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If kids aren’t supposed to see people drinking alcohol then my kids will be super fucked up! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Big shout out to enjorales on the meat once again, dude is redic. For salty or whomever wonders about a blue pass, when the head cheese is legit enough to come have a chat when she could just do whatever she wants you get my $.

too many snowflakes out there.

F-kin jersey! Only a$$holes are from jersey! Wait, what?

Yes she was lurking where Atomic Jeff usually parks and then spoke to us for about ten minutes. Apparently they've received some complaints about tailgating so she was going around and talking to the different groups. One solution is to make an area way in the overflow lot for tailgating with picnic benches and fire pits and they'd run that little golf cart shuttle back and forth for us. I'm not making this up.

Is that what is wrong with my kids😝

I loved the vibe! Thanks so much for the invitation! Thanks @enjoralas for the great food and everyone for the great company!

Bought to be drinking so much coke

Just read anything Eaf posts.

One of those days I wished I switched over to Blue. Conditions were good, but there was a race on Challenge, so it and the glade was closed. Got to east mountain right at eight and found Already closed for the race team practice. Skied River Shot until they started the second lift about 9:30, then with both lifts feeding one slope it became downright dangerous. The only other black slope, t-bolt, was packed too. Decided to call it a day. On a brighter note, my new Bluetooth tunes controller seems to work better than my old Square Jellyfish. Had to put some gel epoxy on the buttons so it would work with my gloves.

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Im down to class it up a bit

She is super nice. Very approachable.

What's that? Yeah, I was trying to organize my thoughts while I was typing. The process was kind of chaotic, and in no way scientific. It was fun comparing notes all the time and seeing how different people were viewing the same ski differently. Take that weird 172/85 for instance. I personally liked it, but neither my daughter nor friend were fond of it. And IDK why. They're both lighter than me, so perhaps the extra grip was working against them. But anyway, I'm done with trying new Nordicas now, and perhaps will indeed get on the controversial RTMs at CB next month.

Nope, but I've seen this: "Meh, the last 2 days have been pretty uneventful. Starting to get bored with skiing, I've done every single trail at Camelback ad nauseum at this point. Maybe I'll take a brief hiatus and go road biking next weekend instead."

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Well, that was our initial WTF feeling when we found at 8am that the lodge was almost full with racers and their families. That combined with the Subaru event was a solid sign that during the day the crowds would be unbearable. But luckily things turned out to be way brighter. The snow was fine all day long except for perhaps 12pm-1:30pm timeframe when it suddenly became sticky. It was so noticeable to us because we stopped for a lunch at about 12pm, and after we came out all of our skis had trouble going. At about 1:30pm things started to get better, but we really had to pack and leave at 2pm, so never really got a chance of skiing that late afternoon snow. Demo program was great. We've been a group of three, all having boots with the same BSL, so in the morning we just grabbed three pairs that we were most interested in and kept swapping them with each other. There were mostly Navigators and Enforcers of different sizes available, and a lonely GT 80 TI. We were able to change our set once at about 11am, but later at noon there were no skis left so "early bird gets the worm" couldn't describe the situation any better. Granted, at 2pm everything was back in stock again. I've started on Enforcers 185/100 after having heard at Shawnee the stories of a guy who loved them so much that he had two sets of them. Well, to me they skied as if my feet just lost all sensitivity. Like a cruiser when you can't feel the road at all. Is this as hard as I can push them? Are they about to skid? I never had any idea of what was going on or was about to happen. Yeah, they held and felt safe, but I just didn't like the sensation of a complete isolation from the snow. My daughter was on Navigator 172/85, and she hated them. That was quite unexpected because she liked 172/80 on BM a lot. Then my friend got on 172/85 as well and didn't like them either, again after having tried 172/80 at JF. Bewildered we repeatedly swapped 172/80 and 172/85, trying them back to back a few times, checked their flex and edges and eventually blamed the difference on sharpening issues. 172/85 edges were extremely sharp end to end. The skis just wouldn't allow you to ski them flat, they'd continuously catch an edge - something that my daughter hated. And once on the edge they'd take you for a ride on a curve they wanted to go on - that's what my friend wasn't fond of. Both of them were pleased with a 172/80 variant that had its ends detuned. And that just shows how unreliable demoing can be. You think you're testing the ski, but in reality you're testing their tuning job. The racing was going on all this time on Challenge and farther east. It never bothered us. We kept on looping T-Bolt and the adjacent blues on Nordicas. I didn't even get a chance to ride my SLs once. In the end we've each tried Navigators 172/80, 172/85, 179/90, Enforcers 168/93, 185/100, and GT 80 TI 168/80... My daughter was impossible to sway from her own Elan Insomnias, she found Navigators 172/80 marginally better, but really didn't like the rest a lot. My favorites were definitely Navigator 179/90. They could ride through the afternoon crud effortlessly, and yet did not feel so dead as Enforcers 185/100. I can easily see how they could be my daily skis, fun to carve, reliable feedback, hold well. Alas, the weather wasn't really the best, no ice anywhere, so I have no idea how they'd behave on ice. The friend somehow liked GT 80 TI. I was already tired by the time when we got on them, and remember the feeling of good carving skis, but perhaps it was their shorter length or stiffer construction, I just felt the crud more on them, and so for me the Navigators 185/90 provided a better balance of performance and comfort. All in all, extremely fun and busy day, snow was just OK and borderline bad around noon, but that didn't spoil demoing a little bit.

