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Fantastic conditions this morning. By far the best day of the year. Untracked runs down Razors was great. Glad to ski somewhere with good pitch. Absolutely loved the pow and the float from my non-skinny, knee-busting skis. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Went to Les Houches today with the guide, had a coffee to start the day off then rolled down for first tram. When we woke up we did not think skiing today was going to be an option, the wind was ripping and very gusty in town, by 830 it had calmed down significantly and by 9 it was pretty much still. Did a few laps with solid over knee turns and it was easy to link knee to waste deep turns together. It continued to snow all day and it just kept getting deeper and better. Our guide kept showing us to new zones and more deep turns, we generally skied the trees and lift lines. The snow was overall pretty light at elevation but you had to watch out for the snow snakes towards the village. We had lunch around 1, followed by a few more knee deep plus turns and finished the day off with a beer in the village with the guide. It is still snowing a bit and should pick up overnight for more good turns tomorrow. We only paid for two days with the guide but he said he will follow up for the rest of our trip and give us weather updates and a plan on where to ski daily. The guide was well worth the money, he was a super cool guy and and absolute ripper. Having a few beers at our place now and about to go get some food and a few more beers, it’s karaoke night at an awesome little watering hole we hit up on Sunday night so we may head there for a bit. Again I did not get many pictures maybe justo will post some, he has some good shots. Little stream crossing towards the base Money shot of the day Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Just got back from a great day at Jack Frost. Best conditions so far this year. Had a blast. Left a little late but the roads were fine (only about an inch of snow fell in Bucks Co.) and got into the parking lot around 9:30. Booted up and went right for the east side, didn't hit any of the blues or terrain park today. Mountain was practically empty. I was able to ride on to most lifts, but that's not unusual at Frost on a weekday. First run of the day was poaching T-bolt. It was closed for snowmaking which meant I got a run down an almost untouched 8 inches of pow over snowmaking whales. Maybe half a dozen tracks on the trail total. Next up was Happyland which rode good throughout the day but got bumped up later. Moved over to River Shot and Floyds which rode great: pow which started to get tracked out but just turned into nice soft bumps. I love nice soft bumps. Tried Elevator glade which was icy underneath, couldn't hold an edge and slipped it, rather than ripped it. Run of the day was Floyds. Not for the trail but because somebody attempted to drop Risk It. Basically, Elevator Glade and Risk It are ice close to the open trail where the snowmaking blow over has set up into cement, peppered with ice chunks from when they groom out the adjacent trails. The further side towards the woods only got the 8 inches of cover from last night. Not enough to start hucking cliffs. Anyway, this guy didn't give a fuck and decided to send it over Risk It into some ice chunks. Slid his way down and lost his ski. I was kinda jealous. I wish I was that gnarly. Everything was tracked out, but still riding well by noon. Packed up around 1:30. All in all a great day.

Started snowing around 4pm and the snow dramatically improved conditions, which seemed odd because it wasn't that much snow. But man, after 5pm everything just got better and better. I thought Widow Maker was the run of the evening in terms of snow quality, but then I did Challenge, and THAT was the most fun. Managed to get two runs on it before the ski patrol started shutting down parts of the mountain. I was there all day and I hated to leave.

