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Such a great fucking 2 days the words and pics above express about 0.00001% of the fun on and off the hill! I think my cheeks (face not ass FYI) are gonna split from all the smiles and laughs![emoji23][emoji23][emoji8] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

About 2” up top. Less at the bottom but still really nice bonus this morning. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I can understand now why Warth is a cheaper place to live in. It's remote (45 mins to cross local ski area), it doesn't have enough lodging in the walking distance, and it's just not so picturesque. As much as I like our current apartment (two bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchen and a living room), next time I'll probably choose to stay in Lech. Houses overlooking the river, lifts are right there, and overall it's much better connected.

We did the White Circle today. It's a set of trails and lifts that connect Kech, Zurs and Zug in a big circle. Took us 45 minutes to get out of our zone to Lech and then 3.5 hours to do the circle. Views were breathtaking, trails not very much so because a lot of people apparently choose to roam them, and one can even time himself on how fast he can complete the circle, and post results online. This circle is the first time where I've seen lift lines here. It was closed last week until Friday due to the passed storm and wind. Even today one lift wasn't too comfortable to sit on due to strong head wind.

This sums up my morning:: Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Fuck no

January 30, 2018 Day 5 of 7 Hey All, I'm back from another ski day at Jackson hole mountain resort. For those keeping track at home, day one was a half powder day, days 2 and 3 were full powder days and day 4 was super nice pleasent conditions ranging from chalk to chowder...today was not very good conditions. Flashback to yesterday when I had a couple beers at the mangy moose, two Long Island iced teas, several room beers, a bird bath sized strawberry margarita, a Jameson shot and a double jack and coke...I was hurting for certain when I woke up this morning. My voice was lost from loudly talking over a country band at the cowboy bar and a splitting headache and acid indigestion..lovely. In town it was 43 degrees, the warmest I've ever encountered here in January..booted up and first civilian gondola with a guy we've met with before who grew up in saucon valley and who's brother knows Atomic Jeff. Some began on the tram and some on the gondola. First run on amphitheater was hardpack frozen cord..snow wasn't terrible to start but the light was flat..first day I couldn't just point em..up thunder and down grand which was more of the same..had to throw em sideways a few times. Up sublette to rendezvous trail which was similar a bit better light and over to thunder chair. Up thunder and down upper Amphitheater which had vertigo inducing light..I'm dizzy just thinking about it..across the nez perfect traverse into Casper area which had very chunky uneven refrozen snot and flat light. Then up teton lift skied some woods which started off good and got progressively worse down to the apres vous chair. Up apres vous actually had decent cord first part of the run and over to the Casper chair..up Casper some more cord next to the stash park and I just wasn't feeling it today and didn't want to get hurt so me, Atomic Jeff, Nastar Glenn and MBike Mike skied down to the base via blacktail and Sundance..made the smart move to save our energy for tomorrow's powder day. It was like I had been fucking a super model the last four days and today had a go at honey boo boos mom. So only skied 7 runs and had an early lunch at the four season..ate about a pound and a half of nachos and half of a $13 soft pretzel luckily about an hour later NMSki and JFDan helped me finish the rest of the massive tray of nachos. PARidge got after it the most skiing the Hobacks which he said was dogshit but the boys said the bivouac woods weren't bad. Days like this happen sometimes..I don't mind quitting mad early on one bad day out of 7..it is what it is..sometimes you just have to make it to ski another day. I'm planning on taking a long nap and we're going to the Gunbarrel steakhouse tonight. Today was JFDan and NMSkis last ski day. Both were a blast to ski and hangout with and they are welcome to join me on any future skiing trips..MBike Mike, Nastar Glenn and PARidge are also a lot of fun to ski with and we all know Atomic Jeff is a skiing rockstar and great host for in room party rocking. I'm hoping for several inches of new snow tomorrow night and another pow day tomorrow!!!

Solitude in the hobacks... Surreal

Stats don't mean shit when it comes to skiing...

