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Just returned from a very good day on the slopes at Blue. Left home at 6:30am, arrived in the valley lot at 8:00am to a temperature of 11 degrees. A lot of snow being blown from challenge to paradise. Met up with Hayata who had spoken to blue Thursday night and was told the valley lodge would be open and the six would be accepting riders. While booting up in the valley lodge we were informed that the six would not be ready until 9 due to it being frozen, so the few of us in the lodge had to take the shuttle to the top to start the day. We skied to the main street chair, rode to the top then headed down lazy to take a look at the six. We discovered that by frozen they meant most of the chairs had upwards of 6 inches of frozen snow on them, the delay was needed to clean them off. The six opened around 9:30am, which was rather anticlimactic because it didn't add much to the open trail count. Lazy was rotd, Burma was a close second, midway was pretty good, main street was cookied up to start but improved as the morning progressed, come around was a little stiff, and the falls was icy boilerplate. Each of the lift lines has a red 40th anniversary chair in the chair 40 position. When we left after 15 or 16 laps the valley temperature was 21 degrees.

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Just now, JFskiDan said:

Should get like a free cocoa or something when you get the red chair.  

Like 17 years ago I was stuck on the lift at sugarbush for an hour and a half and at the top they gave me a voucher for a free cocoa and it was like 60 degrees out so I had to wheel and deal in the cafeteria for a soda instead lol

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1 minute ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

 

How was the snow on homestretch?  Was it smooth?  Sometimes homestretch is all mini rollers and whoop dee dos when it opens.  

home stretch is/was smooth

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Great Morning at Blue,Conditions were very Good"Except parking in the valley only to have the six close around 8,because they did not clear the chairs,REALLY" Had a nice shuttle ride to the summit.Had an unusually good run on Burma no ski patrol got to run it. The cookies on upper main are starting to break up,All other open trails we smooth and fast,Nice.It looks like Challenge and Paradise may be open this weekend. Massive piles on Both, Good Day skiing with ZZ

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