JFskiDan

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.

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

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?

Wait - i totally retract my original statement. Thats Presidents weekend, so that totally fits. Make a crowded weekend even more of a shit show. This is very likely. Might even bet my Tariff check on it happening.

What a turn around from last year. i mean, who knows how this will work out, after all, we are skiing in PA, and they are making a push to ski in April. But if they can superstar a trail or two, that would be fun for sure.

10 days out? i wouldnt go betting my DOGE check on that one.

Day 5 for me, everybody's last ski day. a 2 pm flight out of JH actually leaves plenty of time for a good round of skiing in the morning. Ran up the gondola, Thundre, and Sublatte, for a couple runs on Grand, Laramie, Rendezvous Trail. Good stuff there, pretty much those runs had stayed in really good shape all throughout the trip, and were always nice grippy, let em eat type runs first thing in the morning. We headed over to Casper, After you, and teton lifts were we found the Blue Mountain snow we all know and love so much, just to get us back into the East Coast mindset. I guess based on elevation those trails got a good freeze thaw cycle to them, and were just firm, chunky, broken up into pieces of what maybe used to be good snow? something like that. We were on our way back to the car at 10:30 or so to do a quick change into street clothes and pack up skis and ski gear. stopped at the moose for a quick bite, before returning to town to P/U Doug. Despite not having any new snow on my end of the trip, it was still a great trip. not one day did we really have bad weather, or bad conditions. it seems like usually one day of my trip is a guaranteed flat light, like virtigo type stuff, or just conditions one day arent the best all around. not this time. real nice conditions each day, other than last few runs we made, but we could have also just gone back over to Thundre and had better stuff. Flights for Tom and i were pretty uneventful, and arrived early, but our skis are still circulating somewhere around PHL. Which makes me crazy, cause they got taken off the plane, probably put somewhere close to my check bag, but somehow disappeared with about 5 other peoples ski stuff . My check bag showed up at the carousel, but at A terminal, the big stuff gets like walked through an elevator or something. My opinion is, it was late, (11:30 pm) and handling large ski bags is hard, so the baggage handlers opted out of just basically doing their job. The people in the little luggage offices were somewhat helpful, or at least pretended to be by making a call, and talking on the walkie talkie, but it still kinda blows my mind that they cant find a bunch of ski bags they took off a plane.

Starting day 4. With the absence of any real measurable snow, believe it or not, conditions have exceeded expectations. Need to poke around some and find the soft conditions in the trees, but they are still quite good. Hobacks on thursday went from soft to firm all in one run. Full sun on tap for today, with temps in the 30’s. Looking forward to that. Not looking forward to this weekends temps at home. good times in JH as always.

Things are surprisingly good for a low tide kinda season. big pow day today. my plan for making it snow by leaving my big skis at home is really paying off. oh, and its 30 degrees in town right now.

Most well behaved 3 yr old on the plane today.

Did i just see on FB Magic is closed today? Private party? God i hope not.

Now thats a super interesting set of stairs there. Need an app to navigate that.

this was from 10 hrs ago. i think its possible Blue gets some more snow, but its looking more like a fish storm at this point. So, i would say Blue would be open this weekend.

Nice work. It is actually nice to hear that KSL has reached out. i did see your many comments on FB. My comments about the lifts have been deleted quickly. Dont forget to mention the Monday debacle. opening at 12, but having an issue with a lift, on possibly the busiest day ever, is a hilarious epic fail, which seems to happen often. I mean, even we know the lifts are a problem when it snows. If it takes me and @Johnny Law being there at 6 am to fire them up, let them know we are here to help. I am actually curious as to who runs the lifts. And why they werent spinning at 8 am.

Good. they should do that. i did see someone on FB who was handicapped, and went to Blue, mention all the spaces were taken. Im sure that privilege is widely abused, and i walk past everytime thinking, that they have quite a bit of handicap parking. thats filled up, all the time. Monday, that was all filled up. Not that i wanna be the Handicap parking police, but the people i see parking there walk gud just like me.