles and 3275’ of vert. The first 2 miles are bumps and trees then it’s just ungroomed crud. Our legs were pretty toasted by the end. hiking up views at the top signs tell you when you are 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4 of the way down. definitely a run that’s more fun with a friend then solo.

Hey All, I’m back from another fun morning at Blue mountain the true mountain. I arrived at the lower lot around 715am and it was in the mid 20s under mostly sunny sky’s with light winds. In the house was everybody except Root, Toast, AngryHugo, TP4, Salty and Matt Edge. Second civilian OG six pack to challenge which was real nice lipstick on a pig grooming..second run was still good, third run was pretty much destroyed cookieville. Lazy mile was good on the top 2/3 with a little new manmade. Coming soon they seeded some new bumps and it was pretty slick. Switchback was ok and I got an empty run on it. I also skied one run on nightmare to Dreamweaver and while it’s a diversion from the crowds, they really ruined that run with features. I ended the session on Burma and it was hilariously slick…fun parking lot, I had a few beers and some cheese doodles and now at work counting money, gonna grocery shop and do the wash. 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

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

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.

The first run down Razors was delicious..TCS got scratchy pretty quick...Everything on the MS side rode well.Fast runs down Raceway/Mid/LM..Trying to ride a bit longer despite the crowds.

Decent day today, at least early on. Wish it'd stay a little less busy a little longer. Nice weather for the parking lot. Big fan of all the pizza talk.

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.

Looks awesome!

Got in 18 runs, parked 10 feet from the snow, never waited more than a minute for a lift under a blue sky. conditions started as softish cord then got slick on the blacks by the time we left Glad to have gotten in another day with a daughter before the melt and refreeze cycle begins

were you at camelback?

@GrilledSteezeSandwichI have a pass for you and 3 of your friends

TFTI. Your reports are so well written I feel like I skied this morning. My favorite part was when you counted money and doing the wash. It's a shame the hotel house doesn't do your wash for you. I didn't enjoy reading about grocery shopping as much. I hate grocery shopping. I love ordering all my groceries on the app and have the store do the shopping for me. Then I just have to put it in my car and carry it into the kitchen. I wish the workers could come put the groceries away for me too.