Hey All, I'm back from a fun powder day at Blue mountain the true mountain. Reports were flying of 5-6" of new snow at Mount Mik to as high as 7-8" in Palmerton from the accuweather forums. The drive up was easy took me about ten extra minutes and I stopped at WaWa on the way. I arrived at 7:50am and in the house were JFDan, Atomic Jeff, Toast, Tarponhead, Indiggio, SallyCat, Tele Matt, Root, Shadows and many others. Indiggio was even ringing the cowbell in the lot this morning. Onto the skiing blue groomed the majority of their steeper terrain before the majority of the overnight snowfall fell. Razors was first up and was amazing..top to bottom powder that was light but supportive as well..skied Razors two more times..second time as untracked as the first really just the two patroller tracks and about five PASR tracks third time on Razors while still large swaths of untracked you were crossing others tracks..next after that was nightmare dreamweaver already chowder still nice just was skied on a lot while we got 2700 vert of fresh pow on Razors. X-ing and the glades had nice fresh upper Main Street had lots of fresh as well in the second half of the first hour..I did my best to get any untracked pockets. One liftride on the six pack a guy skied under the six pack on the lower marquee route above the first turn of lower sidewinder and went over all sorts of rocks and fell forward and ate shit. That's a lesson to all you Saltys and Eafs please check yourself before you wreck yourself. It's national safety month so be safe folks. Razors was pretty rough rough when I returned to it some serious push piles..paraweaver was was technical as well some nice piles. I went back to the lot for a beer and soft pretzel and the people were really starting to stream in. Only the six pack was running until 11something and then the quad began running which eliminated the tiny liftlines perhaps a minute or two tops. One interesting run was skiing sidewinder to lower lazy mile its a run that was a normal run back in my middle school days to get back to the Main Street chair to get back to the upper lodge. I took the Main Street chair with Root and we did widowmaker my first widowmaker of the season..some call it raceway but raceway never used to be titties deep..Root scored some fresh by the patrol shack and I got some pow pow off the side of the trail..and more fresh on the sides of chute you have to be real careful of rocks and cookies off trail..lower Main Street was rough..did Paradise to dreamweaver and Root was flying on his new skis through the chop. Ended with a run on Paradise around noon or a little later. Many were saying today was the best day of the season..if you're a powderhound like me that's no argument. This new snow is gonna make for some awesome conditions this weekend.

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That fucking bouy better be hitting more often than GSS does in the parking lot before Root gets there.

Ha, I heard the cowbell. I did Switchback and it was amazing to ski through ungroomed fresh snow. I've literally never done that before.

i'd believe it. it was freakin deep.

Oh yeah, when i had a brain fart and took lower sidewinder instead of lower lazy to main, i got to ride the the 6 with someone who proclaimed “theres no way they did any grooming last night”. He wasnt thrilled with conditions at 11:30 am.

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Today did not suck

I'm usually there Wednesday and Thursday. Not next week, I'm going away. But I may be there next Friday. I'm definitely getting full pass next year.

You called it early on the lift that the gapers would ski that later in the afternoon! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I was so pumped up on skiing when I got home I fought through the urge to powder nap and watched Warren Millers Higher Ground.

Yeah but you only made whoopee on one day.

That's badass skiing montage and Camelback in the same day...Matt Edge just text me and he said he was wondering how Camelback is so post some updates.

not at all lol. if you go out west expecting powder days everyday you will be extremely disappointed

yup amazing morning. best day ive had in a good 10 years. although i may have said that before lol. met up with sally for a lift ride. told her im super smart. glad you got to ride some snow sally. awd astro ftw. bomber groomers tomorrow

A fucking plus Good to hear you found some goods and got a guide you liked......Cham is a change your life kinda resort

going to a second mountain is a whole new routine, taking a second shit is no different then the shit you took 2 hours earlier. using your logic, we have to use 24 hours of skiing to count as one day

So if I shit in two different toilets today does that mean that I shit in two different days?

I fucking hate every last one of you....I just couldn't swing this morning but way to get it done

way to get it, fellas!

Great pictures Toast!!

Post it and I'll contribute photos and such. YOLO.

