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I went out tonight for my annual skip the Super Bowl ski night- hands down favorite night of the year. Everything was pretty much as described from the morning- windblown, icey, but it wasn’t awful. I reminded myself once or twice that it was better than not skiing, and being stuck watching sportsball. Overall great night. Main Street and falls were the ROTN.

Boner doner type day, mute, Schif in the house and then a root sighting. My ass is still only swinging like 80% but the snow continues to be generally fucking spectacular. There are spots here and there where you can feel the glacier underneath or where they blew but at least for this morning it didn't matter. I feel spoiled rotten over the last month or so and with the weather change we may go back to more normal conditions. If so this was the way to see it out the door.

I saw the weather has been good in Vermont recently. It's been snowing and its cold and I wanted to get after it so I told my boss I needed to take off work Friday and he said well don't come in Monday then so I have a four day weekend. Yesterday I used my Indy Pass for independently owned and operated ski areas to redeem a day ticket at Magic Mountain. I haven't been here in like ten years. I liked it a lot the first time I visited. I liked it the second time too. I rode the lift with a guy who made his own snowboard out of wood. Wow. Magic reminds me what a wuss I am. It's a very difficult mountain. Sadly it is a little low tide right now. They haven't had a major snowfall in two weeks now although last night they might have gotten a bit of a refill. 4-6 inches and enough to freshen the groomers. But Magic is the place with some very very difficult terrain that really needs A LOT of natural snow to get into. Black Magic, Magician, Red Line. That stuff just is not going to hit unless they get 2ish feet more snowpack. As it was, it was hard and bumped. Magic don't groom most of the mountain and you gotta have your legs in shape, son. Mine were hurting. The groomers were in great shape though and cruising Medium and some other blue squares was great. I tried part of Black Line and Twilight Zone and they were bumpy and HARD. I remember that Talisman was good but that whole side of the mountain is natural snow only and ungroomed and is HARD to me. The lodge at Magic Mountain is probably my favorite. Their chili is pretty good. Today I used my Indy Pass for independently owned and operated ski areas to redeem a day ticket at Middlebury Snowball. I have never visited but heard good things. I think this place would be fun. They are having a great snowfall year and everything is open. Middlebury is probably sitting on 2x or 3x the snowpack Magic has right now. They also have some very difficult looking terrain. I'll do it next time if someone from PASR goes with me as witness. High temps today were -2F so my time was limited. Lasted about two hours. Got to see a fair amount of Middlebury Snowball in that time. I really liked it. Reminds me of Plattekill. Very simple. Two lifts. Lifts were slow. Some very gnarly looking lift line runs. Lots of tree skiing. They don't seem to get much traffic. Lots of fluffy chop and pow. The side under the quad chair was dust on hard pack on the black diamonds but I enjoyed it. Made it about two hours and went inside. Warmed up with some mozzarella sticks in front of the fire. They had live music today. No bar at Middlebury. I liked Magic's lodge more because it has a bar. Drove back to my room and stopped at a Goodwill in Rutland. Picked up Black Mask and Missing In Action on VHS, starring Jet Li and Chuck Norris, respectively. Anyway it snowed some up in the hills today so tomorrow may go to Prospect.

Hey All, I’m back from a fun day at Blue mountain the true mountain. I arrived at the lower lot before 720am and it was in the mid 20s under partly sunny skies. In the house was everybody except BenM, Mixilplix, Root, Angryhugo and Zonked. I overdressed so when I went in to pee I dropped a layer and stuck my green fleece on top of the lockers…something I’ve never done but I’m a progressive guy. I think their civilian OG six pack cause my gate was slow to open and first run on Challenge which was not very good…some slick and crunchy as they must have blown some elephant snot on it overnight. Switchback was OK, some smooth some crunchies, lazy Mile I found to be pretty nice along with coming soon early. Main Street was ok…midway was small cookies and Paradise was pretty nice. I mostly skied with Airhead and SaltyAnt wow salty is a pole planting pro…I was in awe just watching. Crowds were moderate to heavy, no real liftlines while I was skiing but with all three high speeds running the trails were quite crowded. I went on sidewinder once and it wasn’t that good..that run gets so much traffic and people throw their skis sideways a lot due to all the roof rollers that it goes to shit fast. Nightmare Dreamweaver is now a terrain park and I finished my session with a paraweaver and Dreamweaver had pretty icy and chunky snow. Skiing overall was ok to good and the parking lot was fun and with the warm weather I hung out in the lot way longer than I skied and prob have sunburn..When I left around 130ish there were a shit ton of people and I had to be aggressive to get out of the lot in a timely fashion with all the people across the street… Ski most of you tomorrow JADIP

