indiggio Posted January 18, 2016 Report Share Posted January 18, 2016 (edited) I'm back home from a much better session at Blue mountain than yesterday, bringing my confidence back at bit in the mountain, the snow making and grooming. I arrived at the lower lot at 7:30am with the temperature a balmy 17 degrees under crystal clear, blue skies, with a roar of the snow guns in the distance. The lot was virtually empty, as ours was the only car across from the base lodge at the time. I took my good old natured time getting ready because of the temperature and wind blowing. Since I took my time, I didn't get in line for the first 6-pack chair, but it didn't matter as the place was pretty empty, which surprised me a bit. Perhaps now it was too cold for people to come out?? Guns were blazing on Challenge, Nightmare, Dreamweaver and Switchback all day, with a few of the fan guns going off all over for an annoying glaze to the goggles as you passed through. This became much worse towards the afternoon, especially on Razors, as they hadn't adjusted the mix on Challenge and the wind was carrying most over to skier's left on Razors. If you stayed left, you had to stop at the bottom of the first headwall to clear the goggles. Since I didn't need to hustle to get tracks down Razors, I took a run down Paradise which had some sweet, mixed cord to cut up. Some fresh was mixed in with the granular to make it a fast and smooth run. Next was a run down Lazy to see how that was. Some nice snow from the fan gun at the top followed by a coat of new on the run again mixed with the granular, not bad. Finally took a run down Razor's. The top was quite wind-blown (which only got worse towards the afternoon), but below the first headwall, the snow was very nice. There were still some grooming ruts here and there, but nothing like yesterday. Main street bumps were glacial and NOT fun at all. The rest of Main Street early was meh. Still marbles in the middle, but the right lip had some blowoff from Switchback, so there was plenty of fun to be had along there. Crowds never really materialized the entire day. Both the quad and 6 were running, but yet again the 6 bit it in the afternoon, causing everyone to bail to the quad. They had to break out the organizer for a while, but eventually got the 6 going again. They also were limiting the 6 to 5 riders all day. We ended up lapping the quad anyway. Temps during the day came up a bit with the blazing sunshine, but it also brought even stronger winds which pretty much carried all that was being blown at the top of Challenge and Nightmare overtop to Danielsville. Mt. Mik probably has some nice coverage now. The rest of the afternoon was spent finding nice snow along the edge of Paradise (no SP were out), Lazy and Main Street, which resulted in some nice thigh burn. There was some talk of this storm on Fri/Sat on the lift, but I'll choose to believe it when I see it. Edited January 18, 2016 by indiggio 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RidgeRacer Posted January 18, 2016 Report Share Posted January 18, 2016 Nice report. Was debating it today but never materialized. Hoping for challenge, NMDDubb, switch by Thursday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indiggio Posted January 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2016 It's a possibility they get them open by Thursday, but with the wind howling, more snow was settling in the woods than in the whales. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted January 19, 2016 Report Share Posted January 19, 2016 Paradise has a head wall??? I might be at blue tonight. Don't know yet. Next time add espresso to the iced coffee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted January 19, 2016 Report Share Posted January 19, 2016 I can never pay for an espresso shot. When I worked at the coffee shop I used to take free espresso shots whenever I wanted Well you get something for that dollar or whatever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Law Posted January 19, 2016 Report Share Posted January 19, 2016 Nice, I was like I'm getting up I'm getting up fuck it back to sleep.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momskeeztoo Posted January 19, 2016 Report Share Posted January 19, 2016 Hope they have Switchback open by Thursday. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indiggio Posted January 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2016 Hope they have Switchback open by Thursday. Ditto! Since the trail is quite covered, the snow doesn't blow away as much and easier.to cover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Law Posted January 19, 2016 Report Share Posted January 19, 2016 Any one up tonight ? Gonna be RAAAAAWWWW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toast21602 Posted January 19, 2016 Report Share Posted January 19, 2016 Any one up tonight ? Gonna be RAAAAAWWWW Oh baby I like it rawwwww. Oh baby I like it raaaaaaawwwwww. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted January 19, 2016 Report Share Posted January 19, 2016 Any one up tonight ? Gonna be RAAAAAWWWW I'm on the fence. My desire to ski tonight is diminished by the wind and cold. Might wait till Thursday night and grind the spine with Matt edge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedude4bides Posted January 19, 2016 Report Share Posted January 19, 2016 Any one up tonight ? Gonna be RAAAAAWWWWIs ODB raw dirty? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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