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02/25/2024 - Blackcomb
Ip early as usual so searched the are for breakfast shops and came across a fitting place, Moguls. Had bacon, egg, cheese wrap that they baked after rolling it up which was pretty good.
Of course it was raining in the village and pretty hard too. We made our way up to the gondy center and took the Excalibur out. Only took a couple hundred feet and the rain had changed to snow. From the gondy it was up Excelerator into heavier snow and fog. Unfortunately with the wind that was also blowing up higher, 7th Heaven and above weren’t open. Rand down Buzz Cut in the few inches of powder which was fun, but was lipstick on a pig at the bottom.
Back up Excelerator as the lines were beginning to lengthen. Took the Jersey Cream express into the eye of the storm. Over a ridge and the wind rocked you like a hurricane. Headed down Wishbone to Cruiser for a nice long run through pow to crust to beginning mush at the bottom.
After lunch the fog started to clear but the winds hadn’t really subsided so we headed down to the Blackcomb gondy since there shouldn’t be any lines which there weren’t and we found out why midway up. The winds were picking up and pausing the gondy. At one point we sat for 20 mins as the winds felt like they were going to blow the car off the line! People said they’ve been coming to WB for 17 years and never saw the gondy stop for wind before. You know it’s bad when the lifites are taking vids of the cars flailing.
Decided to call it and head back to the hot tub. Dinner was at The Old Spaghetti Factory in high was pretty reasonable for salad, pasta, bread and dessert. Recommended. Afterwords WB on Sundays puts on a Fire & Ice show w/ slope style athletes jumping through a hoop of fire and native Canadians dancing and playing music.
Sorry not many pics as it was way cold and windy.
View of Whistler while stuck on gondy…
Ricing the wind…
Fog clearing out…
Dinner…
Fire & Ice show…
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02/24/2024 - Travel
Rick, son and myself left the house @ 2am headed for Newark to meet up with Slim, Gary, Gah skier George & Jr. for flight @ 6am headed for Toronto, then bro Vancouver. Uneventful flight and even stayed awake for all of Oppenheimer. Good flick.
Since we’re actually on an Upper Bucks tour, we had to wait around a bit for the tour bus to arrive. Typical Pacific Northwest weather: rain and fog.
Drove through downtown Vancouver because there’s no highway around it. Brilliant!
Drive up to Whistler provided some amazing views of the Howe Sound, with mountains knitting straight up out of the water. Unfortunately I was on the wrong side of the bus for pics.
After a grocery stop in Squamish, we resumed the ride into Whistler and checked into The Listel Hotel. Some pretty nice digs right next to town square.
Dinner was some slices from Dat Tony’s which were delicious, the sauce was crazy good! Recommended for the food, no place to sit though. It didn’t matter since we were starving.
Walked around the square a little and stocked up on essentials from the cannabis and liquor stores.
Some light snow was falling and supposed to continue through the night.
Leaving Newark…
Vancouver airport…
Vancouver…
Squalmish…
Witch of something imprint on the mountain…
Whistler…
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5 minutes ago, saltyant said:
Shouldn't seniors pay more since they have more money than us young folk?
How do you know they have more money than young folk?
Maybe youngs should pay more since they have longer potential to make more money.-
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6 minutes ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
What about the olds?
They're already paying too much!
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1 hour ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
How so? They should just charge the same for everybody. Why should olds and young’s get a break..they take up a seat on the chairlift.
Easy, youngs should get a break as incentive for parents to bring them to the mountain, as they're the ones that want chicken fingers, fries, waffles, lessons, adventure camps, etc. All the high-margin stuff us olds don't typically partake in.
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11 hours ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
There was a Facebook post about a husband and wife who have been scanning tickets at Jack Frost since 1999. They have those handheld scanners..you’d think by now Vail would put in a turnstyle system but I sort of was glad seeing they still do it old school to keep a few more folks employed.
I wonder if they are Scan-din-avian…get scanned in check your din and avian is something haven’t you heard..add in the flu you have a sick bird..
A lot of places still use the hand scanners for some reason.
Every mountain that I went to on my NH tour did.
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Won't be long, he's moving down to the Carolinas, giving up security and looking for a heavy machinery job soon or so he says.
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21 minutes ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
What brings in the most profit is first priority for any business. I don’t think the skiing aspect of most ski resort is very profitable. Food and beverage, hotels and water parks seem way more profitable.
Skiing's definitely not the profit center, but the motivator to bring people to the mountain where they've got (most) people captive in terms of food and beverage sales, where the real margins can be made. Skiing is definitely a loss leader for the mountains, but tubing on the other hand...