JF, Atomic, Mixil in the house. It was cold af, maybe the coldest day I've skied in PA but it wasn't insane. The wind was both ok and trying to blow you off the mtn. On the headwall of challenge a gust blew so hard I thought I would come to a stop and then a second later your at full speed. The snow though is still pretty good and the crowds non existent. I rode until I needed to defrost my fingers but it wasn't the day to dick around anyways. Bonus points awarded to anyone who made it out today, that's an all time wind for a windy place.

Hey All, I’m back from another fun morning at Blue mountain the true mountain. I arrived in the lower lot around 835am and it was in the mid 30s under overcast skies. In the house were Johnny Law, Mute, Schifdawg, Oz, Bethlehem ford crew, Mrs Snowbunski, Marty, Nastar Glenn and even @RootDKJ who ignored us. First run I skied Paradise and it was like a western groomer, no frozen cord, almost styrofoamy, a little slow. Next run skied Coming soon which was super nice. Skied paradise again before it got crowded with boomers and then Challenge was pretty good as well, not as good grooming. Over the the super summit safari and I skied Main Street which was pretty nice a little light crud on the surface. Widowmaker was good, midway they must have blown on because it had cookies. I also skied lazy which was alright but busy. I finished the session with returns to Challenge which had become a wind tunnel and Paradise. I left right around 1030am and the lot was pretty full and plenty of NJ and NY plates. Now back to work like a dork. Today might be the last of winter conditions so I’m glad I got out there. Looks like nice weather for the weekend. JADIP

Too cold for lifts today so uphill is the game. Visited Prospect Mountain nordic center outside Bennington. This used to be an alpine and nordic ski area but the alpine ski area closed in the 1991. The trails are still maintained for alpine touring and cross country skiing. Temp was -4F pulling into the parking lot. About a dozen other cars were there at noon. An all day pass for alpine touring or cross country costs $25. The main skin track is straight up the old T-bar line. Prospect is not steep, and it's an easy skin up to the top. Someone in the lodge said they'd been getting 1-3 inches of orographic lift produced snowfall a lot of nights over the last few weeks. They got maybe 3-4 inches last night. There was one other set of fresh tracks up today and one guy followed me up. Most of the trails have filled back in after the last major snowfall and are about knee deep in very light powder. The mountain was, for all intents and purposes, untracked this morning with a couple of exceptions like the lift line. It was very easy to find routes down with a completely pristine powder surface. This was probably the best day of snowboarding I've ever had. Did not feel the temps for the most part. The air was dry and there wasn't too much wind. Had a hot drink and some chili in the lodge before heading out. Absolute 10/10 day.

Making night moves. Not to be confused with money moves. Of which I also make. First time at Blue in a minute. It's below freezing but it feels glorious out. Crowds are minimal. I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop and more people to show up. However it hasn't happened just yet. Snow condition so far...a solid night session 9 out of 10. Chalky grippy and smooth. Can let them go. Really really nice night

Hit the game lands skin track with @mbike-ski after skiing Blue. Nice skin up through some woods and open areas. Mike had a fish scale set up which was far superior for the downhill. Took a spill when one ski decided to go an submarine. It's a nice trail, but more suited for a fish scale ski. I usually don't drink after skiing, but after that downhill I needed it. Thanks Mike.

Good snow and fun day before the masses descended.

Rode with Mark this morning, dirt and atomic in the house but we couldn't catch them. Snow is most most excellent though the crowds were heavy for a Friday. They have generally increased the depth and down low the gates are at waist level now. Hopefully they want to match Camleback.

Woke up in Snowmass to 6” of new snow. Got in line at 8:45 and they started loading 7 min early! Snow was on the wetter side and when I got off the lift my butt was soaking wet. I was not wearing new bibs but some older shell pants. First run from top of VX down to Alpine Springs was deep! I thought no way this only 6”. Upper calf deep. When I got on Alpine Springs I realized both my shell and pants were totally wetted out. I had re water proofed them early season but since they are both about 9years old guess it’s time they retire. I was def uncomfortable being wet, but since it was warmish it was tolerable. Took a few more off Alpine Springs and they were all deep hardly touched. Went up Sheer Bliss as they only run Big Burn on weekends but it all services the same terrain. Tried Powerline Glades and there were still lots of hidden sharks so I skied back onto Sneakys rest of the way down. Sky cleared briefly the my last run down to the base it was like I was skiing thru soup, could barely see. Overall stellar morning. Hoping this is the start of the Pattern change.

