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Events aren't always black and white and not every tragedy has a villain. For all we know, this one may have two victims. Caring about the wellbeing of the living skier doesn't diminish my capacity to care for the grieving family of the dead skier.

Having fun here

Salty please tell me that you brought, at the very least, a DSLR camera to Europe and didn't rely solely on your Jitterbug. That mountain shot looks like it was taken with a civil war camera.

Sorry, I forgot what an expert skier you are.

Just over 36 hours until wheels up. Start getting your ride to the mountain playlists organized. For me.. For PARidge For Nastar Glenn For JFDan For MBike Mike For Atomic Jeff And for NMSki

2/16 through 2/25, but i might be doing more hiking and mtb than skiing with the winter they are having. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Here with Sebastian. Nice to ski together again. 🙂 Will probably be at Blue sometime Friday.

Basement jaxx nice !

By trail riding i meant single track on a mountain bike, i should have been more clear , i ride at nockamixon often. for road riding i agree with the rural road riding, where i live i can connect mcmansion developments for close to 50 miles without riding on a main road, there are alot of hills in them.

I ride and ski as though no one sees me. The news said the person that died was laying on the slope when he was hit.

Yeah, I brought my 2008 Canon PowerShot, so I have some really good pics. It still takes great pics for today's standards. I was going to say I brought a Poloroid but I promised to stop trolling. It was my new year's resolution.

My local bar would cancel trivia if there were only 4 teams but I guess blue mountain has a lot of Johnny cash to throw around. Here's my contribution to trivia.

Yes, we skied mad rain here yesterday. Contractor bags kept us dry, except for our arms. Still had fun. 🙂

Bags are packed. Stoke market is on the rise.

Huh, I love skiing alone, but get bored on the lift sometimes. iPod + pocket beer makes it tolerable. If I were alone with just my own thoughts, I would brood too much. Anecdotal observation: In the mornings, people tend to be chatty on the lifts, which passes the time. In the afternoon and evenings, hardly anybody talks to anybody else. Either way is fine with me, but it's a funny phenomenon.

That’s my favorite place. Great breakfast. Return discounts. Bob (the owner) taught me how to tune skis.

Yep planning on going to 7 Springs tomorrow.

Mountain Sports Inn. Not fancy at all. Reasonable price, good breakfast. Beautiful common area. Good people own it. Very laid back. My kinda place.

I love Kton. Have a great trip

No forecasts till we get there!

How does this forecast look??

That's why I have an air-horn on my motorcycle.

Yup its like a 25 cent savings on a $20 tab

damn, this is pathetically cheap

Maybe I don't think I've had them. I'm more of a saltines kind of guy

Don't go down slopes you don't feel comfortable on. Hiking back up around here is always an option. Don't let your ego get you into trouble!

Salty it sounds like you ignored the warning signs at the top of white lightning.

Salty, get a girlfriend

Team PaSki&Ride.com with the come from behind victory in a tie breaker final round! Being a theme park geek paid off for the tiebreaker round of acronyms, no one else knew EPCOT.

Strike two.

Why don't you two just text each other? This constant shit is getting old.

i would think the other person feels horrible, or worse, about the entire situation.

Why are you wearing Lady Gaga glasses?

You should rent fat skis the afternoon of 2/6

Oh it's the Mexican restaurant from South Park. Wow you're quite the jet setter I mean bed wetter lol

You make plenty of money. Get a real phone. It doesn't even have to be an iPhone X...an 8 will do.

The hobacks are open. Boom.

I remember my boys as elementary schoolers shooting in and out of all the little rabbit holes off of midway while I acted as a spotter for oncoming traffic. I always ended those runs with a “don’t tell your Mom” admonishment which always elicited smiles from them. I love the history of east coast skiing. Meatheads “Epoch” is a must see for anyone interested in the early days of ice coast skiing!