The race team seemed to be having fun on it.

Or for walking down white lightning.

I was a little worried I wouldn’t be able to get my January ride in....

This..

LOL, no one gives a shit about your stats, but you can't say you skied White Lightning. There's no shame in taking them off if you need to in order to get down the hill safe. That being said, you gotta expect to take some ribbing for it.

Yo, I know how to use my edges and keep my damn skis on.

Hey All, I'm back from another fun day at Blue mountain the true mountain. I arrived at the lower lot at 7:25am and the temperature was in the lower 20s but about ten degrees higher up high. In the house were JFDan, Atomic Jeff, Shadows, Toast, Ryan, Nastar Glenn, MBike Mike, Johnny Law, Bethlehem ford guy, Indiggio, Enjorales, Enjorales dad and many others. Razors was closed for racing so first run was challenge which was nice groomed but lipstick on a pig conditions i.e. Small cookies below cord. Nightmare to dreamweaver was a much better carpet and skied repeats on that and sidewinder was very good early on. Both Switchback and Main Street were very nice early on as well. Nightmare to dreamweaver wasn't that busy so that was lapped a few times and the hard right turn on lazy mile was nice enough for a repeat. Was nice and comfortable in the parking lot drinking beer and then went to the BMDI with JLaw, Enjorales and Enjorales dad and had a combination of breakfast and lunch food and drinks and was $36 total for 6 people. Temperatures warmed into the low 40s. Im sure by now it's spring conditions but should be fast snow again tomorrow morning aka sausage Sunday. I'll see everybody out there tomorrow plus Root, TP4 and Matt Edge!!!! JADIP..day 30 for me today.

Try it out over there, please.

There's a blog?? I've been looking for something ridiculous to read while I'm drinking beer

I rode up with some race kids today. I'm pretty quiet but by the top I was real tempted to so "you kids sound like complete assholes"

The Snow this morning was Great, First run down Lazy was close to perfect, all other trails great, many good laps

You'd like our shop at work..we have everything...no IPA though..can smoke a doobie in my dads office since he lives 200 miles away

Spring skiing last year is why I now know how to do p-tex repairs. I work for 6-packs of IPA, btw.

Some trip facts Some quotes from the trip. “I’d come back for the food and the wine, but the skiing sucked” “I got some white stuff on my face again” “It’s still snowing” “Is it snowing?” “I should have drank more water and less wine” “Raclette is ready!” Quote from the guide (read these in a broken French accent) “I propose a coffee” “Snow is thin, stay safe” “Im not sure what’s ahead, but it’s ok I have rope” At a minimum we have bought 4 bottles of wine per day, not including what we had after skiing and or with dinner. All bottles were under 10€. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Good conditions this morning. NMDW was great, Sidewinder was great. Switchback was great. Lazy was great. Everything else was just below great. We have had some really great conditions this year.

Nice report. How old is your daughter?? Maybe fix her up with Salty!!!

Wow just wow. Salty is getting jaded. He's too good for the poconos.

It was BAD! But just saw pictures on FB from their website. They got 10” overnight. Glad we drove home yesterday, roads sucked today and I-70 was full of accidents.

Skiing a hundred green trails isn't going to make you a much better skier...

The Teton gravity mags would love you. They'd probably give you the top bunk at super sessions 69 in Revelstoke..

That would come in handy for those steep runs at Camelback.

Oh ok. I goggled it. Yeah I've heard that song before, it's so mainstream tho.