And another groundhog, er, bluebird day. Temp on arrival was 30’ with firm snow walking to the lodge. Skiing was pretty much groundhog as well with no new snow and rising daily and nightly temps, the groomers were far more Eastern than Western and were very fast. Still could get and edge, but there were actual icy spots appearing as well as grass poking up through and lots of rocks appearing again. There are some rumors of some snow this week, one can only hope… Did hit up the Olympic village for an opening ceremony viewing party that was fun with some free Deer Valley chocolate chip cookies.

Yea me legs are cooked, fishscale were key today. Legit ski for sure.

Double dipped and had a good time last night even though it looked like the most school buses I've seen at night so far this season. @mbike-skiwas somewhere on the hill but never caught up with him. I think @Hoodiehas officially done every run at the Blue and it's only his first season skiing 👏👏

Today was phenomenal. The calendar aligned where it made sense to head up to Blue this morning and it did not disappoint. Nice to get some laps with you guys this morning and some absolutely killer snow all around. I got a few extra runs after you guys took off and lapped the new 6 for a bit. Back to work now and it's a lot easier to sit behind a desk after a morning like that.

Rode this morning, c1er in the house and bfg crew but otherwise no familiar faces. Probably the nicest weather day in forever, cold to keep the snow nice but my God does it feel warm after the recent temps. Snow everywhere except one spot on switch was perfect, I feel so spoiled of late and perhaps that is why I had to pay my bill. Side to falls and right over the crest of falls there is some guy 20ft over his head stopped dead and our bodies are lined up for a direct hit to his battleship. Ohhhhh shit....throw them max right but the left ski doesn't make it, we connect big time and I do a root barrel roll and slide down all of falls. The dude was apologizing from the start and I was amazed neither of us were seriously injured so we collected our shit checked both were ok and went on our way. I'm not sure what I could have done other than come to a complete stop and look down the falls. His spot was just the absolute worst but either way we ended up at the same spot at the same time and to me regardless of fault that is a big time fucking failure. My left leg as the lever for the root barrel roll stretched my groin like salt water taffy and my helmet will have to be retired but we were both hyper lucky. Had I sent it I would have at best landed on him and probably taken his head off. I don't know if there is a lesson here other than you can never be to careful around falls but even with all that it was a glorious day to ski.

This is a sandy vag thread, the bottom is 1 and a half minutes from the top, if your cold go in and get a hot chocolate.

A nice 2-3 inch storm would be great to let these people enjoying this weekend’s heat know that winter isn’t over yet

Maybe Saturday, maybe Sunday. Maybe both. My pappy said to always keep 'em guessing.

Perhaps Monday. Heading up to Elk and Montage with the fam for Sat and Sun.

And why that trail ? Who doesn't want to get steezy on a big ass booter right before the trail makes a 90 left ? Runout is for pussy ass bitches

Whales as in, lets set up some big jumps on this trail for 15 people to use and make this trail stupid for anybody else to ski?

Didn’t he hit like 85 mph on razor’s a few years back? I think I remember the Facebook comment section debacle that ensued

Morning up at the only ski area in the Water Gap celebrating their 50th year in operation. My pics aren't as good as Live2SkiLife but I tried. It was pretty empty there today and conditions were fantastic. While small, the high speed lift makes it much more tolerable. I enjoy the trails here and would like to get back to do some uphill before the season closes out.

I’m finally heading back to Blue tomorrow AM, the end of my JH trip I was kind of feeling Blah and was perfectly happy laying in bed most of the weekend but gotta get back outdoors and ski. Saturday looks like 40 degrees and sunny wow just wow

Pure blasphemy ! Where would you get a good Italian hoagie let alone pizza ?

Mad peeps in the house especially for the low temps. Today was warmer though it didn't always feel like it. Everything continues to be good to very good and with the gusts you can 11 whatever you want. ROTD was coming soon or main and super shout out to mute for the beer. In my brain nothing tastes more like NE skiing. I met the elusive hoodie today and mad props.... had I known

Short morning session. Demo day a little busy but no lines. Third chair quad . First run on razors…Meh , 1” pre pitch sasturgi filled the chord . Top pitch was wind blown the rest was ok . Over to Curtsies and the Chute which was bumped up . First run on the Chute the light was flat and the new blown which was a little sticky threw me off. I went back seven more runs and had the trail to myself. Main st gun run was nice as well. Back to work 10:30

Blue will be the typical Presidents weekend shit show, so thats probably a good move.

