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February 4th day 7 of 7 Hey All, I’m back from another fun day at Jackson hole ski resort. The final ski day of my 21st ski trip here. It was the warmest ski day here in about 150 total ski days. It was in the mid 40s in town, lower 40s at the base and low to mid 30s up high under overcast sky’s. There was some avalanche bombing with a 6 minute delayed start. First run amphitheater to thunder chair was pretty nice soft groomed snow. Grand had similar snow and up sublette which was very windy at the top to Bivoac which had great well formed hero snow bumps. We skied that three times then went down to thunder and skied the Thunder bumps which were similar conditions to Bivoac, a little longer and bumps not as well formed. Back up thunder I skied Grand again, then skied it a second time and a third time when Jay and Jeff skied paintbrush then Sundance gully to the base, lunch at Four Seasons. At the four seasons, Atomic Jeff said he saw Casey Neistat a popular YouTuber with 12 million subscribers outside. I saw him here before back in 2009, before he was famous, he was staying at elk country then and was on my bus and recorded an episode of the Neistat brothers for HBO while here, I happen to have a few appearances on the episode from the bus and the liftline for the. So I went outside and talked to him for a minute. All in all today was better than expected and this trip aside from yesterdays delayed start and my goggle foggy issues two days ago was one of the better trips here. I’m glad JFDan and Dirtwolf got to experience the Hobacks in its untracked glory and Nazareth Jay got a good laugh at my ski jacket which smells like a combination of cheese and dookie from all my sweating and jacket being soaked all day. Heres some pictures. The last picture is from 16 years ago from the HBO episode when I was on the bus.

As always I’m going to post the Good the Bad and the Ugly…while things are fresh… Good: Jeep Wagoneer rental car…plenty of space for five people and five pairs of skis…was only $50 in gas for 7 trips to the mountain and a couple back and forths to the airport. Bad: Walking around town a few days..very hard to keep feet dry..never walked on my heels so much..I should bring boots to JH but I feel like I’d jinx it and it wouldn’t precipitate. Yesterday I saw a homey with plastic bags wrapped around his shoes and Yak Traks… Ugly: Cue the dude looks like a lady song for the blonde in the singles line…always a letdown when the fly shawty boo you see from afar turns out to be a dude…nice hair though.. Good: The Crew…Atomic Jeff has done this trip with me 15 times…and still finding more nooks and crannies and he’s a great Chauffeur. This was Jack Frost Dans fourth trip to Jackson hole and he’s always on time, a strong skier obviously and good company. Nazareth Jay was the wild card and Also his fourth trip to JH..everybody likes Jay, he’s super positive and enjoys skiing…he’s always been a giant GSS fan except when my ski jacket smells like fromunda cheese…lots of laughs that’s for sure. Dirtwolf booked JH like a week ago and had a short window but miraculously made it work…and got the two best powder days of the trip…with on time openings. Talk about catching lightning in a bottle. 48 hours in Jackson hole he got to hit up the mangy, snake river brewery, Mexican restaurant and Silver Dollar bar with a hippie band playing..and couldn’t hit up the Cowboy wouldn’t be right without NMSki…and NMSki was there in spirit..he’ll be back next year and hopefully Mute, Toast, Ridge, angryHugo, MBike, Nastar Glenn, Johnny Style and anybody else who wants to go…no friends on a powder day, I ditched Jay then got ditched in the same 10 minute period…and if I’m slow I wanna get ditched. Didn’t matter the boys saved me freshies in the Hobacks.

What a trip! As always, well done! Looks like a hoot.

Started off with pretty firm slopes, but softened up quickly. Quad and Challenge lift going. Razors closed at 9:30 for a clinic. Switch and Main stayed pretty quiet and in good shape although Switch could use some love from the snow makers; Big brown spot near the bottom. Wind was starting to pick up. Lazy, NM/DW, Freefall and Sidewinder in good shape.

Was up last night and wasn’t great. Thin sugar was fine to start but as it dipped below freezing, everything not scraped off turned solid

Back in Newark awaiting baggage’s

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Friday was ok if you can deal with rain and clouds/fog at the top. As mentioned above there were some icy spots but most everything was good. 2025-01-31 16.51.05.mp4

Day 35. Upper lifts all closed due to frigid weather, negative 16 plus wind. Skied the open lift until I got bored.

Warmest it's been. Conditions on the MS side felt like that first spring day. No worries about grip,it was always for you..Challange had some small cookies on it before the booster. They had Razor closed. Things on that side felt much firmer. Crowd was low but it did get warm enough for some child size servings of mash taters to show up late morning.. Rode 9-12 with some friends I had not seen in a few. Talked to JLaw for a bit. Super fun morning at Blue.