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Started the day with 4 or so inches on the ground, vis continued to be most excellent. It snowed like the dickens until 130/2, more pnw style but a touch drier than previous.
Being reasonable and prudent above all we went exploring, the first two where pure pow pow bliss. In getting there I skied the slowest I've ever skied in the modern era, from the end of the protective cornice above Sultan to the top of Steins you couldn't see the tips of your skis.
Out in the boonies we found super good windblown but out involved a mine field with enough fluff on top you couldn't tell what the was underneath. All was club super sex and then the next second your getting bucked to the moon. We escaped back into the friendly confines and the trees until I thought my legs would explode.
Once the snow stopped the clouds put on a multi layer show but the wind had gotten so bad Empire and Lady Morgan closed at 3. With the other high lifts right behind them we sought refuge and chilled at the Montage. Highly recommend the hot chocolate and cookies downstairs but don't be surprised by the boot donkeys asking to take your boots off for you.
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Day 3 started sunny and warm, we ripped groomers with light crowds and super good cord.
We had a fondue lunch early and while getting down with the curds and whey the weather changed on a dime.
Round 2 of the super wet, Helen Keller skiing was on, 2" an hr snow with random down pours of graupel. We stuck to what we knew blind and went to Steins/mayflower which held super soft chunder turns.
In the white we probably fell down it as much as actually skied it but it mattered not. We bounced through the piles until my legs were absolute noodles. In the end 9 more inches came down in 5 or 6 hrs
Diner was a Japanese thing that was most excellent.
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Today there was allegedly more snow on the way but awoke to a clear cold morning. With good vis, lots of snow around and breakfast from mom it was time to take down the more interesting lines.
Straight to Ontario bowl a some baby hikes we got two quick shots of knee deep untracked. Next up was Mayflower chute a smaller face that looks cool I've always wanted to ski but was icing the cupcake where your patching together the untracked pockets.
We gambled on Perseverance trees which was a mix of luge track and super soft but ultimately forced our hand to go up Empire for the real goods.
The traverse was fast and while my cousins and brothers wanted x files I was after something more spicy. I skirted the cornice past 1-3 which while holding good snow are too bs, 5 is the real prize but had no way in so I settled for 4.
Through the gate I was greeted with a 6ft cornice but it was mostly fake news and was a nice hop air into a upper 30's degree rock lined ramp of snow. Knee deep fresh one turn, wind blow hard slab the next it was what I love about steeps. Wild and reckless you push your limit stick to 105 and a 1000 vert is gone in two minutes of joy where there is nothing more that exists but you and the mtn.
We took two more to 7 and a failed run where we basically traversed ourselves out of mtn. Lunch we grilled some burgers and soaked up the sun as it had suddenly become 30.
We did a bunch more groomers but more importantly at the end of the day we found the sticky wicket an 80's themed ski bar that for DV is almost dirt bag. Kinda speakeasyish if you go, at silverlake lodge go all the way left to the Cafe royal which is closed but go through the door up the back steps and there is a dude checking id's. If you go all the way around the back is like the couches loungey part. Check it out if your ever in Rome.
Dinner was steakhouse though I had a shrimp dish.
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10 minutes ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
Yeah this is turning into a better season than last year!!!
March is coming like a lion
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The snow looks light years better than even a few days ago and impressive they are getting switch and side open.
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42 minutes ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
Boner city and I knew you weren’t joshing!!! You’re gonna miss an incredible weekend at Blue.
I saw snow in the forecast from a clipper and they are fully open for the first time in 2 years on presidents weekend.....that's a powerful combo of fuckery.
They jacked up bcc yesterday at noon, noon on a Thursday wtf
Even if I lived here I would still go back to blue a couple days a year. To see everyone for sure but also to keep it real so everyone still knows I'm Jenny from the block.
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I first came to Utah in 2000 with all 30 some members of my family and for at least a decade straight a group of us came every year so I for sure will always have massive rose colored glasses for Mormon adjacent skiing.
I left Newark yesterday at 7am Est and was skiing at 1245 MST. They got 5 inches the night before and no one was home, so I ripped the big dog groomers where fun and low effort intersect. Keno, Tycoon, Naboob they have endless fast interesting medium pitch groomers served by endless high speed lifts. I had to be back at the airport to pick up family members but I racked up 17 runs of by far the best snow I've skied all year.
We went Thai from in town and I ate mad Penang curry and passed out fat and happy.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It was supposed to snow like an inch overnight but we woke to it nuking and six inches on the ground. Massive, wet, PNW like flakes it was most definitely very un-Joseph Smith like.
My brother and I were out the house early on a mission to get Steins untracked, we found 30% water, mariana trenching snow. It's kinda windy windy and the snow is coming down 2" an hr kinda hard so vis is negative ray Charles on the skate from the top of Wasatch. I can find it in my sleep but I almost end up down Powderhorn it's all just white.