Lucky to have some night skiing with mute, dirtwolf, boo bear and mini boo bear. The 10th time skiing for me and my first time doing razor’s edge and razorback. Really enjoyed my run including razorback, I started it with the race start bump. Def am getting spoiled in my first season with the conditions on the mountain. Shoutout to the boarder who lit up on one of my last lifts of the night. Drove out of the lower lot at 8:59. Great night

I promised @NMSKI a little good the bad and the ugly from this last trip. Good: Travel was pretty flawless..worst part for me is drive to Newark airport but even that wasn’t terrible.. Bad: Hour and a half drive to Nork airport and rolling all my luggage around with my jacket on had me sweating like I popped a Molly, changed my shirt before security but that 72 hour deoderant protection advertised more like 72 minutes max big yikes. Ugly: Server last night at Snake River Brewery. As was said they must be hard up for staff, literally ignored us for 45 minutes cost him a couple more beers maybe even a root beer float added to the tab but generally I find service to be decent in JH..and always a few wet behind the ears foreigners serving mostly decent. Good: Bagel place had bacon egg and cheese everything six out of 7 days..I don’t get that everyday but atomic Jeff is grandfathered into one and are up to $8.50 which isn’t bad. Not many sandwiches under $10 bucks these days. Bad: Dumbass on lift after bar went down who said,”Fuck warn me about the bar not everybody has a helmet” lol shit I’d just buy him a helmet if he had a better attitude. Cheaper than airport parking. Ugly: Frozen cord on my bad knee..and feeling like a poser at JH cause I didn’t ski much sporty terrain oh well I hate people with a poor me attitude but thoughts in my brain of when I skied the place a bit differently not great for my introspective brain. Good: Some decent chalky snow, leaving town at 8:00am and being basically first gondola and iciest parking space no wipeouts in the parking lot, men’s bathroom, in front of the mangy moose or crossing broadway in front of the Mexican restaurant. Sheesh knock on wood for only ever being a visitor at St. John’s hospital Bad: The Farts and the shits and the vacation constipation. Ugly: how shit everything is around the Lehizzle from a snowstorm 2+ weeks ago…there’s people who haven’t even moved their car..sheesh I might have to message the mayor.

Snow is finally just starting to fall here at 2:44pm. It was raining this morning! I checked out Ashcroft Nordic ski area near Aspen. When I called to ask trail conditions he said I may have to remove my skis and walk over “some” sections. In the first 3/4 mile I think I had to take my skis off 7 times to walk over dirt. sections like this I kept skis on and carefully walked over the dirt staying on the snow. I did a 3 mile loop. First section kept you next to the river and in the trees. If there was more snow it would have been really scenic. once out of the trees the wind picked up a lot. Signage was not great but finally found my return trail. There is a fancy schmancy restaurant at the turn around point that people get shuttled in by horse and carriage if they don’t want to ski or snowshoe The first section of the return was some more walking but then I was able to keep skis on and dodge the obstacles. It wasn’t steep but you would be surprised how fast you can gain speed on Nordic skis with solid sheets of ice. Lots of terrifying snow plows wondering if I would stop in time to miss the next rock. It would be a fun place to go back when there is more snow.

Smugglers Notch is being acquired by Bear Den Partners (Berkshire East, Catamount, Burke)....could this mean Smuggs on Indy next year?? https://www.mynbc5.com/article/smugglers-notch-sale-bear-den-partners/70311727

Day 40. A real mixed bag of a day. PXL_20260210_172829686.mp4

Well, I don’t know what those white things up in the sky blocking the bluebird day are, but hopefully they contain something good! Took the later bus to help break this Groundhog Day routine and shake things up a bit. Arrived at the mountain to 29 degrees and a noticeable humidity bite to the cold. Full-on high-speed groomers so that I could get 10 runs by 9, then moved onto other lifts. Everyone is waiting with bated breath at the hope of some snow this week, as more and more rocks are showing through every day. It was 38’ when I left the mountain. This is one of those California Dream days: Ski in the morning and walk around the neighborhood in 62’, shorts and short sleeves. Crazy!!

