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‘nuff said.

Arrived in the lot about 7:30am to a big inversion, 27 at top, 22 in the lot. Surprised to see Bumphead Chris parked directly across from me, as he's been spending his time skiing with his son at Bear Crick. Good to see he's out slumming it at Blue for a day! Looking up the mountain, I saw a lowly groomer at the top of Main Street, perhaps they reset Barney's? Would be nice, as reports from Friday indicate the bumps were a total disaster. Maybe they even seeded Chute? With the expectations of sun and warmth, went pretty light on the layers, knowing I'd have to be a bit cold in the morning until the sun came over the ridge and heated the valley air. Rode up the 6 and came down Challenge which was quite good, with a few grooming hiccups and a couple of large marbles lying about. The snow was fast! Went over to NM/DW to find they seeded bumps on NM, so I slipped them with the bumpheads and made our way down DW which was also quite good. Took a ride down Sidewinder and Switchback, both of which were pertty good, but nothing to write home Mom about. Over to Barney's, which they did reset, so we slipped them a number of laps to break them in. The temps started to come up as the sun came over the ridge, but it just never got warm enough for the boiler to soften in the troughs. The lower set of Barney's was far better than the upper, as you could get an edge in to keep the speed down. Around 2:30, Tarpon and I decided to go back and check out NM bumps. Due to the sun angle, they had softened quite nicely and with the lack of traffic, there was no ice in the troughs. We made a few laps through them and hit the lot for some apres beers. Not too bad of a day, but not anything great either and definitely nothing to match the Jackson reports. Damn!

