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No, I'll leave at 8

Honestly, the conditions are even worse than yesterday.

Yeah, all the upper lodge haters will envy me now

It's sunny and beautiful here. And yet such a pain waiting for the 4pm ticket to kick in!

165 is the only approved FIS man slalom ski length. So if it's men it's 165. If it's women, it's 158.

The only piece of advice you should listen to is TEST DRIVE THE SKI BEFORE YOU BUY IT. Pay $60 at BM on a weekday like today and drive them all into the ground. I'll give you an example of why... I ski Atomic Redster SL skis. They hold the edge amazingly well, I haven't seen yet anything better than that. And my friend has recently bought Fischer RC4 SL. Those are also slalom skis, same length as mine (won't tell you the exact number, or many here will have a heart attack), and those are very highly rated. And today they just didn't perform. At all. We both swapped a few times, I sharpened them before the trip, then we gave them a tune again at the store, and nothing, really nothing helped. They're just much more difficult to drive in hard and icy conditions like today, they tend to go sideways all the time, and as a result you can't trust them. So here, two very respectable skis in the same SL category, same length, same TR, same waist, and one is amazing, and the other one underperforms.

Right, and I heard there is a band member here as well, so it's all covered. Can't wait till tomorrow night.

Don't fret, we'll carry you down like a fallen soldier. Hell, I may come again just to salute the effort. One more time before the rain and crowds settle in.

Alright, that's it. It's so hard now that I have to make most of turns on one ski, pushing it in as hard as I can. So I caught a red chair on Main Street lift and am going home.

And it's 5, and it's hard again. Saltyant, you'll be able to break you speed record tomorrow hands down.

Say whaaat? Since when picking up a $20 a crime??

Last year I found someone else's PA Ski Card under the lift on Shawnee. Was all soggy, but still had a few rides left. Perhaps I'll find your GC on CB

Alright! It's almost 3, and it's way, WAY better. Actually, love it. Too bad there is no way to convince my party to stay past sunset. Damn.

The more people off the slopes partying, the better, esp on a busy weekend.

The more people off the slopes partying, the better, esp on a busy weekend.

You think I can bring it up and get a gift card?

Alright, alright, some exaggeration. Just shitty snow.

Upper Lazy is good though. And, saltyant, the bare spots are not that bad, and they're all in more or less one area. Get ice skates for tomorrow night, it's gonna be awesome!

Yes, amazingly shitty today. Compared to last Sunday - night and day. Yeah, it's all groomed, but it's also all frozen. My friends are cursing nonstop, I survive, but it could've been more fun.

Come today or I'll use all the snow up If Lazy Mile already starts getting bare spots, I'll leave you with nothing.

Do I read this correctly? Mantras are fully rockered, aren't they?

Thanks for the invite. Maybe next year. I already had another trip scheduled for the end of Jan.

Indeed. Rain. Very Xmassy. I'll be taking Wed off then and using one of those CM weekday tickets up.

Exactly, that's how they've been initially introduced: to float better in powder. Nowadays with most skis having at least 15% of rocker people manage to find benefits of rocker even on hard snow. Usually they would list arguments like: "it shortens the effective edge thereby making the ski more playful and easier to turn". Even for carving on hard snow many discover pluses like: "the ski is already bent up, so all that's needed to make it carve is to angle the ankles a little bit, and it starts turning by itself". It's hard to separate marketing BS from the true benefits. Before reading some strong opinions here I wasn't even looking at fat and rockered skis. Now I'm anxious to hit big mountains in Jan and demo day in Feb to sort it out for myself in person.

Eastern side wasn't fully open this time. So Lightning and River Shot only. Interestingly, they managed to do the same thing that BM did on the opening day. The left lift on the eastern side decided to die all of a sudden. After about 15-20 mins of trying to restart it (and luckily eventually restarting), they've unloaded everybody and switched to the right one.