Renting can be a better option financially depending on various circumstances. The New York Times has a calculator with numerous inputs to compare renting and owning. People automatically think renting is throwing money away because you're not building equity, but if your rent is cheap and you invest in the stock market instead, you can come out ahead of owning. This seems especially true lately with the bull market. Nothing at all wrong with being a renter.

Don't quit the site, that's dumb. You obviously enjoy posting and your trip reports are fun. You should copy and save this sentence, though: "Thank you for taking the time to give me sound and thoughtful advice. I will give it serious consideration."

Grand Teton popped its head out for a few seconds.

Fun day. Visibility was the biggest detractor more than anything. First run for a few of us was off the tram and into Rondezvous Bowl which wasn't close to as good as yesterday but decent. Wind blown crust is probably the best way to describe it. Met up with the rest of the crew on Sublette where we skied a bunch of runs with good snow but couldn't see a thing. Doug and Jeff's JH navigation abilities were greatly appreciated today. After we split up, a few of us skied off casper and back across to thunder for a run on Laramie bowl which was crowded but fun, then up Sublette and off to the Bivouac area as Doug mentioned. Bivouac was nice. Probably the best snow on the hill and talked to a few people in there who were saying the same. Doug, being the Jackson hole expert that he is, gave us that little tidbit. NMSki and Dan met up with the others in one of the fancy Teton Village restaurants and I went up Sublette to ski Bivouac again but rode the lift with a local from whitetail in PA who was here for two weeks. I told him Bivouac was good but was considering the Hobacks and he offered to ski it with me so off we went. I lost him somewhere along the way but I wasn't upset about it as it was sooooo damn nice to be lost in the woods, in the Tetons with no one around. Upper part of the hobacks was decent but the middle to lower was manky AF. After skiing, walked around town a bit with MBike and Nastar Glen for souvenirs. now praying we get snow for tomorrow. JADIP

Did you wear your sherif star?

Restaurants sometimes have a view to die for. Sometimes they even make the view.

I don't think anyone here skis longer days than I do on weekends. I like a nice 10-12 hour marathon, and those stats are bonkers. Doesn't mean I'm a good skier. Doesn't mean anything. Well, the bartender at Slopeside now says "Perpetual IPA?" before I even take my jacket off, and I'm not sure how I feel about that. But like Lloyd Bridges said in Airplane, "...I picked a bad week to give up sniffing glue." Malcolm Gladwell's made a sweet career for himself spouting absolute horse shit and then counting his money while actual experts quietly discredit him. That whole "ten thousand hours of practice makes you an expert" thesis is utter nonsense. It's the quality and intentionality that matters, not the number of hours or runs, or speed. It's the quality.

Pictures from yesterday. Conditions much improved. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I agree I like saltys posts..remember we're all skiers..that's what brought us all together in the first place.

Wow looks pretty cool for a non powder day. MBike Mike just rapped a hip hop jingle that will likely be Jackson Holes new advertising slogan.

The whole crew slaying the bottom of bivouac Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Third place. We were robbed. Two of their answers were blatantly wrong. Whatevs.

How was blue mountain on Martin Luther king day.

Looking good mike! Who is the old guy you are with? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Skis probably are too.

Stowe will put a spring in your step Salty!

@saltyantSeriously, I like waxing and deburring/sharpening skis. If it ever works out logistically, I'll be happy to do yours for nothing. I live near where 22 and 33 intersect in Bethlehem Township and I should ne at CBK most Fridays. If you want to hang in the basement with my asshole cat I can show you how to do everything yourself and lend you some tools/wax/etc.