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Got a bit of a late jump this morning, nothing new for us. Wasn't really disappointed in that tho as there was still some drizzle in the air as Pops picked me up at about 7:45 to head north to Tannersville. Forecast for that area was calling for rain to be totally out of the picture by 9 am and it was dead on. Arrived at Camelback at about 8:30 and snuck in the back way by snowtubing and grabbed a nice spot outside the CBK lodge, next to the Sunbowl slope. Headed inside in hopes of processing our triple tickets and redeeming for a lift ticket, fully expecting to be told that could only be done up at the main ticket windows. Looked around on the way in and was pleased to see many tables ready for flipping when I threw my epic tantrum. Surprisingly they were were able to accommodate without a hitch, and in about 90 seconds we were back outside and making the arduous 100ft trek to the car to boot up. I was pleased with the way the transaction went, but at the same time was hoping I would be able to parlay some outrage into some sort of plastic "credit" I could exchange later for mountain goods and services. Eh, probably would have just dropped it off the lift anyway. After booting up we headed down to the indoor water park lift and rode up to hit Nile Mile. Snow started out awesome, soft but carveable, if only I knew how to carve. As the day went on it would yield to a mix of mashed potatoes and sugar, but the mountain was sufficiently deserted that none of the trails got unwieldy with push piles before we left. After a great run down Nile Mile, we jumped back on the indoor water park lift and on the way up I suggested to my dad that with the great soft snow we ought to hit the blacks right there while it was good, before the anticipated hoardes arrived to make them unskiable for jongs like us. He agreed, and so we dismounted and headed down Pharaoh to Bactrian, cruising right onto the indoor water park lift again for a ride up to tackle Cliffhanger. Neither of us have skied Cliffhanger before, as on every trip to the Camel since I started feeling comfortable on that kind of pitch they had bumps on it. With nary a mogul to found across the resort, today was the day to hit it. Took a real fun run down that, feels like it has as much sustained pitch as just about anything I've skied to this point, and I enjoyed the hell out of it in great conditions. We discussed running it again while it was so nice, but, still operating on the assumption that crowds were coming once people looked outside and realized it wasn't raining anymore, we decided to head over to the front face and hit the trails located there. Which meant a crappy run of Little Caesar to Julius Caesar to Honeymoon in order to transition from the indoor water park lift to the outdoor water park lift. Disembarking the outdoor waterpark lift we elected to make Big Pocono our first run on the front face. In our limited Camelback experience it gets cut/bumped up pretty quickly from a lot of side slipping that happens from people who drop in expecting a Blue like Nile Mile and finding something not all that off from Marjies. It probably really ought to be a black to keep it in line with the ratings for this particular mountain; I suspect it's a Blue simply because if it weren't they would feel like they don't have enough top-to-bottom intermediate trails on the trail map. At any rate, we took a fun if uneventful run down Big Pocono after posing for some selfies for the 'book at the top. It amazes me how photos and video make slopes look so much tamer/shallower than they are in person. Back to the outdoor waterpark lift and up and over to King Tut, a true blue run that we have a lot fun skiing and today was no different. After Tut we worked out way across the front face lapping the outdoor waterpark lift and hitting all the black with no problems. Until we got to Rocket. I had the GoPro with me but haven't put a mount on my new helmet yet so hadn't really gotten any footage. I suggested to Pops that I ski down ahead and set up to film him coming at me and passing me before dropping in and following him down. Figured he could look at the footage later and check form. About 1/3 of the way down he caught an edge and went down, sliding the next third of the way on his back while doing his best impression of an 80's breakdancer, alternating head and heels pointed downhill a couple of times before sliding to a stop. The skis never came off and he was able to get back up and ski down to where I was. Footage of this exists, but I promised I wouldn't share it. 😂 We finished the run and went back up the outdoor waterpark lift to finish out the front face runs, taking an uneventful run down Marjie's Delight and back up again. Looks like Camelback isn't content to let Blue Mountain and Bear Creek take all the ski resort wedding business, as they've constructed a nice looking ceremony spot just to skier's right of Marjie's, and the peak lodge is close for renovations, presumably to fancy it up for receptions. Now that we were back on the top and had attempted all the front face runs, the only logical thing to do was attack Rocket again so Pops could extract his revenge. This time I gave him the camera to set up below to record me coming down. Alas, the Rocket won again, taking him down in almost the same spot but closer to the edge, and he slid off the side. I skied down right away as I couldn't tell if he was over the side or not when I lost sight of him over the lip. We got him back on the trail and went down. We decided to take a little break, Pops was a bit fatigued from fighting to get back on the trail and clipped back in. On the way back down Sunbowl to the CBK lot, I saw that they had opened a few of the fixed grips so I let him go head and hit the Marc Antony lift for a lap. I went out Julius to Near East and dropped down to check out Pocono Raceway/Rhododendron Glen. Half of each trail was roped off for a race or training that wasn't happening, and right as I approached they dropped two adaptive skiing sled participants into Raceway, so I headed over to Rhododendron to stay out of their way. I was glad I did because I came across a staff member setting the brush gates for the self-timed course. I decided to pull up and tell him that I thought it was really great that they bother to set something like that up and that we enjoy it. He thanked me and basically said that it was his baby and he's solely responsible for it, and he had been trying to get it working since Christmas but the wiring wasn't working. He finally found a spot where a critter had chewed the wires and spliced it and got it working just the day before. I told him that I knew that feel and tapped the Comcast logo on my jacket, and we both had a good laugh and then everyone was cheering. I skied down and joined my dad in the lot, where I swapped goggles and shed a layer. We tried to have a conversation but it was impossible with all the loud music and drinking and tailgating going on in the lot. We decided to escape the cacophony and chilled outside the CBK lounge for about 20 minutes. Went inside to whiz (downstairs bathrooms, only negative to parking there and using that lodge but I'll take it) and then went back out. We decided to run some Raceway/Rhodo laps, and the mountain coaster lift was open so that made it nice. We ran half dozen or so laps including a few down the brush gate course. I'm terrible at it, but it's fun. End up taking the turns too wide and thus slow. Damn wide-assed skis. After those laps we took a Bactrian run down to the indoor waterpark lift again, working over to the outdoor waterpark lift. We did several combos of Marc Antony and Cleopatra uppers and lowers, lapping the Marc Antony lift. Lower Cleo was in real nice shape and was fun to ski. Upper Cleo resembled a stretched mogul field, with constant and pretty consistent bumps on the relatively shallow slope, but with real stretched spacing. The first run we took down it that kind of sucked because there was a couple dozen people in it and they had wildly varying ability to deal with the chop. The second time we took it it was empty and we could blast down it with speed and had a great, fun run. Back to the outdoor waterpark lift to the top, we took another run on King Tut and then a repeat of Big Pocono. We decided we were just about done for the day, but decided to hit a few more Raceway laps since they're nice and easy and whenever we wanted I quit we were parked right there. We headed down Sunbowl and too late noticed that the mountain coaster lift had stopped spinning, so rather than turn around and skate back to the lot we headed for one last run up the indoor waterpark lift. At the top we decided that rather than take the cat-track Julius Caesar again we would head down Pharaoh and make a hard left and try to negotiate the uphill to get to Pocono Raceway. We were successful with some minor poleing and cruised back down to the lot to call it a day. On the way down the mountain we stopped in at Zack's Taco Shack which was doing a booming business. There's only a couple picnic tables and a couple counter stools inside along with a few standup spots, but some space opened up just before our food came up. I had a fish taco which was the special of the day and a pork taco as well as a chicken burrito. It was all fantastic but the fish taco was the star. All in all it was a great day of about 24 runs, 16 miles skied and about 16k vert. Next day on the snow will probably be a Thursday night session at Blue before leaving for Steamboat on Saturday. Will be at Blue Tuesday night for 80's themed trivia but probably won't ski after.

