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Main Street was fun to, and Da Glades opened - thin in Sleepy Xing, but Lazy Baumer was deep stacked from snow making, not icy, and fun! Sent from my R1 HD using Tapatalk

Didn't ski today--the wind chill was too brutal. I skied at Pico the other day in -7 weather and it was fine, but there was no wind that day. The last couple of days here the wind chill has been like 25 below and I found out the hard way how much of a difference wind speed makes. So Okemo yesterday was a day skiing, and I'm not complaining, but it was challenging. First, it was scary cold. My only problems were feet and face, but they were serious problems. My Hotronics cranked to "eleven" just couldn't keep my toes from being painfully cold. You had to cover your face, but doing so fogged your goggles and the fog immediately froze, so you'd have to figure some damn way to get ice off your lenses. The Airhole balaclava I was wearing was nice, thick fleece, but it got saturated from condensation right away, so was worse than useless as face coverage. The snow was pretty firm to begin with and then became scraped off quickly, with big, bald ice patches everywhere. So you were always sort of looking for snow and dealing with ice. And it was really crowded, so there was a lot of standing around not moving much, which didn't help anything. At one point I went inside the lodge at the Solitude lift to warm my feet and before you know it i was at the bar drinking a Magic Hat and eating a F-ING AMAZING plate of chicken and waffles. That was really the highlight of the day. On the way home I almost didn't make it up the hill to my family's house, so all my evangelizing about Bridgestone Blizzaks should now come with the caveat that you really should have all wheel drive in Vermont. Rear-axle torque: I needed it. Headed home tomorrow and hoping to get some runs in first thing on NYD.

I don't want to speak for everyone, but I think you've kind of reached the point where most people don't really care about what you post and are only (if that) looking for a spot to troll the troller.

conditions were downright awesome today. #wideskis #notboring #notcamelback

It's one day because I fucking say it is.

Give the snowmakers a raise.

Made it down Smoke. One fell once and got herself up.

If I hadn't met you, I wouldn't believe you were for real.

My dad sent me this picture today. Looking west into the Lehigh Gap. You can see them deconstructing the old trestle that used to cross. And of course a beautiful black diamond diesel. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

177s would have just floated right down that due to the increased surface area.

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Tell her way to get after it. Good for them that’s awesome. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I can't wait for the "What camera should I buy thread." I'll start: Nikon.

Not just that, but your quality > quantity.

Annnnd that is why Subaru is the unofficial state car of Vt. Safe travels

Especially with the 84mm width.

100% open is incredibly impressive. Serious props to the snow making and grooming team. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Usually if my lunch break is longer than an hour I count it as two days. Or if I go back out with a different set of skis, or a different jacket.

100% open before new years is borderline incredible. props to blue for pulling that off. im excited for 2 days of riding in a row.

Told them just being brave enough to try it made them better skiers than one of my main ski buddies (or their mom).

fantastic day. better than Camelback.

We met a parking lot attendant who was also a snow maker as well..we thanked him for his good work..

Doing a 2nd Montage day, since our hotel was 3 miles away and we woke to see at least 2" of fresh had landed last night (and is still coming down) on top of the nice surface from yesterday. Bomus that virtually nobody is tracking it up. Long Haul is running and serving the least tracked up run. Conditions are so nice I may take my girls on one of the double blacks (Smoke) today, which would be a first for them.

I use 5-6 GBs of data a day.

Blue wouldn't care if you built a bonfire in the lower lot. They'd probably sell you a bag of marshmellows for $8

Not sure. Crowds are bad and husband has off and I have barely seen him the last month because of his work schedule. Play it by ear. Going to CB 1/6 with my boys for a few days.

I like saltys reports...they're rad

You mean you don't wait on pins and needles for Salty's insanely long trip reports

You've really stepped up your posting game since your brief departure and return to this POS site.

Nice report SallyCat. I haven't skied Vermont in 6-7 years. I went to college at UVM so mainly skied Stowe and Sugarbush..I never had goggle icing issues wearing a balaclava I just don't like have my face covered in snot. Hopefully the single digit temperatures New Years morning will feel balmy to you..

Once they got someone calling out folks the VIP line rocked. Got to teach the lifties NOT to call out folks so it gets backed up though Awesome conditions

Better you than me. I just did a one year Droid trial as a beta tester for the S7 Edge and it was miserable.

Thats not taylor swift

Conditions were superb. That first run down Razors and NMDW. JADIP

What time does buckmans open?? Buckmans is on the wrong side of the road to get tickets on the way to blue or rentals for that matter anybody else ever think that?? Shadows still calls it Nestors. Nestors was the shit.

It's pretty terrible when for $12 more a skier could just stop by Buckmans on the way to hill and get a ticket that's good for twice as long

Iphones suck. Definitely gettin pixel or samsung. Or some high ranking off brand phone from japan. They know what theyre doing

Some people were skiing the woods to the right of upper switchback.way to get after it!!

Definitely agree with you!! I don't feel luxurious sleeping in the trunk of a Kia though LOL. Upgrading next year to a Crosstrek from Subaru.

Ironically, it can be too cold to grill. When it's too cold, propane doesn't convert to a gas, or at least at a high enough pressure. Sunday's forecast high of 17 might be pushing it, but we'll give it a go. I don't think that I have a portable charcoal grill anymore, or I would go that route. Blue doesn't seem to have any rules against charcoal.

Thise marmot bags are definitely amazing. Feels way too luxurious for camping. Like im supposed to be in the elements not in a cacoon.

You should post some videos. Way to get after it. I didn't even wanna drink a beer today after skiing in these temps..

At Cameltoe? Is that a real question? 😂

i dont like going to it in the winter, so i dont. no, really my work is seasonal. being able to take off in the winter when i like makes up for 70-80 hr weeks April to November. Over the winter i just have projects that need to be completed before April 1st, so its very flexible.

There are very few things that are better in life than those first few runs on razors this morning. It was like skiing on silk. Nice to ski switchback as well. Sidewinder was also good as was main, challenge and damn near everything today... Even Burma which Dan and myself skied after a trip to the True Blue Ski shoppe. Shout out to the ski shop in the valley for fixing my boot for me in literally minutes. Always a good experience with them. Proof we were burning our asses off on the red chair below.

But on the other hand, what would the lift lines be like with the 170 vs the 177? Lift lines are the most important factor in lyfe. One could sound pessimistic and say that he could have gotten down the mountain faster and MAYBE be one person further ahead in line on the 177s due to the spread of the body weight vs mass over the larger square footprint of the 177 vs the 170. But I say Salty should just console himself with the fact that on the 170s EVERY SINGLE LIFT LINE he stands in for the duration of the time he owns those skis will be roughly 7cm/2 shorter, pending binding placement of course. That's gonna add up over the average of 130 runs per day that he does, and really make the 170 a no-brainer for what's most important.

Hotronics boot heaters ftw. -6 yesterday and I was fine until the batteries died around 2pm. Grabbed my spare batt set and skied until lat chair.

I can't do that shit especially on the east coast. It was 6 at Blue today and I thought my toes were going to fall off At smuggs you are turning a lot more especially when you are following Moe Ghoul through Doc demseys glades and the enchanted Bavarian Forrest.