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I'm back from another fun morning at Blue the True. I arrived at the lower lot at 8:15am and it was 2 degrees with no wind and bluebird skies and nary a gun blowing. In the house was Harold, Gary, and later Atomic. Rolling the dice that they would have Coming Soon open, Gary and I headed to the quad and lined up at the VIP lines, only to have them CF them up at the open, with the attendee holding the iPad but saying he didn't have the iPad. WTF?? At the top of the quad, we saw a couple helmets heading towards CS, but then turned around and went right? There was only the Experts Only sign and we continued to find an edge to edge field of baseball sized cookies. We continued on and at the slight right turn, the snow turned to groomed, chalky goodness. Ended up having the first civilian run down Coming Soon for the year and it was spectacular! Back up and down Razors which also had fine snow with some breakup in the middle section. Main Street still had wonderful snow and was virtually empty, probably because everyone was on CS and Razors. Ran into Atomic and rode up with him a couple of times. I think he went off to check out CS. Did the tour and they seemed to have dusted all the trails, but there's still a glacier at the bottom, middle of Chute, beware! The didn't blow any more on lower Switch; disappointing. However, there are gigantic whales on Nightmare/Dreamweaver. The groomers have their work cut out for them! Challenge has gaps, but there may be enough for a WROD on the left side for the holiday week. No guns were going at 11am when I left, but I see they have them back on on NM/DW and what looks like Sidewinder now. JADIP

Of course, for some unknown reason(s), the quad is back down as of about 10:15am. With it being down, the lines on the other lifts elongated. Thanks Blue for the VIP lines! Surprised to see the guns firing on Challenge when I arrived and also a bunch of big whales on Switchback!

Definitely an over-producer here in Htown...

That’s the only time I go to Camelback!

On another note, Lindsey Vonn is back out of retirement...

26' and nary a gun in sight on? WTF?

Looking at the webcams, it appears the snow actually fared pretty well and they already had the guns on at 3:30am.

Ditto. It was The Monkees show and Banana Splits before heading in to afternoon kindergarten for graham crackers, recess and naps...

Anybody stop to see the quad's bullwheel on the ground Sunday? Looks like a bunch of boxes of parts, perhaps a bearing replacement?

Exactly, just to take that sharp edge off to prevent them from hooking up.

I hate to spend money on stuff that's not fun, tires, insurance, clothes washers, dosing tank pumps, etc... Spending money on new skis, boots, trips, etc., well, that's a different spending altogether!

Might want to detune the tips & tails a little after having them "tuned" to prevent the slingshot effect of them grabbing. Underfoot is where you want them sharp.

Chute is firm was an understatement. It was rock-solid with cat track trenches on skiers left near the top. The bottom of Chute also choked down to a tight intersection with Midway and LMS which made for some spicy merges, carrying speed off Chute. The edges of Paradise kept getting better as the day progressed and the snow was softening up nicely, but didn't quite reach hero by 11 or so when we called it quits. Nowhere near as crowded as yesterday, so both Paradise and Burma didn't have near the load of sliders which made them treacherous yesterday around the same time.

We stopped to take a look at the top of Lazy and it sure didn't look like they had enough yet to open. Looked like you could still see drainage ditch humps in the snow, but I guess we'll see...

Looks like they're at least blowing on upper Razor's headwall...

Looks like the fan gun at MW & LMS is blowing snow. Also looks like there may be some small piles on LMS by the guns?

Avoiding the MW/LMS shit-show, most likely. They'll have Burma for all the people coming down from summit.

Ditto.

Wondering who "engineered" that roadway???? Drainage? Who needs drainage?

Root is married, so why give it to him?

It's a lot more fun when you get a crowd to go along in the middle of summer when it's hot/sticky.

What ever happened to Birdman (a.k.a. the happiest liftie ever) at Blue?

No Colorado skifari this year??

@GrilledSteezeSandwich and @saltyant could share the room.

We mix it up. In Whistler, we didn't cook at all.