Arrived at about 7;45 to rain and fog. I was counting on soft snow and small crowds, and was not disappointed. Until about 9:30 there were more racers on the hill than civilian customers. Visibility was an issue until about 11 am, but gradually the rain showers stopped and the fog lifted. By noon it was a bright day with soft, hero snow and NO crowds. By 1pm the lift crew had taken down the dividers in the corral. There were no lines all day. Every run was awesome soft, spring snow. There were weird patches of icy boulerplate here and there, as well as dirt. All easily avoidable and metely an aesthetic issue. I had a bowl of chili at the bar without any inappropriately-young fellows asking me to ski. Ah well, a girl can only get lucky once in a while. All told, a fantastic day at the True Mountain.

Jerry of the day!!!

I guess. They both said "American". Apparently I went to the wrong American. Sitting in Dallas now.. Flight to JAC boards in 15. View of the mighty Mississippi from 30k feet

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Tinymoose and I arrived in lake placid today (1/27) for a couple days skiing at whiteface for 2018 ski diva east meet up. Currently, we are chilling at the lake placid brewery with some suds and relaxing from a rather uneventful road trip. Weather upon arrival was less than optimal...low 40's and a drizzle. There appears to be some snow on the ground, but I suspect the off trail is out of play for our time here. I'll use this thread to post updates. Won't be as epic as the Jackson Hole PASR invasion currently underway. Oh well, such is life. On tap for tomorrow is warm and soft conditions, with a chance of light snow later in the day and for tomorrow. Hopefully ulllr will come thru. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Nice sunset. Rotd was the side of razors. Spent most of the evening bouncingn around on stuff i dont get to ski cause everyone else is hauling ass. Excellent linking turns in/out of the 'ridge' bumps were great too once i figured out how to ski again.

1/28/18.. Day 3 of 7 Hey all, I'm back from a deep deep day at JHMR. We left the 49er at 7:20am and it was just before 8am before we were booted up and in the village. MBike Mike and Nastar Glenn got their lift tickets and I hungout in the front of the singles line with Dennis my local buddy who won the Teton county fair caramel and cookie contest..a true legend. He even hand flexed my shiros which gave me a semi. The gondola started loading a few minutes after 9 and we took the exact same root as yesterday. Heavy slightly tracked up Amphitheater to the thunder then Grand which was deep to sublette to the run of the trip. Ten sleep bowl which was derp to the cirque which was knee deep with snow billowing up to my belly burton. Up thunder again back to grand which was pretty tracked up and to the Hobacks which was great till almost the bottom. Plenty of swaths of untracked and by the bottom I was sweating 😅 more than getting pulled over by a cop after smoking some loud. We then navigated around from the union pass chair to the teewinot up apres vous into some woods over to Casper lift and over to Marmot lift. Top of marmot made a quick pit stop for some water at the summit lodge. Then into the same woods we tracked out yesterday. The six of us did the best we could to ski every fresh turn in the two sections of woods off of marmot three runs straight. Hearing Nastar Glenn's hoots and hollers and see him emerge through a giant evergreen tree was worth the price of admission. After those three ski runs I was getting tired. Me, mike, Glenn and Atomic Jeff then skied the additional 2,000 vert through variable conditions down to the base and took the shuttle to the Kardashian mobile to debit and NMSki and JFDan skied one more run and met us at the alpenhof where we spent two hours waiting for food and 8 minutes eating. The food was really good. Me and Atomic Jeff shared the sausage platter and I had a cup of goulash..I drank a lot yesterday and was dehydrated so had water and an Arnold Palmer and the men had 4-5 pitchers of Spaten...now back in the 49er and gonna go to the bre bre brewery in a couple house. PARidge is in town and just had Wendy's. I wonder if he had a burcanator. Its 40 degrees in town and a giant puddle..tomorrow I'm trading the shiros for mantras as it will be the first on perder day of the trip.

Today was top notch. What a fucking treat. Doug thinks 15" in the Cirque. What a treat for Mbike and Nastar Glenn's first day.

Ride in.

