JFskiDan

i heard traffic was extra fucked up. also heard it was sold out, and skirmish had a big event. The couple times i went, we were there by like 9, grilled up some breakfast and drank beer. then watched the race. then grilled some more, and left at like 9pm. Traffic pretty much around any nascar race is a shit show. Try Dover. Backs up for miles from the track at like 9 am. you should have camped out. you have a tent dont you?

i found this over at Alpo Zone. i think this is a $99 ticket, for 2 days. 1 day is anytime, and the 2nd day is for after April 1st. if that is truly the case, thats a screaming deal. Jump on it if you arent Ikonic. https://shop.sugarbush.com/s/lift-tickets/multi-pack-tickets/p/tbd-2425

because American Airlines, and United doesnt care that southwest gives 2 free bags.

it sounds like its better than it was a year ago or so, but they were in such bad shape, it might be a pretty easy thing to say "things are better". its like starting last in a race.....easy to go forward.

im so ignorant i cant tell the difference. i want some brakes that fold straight up.

i saw a post where maybe they closed the road because of a large crack, and then the next day road gone.

A friend of mine has a jet ski rental. makes skiing look cheap.

its 51 degrees in my house in the Poconos. Heat is definitely going back on when i get up there.

Sunday, a little Magic. Still love this place, but really want to hit it with more open. above freezing overnight, so, some firm stuff with a little Blue Mountain type cookies, which softened up pretty fast. Very similar to last year as to what was open. A few groomed runs, and some fun spicy snow, grass, rocks with a few drainage pipe crossings mixed in. Got warm real quick, and that made the run outs real slow, and pretty grabby by 1 pm. Got to ride the black lift. Had a nice burger at the BLT. On the road now.

Saturday, sugarbush. Sometime in the middle of the night @Johnny Law showed up. He headed to the resort a little earlier than us, as we were thinking 10:30 to let some stuff soften up. Firm-ish conditions up top, with softer stuff towards the bottom. The sun started doing its thing and softening stuff up that was in the sun, shady stuff was just a little pokey, but getting there. 1 pm we met up with jeffs buddy nick for some nice laps at castlerock. Terrain at CR was a little limited, selective at times, but still went. Big fun bumps with a good collection of rocks mixed in. Finished off the day with a few runs off heavens gate, ran till just after 3pm or so. sugarbush rocks, sugarbush skied well, and has real nice coverage. That was a pretty energetic day, as even @NMSKI said he was pretty much drained.

Lacking in the trip report for sure. Friday, killington. Very firm to start. Cloudy. No crowds. Ski on every lift like skiitoolive. We ended up on some trail, which should have been called “certain death” as it was the slickest, and most un-skiable trail i have been on in a while. People were eating shit on it hard and ending up in the grass. Skiing the frozen junky bumps on the side was better than doing the power slide in the grass. sun poked out just enough to soften some stuff up. Not entire runs, but parts of runs. Killington has good coverage.

Those of us with IKON passes drove up just past Elk mountain and skied Stratton today. Cloudy, kinda foggy, actually really foggy at times, but no dampness. Some very sticky snow in spots, otherwise if you stayed on the traveled path pretty nice soft spring like snow. 1 photo. killington tomorrow.

The only reason it will is because i did not renew. You are welcome.

If its true, im still going with a kalahari type thing. Those lifts wont replace themselves. Gonna need to be a chunk of change thrown down soon for lift upgrades.