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Nice can't wait for the report. Did you get any untracked pow pow?

At Jackson hole anything double diamond is serious..single blacks range from not bad to serious.

Great pictures Toast!!

Hey All, I'm back from a fun powder day at Blue mountain the true mountain. Reports were flying of 5-6" of new snow at Mount Mik to as high as 7-8" in Palmerton from the accuweather forums. The drive up was easy took me about ten extra minutes and I stopped at WaWa on the way. I arrived at 7:50am and in the house were JFDan, Atomic Jeff, Toast, Tarponhead, Indiggio, SallyCat, Tele Matt, Root, Shadows and many others. Indiggio was even ringing the cowbell in the lot this morning. Onto the skiing blue groomed the majority of their steeper terrain before the majority of the overnight snowfall fell. Razors was first up and was amazing..top to bottom powder that was light but supportive as well..skied Razors two more times..second time as untracked as the first really just the two patroller tracks and about five PASR tracks third time on Razors while still large swaths of untracked you were crossing others tracks..next after that was nightmare dreamweaver already chowder still nice just was skied on a lot while we got 2700 vert of fresh pow on Razors. X-ing and the glades had nice fresh upper Main Street had lots of fresh as well in the second half of the first hour..I did my best to get any untracked pockets. One liftride on the six pack a guy skied under the six pack on the lower marquee route above the first turn of lower sidewinder and went over all sorts of rocks and fell forward and ate shit. That's a lesson to all you Saltys and Eafs please check yourself before you wreck yourself. It's national safety month so be safe folks. Razors was pretty rough rough when I returned to it some serious push piles..paraweaver was was technical as well some nice piles. I went back to the lot for a beer and soft pretzel and the people were really starting to stream in. Only the six pack was running until 11something and then the quad began running which eliminated the tiny liftlines perhaps a minute or two tops. One interesting run was skiing sidewinder to lower lazy mile its a run that was a normal run back in my middle school days to get back to the Main Street chair to get back to the upper lodge. I took the Main Street chair with Root and we did widowmaker my first widowmaker of the season..some call it raceway but raceway never used to be titties deep..Root scored some fresh by the patrol shack and I got some pow pow off the side of the trail..and more fresh on the sides of chute you have to be real careful of rocks and cookies off trail..lower Main Street was rough..did Paradise to dreamweaver and Root was flying on his new skis through the chop. Ended with a run on Paradise around noon or a little later. Many were saying today was the best day of the season..if you're a powderhound like me that's no argument. This new snow is gonna make for some awesome conditions this weekend.

Yup!!!! Was deep. Report later I'm posted up at Sheetz the best mini market and I can compare and contrast because I was at WaWa 5.5 hours ago.

On my way up.

Just woke up from a nap/ half a nights sleep but anyway during the day it snowed 3" in Palmerton and only 1/2" tops in Allentown..was interesting watching the radar all day. Solid inch of heavy wet snow here the last few hours and should snow hard for at least a few more hours.

Easy to win with so few teams. When stooges had trivia they'd have like 12-25 teams and prizes for first and second place along its a boobie prize.

285 acres wow. I believe they have bowling alleys as well

I believe seven springs is larger than Camelback. What town are you staying in??

Salty, when are you gonna be at 7 springs?

eaf I thought blue was your favorite place to ski..that's where you go the most.

I could never use rental boots..rental skis sure.

I vote copper..there are a lot of light blues for the kids and its a family friendly place. You don't have the dirtbags that you have at Abasin and Abasin is too challenging for most kids..You can either stay in the village or Dillon, Silverthorne or Frisco which are 1-2 exits down the interstate and have a lot of chain restaurants and chain hotels.

That's usually a pretty good demo day..

I've never had knee issues but in hardpack snow I Blue I prefer my mantras which are 96 underfoot and in choppy snow I prefer the shiros at 117 I believe. I feel like fat skis preserve me a little more in chop because it's so much less effort..now for Bumps fat skis are a handicap at least the tight seeds at Blue..on natural western Bumps fat skis are fine cause they are more widely spaced and more rounded as opposed to troughs. The one dude in Jackson who's a friend of a friend had like 16 pairs of skis at his place none narrower than about 115s

You're welcome and anytime!!

Hey All, I'm back from a fun session at Blue mountain the true mountain. On the drive up I rocked out to E40 and pulled into my normal spot in the lower lot at 1:30pm and the temperature was 29 degrees with light snow falling. No crowds although I only had my own chairlift a few times on the six pack. Razors was rough near the top ice and piles smoother lower down..razorback was real nice smooth not many people had skied it. I went over to x-ing and there were two new wet whales on it and a few areas with an inch of untracked..bumps were scratchy and lower Main Street was pretty beat up conditions. Sidewinder was nice the first half pretty scrapped off last pitch..I will say the ice was a bit softer as it was about 30 degrees out with new snow falling. The new snow tickled my face and there was barely any wind. One guy I rode the lift with was looking at snowflakes on his gloves and commenting on them. At least he wasn't commenting on my shiros. Nightmare to dreamweaver was alright paradise was better and not many people on it. Switchback was a bit scratchy but a few good spots along the sides, I get spoiled skiing switchback from 8-10am when it's fresh friggy friggy fresh. The snow didn't stop while I was there but the heavier snowfall is supposed to be later tonight into tomorrow morning. Blue mountain might be near the bullseye. This is a more northern storm and areas from the northwest Philly suburbs to the poconos will get increasingly more snow the farther north you go. Could even be rain at times south and east of the Lehigh valley. I'm optimistic about some darn good skiing tomorrow morning. I had one beer in the lot had the entire side of the row to myself..was warm enough to hangout no gloves or hat which is a rarity lately. Blue is doing well selling tickets I'm sure there will be a decent amount of people tonight and tomorrow JADIP

Here's Bob Peters unofficial guide to Jackson Hole. It's something worth reading if you've ever wanted to visit Jackson hole or are visiting for the first time. https://www.pugski.com/threads/unofficial-guide-jackson-hole-mountain-resort-wy.5608/

Truth..trudat Salty your hope is that there is some groomed and some ungroomed to practice in. I heard the best skis for powder are 170 rtms. I rode the lift with a guy an hour ago that was on 177 RTMs..badass

Boom snow hasn't stopped at Blue..wet snow but should lighten up as it gets colder overnight.

Take off!!! Sounds like you have a lot of vacation time. Do you have separate sick days as well?

If Razors is good I'll just ski that the whole time. I didn't get on it at all Sunday due to the racing. Oh yeah and I have a few secret stashes that should yield Edge to binding deep pow pow.

thanks for the run breakdown. Sounds like conditions to stick to the sides of the trails and be light on your feet. Temperature is rising maybe the ice will soften a bit.

I'm heading up to blue soon. I was gonna wait until later when it's snowing heavily but don't wanna be at work anymore as it's boring. I don't know how long I'll be up there. It's not even snowing now in Allentown but looks to be snowing on the Blue cams. Anyway I should be there around 130 at the latest. I might head up first thing tomorrow as well depending on how much snow falls overnight.