All my money is on finding the pines on the left before the first headwall. The wind is coming over the back and left side will be plump if I can find some vis.
Left side trees show up right before my luck runs out and bam its on. Boot deep chunder turns, where the snow comes off in sheets. My brother who was 15ft behind me is who the fuck knows where, you still can't see shit but I'm not stopping. ,
Where it's normally hot to trot its all straight down the fall line and you can jump off everything........ Best run since I went to the pnw and I still can't see anyone out.
Peeps did eventually show up but until 1pm or so we did nothing but untracked........... Easy right off Ontario bowl nobody home, all of lady Morgan except the green nobody home, pretty much anything in the woods nobody was home. My brother claimed best sleeper day since the Pow Mow days. It was the sloppiest snow I've ever seen in UT and it was so, so, so much fun.
Dinner was low key Italian from the place at the St Regis top golf because we ate mad seafood at Rime for lunch.
All of my pics look like the second one just white and trees but my brother got one of me later in the day so you know I'm not joshing.
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So jelly !! Looks fucking tits Mcgee get some !!
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My niece was sick at the super bowl get together and now my brain feels like it's trying to escape out of my ears.
I'll see how I feel in the morning but that should guarantee a good storm.
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It could have been enjos cooking but I thought today was better than yesterday as well.
NMDW was most excellent and challenge after the first headwall was very good, Widow and le chute were soft almost from the start and held excellent turns.
It was a little too uneven in places to really fly but a super nice way to spend super bowl Sunday.
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It was like opening the oven door going up the lift, redonk inversion.
I thought everything was pretty good today though it either needed to be 20 degrees colder or mad sunny. It was soft enough piles formed quickly but to heavy to really mach through.
NMDW continues to delight and Challenge actually got pretty ok once it warmed up some.
Raceway/widow/curtsi/whatever was very good from the start and after enjo said how good pdis was we confirmed it was quite smooth.
I don't think it's supposed to get below 40 tonight could make for an extra special superb owl Sunday.
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32 minutes ago, enjoralas said:
Both mornings. Probably meat Sunday. Those who have been up this week, does it look like enough on Switch for them to surprise us with it tomorrow? Or are we back to waiting for the next cold snap?
Like tp4 said it's not deep enough maybe 6 inches and side has even less but they can get back on it Tuesday night
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I'll be there both days with bells on, back in the olden days Sunday would be quiet but I wonder if even Taylor can impact the numbers.
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Work was up my butt the last two days so got out this morning with c1er.
A little hard in spots first thing but generally hyper soft super carving snow. Widow, le chute, lower continues to donate boners.
NMDW was also primo but in 5 tries I couldn't get a clean release, no matter the gap I built I was picking up strays but you so nice to do high speed arcs to air in the soft.
Busy from the drop, nothing insane but lots of racers and doodle turn types. While the weather is hyper nice it's gotten to the point where it is February and should be colder.
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Just now, Mixilplix said:
When I did snowboard psia I saw this all the time.....
I'm not even really knocking them for all the drills and what not it's just like if your goal was to remove all joy you couldn't be more successful.
Plus they don't get it like really at all, everything is from the person's perspective which is at the end of the day almost irrelevant. Cog outside com everyone falls, it doesn't matter how good you are or not so why does everyone visualize and conceptualize it from that point of view.
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49 minutes ago, Jersey Tomato said:
Platty also attracts free heelers in winter & MTB in summer. I'm glad they're doing better & love skiing there- I like all the ungroomed terrain cuz it means less crowds on those trails.
I love plattekill and would much rather ski there but I'm definitely not the type of customer resorts are after.
I would guess the same applies to you but blue gets my pass money and that's really it. I'm there all the time and quick to bitch when they make mistakes.
Now loyalty and ponying up before the season is worth something but if they had their way it would be all single day family with rentals and food because then they make bank.
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1 hour ago, theprogram4 said:
Gotta reiterate that man the place was empty
Blue has to hate it but man is it nice when it's like the days of old. No 84737293 people lined up 30ft in front of the gates so no one can get through and then using two lanes. Most importantly no fuck heads endlessly dicking around in shitter stance with absolutely zero awareness.
I think that group was psia, makes sense but most of those dudes are single trick ponies, hence their love of perfecting stupid little c turns and stopping every 20ft to have a confab on edge purchase.
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3 hours ago, rgrwilco said:
It’s also fairly controversial that ORDA operates those areas. Having the backing of the NY state government means they can invest millions annually into projects that may see frivolous to some (the belleayre gondola for an example). This is creating an issue where the state run ski areas are competing against private businesses. The owners of plattekill are not too happy about that, and rightly so, as people have to drive past belleayre with their shiny new lifts to get to a smaller ski areas whose investments are directly related to how many skier visits they get rather than how much tax revenue the state brings in.