This is what's really interesting, to some extent we don't know how humans actually get the ski up on edge. Conceptually it's easier to think of skiing as standing on a platform that is moving and is perturbed in two directions, we can ski because the COM does not move with the full force of the perturbations because we have momentum and the rest we use movement of the body to balance out the forces. Static tests suck because they can't impart inertia and thus alot of the way we think about skiing is useful but incorrect, in an energy sense it's more accurate I think to think of skiing as a flow of energy. In the simplest sense we must use the muscles of the feet to flick the ski up on edge but while doing that we must maintain balance, so beyond just the muscles in the feet all kinds of other shit is going on with all the other muscle groups as we impart a flow of energy into the ski, as we progress through the turn that flow transfers into the body and into the finish of the turn. Think about how it feels to crank out a big sweeper, the force builds and flows, it's a constant experience but not at all and it's just as dependent on other muscle groups like in the quads and back as it is on the ankle/foot. At the extreme end you can see this is in WC. Shiffrin is so much better because her turns are as symmetrical as humanly possible, her next best contender is probably Wendy Holdener who is probably a better athlete but because she cannot get the same hip angulation on left foot down turns she's considerably slower and that has jack to due with muscles of the foot/leg. This dude says it even better because he's actually really smart. "Hirscher progressively engages his edges, especially on his outside ski then hooks a tight arc close to the gate to establish his line. Once he has established his line, he no longer needs his outside ski. He gets off it in milliseconds and uses the rebound energy to project forward with only enough pressure on his uphill (new outside) ski to influence his trajectory of inertia so his COM enters the rise line at a low angle of intersection. He gets rebound energy from the loading of his outside ski and from what amounts to a plyometric release of muscle tension from the biokinetic chain of muscles extending from the balls of his outside foot to his pelvis. The energy is created by the vertical drop from above the gate to below the gate similar to jumping off a box, landing and then making a plyometric rebound" So although the question appears simple it's actually pretty hard to determine what is doing what when your skiing at least to me it seems carving is a concert in which at various points various parts of the body are carrying the tune. What's cool to me about skiing in some sense is how human it is. It's kind of stupid right, I mean it doesn't actually do anything in a utilitarian kind of way, no other animal would spend the kind of energy humans due to go skiing and we can do it instinctively because its a thing we can feel. Think of the number of humans who can arc a turn and yet while we have some idea if we are honest the knowledge side in which X does Y which = Z of skiing is still a mystery, I can know nothing of the balancing physics of skiing and be a very good skier. Nobody who can ski thinks skiing, you don't go down the hill going impart force at angle X, angulate skis at position x in the turn. It's why at some level you can't teach another person by saying you need to do X because that's very useful but they still have to learn how it feels to do X. That's what being a human is all about, we are this thinking, tricky box in our heads while at the same time defined by something as vague as feeling.

Do not go to Keystone unless you want your kids run over by a bunch of yahoo snowboarders from Texas. That is the last place in CO I would take kids skiing greens and blues!

Mountains designate their trail rankings based on the other runs at that particular mountain (not the region). Some people put way too much stock in the whole black diamond, blue square, green circle stuff. I guess it's a newb thing. IDK.

Actually I doubt it will take ski patrol more than an hour to get you down it :-)

Only night skiing there? That sucks. Wrong. Cameltoe is ~165 skiable acres and Seven Springs is ~ 285. Seven springs is significantly bigger. It's not all about vert.

Tough to explain. Like one of those I'm glad to be alive type of nights. Big fat flakes falling from the sky, no wind, comfortable Temps, great conditions. Razors was the run du jour.

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Hey All, I'm back from a fun session at Blue mountain the true mountain. On the drive up I rocked out to E40 and pulled into my normal spot in the lower lot at 1:30pm and the temperature was 29 degrees with light snow falling. No crowds although I only had my own chairlift a few times on the six pack. Razors was rough near the top ice and piles smoother lower down..razorback was real nice smooth not many people had skied it. I went over to x-ing and there were two new wet whales on it and a few areas with an inch of untracked..bumps were scratchy and lower Main Street was pretty beat up conditions. Sidewinder was nice the first half pretty scrapped off last pitch..I will say the ice was a bit softer as it was about 30 degrees out with new snow falling. The new snow tickled my face and there was barely any wind. One guy I rode the lift with was looking at snowflakes on his gloves and commenting on them. At least he wasn't commenting on my shiros. Nightmare to dreamweaver was alright paradise was better and not many people on it. Switchback was a bit scratchy but a few good spots along the sides, I get spoiled skiing switchback from 8-10am when it's fresh friggy friggy fresh. The snow didn't stop while I was there but the heavier snowfall is supposed to be later tonight into tomorrow morning. Blue mountain might be near the bullseye. This is a more northern storm and areas from the northwest Philly suburbs to the poconos will get increasingly more snow the farther north you go. Could even be rain at times south and east of the Lehigh valley. I'm optimistic about some darn good skiing tomorrow morning. I had one beer in the lot had the entire side of the row to myself..was warm enough to hangout no gloves or hat which is a rarity lately. Blue is doing well selling tickets I'm sure there will be a decent amount of people tonight and tomorrow JADIP

