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Spied a plastic bag in the snow on lower Main from the flying couch, looked like it contained a cellphone. Skied down to find it contained someone's wallet! I bet they were bummin' big time when they discovered it missing. Hopefully they went in and claimed it.

Only one way to get better at them...

Seems to be something about Winter Park... On a trip with the wife a way back when, we were over in Mary Jane and I wanted to take her down Roundhouse, a blue, but missed the right turn to stay on it and ended up dragging her down Trestle, a totally bumped up black. Needless to say, it was a very quiet evening that night. Lesson learned. It's usually easier to take the shorter walk back up than the long way down, being yelled at the entire way. Wow, looking at the trail map, they've expanded a ton. I need to get back there.

Did I miss yesterday's report?

15 days.

Woo Hoo!! Looks like we dodged the deluge for Thursday! But no snow for Saturday. I'll take it.

Grate report @enjoralas!! Winter Park is a fun mountain. Gotta head over the Mary Jane area, if not to just see the mogul runs that bumpers salivate over. Y'all have a blast out there!

Seem to have ample snow in Challenge, much bigger whales on upper headwall. Discussions surrounded whether they’ll push out the mounds before the r@$n Thursday. Hopefully when they do push them they don’t go real wide with it and keep it as deep as possible, as it’s going to spread out on its own. Looked like there was a gun not blowing mid-Switch that left a gap in the mounds, but they should have enough made to cover it pretty well.

Be sure to park at the summit!

For like 1 or two runs... Wow, looks busy up there already!

Evidently they are blowing switch!

Cookies and all...

Typical Blue mountain (lack of) logic...

QFT!

Mmmm…Mad Taco!

Would have been better off working on Switch. At least it’s shaded so the snow won’t be beaten on by the sun.

Well, at least they said something to avoid a run like the other week! Not surprising Razor's is in that state with upcoming races every weekend, they want it rock solid.

But did you sit on the couch?

Yeah, we noticed that too, especially when we went over to Targhee. They don't have time to ski, they're too busy working 3 jobs to afford living out there in their cars.

When we were out there, Slim got a kick out of asking all the waiters/waitresses how many jobs they were working in order to live out there.

That's cool because a lot of people out there work 3 jobs. Did you share the Bison Cowboy? 10/10!

I'd only give it a 9.75/10 because there's no dinner receipt picture post.

Yeah, all that is true, and to your point I'm not against anyone doing their thing either, but when it impacts me that's where I draw the line. If you want to dangle on a chair high enough up in the air without the safety bar down when I'm not on the chair with you, by all means, go for it. I'm all for you exercising your individual rights. I don't believe states should even have laws governing safety bar use like some do. My biggest issue riding lifts is that I have absolutely no control over when they're going to stop and how fast they're likely going to. I've been on some where when they hit the E-stop you go hurtling forward and without the bar down, you're likely to fly off the chair if you're not paying attention. On my bike, I'm mostly in control and statistically they're more dangerous, but like you said the perception of risk isn't the same. It's not the speed that kills, it's that sudden impact with the other immovable object or earth that does. And then we get to the top of the lift, raise the bar, slide off and hurl our bodied down a slope of frozen water at 50 MPH on one or two pieces of wood and metal with trees, snow boulders, rocks on either side. Yeah, we're crazy, but that's where the fun is!

I'll take that over the shitty weather back here! I heard yesterday it was the warmest and snowless January on record for the Lehigh Valley.

It always amazes me that people insist on raising the bar like 2-3 poles ahead of the top station, typically at the highest point above the ground. There's plenty of time to raise the bar even after the last support, which is about where we typically raise the bar. If/When I'm riding with strangers I'll usually keep my foot on the rest until we near the last support, just to piss people off. I'll usually get the "Ready?" far earlier and will reluctantly and slowly take my foot off the rest. Why people think it's cool to not put the safety bar down is beyond me.