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13 minutes ago, AirheadD8 said:
Someone said NY kids are off school.
Why aren't they at Camelback then?
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38 minutes ago, saltyant said:
Why not? Yesterday I had to waste 5 sheets of paper towel cleaning up the muddy mess on my shoes. I would pay extra on my season pass, like $3.50, if they would pave the lot so I don't have to clean up the muddy mess
The summit VIP lot is paved, you could park up there to keep the dirt off your shoes.
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52 minutes ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
Without ski patrol we’d just have to help out…I’d put up the slow signs and will whistle at people I’m not doing medical stuff..that will be up to Toast and Matt edge. Salty you’ll be in charge of the hot chocolate
SP was handing out cookies in the OG6 line today! @saltyant can also be in charge of the cookies in addition to hit chocolate.
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4 minutes ago, saltyant said:
Myself and other VIPs were doing just that as much as possible, and it was a beautiful thing seeing peak efficiency filling each chair with 6.
Once the lift organizer disappeared I gave that up as it was back to everyone doing their own thing in their own little worlds
It's far easier on the organizer to handle groups of 6 and they tend to just let them go ahead right away.
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15 minutes ago, saltyant said:
The VIP line was doing so well for a while. People actively making groups of 6 and then jumping ahead of the lift ticket holder line. Once the pairer upper dude left it was the same old mess. Now it's anyone's guess as to how efficient it is going.
If people aren't grouping up on their own in the VIP line, we actively "help" people group up just so the line moves along quicker.
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30 minutes ago, JFskiDan said:
For Sat AM.
At least it aint gonna rain.
Recipe for a shit-show...
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Mmmm...Volkswagen bumps.
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29 minutes ago, AirheadD8 said:
Code red warning!!!
It’s never snowed here before ?
I had a customer cancel a afternoon appointment today because she was worried about getting home to Jersey before the storm. I told her it’s not supposed to start till later tonight. 🫤Break, milk and eggs are all sold out!
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Oh man, riding up the quad first thing was like getting off a plane in Florida in the winter! The warmth smacked you right in the face.
Going over NMDW, the grooming was impressive and rode that first thing. Wow! The two turns were a hoot and didn’t really see the mini booter halfway down until I was in mid air.
Barney’s needed a bit of slipping to scrape off the crust to let the warmth turn them hero which it did after about an hour. Ended up lapping them until lunch. Everyone was complaining about how outta shape we all are from not skiing bumps all season.
After lunch headed back out for a few more mashed potatoes runs. Right side of CS had some good snow and Lazy was thick and deep with it.
Legs are pretty shot from today’s conditions.
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10 hours ago, C1erArt said:
Right side of free fall surprisingly nice.
Last week the right side edge was almost non existent.
Was skiing the edge with @MattEDGE and a rock got a hold of him and threw him down.
Lots of rocks were mixed in with the sugar.Outta the box and into the rocks!
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C'mon GFS!
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Wonder what havoc this may cause? Sounds like not much, hopefully...
https://www.powder.com/trending-news/jhmr-officially-sold?fbclid=IwAR2atVljqjvaDJUVf5tkR_IUK2HXte0OluglYgiDM82xox3JRXbdD6aq28Q -
Wow, the grooming was night/day improvement over yesterday’s disaster of an attempt at grooming. It only goes to prove that Blue’s groomers are actually capable of putting down some decent cord, if they want to (or may be allowed to).
Ran the ridge on Coming Soon which was ROTD but the ridge has practically disappeared into nothing but the weeds. Not a whole lotta fun elsewhere and just lost interest in the same old situation.
Parking lot beers were fun as usual and kudos to @enjoralas for some tasty jambalaya!
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7 hours ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
Goobers
Going down Razor's after it's been urea'd to death and ski patrol doesn't see a need to close it...
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1 minute ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
The forecast is decent for snowmaking, the main thing is that while not super cold, the forecast for the next week is dry so I expect overnight snowmaking. I don’t see any trails closing, blue is gonna get switchback open and maybe sidewinder. Airhead was talking about long range forecast being cold, it’s not the 8-14 is above average so they need to blow every chance they get.
You got this Blue, you’re my boy…let’s fucking go…
There no sense at all believing any forecast longer than 3 days out.
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Blue Bumpers Invade Whistler 2024
in Other Mountains
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Pretty bad. Lots of the lower runs are barren. Riding with locals said it’s the worst they’ve seen it in like the last 15 years.
They also have said this week is the best conditions Have been all season so far.