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Run down Barney's. Surprisingly hard, but no boiler.

Beeline run down Challenge, nice and soft with some marbles thrown in.

Looks like they blew snow as it's nice, soft and grippy, no granular. First run down Vista, Midway and Main Street. Snow great and no crowds. In search of Tarponhead. Down Tuts to Main Street. Gorgeous!

Lucky! Still stuck on CCs.. <ugh!>

Gonna have to get me some and give it a try...

Just gonna keep getting more crazy...

Giddy up!!

Cool. Depending on how day goes, I'll try to break free and get up there 12-1.

Johnny Law is much more informative and concise! Don't have to wade through all the Google chaff... What time you thinking? I've been using CH4 for cold days which scrapes off to powder. Using some red from Race Wax for warm days, which is looking like what I'll use for this weekend. Yeah, with the prices Blue charges at the bar, they should stay open until May...

Brings back wonderful memories! Need another trip to Summit....

Awaiting Johnny Law post on waxes, so I can learn more...

Might have to put a soft wax on for the warmer temps coming up. Wait for Thurs for temp predictions.

Only that one big warmup with rain that they had to recover from, but they already had a mega-base set up before it with the week of brutal cold.

Gonna be big and deep!

It has got to have been a super season this year, especially with the bulk of the natural snow falling south of Blue, which serves to pull out the crowds. The question becomes, how fast does it warm up and how long do crowds still keep coming out??? With still a bunch of snow on the grass, people aren't going to be thinking too much about golfing, so it may keep them coming out to the slopes. Once the crowds start to diminish, so will go Blue's season. Hell, even if they just kept the quad or (gulp) even the doubles running into April, I'd be happy to ski it... I might even be persuaded to buy another waffle with chocolate to help keep em open longer!

Sounds like you were running them early in the day? After seeding, bumps are practically non-existent. Give people a few hours to run them in (or have SP destroy them with toboggan drills) and you'll have pretty deep bumps. Sometimes, but not often, they let the bumps go and just blow in them. Most of the time they mow em down, blow some snow on top, then reseed. Unfortunately when it's cold as crap, there's no way anything is going to stick to the boiler underneath and eventually the new stuff is going to get scraped off. Only spring conditions are going to change that.

Yeah, try hitting them! You end up landing right in the middle of the bottom mogul run, at least that's how it was couple of weeks ago. I don't know if they ever reset them since. Challenge comp course had the landing moguls a mile down from the landing. Plenty of room to stop. Problem was the landings were like concrete. Hopefully they make it to 3/30 and it's a nice, sunny, warm spring day!

I'm surprised they left them up for Sunday. Figured SP wouldn't want those kickers still there...

Lots of gapers out as well...

They leveled Barney's Saturday night, blew on them and reseeded for Sunday. Very soft and a lot of fast fun runs. Got pretty big and of course, icy by afternoon.

Supposedly Blue is planning on having another bump comp on Sunday, March 30, they announced at the B&J awards ceremony.

I usually do 8-4/5, depending on how jelly the legs are, except for yesterday when I had to leave for freaking homeowner emergency cutting into my skiing.

We got a dusting in the LV. I suspect the mountain got little to nothing...

Unfortunately It didn't take very long for boilerplate to make its way up through what was blown on top which made the top very slick.

Yes, comp is on Challenge. Since there'll be 2 kickers, they might reseed them after the comp. There's still bumps on Main Street (Barney's) and on Nightmare as well as Lower Challenge. Plenty of bumps to ski at Blue till they close.