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This was at 7:45 am today. Totally bananas not seeing any other PASR cars and easily got @AtomicSkier spot (he's probably hella jelly). @Benm pulled in probably a minute or 2 later.

Sounds like a legendary vacation. TFTI On road trips I also like to stop to see goofy things like a giant chair. It's part of the fun. In 2017 I did almost the same exact drive you just did - Denver to PA in 24 hours (two 12 hour days) via I-70. During the final leg from St. Louis to home, my car was stopped only 10 minutes total for two gas stops. Otherwise I kept on driving because I just wanted to be finished. Didn't even feel like stopping at the Wizard of Oz museum 💁‍♂️

Yeah, it sucks big time when it happens. Ive taken my goggles off but the wind/perder flakes irritate my eyes. Enjoralas has Dakine gloves with built in squeegee and felt for wiping goggles. I need a pair asap.

@eaf If stiffness is the deciding factor for me here's my comparison for candidate skis (compared to RTMs). I also might need a Master's Degree in physics to understand torsional longitudinal etc. A few people have said Mantras are too advanced skis, and Kendos would be better, but Kendos are stiffer ...?

Since I like Volkl my preference is either Kendo 88 or Mantra 96. Not sure what other Volkls would suit me... Kendo 88s are short of Enjoralas's recommended range of 95-105.... but skis.com says "Kendo comes with crud blasting and edge grip abilities thanks to the lightweight but rigid Titanal Frame that encases the core". Mantra 96s are too advanced ski for my ability, a few people have said. But I might demo it anyways. Sooo I'll probably demo these 2 and maybe Nordica Enforcer 94 and Head Kore 93 and see what the verdict is. TFTI

I don't intend to keep the Monsters, as Enjoralas just let me try them out to see how wide skis feel compared to RTMs. Quite a difference. I just assumed they'd be good in powder 💁‍♂️ I don't understand a lot about stiffness, so I'll do vigorous research on it before I decide. TFTI

Thanks again for letting me test drive them. I took them on Paradise and Lazy Mile as those were likely the 2 most choppy groomers of the day. As you've said, they plow right through the chop which is fun and I didn't feel myself struggling in it as I do with the RTMs. Conversely, they are harder to maneuver around than what I'm used to. Something between my RTMs and your Monster 108s should do me well for an all-mountain ski. I still think I'd use the RTMs for tight glades where the short length of 170 cm and small turning radius come in handy!

Good stuff! I need to figure out how to get into this.

Will you be there tomorrow? Will you have a loaner?? I'm going, the storm isn't supposed to start until Monday night. This morning the roads were completely fine despite a winter weather advisory (though there was goggle ice in the air)

Thanks Indiggio! I always have the most fun doing more challenging terrain than I'm used to. If the roads are good tomorrow morning I think I'll practice bumps on Coming Soon most of the time, particularly early on when the quad line isn't long. The line wasn't that bad when we rode together, but by 2 pm the VIP line stretched well beyond the gates and it was a bit too long for me, so I headed over to the doubles which had much shorter lines. I stayed 'til about 3:30 and would have skied a bit more but was too thirsty.

Haha. Yeah, I ducked under the closed sign and thought maybe a ski patrol would yell at me from the Main Street chair, but I was listening to Iron Maiden in my headphones so if he did I didn't hear him. 🤷‍♂️ I was like whatever, it's too much fun. At Camelback I remember riding the lift with ski patrol and they'd be radioing other patrollers about people skiing out of bounds. I wonder what happened to them? They probably had to watch a safety video or something (the horror)

Later swapped into my RTMs to mess around off piste more, and skied under the Quad (top section) which I accessed from the woods to the left of Coming Soon. Exited by blasting along a narrow track on the hills to the right of P-Dizzle, which was a bit white knuckle as I was going fast. But made it out OK. Also skied under the Main Street/Burma chairs from Coming Soon Come Around and down, which was a blast!! The last part right before the lifts is mad steep and narrow, but I made it the whole run without falling. Overall a grate day and it was really fun doing a lot of stuff I've never done as it felt like a new mountain. Now time for SUJOPO. JADIP.

Today was the funnest day I've had at True Bleu this season, maybe ever. Rolled in at 745 and made it to first in line at Gate 7 by 753. Earned first civilian chair and was very excite so I posted about it on PASR, but then my post got deleted due to an ongoing forum glitch. First run was Challenge which was mad steezy. Had the whole run to myself which was cray-cray as usually a bunch of PASRs are on it doing Mach 3.5. Goggles iced up like a mother which made it challenging to see on Challenge. I raised my goggles and then my eyes watered due to reaching hypersonic speed. Next did Switchback and it was an amazing smooth carpet, I think I saw titty glitter or whatever the saying is. It was Tits Boner McGee. Then met up with @enjoralas and we skied some mad technical glades. The run through the bike park glades between Lazy Mile and Sidewinder was the most difficult run I've ever done in PA, but we made it out and clinked our poles as a high five. This run should be called "WTF???" Afterward we messed around various trails, going in and out of woods and I did some grate side whoop-de-doos. I really enjoyed the short cut thru the woods off Paradise. Then Enjoralas did Coming Soon for the first time and it was my second time. Nice moe ghouls, just a bit of thin cover in some spots but not bad at all. After we hung out in the lot for a bit and talked to MBikeMike, Mixilplix and Nastar Glenn about Mantras and Kendos, and Enjoralas and I went for some delicious wood fired pizza. He got pepperoni and I ordered buffalo steeze pizza. Then Enjoralas was nice enough to lend me his Monster 108's. Thanks!! I did 2 runs on Paradise and 1 on Lazy Mile. Felt much better in the chop on Lazy than my RTMs, and I cut right thru it and wasn't getting tossed around. But they are beasts and a lot more effort to move around, as I like doing short turns. I would really enjoy them on a Perder day or in spring time chop. Also rode the quad a few times with @indiggio and @tarponhead as they continued to lap Coming Soon, and I didn't even get strangled yet.

Damn son I'm still getting after it since 8 am!!! Report to come tonight stay tuned

First civilian chair and had Challenge all to myself. Great times! My goggles were iced so I had to take them off during the run and my eyes were watering from uber fast speeds. @toast21602why aren't you here instead of deleting my posts about skiing at Blue?

Not that foggy. I can see the summit.. and yeah driving here was a non event and theres no freezing rain whatsoever

WJW. Arrived at the gate at 7:52 despite slow ass drivers in front of me and might even get first civilian chair of the day

Correct, weather.com shows nothing but yet theres a winter storm advisory for freezing rain until 10 am.... hopefully when we wake up itll be doing nothing out and we'll make it to the True Mountain safe and sound

WJW, you should raise your poles up higher so the tree doesn't eat them.

@eaf I only skied 89 minutes today. Sorry for disappoint

I thought Steeze said it wasnt battery related? But yeah, a co-worker showed me how to bump start the car on a hill one time

Where does it say that?

I don't see any freezing rain tomorrow morning. Hoping to ride the double lifts or a while to ski some glades and side whoop-de-doos and maybe connect random trails together

If @GrilledSteezeSandwich had my cell phone number I could have turned around, as I likely wasnt that far away

Maybe he quit writing reports since you guys didn't write one yesterday in the Colorado thread, and there were no action shots or food pics