For sure and maybe it's a pet peeve of mine but it's like the jacket thing. Mad normal peeps who hate winter also have a crappy jacket and I'm not saying spendy or not. It's 2026 you can get goose suits from China on the cheap but of course they hate winter, a 99 Charlotte Hornets Starter jacket while sweet ain't gonna cut it in single digits.

Yes definitely! The other month they had luge qualifiers that we checked out. The Olympic museum there is very cool too. Last summer we stopped and they were practicing jumping into the pool. Also cool is the Olympic Oval is like 7 minutes from our house. They have youth speed skating and curing competitions there.

After riding a 3.5 earthquake the other night, I’m back from a sweet Valentine’s Day at Solitude. Day started out in the upper 20’s with a bite in the air until the sun came over the ridge and made it feel a lot warmer than the air temp. With a little snow this past week, all the groomers were in wonderful packed powder shape. I line up on the singles line and got paired up with a trio of UTSRs who are Solitude SP holders and have their own reserve line and ski there every day. There was no reason to bull-rush the chair but they do anyway, so I had to keep up and get 1st civilian chair. Did some high-speed groomers with them until I bolted for other runs. The mountain had a Valentine’s Day chocolate tour, so I had to do that, hitting all the free chocolate giveaways. The snow under the Sunrise lift was grate, so I just kept lapping it and the adjacent woods. It was also another Utah dream day, with temps in the 50’s back in the valley, so hit up T.F. Brewing and hung out with the dogs in the courtyard, having a couple beers. Also Solitude & IKON giving away perks for repeated visits…

back in the day, Peak had a random lunch special. like Sheppard's pie, lasagna, chicken pot pie......way better than the usual chicken fingers, burger fare.

3/17 Might be skiing with Raising Arizona 13 from TGR / NYSB . Getting stoked.

Good: The Crew…we had a really solid crew this year and just enough people for the rental car. Gotta thank Jeff for driving us around and when I was laying in bed shitposting online after the first ski day he did three seperate airport pick ups even put gas in the very new Suburban. Things started off mellow but when JFDan and NMSki arrived things amped up a little..got the bat signal that there were snacks and beer in room 106…also a roaring fire..both been to JH several times and not fussy at all.PASRs.. The trip kicked into high gear with the arrivals of Gary and Nazareth Jay…for only skiing several times in the last decade or two, Gary slayed..I took him on one of my easier stashes when the boys hit sportier terrain and he was right behind me most of the time except the cat track cause I have a little skiercross in me and a lot of mass. Nazareth Jay is always happy and was loving the Wyoming whiskey and my dumb humor. The first day at the mangy moose with the whole crew we were the servers most popular table and kept her busy with a lot of food and pitcher after pitcher and nachos and cheeseburgers in paradise. Bad: Asking for a chile glizzy inside the mangy moose and Russian knew it was a Hawt dog Ugly: is less dudes with poneytails in Jackson hole a good thing or a bad thing. Ugly used to be the seeing a hot blonde from a distance and it’s a dude used to happen a lot in JH but I feel like wallets replacing the skids over the last decade or two has led to that more Sheilas for sure in JH so that’s good just ask their age if they have braces.

This thread, after all, is titled "Assspen"... 😁

Ah ok no not the same thing. 😂

You gotta know when to hold em Know when to fold em Know when to walk away Know when to run

Bruh

Yeah, only brewery I've been to in this general area was Equilibrium. Sloop and Hudson valley were both great. So many other breweries in the area that I need to visit

Love Hudson Valley sours. And Sloop is an obvious stop if you are in that area as well. Have you ever had a PB burger? A good one is divine.

Burke was awesome today. I think everything was open except the race course. Started off on East bowl and then did a bunch of other trails...Sasquatch glade, powerline, wilderness, a few groomers...hit caveman glade twice, which had great snow. Did some other glades that I can't remember. Stopped at the mid mountain bar for chili and a Burlington ipa (no hill farmstead on tap this time) Headed back out after 20 minutes or so and did caveman again, Doug's drop, power line, Lee's loop and a few groomers. Hit the 2 glades on the far skiers left side of the mountain, the jungle and birches...then Enchanted forest, which was a glade that turned into a banked slalom. Did two runs through the terrain park and did some ugly tail grabs and a method and left a little before 2

So cool that you can just pop over to the Olympic village for stuff like this. It's going to be awesome when it goes back to SLC in a few years.