vinnyv11

9th works here as well.

If only we had ummmmm..... Thats it friends that we could bring with us doesn't have to be 50 PASR's. Long weekend would make this clutch. Hit Hunter or Bellayre or such as well.

I'd be down as well.

I may be up there with a large group at the end of the month as well.

Count me in for at least three people maybe more.

Looks good. How are the tree's holding up?

That would be ridiculous.

Nice report. Seems like your getting around in more ways than one this season.

I'll definitely be up. Have two lift tix.

I think I saw on the website its 75 for individual sessions.

This is my dog. If i gave it a chicken sandwich it would use that as a tool and build a park better than bears park crew. Nice. Have no comment about the content but this made me laugh.

I know that ASIA runs a bumpfest up at Belleayre that i've been considering hitting. http://www.asiaski.com/bumpfest.htm

Not sure they'd like the stops after every two runs to grab a brew, etc.

I wonder where there going to put in the bumps for the clinics. Hard to do lessons without a full bump run I would think like you see up in VT.

Conditions - Fresh snow from the prior days (over a foot in the past storm), light snow to start the day turning heavy all day. Accumulation about 8 inches during the day. So we made our way up to New York in the morning and decided to hit Hunter with our ski and stay package. This was my first days on snow this year and man did we make a great choice. The snow was amazing and the fresh snow just kept on coming. This was a trip with the wife and my cousin (11) so I didn't get to hit everything I wanted to but the legs needed to get under me anyway so probably better that way. Spent most of the morning with the wife doing the various beginner terrain around the mountain and jumping on whatever off trail stuff was next to them. After the wife needed a break I headed up the six pack (which was packed) and figured it was time to jump back in with a run down the cliff to racers edge. I guess warming up was not going to occur this year because the fresh snow made for great bumps and a nice technical run especially on racers edge. Was beat when I got to the bottom but it felt great to finally get out there again. Spent some more time doing runs down the terrain park which if you avoided the features had untouched powder on a nice pitch to the outside. After getting lunch the wife decided to come back out so we did another beginner then I talked her into going down Kennedy drive a nice intermediate trail which ended up being a fail as the fresh snow and bumps forming made her completely freak out but experiences are experiences. She went back in so I headed back up the mountain and hit Hellgate, Eisenhauer and some other various run. Goggles got real foggy at one point which when your going down pow thats getting bumped up can be a problem lol causing me to almost bite it at one point. It was getting close to 3:30 which was when my cousins program ended so I headed over her way and did some blue runs which was when I saw some untracked powder under the lift because it was roped off and you needed to go through some trees so I hit that and it was glorious. After this I met up with my cousin and watched her ski a while. She did great and looks like with some more practice she'll be getting it. All in all it was a great day and I enjoyed the mountain with my only complaints being it was packed!!! Several buses and idiots who had no clue what they were doing. Almost ended the day in a fight because some out of control asshole crashed into my cousin but luckily only clipped her. Not sure what the etiquette is there do you punch the guy for not knowing what he's doing and running into a kid rather than falling. Beautiful Powder Under Lift: Snowing hard and looking down a trail:

The six pack line at Hunter yesterday was longer than that at one point.

Pictures had me salivating.... Awesome tree shots.

There has to be a bajillion people there lol. Glad there open but a holiday weekend with cheap tickets and way to many morons who think a first time skier should be on Kodiak. Ya ill pass. Hopefully they'll open more for tomorrow and people stay home for New Year's Eve.

Ended up at frost pretty good conditions! Better than numerous other times I've been here. Don't understand why some of the trails aren't open though most look packed with wails. Anybody up today?

Torn between elk and Jack Frost for tomorrow. I may have to push off my elk trip till more of the mountain is open decisions....

Looks like tomorrow is going to be windy.... What's Jack Frost like on a windy day typically. Wind holds?

Gotcha. Heading there on Sunday on our way back from Hunter.

Do they still have the buy one get ones on Sundays? Anybody seen the coupons for that deal?

Facebook is saying hopefully Saturday.

Based on there facebook post marginal temps again that were higher than expected again. Feel like they post the same thing every time. Rough start for them.