Great morning at Frost, 24 degrees when I arrived, 44 when I left at 10:30. Hit east mountain right at 8, pretty quiet for an hour or so, with just some red and brown coats. Everything open today. Some nice frozen cord, Floyd's and Rivershot were in great shape, the groomers did a fantastic job with this week's weather, not pristine, but still very good conditions. About 9:30 it started getting busy, so I did a couple runs of Challenge glade (headwalls pretty bumped up, but the lower tree section was very manageable), and lapped Challenge and Tbolt until the crowds and ball bearings built up.

and the 75lb weight difference.

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Nice report. Wow you parked at the top..I haven't been up there since early December. Foggy rainy days that clear up can be really good. Gotta love the lack of crowds!! when I get back from Jackson hole we'll have to make some runs..

STFU

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Bumps were really good today!

super jealous of all the pow! WTGAI!

Yesterday was pretty nice. Toast, TRKT, Ryan and I enjoyed some lot beers. Quiet & sunny lot time was peaceful.

OMG I am laughing so hard at this. Your friend ski freak.

Clearing up!!!!

After running like Usain fucking Bolt from gate F to gate B I've somehow made my flight. See you fools in a few. Save some of that freaking powder for me.

Eat at Lisa G’s, great place. Is any of the ridge trails off of approach (upper empire, etc) open?

How was Corbet's?

Mmmm. I'd rather have a Bloody Mary than a mimosa. Everyone else, what is your favorite AM drink?

That's me if I did meth for a month.

Warm tomorrow more snow coming in tuesday afternoon-Wednesday chance of snow Thursday. Bottom of the mountain got above freezing this afternoon

STFU

HELLO!!?!! Trigger warning, please?!?

I was a chAir ahed of you then you bounced. Great conditions right now

STFU

back from a nice long day out on the mtn. just got done with some fried pickles and some suds at the restaurant in our hotel. i am now enjoying a nice cup of dark magic, writing this TR on our bed, with a view of the backside of white face. we're meeting up with our crew tonite for some drinks at the cottage (love that place!). anyhow, today was our lazy day since the official gathering doesn't start until tomorrow. so we took our time this morning and got breakfast at the hotel. breakfast was just OK...standard buffet offerings. got to the mtn about 9-ish AM and paid for the baller parking lot near the base lodge...b/c that's how we roll. booted-up and did a warm-up run down the main valley area. from the get-go i could i would have to be spot-on with my edging skillz, as even at the base area the snow surface was quite firm. the first lap down confirmed my suspicions. next up was the cloud splitter gondola, approx 2300 vert in one go....not to shabby, especially for the east. we had hear ppl were headed up to the summit and slay some tasty lines down upper skyward, so we headed up. made the game-day decision to ski down pharon's run instead of upper skyward. best snow of the day, hands down, was on pharon. since whiteface is not a very large (expansive) mtn, a lot of the main trails got substantial traffic, and any soft areas were quickly scraped down to boiler plate. for other areas, it was full on bullet-proof hard pack and ice. keeping that traffic in mind, we decided to take a detour and headed down to the bear den area. this was a good call since basically no-one was down there, other than never-ever's getting lessons and such. by then breakfast had worn off and we decided to get an early lunch there at the bear den base lodge. around noon, friends of ours from MA had arrived, so we headed over to the main base lodge and skied with them for the afternoon. we took them to all the "good" spots to be had, and even by then temps had risen, and the snow was starting to turn buttery over that firm boiler plate ice. other spots remained firm and i swear they got firmer. we called it quits about 2:30-ish and then headed back to town. the wilderness lift area looked closed off b/c of a collegiate GS race that was taking place. those kids def had the appropriate ski for this mtn, lol. def saw some good turns made by them as they were free-skiing on the hill. we didn't hit up anything along the little whiteface ridge line, probably will do those tomorrow. lookout mtn was completely bare. slides had maybe 6" to 12" of snow in them....rest was ice from groundwater. pretty much any trail that did not have snowmaking on it was bare.

Really nice.

Oh so that's what actual powder looks like..

Looks great. Hit it pretty good

Found Steeze secretly skiing at Camelback last week in his trademark gray helmet, Oakley goggles, and dark red sweater, and rocking RTM 81s.

Post pics. I love Whiteface. Next year...

I too miss Dan's orange hoody.

It rained early this morning in PA that's what's up.

Snow is great today and no crowds yet. Longest wait so far about 4-5 chairs. Getting a little busier. Just skied onto the Marc Antony double tho. Gonna hit a run then join Pops for a quick break. He fell on Rocket and burned a lot f energy recovering.

7" last 24 hours. 2" overnight and should be a few more inches in top of that before lifts open. 21" since we arrived

Just got word that Nastar Glenn and MBike Mike have arrived at the airport. Glenn is apparently giddy and I'm tired.

Cheers!!

Stop trying to justify your jitterbug Salty