JF 1/19

[Mess]

Arrived in parking lot at 8:30.  After getting our 2 day local epic pass card we were skiing by 9:00.  Really small crowds most of the time we were there.  Snow was great early and with plenty of space on the trails my youngest son worked on keeping skis parallel, turning and stoping without wedging.  We started on the really easy greens a few times then progressed to Easy rider.  Moved over to Janes lane for 2 runs and then moved over to Exhibition and Dematte's demise.  Lapped those trails for awhile.  When the lift line got a little longer I told my son we would over to challenge lift and ski Thunderbolt and Challenge.  I was a little disappointed to find Challenge lift was not running so we headed to the lift on East Mountain.  River Run looked nice but Brady was not ready for it today.  Guns were blowing all over the mountain.  Huge whales on Floyds and Lehigh.  Looks like they just need to push that snow and both trails should be open soon. We did a run on Challenge first and had a great run until the very end where I hit some ice and almost went down.  We then did a run on Thunderbolt.  Snow was not as good as on Challenge with many more icy spots.  We did another run on Demattes and the snow was started to get scraped off so we called it a day.

Awesome day overall with small crowd and longest wait to get on lift under 5 minutes.  Pretty great for MLK day.  I think it will be better the next time we go if they have Ridge run, Lehigh and the rest of east mountain open to spread things out even more.  I had a great time at JF.  It is a really good mountain for families.