12/16/25 Cold , Calm and sunny

[AirheadD8]

Fun morning cold start 12° ish . First chair with @Johnny Law. Coming soon pool table cord full throttle.Paradise same. Main st meh . Skied a portion of the woods next to upper main then Barneys which was a bit better than expected. Bailed after an hour, got a little busy later with lots of college kids. 

[Johnny Law]

Empty, some of BFG's crew, air and c1er but otherwise the single digits kept it empty. No snow guns on.

I only had until 1030 but with the upcoming weather change the time was now.

Everything was hard fast and smooth with very very good grip. First run on coming soon with no wing man and dark it almost felt too fast. 

Rotd was raceway, mid, main it's so nice to put the hammer all the way down and air the midway lump with no kooks around. 

Just an all around superb morning before what I fear is a big surface change. It's almost certainly undiagnosed autism but for some reason Don Henley was in my head all morning. 

 

[Johnny Law]

Lol shit dueling reports 

[AirheadD8]

31 minutes ago, Johnny Law said:

Lol shit dueling reports 

Maybe the mods can combine them 

you were at the gate before me anyway

[JFskiDan]

how is snow production on Raisins?

 

i only care cause i want them to be done with that so they move onto something we get to ski.  looks like we go back to our typical Eastern PA weather forecast by the end of the week.  Frigid cold, warm up, piss hot rain, then right back into the freezer.  it was fun while it lasted.  

[mute1080]

45 minutes ago, AirheadD8 said:

Maybe the mods can combine them 

you were at the gate before me anyway

Done. I think it goes by posting time so Airhead won

[AirheadD8]

37 minutes ago, JFskiDan said:

how is snow production on Raisins?

 

i only care cause i want them to be done with that so they move onto something we get to ski.  looks like we go back to our typical Eastern PA weather forecast by the end of the week.  Frigid cold, warm up, piss hot rain, then right back into the freezer.  it was fun while it lasted.  

The middle half of the slope up top .The rest  is icebergs but they haven’t started grooming yet. 

[Johnny Law]

51 minutes ago, JFskiDan said:

how is snow production on Raisins?

 

i only care cause i want them to be done with that so they move onto something we get to ski.  looks like we go back to our typical Eastern PA weather forecast by the end of the week.  Frigid cold, warm up, piss hot rain, then right back into the freezer.  it was fun while it lasted.  

Waiting on water, they had nothing on this morning and when I pulled in my car said 9

[RidgeRacer]

Sucks. Unless we get heavy rainfall, lack of water could be a serious problem this season. And if we do get heavy rainfall it's detrimental to the snow already on the mountain, requiring more water to repair, which we do not have a lot of. So we'll need more rainfall to fix the snow that was ruined by previous rainfall, then more rain after that to fix the snow damaged by that earlier rainfall which will only be ruined by the rainfall needed to make more snow only to be ruined again by rainfall. Ugh. 

Edited December 16, 2025 by RidgeRacer

[C1erArt]

1 hour ago, JFskiDan said:

how is snow production on Raisins?

Looks like they blew last night and pushed out the whales, but only on the skier left half. Possible the won’t open with full width. 
 

Busted the VIP lanes on the quad. Was first in line, it opened, then immediately closed, and wouldn’t reopen until the tablet guy got there and opened it for me. Both lanes were closed off after that. 

[enjoralas]

Guns are dumping on Razors now, amd were when I looked at the cams earlier about 3ish, so hopefully been on at least 4 hours or so. Can see them on the Valley and Tubbin cams

[mute1080]

Arrived at 430 and had a couple runs solo before @Dirtwolf joined. Way better than what I was expecting. Some slick spots but pretty smooth and grippy for the most part. Played in right side of Coming Soon and that snow felt good. Skied to 630 and not that busy. Couple random ski race teams I’ve never heard of (Ridge?)

Bottom of headwall to home stretch on Raisins could be pushed out to half way. Decent looking piles. I think all the snow up too blew over the hill into Danielsville. I did see someone poaching it and promptly face planted under the quad WTGAI

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

12 hours ago, RidgeRacer said:

Sucks. Unless we get heavy rainfall, lack of water could be a serious problem this season. And if we do get heavy rainfall it's detrimental to the snow already on the mountain, requiring more water to repair, which we do not have a lot of. So we'll need more rainfall to fix the snow that was ruined by previous rainfall, then more rain after that to fix the snow damaged by that earlier rainfall which will only be ruined by the rainfall needed to make more snow only to be ruined again by rainfall. Ugh. 

It is what it is. The melt later this week should provide enough water for the racer kids to have razors open for Xmas week. 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

7 hours ago, mute1080 said:

Arrived at 430 and had a couple runs solo before @Dirtwolf joined. Way better than what I was expecting. Some slick spots but pretty smooth and grippy for the most part. Played in right side of Coming Soon and that snow felt good. Skied to 630 and not that busy. Couple random ski race teams I’ve never heard of (Ridge?)

Bottom of headwall to home stretch on Raisins could be pushed out to half way. Decent looking piles. I think all the snow up too blew over the hill into Danielsville. I did see someone poaching it and promptly face planted under the quad WTGAI

Ridge is Basking Ridge NJ they’ve been training at Blue for 20+ years 

[JFskiDan]

Raisins guns going at 5:52 am.  pretty decent pile on the Raisins cam at the run out, so thats encouraging.  They should just push Raisins into a 20' white racing ribbon of death to make the racing that much more exciting.  Full width is for trailer park people.  

[mbike-ski]

17 hours ago, RidgeRacer said:

Sucks. Unless we get heavy rainfall, lack of water could be a serious problem this season. And if we do get heavy rainfall it's detrimental to the snow already on the mountain, requiring more water to repair, which we do not have a lot of. So we'll need more rainfall to fix the snow that was ruined by previous rainfall, then more rain after that to fix the snow damaged by that earlier rainfall which will only be ruined by the rainfall needed to make more snow only to be ruined again by rainfall. Ugh. 

sheesh RR, you break your rose colored glasses?! I always count on your optimism for conditions and trail reports!

[toast21602]

1 hour ago, mbike-ski said:

sheesh RR, you break your rose colored glasses?! I always count on your optimism for conditions and trail reports!

Blue's upgraded LED lights have improved his vision. 

[mute1080]

6 hours ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

Ridge is Basking Ridge NJ they’ve been training at Blue for 20+ years 

Home mountain of Mountain Creek is probably why we don't see them often. When is GSS coming for a night session??

[mute1080]

2 minutes ago, toast21602 said:

Blue's upgraded LED lights have improved his vision. 

Reminds me the big right hander on Lazy had zero lights for about 6 or 7 poles in a row last night. New lights look good but a lot are still off.

[saltyant]

6 hours ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

It is what it is. The melt later this week should provide enough water for the racer kids to have razors open for Xmas week. 

Thank you for staying positive!! That's the spirit. I always look for the bright side of things. And plus, all this melt will be really grate for the snowmaking retention ponds. 

[JFskiDan]

i would assume since the guns are still going on Raisins, they are planning on blowing till they cant, and then setting up the cookie field for opening this weekend.  Its ashame with the rain coming up we will lose all of the god given ground cover.  if nothing else, its just nice to ski when everything is white.