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PASRs will not be first-chair on the six. It will be me hosting a book-club discussion of the Great Gatsby. Admission to chair based on SAT scores and a compelling personal essay.

The other year when we got that good snowstorm, they left Switchback ungroomed. Best run on the mountain that weekend. Was just like an old trail in Vermont and hardly any traffic to speak of. If Switchback would bump up, it wouldn't get the traffic it does now, so freeze/thaw shouldn't be as much of a problem and they could periodically blow new snow overtop to fill in the ruts and/or mow it down every so often. Widowmaker is useless now that the racers have Razors. Once they open Razors for the season, they should seed Widowmaker from side to side, top to bottom, save the crossing trail. It would be a perfect bump run, with lots of lines.

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.

Groomed or ungroomed, What makes switchback and NMDW special is that they both have character. Not many trails in PA can make that claim.

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

I'm glad you like PASR..PASR has been very good for my skiing. I'd still ski a lot without PASR but I know I ski more because of it. If not for PASR and all the cool people to ski with and enjorales grilling in the lot I'd probably party rock Saturday night and sleep late Sunday and miss out on an Epic day at Blue.

Two of the card reader gates at the six have season pass line (or something like that) written on them, one on each end.

bump the chute!

Every weekend is sausage saturday/sunday with all of us in the parking lot, but I'm excited to put your sausage in my mouth again.

I can't quite place you in the ski world. Sometimes you talk like a beginner, and now suddenly there are annual Vermont trips in the picture.

Seems I've heard that before somewhere...

I've been biking forever and would always quit in the winter. After getting sick of sitting in the house every winter, I decided to get a job as a lift attendant at Eagle Rock. Once I saw how much fun skiing looked, I was determined to give it a try. One day after work, rentals lent me a pair of skis and boots for a few hours. I had to walk down the beginner hill the first few times, but once I started making it down without falling, I was hooked.

Before PASR, I was a top lot-er. It's not just park and ski though is it? It's park, boot up, walk up flight of stairs, through heated lodged filled with gapers and clueless, Then ski. From the bottom lot, it's just quick short walk to the lift. There's been countless days when I've called it a day and gone out to the lot for beers, only to go back out for a few more runs. I'd never do that parked up top. If you want to change skis, or want to get another layer, you can catch back up with the group and only miss 1 run.

Ouch! Shots fired toast!

Switchback probably my favorite trail there. Or NMDW. Both were lots of of fun last year after that big snowstorm.

Nice Camelback has their first black diamond open only three weeks later than blue.

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

def love the consistent pitch of main street, but it's just a straight shot. lazy, switchback, and nmdw have a nice routing down the hill, which I enjoy.

Me and Johnny Law are the biggest fans of switchback..it's a perfect run for people that don't make many turns..

It says on their Facebook page. More than Camelback.

Yeah, i cant wait till they stop doing that.

I guess I'm old, then😝

It's freaking 12' out now and clear skies, perfect weather for blowing tons of snow. I would think Paradise may be coming online, may be Sunday? They're grooming Homestretch right now.

Thanks. I'm cautious and always start with the easy trails at new mountains before progressing. I found most of the blue trails very easy at K-ton.

This was my situation at about 4 pm. Watching this was entertaining. There are 3 cars kind of at the top of the hill that were passing each other as one would kind of get stuck then the car behind would go into the other lane and then get stuck right in front of the car it just passed. Luckily no traffic was comng the other way for what ever reason. Its just the right amount of snow to make the roads really slick, at the worst time. Someone could just make a fortune teaching people how to drive in the snow.

Expect to be out both tomorrow and Sunday. Sausage Sunday seasonal debut Sunday.

I’m a big fan of the moment triple camber technology, although I’m not as knowledgeable as some others on here. https://www.momentskis.com/pages/triple-camber-tech Johnny Law mentioned the pb&js I think? Those would be sick in 182 or 188 for you. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

As long as you're not boring or basic you're ok in my book 📚

I think a little bit of that is his humor.

You're not a beginner I'd objectively say you are a lower intermediate skier but probably be a solid intermediate by mid season based on the amount you ski...

He's not a beginner he caught the skiing bug and is now going all in. Salty is at the stage of skiing where he improves every visit still which honestly is a very exciting stage to be at. And beginners and low intermediates go to Vermont they want longer runs and variety just like everybody else. I don't even ski in Vermont anymore although I wanna get back to Stowe sometime I skied there 4 seasons in college and a bunch of trips in my teens and 20s

Jeff and I got the red chair last weekend. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Carpooling from the BMDI lot is the pro move and you definitely seem like the millionaire next door type You know they sell just the lucky charms marshmellows now.

6 pack won't get too crowded it's early season. If the 6 pack was open during last Sunday's shitstorm there'd be zero lift lines.

My first shaped ski was a 2003/04 Head Monster 70 in 177 with system bindings. I'm stoked to see how they've evolved years later. I'm sure the 2016/17 Monster 88 in 184 is going to be a much better ski and I even found some Pivots to put on them.

At least a cookie and not the frozen kind!

Switchback was the last trail designed by a professional and it shows, it's a straight build up of speed to narrowish left right left that sort of plays with a double fall line. That's probably the most complex turns on the hill, the top left right on NMDW and sometimes the big bottom left are better turns but switchback is the best actual interesting trail at blue. Doug is right too you have to ski it in about 4 turns. No way that trail is way too complex for the zinc-ies, the top is flat so they blow into the actual turns way too hot to trot, slam on the brakes and then flail around the corners. Before the first turn is generally pretty firm as again they just slam them sideways in a desperate attempt to kill speed, then because it narrows a burm forms on the left hand side which funnels people into a smaller and smaller track which makes the final left more of a straight. Bumps on that trail would straight up murder people and destroy the speed that makes a mostly flatish trail interesting. Bump up Widowmaker top to bottom, it's a straight down the mtn trail and Blue has two better ones in Challenge and Razors.

Sure we do. It's mostly (~90%) pass holders from 8:00-:835.

Valley webcam looks wonderful right now.

I'm still not as big a fan of switchback as the rest of you. I think it gets too icy from being scraped off in the shade, doesn't get any love fro the snowmakers to refresh it every now and again, and the lighting there typically sucks. It is still a top 30 trail at Blue, though.

Wow you don't wanna get frostbite. Five layer player right there..my man!!!

That's usually where my dad and I end up on our Camelback days, lapping Pocono Raceway and Rhododendron Glen, an occasional jaunt down Bactrian. Usually the Raceway triple is running when we're there. It's a real pain in the ass when it's not. Last year they set up a self timer and some gates on Raceway. That was fun.

Maybe they are counting each tubing run. Blue is supposed to get tubing open on saturday. About time. Finally catching up to Camelback.

Amazing what a couple inches of fresh snow will do when mixed in with the man-made junk.

Yeah right. Maybe doing well at giving the haters easy fake internet points.

The world is upside down when Doug is the guy NOT driving new posters away.

I really enjoyed those bumps on DW, hope they do it again. Although it was kind of scary the first time flying down DW at full speed as usual then realizing there are bumps right there. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Just now..

Temp at 8* when we started. Brisk 20+ mph winds. Triple layer player. On mountain at 10:15. About 30 season passholders and 30 ticket purchasers. Conditions were firm with decent cord, no cookies, and some blown powder. Skied all open trails (9) really only three from the top. Trails of the day we're upper Tunk and Susquehanna. Needless to say, No Lift Lines... Sun is now out. Beer is cold and tasty.

Yeah I remember when Atomic Jeff offered one of the employees in the valley lot a bagel and his response was,"I'm not a Jew"