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Snowing again. I’ll be out in mid May but I doubt they’ll be open.

Hi I didn’t read the article…back when I was 25 I skied as fast as I could even 30…now I wanna make it to the next ski day..enjoy myself…between a hard head on collision I had with a 5th grader (both of our faults) and just being older more risk averse I’ve dialed it back and I have a blast everyday I ski and I’ll pussyfoot down blue mountain and Jackson hole black diamonds if unsure of conditions..survival skiing..I used to not give two shits about conditions just send it…and I can say all that but some days things just click and I have a lot of extra spring in my step and let em run more…I know this last Jackson hole trip cause I was down 15-20 pounds from prior year I had a lot more giddy-up for 2-3 hours till I ran out of steam. As long as he’s slowing down for the slow zones.

Well, if you read the article, he says he confined himself THIS YEAR to chair 4 and selected a route based on conditions, crowds, etc. I think it was a choice of 3 or 4 possibles but then the same all day. I did ride chair 2 with him once because 4 had a delayed start. I know otherwise the runs he probably used are the ones I generally avoid because of nuts like him. Fred Frost, much quoted in the article, and now 83, skis everywhere. In the past, when he was usually in the top 5, he even went off piste in trees. Hopefully this guy got it out of his system. They put up tons of signs this year about skiing too fast. I'm sure it was him. In the past, they didn't give a shit. They would say they did, but only occasionally pulled passes after collisions, no signage. Certainly no policing.

I’ll have to dig up my old stats but in high school I’d ski 7:30-5 at blue with a lunch break and usually be in the 50s or 60s. I beat 70k at Stowe before 7:30-4. Biggest day since I joined PASR was 61,000 at Jackson hole 1/25/07 and that was a 9-4 day with lunch break and I had spaghetti at the Casper lodge. A lot of runs that day off the gondola, 10 minutes up and under three minutes down 2800 vert mostly straight down Sundance gully and that’s not when I was afraid to haul ass.

And with a lot of vert/lift. It would take 14 hours to get 84k vert at Blue.

You can only pull that off at a place that’s uncrowded.

84k+ a day average 🤯

That is insane. I bet he doesn’t ride certain lifts or ski certain runs because he’ll lose vert. I’ve stopped caring and and half my ski days out west seem to be pow days and then it’s total quality over quantity and groomer days you rack up 20k in 3 hours.

more on the guy. https://flatheadbeacon.com/2025/04/17/vertical-feat-how-a-retired-school-teacher-smashed-big-mountains-boldest-skiing-record

That was pretty cool. Thanks for posting a vid that wasnt a 30 min Doug snore-fest.

Just saw this video. I watched this guy ski down this line last weekend. He had a spotter go ahead to make sure all clear, then a guy videoing him. He was amazing to watch.

4-5 inches on top of the ridge at Delaware Water Gap. Couldn't see anything from the top.

Just finished up probably my last day of the season at Snowmass. At 9am snow was already soft in the sun, but round a corner of shade and you hit ice. Hit one spot around a corner and there was all brown with one section just wide enough for skis plus a mandatory frogger hop over some rocks. Hard to see from her but this is where I stopped. Temps were 60’s with a brilliant blue sky. Stopped at the new “Cabin” for a bathroom break. Bathrooms were fancy! Had fragrance jars on the sinks. So Aspen-y! skied onto every lift, nobody there. Closing weekend next Saturday, but I feel like I got my fill today.

Same here. It hits different after ski season is over though

Actually 3” in the grass.

An inch at my place 😳 in Southern lehigh county. I’m at 860’ . Guess backyard turns this morning.

Snowing like crazy down here in H-town right now!

@saltyant my sources are telling me the snowmaking ponds are robust and this isn’t subjective or objective or even anecdotal from the raindrops pitter pattering on the window sill it’s fact..and please don’t go chasing waterfalls..

Glutton for punishment https://whitefishpilot.com/news/2025/apr/09/king-of-vert-a-tremendous-feat/

I like today’s weather. I have the lights off in my office and the heat off as well feels grate

This is grate! I hope it's winter through July. /S

POW day

Snow this AM at camelback and elk.

New locker price will be $610, with a requirement that the owner is a pass holder. I guess dead people have been letting their kids and grandkids use them.

Yeah if ski season is over around here then warm tf up. Low supposed to hit 19 degrees tonight.