I love My RTM 84s. Not sorry!

day 2 the mtn skiied much better as snowmaking resumed, descent grooming efforts, and an inch or so of natural snow on the upper mtn. it also helped that traffic on the hill was much less than yesterday. so we rolled in the baller lot about 8:30-ish to meet up with the ski diva group at the main lodge. orda is dumping a lot of money into the renovation of the whiteface and gore base lodges....and to be quite honest, long overdue. however, it appears that construction on these facilities is slow-going since both base lodges at whiteface were a little disheveled in appearance. i bet the lodges will look $$$ once they are done. the face lift was first batter up this AM for a group photo op and smooth warm-up run. almost 20 ppl were in our group, and a wide range of skiing abilities were represented. the group split up after the warm-up run. most of the group took the cloudsplitter gondola up and headed straight for the summit quad. snow guns were torching most of the highly trafficked routes, and the man-made product was soft, but quite sticky. there was very little wind at the top (which was nice) and visibility was pretty good for most of the day. once we got up there, one lady in our group asked us what that noise was that she heard.....it was all the snow guns below, lol! she was from whistler, so she got a pass on that one, lol. we lapped the summit quad a few times, doing paron's, follies, and upper skyward. paron's had the best snow up top once again. skyward was OK, a bit scraped in places but it was manageable. victoria was skiing very nicely, and started to bump up a little bit as the day progressed. lunch was had down at the main base lodge. most of the food options were closed since it was a monday, but i was able to score a nice bowl of new england clam chowder and some corn bread. the afternoon was spent lapping cloudsplitter. upper northway was full-on blizzard riding, but the conditions there were probably ROTD for me. approach also had some nice snow remaining, since very few ppl were skiing that area. it became apparent to us why: upper wilderness was a literal sheet of ice. full attention had to be given to each turn. halfway down the conditions improved greatly. mtn ops was in the process of building the competition bump course, so i stopped to snag a photo of that for y'all. apres was in the wine bar in the main lodge. beer selection there was limited, but the room was nice and cozy and overlooked the mixing bowl area. dinner was had at smoke signals back in town. you must have their wings there....absolutely fabulous. i had their dry rub and the habanero hot wings (not hot at all, but full of great flavor). tinymoose and i closed their bar down as we had been chatting it up with the bartender, the servers, and the manager. this time we stayed at the hotel northwoods, which is located in the middle of the main drag. rooms are of average rating, but the location is killer. just park your car and walk to everything. that's fortunate b/c the parking situation is almost non-existent. the lot behind the building is *very* small and availability is first-come-first-serve. our first nite here we had to park in the municipal lot a few hundred yards away. not ideal. whiteface skiing about the same as i remembered from our last time here 8 yrs ago....a very tall mountain that skis small. i felt like i had to be "on" every turn due to the prevailing very hard and slick trail conditions. glad our skis had been tuned recently. if you want to rack up tons of vertical and work on your mad carving/edging technical skillz, whiteface is the place for you.

I'm more rainman than rainman. $6.50 isn't really that bad for an IPA at a ski resort. At my local bar it's probably $5..

That's why I stopped tracking my vert. The five untracked runs the other day here at JH was better than 50 runs down honeymoon waltz at camelwack

Salty are you getting excited for Stowe?? Looks like good weather. Seasonably cold with some snow chances. I hope you get dumped on so you can use your RTMs to their full potential

Hell yeah man. 20% returns from last year are a no joke way to grow money.

Can’t forget to mention, we saw 2 moose in the woods at the top of the Union pass lift when we were returning from the hobacks. First live moose sighting for me so I’m pretty pumped about that! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm no longer a JH virgin and it feels really good. Like Madonna said "Touched for the very first time". Great day with great people and yes props to Jeff like NMski said for being a tour guide. Laramie bowl first thing was so good. It's steeper than razors but designated a double blue. Lol. Paintbrush and tower whatever were also great as was the cirque but the ROTD for me was the hobacks . The hobacks were definitely as advertised. Steep, long ungroomed. Leg burner for sure. Ended up taking a solo ride on the tram. Did the obligatory Corbetts photo then skied Rondezvous bowl to Cheyenne bowl to Sublette Ridge through some fields of snow and vegetation to a groomer the moose creek lift for a full 4100 vert. Pics below. First is Rondezvous. Second is Laramie bowl. Third is the hobacks with Atomic Jeff in the distance. Fourth is another sunshiney pic from the first lift ride this morning.