IMG_2292.mov toast recorded this earlier. It's pretty badass. I believe second run.

No snow forecast for the east coast on 1/25 and just snow showers in the forecast for JH that day. That's a rarity. Nice to not have to check the weather for Chicago.

Looking good for Saturday 👀👀

Nice meeting and chatting with you! I also met an older man, a skier, who said "NBD, but I don't have any toes because I was trapped in an ice cave for three days" I asked him how he balanced with no toes and he was like "yeah, it's not easy."

Same for me. Is this how every day is in Utah?

Great morning. Arrived at 8:20 after getting stuck behind the plows, but I didn't care. Today was super fun. Best day of the season. Scored the red chair on my first lift ride up which just amped my stoke level up even higher. Bacons in the morning, and Monsters in the choppy chop after the lot beer. Pics later.

I know, lol. I was being facetious because I prefer everything groomed, because its easier to ski on. This powder is much more challenging than what I'm used to and im trying to get better.

Beautiful morning. JADIP.

Jealous. Glad it panned out for everyone who made it today.

Nah, remember I did basically the same run 51 times in a row on opening day, so I wouldn't say it's a wasted run.

Give me a little credit, I'm almost by myself here! Pops is helping tho. First place by 1 after round 2! Think we did okay on round 3. I'll be here next two after tonight, then miss one for Stramboat.

I'm in my golden years. (67 tomorrow). Here's my experience with old knees. I have two pair of Fischer skis that I'll swap out depending on conditions. My "fat" skis are Motive 95-- 134-95-122, 17 radius and 174 length. I bought these skis as all mountain skis to use out West and the occasional powder day at Elk mainly, and they cut through soft snow, and end of day crud with ease (if you ski fast and don't make a lot of turns =). ) They also handle groomers well, but prefer to be skied aggressively. My "skinny" skis are Progressor 800-- 122-74-103, 12/15 radius (two sweet spots) and 170 ! length. These skis are very responsive for the average PA skiing conditions. Hardpack and icy at times. They do not have to be "ridden hard" and cruise easily. The "old knees" part. Last week a bunch of old farts went on our annual trip to NH. I skied hard for three days in a row in excellent conditions, on my "fat" skis exclusively. Soft packed powder on groomers for the most part, although the Bretton Woods glades were sampled and spectacular. I woke up the fourth day to pack the car and head home and my old right knee said, "hold on old fart, you need a couple of Aleve this morning." At no time did I twist or injure it during the past days. I attribute the pain to the extra effort needed to turn the wider skis three days in a row. (And a previous injury.) Earlier this season I skied my "skinny" skis at Elk just to see how they felt compared to the "fat" skis I'd been skiing the last two seasons, and I really had a fun day. Much easier to turn with a lot less effort. So, I agree with the article, and find using a "fat" ski or a "skinny" ski has merit depending on conditions, and can also keep "old knees" feeling less abused as well..

Here's Bob Peters unofficial guide to Jackson Hole. It's something worth reading if you've ever wanted to visit Jackson hole or are visiting for the first time. https://www.pugski.com/threads/unofficial-guide-jackson-hole-mountain-resort-wy.5608/

Wo/Man up! Get yourself up, brush off the snow and run the bumps again and show them who's boss!