Awesome - you are right on the access road. There is a free bus that will shuttle you right to the mountain. Your first day I think you will have to start on the Spruce side of the street and get your Stowe card. Then after that you can go right to the lifts. And you are a 1/2 mile from the Matterhorn. Best Apres spot there. Great food too. Don't be freaked out that they are serving sushi in a hard core locals bar - it's excellent. Matterhorn Bowl is the best. Pizza and appetizers are great too. And they have live music most nights. Awesome place. The Shed is the bar at the base of the Forerunner Quad and that's the best on- mountain bar. If I were staying on the access road and was using the bus, I would end every day at the Shed, then take the Bus to the Matterhorn for an appetizer and beer, then hotel and head out to town for dinner. Do you enjoy beer? As mentioned, don't miss the Bench. Best beer menu around. If you are overwhelmed, Hill Farmstead is IMO the best beer on tap in northern Vt. 'Edward' is their pale ale and it's great. If you like shuffle board, go to the Roost. If you don't mind a 20 minute drive, dinner at Waterbury - which you will pass through on your way to Stowe. Prohibition Pig is exceptionally good BBQ and again, killer beer menu. I'd skip the Ben and Jerry's tour - we did it this winter. Kind of lame. Excuse me if I mis-read your skiing, but if you are looking for mellower blacks, in addition to the aforementioned tails off the Quad and Gondola, Whirlaway - if open - and Smugglers off the Sensation Quad, and also on the lift - Sterling is a great blue trail. If you need to check one of the front four off your list, and you are feeling intimidated (again, I apologize if I am mis reading your skiing - I don't mean to insult) Lift Line is often groomed on the skier's left side, and honestly after the head wall and first two pitches, it's a pretty normal trail. The head wall is crazy steep, but you know....just slid down that SOB.... You can also try your hand at lower national off liftline - which, if there is snow - will be wall to wall bumps, but a mellower pitch compared to upper national. Goat is probably my favorite trail in the world, and really, just a quintessential New England ski trail - if the snow is soft, and you are up for it....might be worth giving it a go...maybe skip upper goat (if it's open - it often isn't) and slide through the trees at the top of the Lifeline head wall. 9 times of 10, that's the start the trail as upper is usually closed. It's as steep as lifeline, but 1/4 as wide, and always bumped side to side. So, you can kind of get a sense of what you are in for if you ski the groomed half of liftline. But really, there is so much great blue and mellow black terrain at Stowe - just an absurd amount really....Perry Merril, Gondolier, Sunrise, Nose Dive, Chin Clip....so many great cruisers. On mountain food - Spruce lodge has great food - both variety and quality. But gets wicked crowded. The Octagon a the top of the Quad is very good, and often a bit less jammed. I've never eaten at the top of the Gondi - the cliff house I think it's called. But it's a sit down affair. Skip the lodge at the base of the quad for food - kind of lame and jammed most days. Have fun man - Stowe is an incredible mountain and a really, really fun town. And +1 on the cooler and Heady Topper and Focal Banger. Their Crusher is also an incredibly good, and smooth drinking, 9% ABV double IPA. They have a bunch of other beers now, but HT and FB are still my favorites. Sorry for the long post. I love that place.

Be sure to hit "The Bench" restaurant for some Putin! Also, take a cooler with you and stop at The Alchemist and bring us back some Heady Topper and Focal Banger!

There are many, many ways to be smart. I think we devalue manual-labor professions and that's a shame. I know lots of kids who are hands-on problem solvers for whom a job as a mechanic or something similar would be an awesome fit, but lordy, if one of our kids didn't go the college route.,. I mean, how would that look!? I sponsor a school club run by a boy who is mad for bicycle repair. He and five friends find and rehab old bikes and donate them. The boy who runs the activity is an amazingly talented wrench and a good teacher to the other boys. I would hate to see him give up his passion and talent and major in psych or whatever

Turn down for Jackson.

STFU, can anything be posted without you replying?

Of course, not, I'm not a nerd.