Today was fucking fun! Huge thanks to Jeff for showing us some of the steeps (paintbrush and tower 3 chute). I had been eyeing those up all trip so far and I love me some steeps! (Real steeps, not camelback steeps). Got that great day 4 in a row feeling when everything is clicking. Boots feel good, legs and lungs are strong, and of course I still emit ridiculous amounts of pheromones. A hot lifty told me she was single! Sorry ladies, this stud is taken. Life is good! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Skied a very good Tower 3 chute today. For all of those that think NMSKI skis out of control after seeing his Taos vids...think again. He crushed it down Tower 3 chute today.

January 29th, 2018 Day 4 of 7 Hey All, I'm back from another fun day at Jackson hole mountain resort. Today we had all 7 illustrious PASRs in the hiz-Ouse. Atomic Jeff, JFDan, NMSki, MBike Mike, Nastar Glenn, GrilledCheesePanini and PARidge. We left the 49er at 740am and were in the Ranch lot at 8am. All 7 of us fit comfortably in the Kardashian Suburban and we were on the first couple of civilian gondolas. First run on Amphitheater was the ill Shiz-nit. Smooth carpet of groomed with about an inch of fresh pow pow on top. Next run some of us did Grand some Laramie bowl. I chose Laramie 🍚 and it was mad steezy yo!! After that we skied ten sleep bowl which had some fresh blown in maybe 3-5" which felt a little weird to ski on my mantras and the ungroomed part of the cirque was funky and the groomed part was fast and smooth into amphitheater back to the thunder chair. Then up thunder and I did Grand this time. All 7 of us then skied bivouac woods which was soft and chalky and fun and NMSki got like 50 pictures mainly of Atomic Jeff who is his man crush Monday. We then went back to sublette for a third time and enjoyed Pepis run and some trees. Was very nice mainly steep bumps..MBike Mike was in his element. Sublette was stopped with a half Corral of people so we went back to the thunder lift. I was sweating like I popped a molly, ate spicy food, sat in a sauna or went through a field sobriety checkpoint and eating snow wasn't cutting it so I took a rowdy upper Amphitheater to nez perce traverse to lower Casper to Casper lodge for a purple Gatorade and soft pretzel with queso on a picnic table outside and cooled off a bit then I went up Casper and back to thunder and met up with the rest of the gang. MBike, Nastar Glenn and JFDan took marmot to hydrate at the lodge at the top of the gondola and me, Atomic Jeff, NMSki and PARidge took thunder back up to a spicy 🌶 Grand up sublette and we high tailed it to the Hobacks which was mad Katy Perry..hot and cold..cool entrance with banked turns some chowder some Sastugi, some crud and some brush. Was a challenging run and I made some yellow snow. I had my Phil like mickelson at this point and Me, Atomic Jeff and NMSki went back to the car to deboot and met the others at the mangy moose..where I had two strong island iced teas and about 5 pitchers between us and all types of food. Then we took shuttle back to car and had an impromptu sing along on the way back and Atomic Jeff was kind enough to play Tom Pettys learning to fly for Nastar Glenn. Now back at the 49er and soon will be in the party room after Atomic Jeff does his run for a PowerPoint presentation recapping today...as Ice cube said,"Today was a good day"

Rear entry = dead giveaway

Beautiful

First in line for the gondi (sans wallets)

Can finally see the Tetons.

Everyday I went to the demo shop and they were out of RTMs. It's the hot ski this year in Jackson hole. They said they only have 500 pairs and they're all reserved until February 30th

6 on the lift, one beer for each of us

$6.50 for a beer is not bad at all Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm too scared of outliving my savings... Probably get laid off or force retired before I'm ready to retire.

I just came here to delete shit

That's a miracle in and of itself!

I love being a renter. We may be the dirtbags of the real estate world, but I never shovel snow, rake leaves, or mow the lawn. When stuff breaks it gets fixed, and if I want to explode my professional life in PA and then move outside the blast zone, I have total freedom as soon as my lease is up!

Jerry of the day.