As for Elk…I feel like there have been rumors about the sale for years but it never happens. It may be more that elk is a fairly big ski area for PA, and other areas of that size are being gobbled up by epic and ikon such as camelback and blue. I would expect blue and camelback to be full ikon within a few years to compete with vails stranglehold on PA. I could see vail being at least interested in elk as their only pocono areas are JFBB which are super small. Ikon is the superior product in the pocono-ish area.
Except Lazlo knew the deal at platty when he bought it and so does everyone else in that area.
He has zero pockets and no investors of merit, its like hickory being pissed at Wyndham. Platty doesn't compete with Bell state or not and it's the states job to make money with its assets.
Plattekill has to market the difference in experience and profit from that, straight up they lose to bell everytime or Hunter or Wyndham and they all lose to WF/killy which is 2/3 hrs up the road.
Full disclosure I'd much rather ski platekill but to claim they can't compete due to state coffers is bullshit. It doesn't compete because they have a niche product most snow sports people are less interested in.
Elk will always be on VR or KSL'S hit sheet all you have to do is look at a map but it's not a great place to run a real estate scam so it will be less tempting.
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Today was le tits part deux, Challenge was even better than yesterday with a little more stiffness it could hold against the ski.
When Challenge is good two days in a row its like I must be having a stroke and all of this is in my mind. It's so much fun to truck down that mother getting airs and ripping big arcs.
I didn't mind the herky jerkey stuff probably becuase they are already slow with no wax so I was really enjoying upper main and especially NWDW. There is enough room even if you dont want to get booter Crunk but it's soooo nice to formation fly and get a bit blue angels.
Le chute continues to be prime and I got one decent launch today.
Weather was perfect, great crew and good snow........ shit was a dream on Monday but two days in a row I must be on peyote.
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21 minutes ago, Shadows said:
It's already dead. Paid parking. Gtfo
I thought they had gone back after they split from Epiq and not everything was pay.
It just dawned on me too Vail resorts had to sell Abasin to Canadians due to antitrust when they just owned Vail and BC. How can Alterra and VR end up owning all the resorts and that's ok ?
Is WP city owned or Alterra ? Aspen Ski Co isn't theirs but they are in on KSL....Mother fucking capitalism.
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1 hour ago, Barb said:
Wow! Just read Alterra in a buying Arapahoe basin. I don’t really ski there much but my oldest loves that mountain.
in other news I see Jackson Hole is staying independent and selling to a local family.
Ugh a basin has soul, if they kill the beach is it really abasin ?
Could you imagine the day where you hope your local hill gets bought by a super rich dude but here we are.
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Empty, no racers, BFG and C1er in the house. Rode with Jack and Erik.
When I arrived they had mad guns on and the cloud was in full effect, I figured it would correspondingly suck hairy ball sack but I was totally wrong.
First run down Main I was still working on believing it was good but just an absolute carpet to arc arc arc. We followed it up with NMDW and while not perfect it was 95%, you can really honk on the turn and hit the two booters with so much speed. Challenge was next and was as good as Challenge gets, super high speed carves into big launches off falls.
Rotd was Widow, le chute, lower. Chute was primed for launch and unsurprisingly the pilot was throwing shifties out in the stratosphere. It was so good we rode it like 5 times in a row just extracting every ounce of float possible.
I had an absolutely must be done at 11 but between the sublime weather and booterrific conditions I used every last second.
Razors was just ok, the colder snow meant the blown shit went to small cookies and coming soon was a shit field of cookies but it didn't matter one of the best mornings this year for sure.
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12 minutes ago, saltyant said:
@GrilledSteezeSandwich I saw some perder flakes on Flloyd Fooley. I predict Flloyd's opening on February 32.
How was the rest of the skiing ? Back in the day it could get absolutely mobbed there but it seems like of late that's not the case ?
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3 minutes ago, Mixilplix said:
Fun sunny morning at Blue...Lazy was good for three...Challenge was nice up top but got a little slick at the bottom...Did a few Come around/Chute/to a spicy Lower Main..Ended with a Paradise which looked like it had been carpet bombed...Good parking lot scene too...
You are a ninja, you always have good pics but I've never seen you taking photos.
Today was an improvement over yesterday for sure, challenge, coming soon, lazy were all pretty good but still that classic blue sketchiness with random boiler to super soft.
It did get a bit softer when we went back out but unbelievably uneven, lower dis the right side was a legit mogul field and the rest was getting there.
Most excellent to get some sun and it was super nice out to have a beer. It was an excellent weekend though I'm hoping for a turn in conditions, my back hurts from all the up, down and all around just getting through the trash.
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The grooming alone is light years better than Blue today, slalom on a board is tough af way to represent.
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Personally I think AMF and Gowdys are the best, the center punch can look a bit wild but is 200 yards of fury and then your in the ditch.
Atomic is probably the real expert but the out of all that stuff is essentially a long ditch unless you stay up on the walls. That's alot of traffic in a small area so it gets beat and is often way more effort than the good stuff up top.
The possible, hanging valley side I think is better steeps for a bunch of reasons.