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Greetings from Little Cottonwood Canyon! Day 1 - travel day. The nor'easter really complicated our flight out to Utah. We flew out of BWI, but the plane was 2 hrs late getting there bc of weather. Then, we sat on the plane for 3 hrs at the gate bc there was a leaky valve preventing the engines from starting. Grounds crew got that resolved and we were on our way. Arrived in SLC just before the storm really ramped up, but the canyon road conditions were deteriorating fast. We made it to Goldminers Daughter just before last call. Day 2 - Alta Storm riding, cold, windy, very low visibility. We woke up to sirens and mortar blasting at 6:30 local time....not a lot of sleep from the previous day's travel. It was snowing sideways and we had interlodge until 9-ish. That gave us plenty of time to have a kick-ass breakfast. We got our passes and hit up wildcat lift bc Collins was mobbed. Snow was epic, but you couldn't see much at all. Not many pics or video. We skied in the Collins, sugarloaf, wildcat, and high-t areas yesterday. Best snow was in wildcat, hands down. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Until she shuts down tailgating. Then you'll have to be appropriate and responsible like everyone else at Blue and drink while you're skiing.

I’ve been to platty 2x and both awesome days! Wish it was closer as it a looooooong day trip but well worth it! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Took Wednesday off. Waiting to hear from the wife if she wants to as well. If so we will probably get a room at the Camelback lodge tomorrow night and she and the boys can hit the waterpark while i ski Wednesday. If she doesn't want to do that I'll be at Blue.

I was supposed to be there yesterday, but spent the entire weekend without any electricity so it just didn't happen. I have my kids this upcoming weekend, I'll try to swing something because it's easily the best day of the year and I really miss hanging out with everyone. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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The guns are on.

Not sure I'm ready for riders of the storm type of stuff just yet. Right now I'm looking at Thursday night. Who knows though maybe this storm will buy us a later closing date.

Hey All, I'm back from another fun day at Blue mountain the true mountain. I arrived at the lower lot around 720am and in the house were Nastar Glenn, JFDan, Atomic Jeff, Toast, Root, Ryan, NMSki, Johnny Law, Tele Matt, Schifdawg, MBike Mike, Mrs snowbunski, Enjoralea, Enjorales dad and many many others. Temperatures were in the 30s with moderate winds and mostly cloudy sky's. The quad isn't running because it's currently damaged..I think a chair hit a snowgun or something. First civilian chair twice as we got out of the gate a little early typical blue clusterfuck. First runs on challenge, sidewinder and Main Street were great soft cord. Snow was considerably better than yesterday. Looks like they reseeded barneys bumps i made repeats to challenge and Main Street then hit up lazy mile and Root was the fastest..must have been using the blue wax. Skied more sidewinder and more switchback and liftlines were getting semi long on the six pack with no quad running but no real line for the Main Street and Burma chairs. Nice parking lot session and great beer and food thanks to enjorales and tele matt!!! Still not that warm windy sort of sunny. Looks like possible snowmaking temperatures the next two nights and a likely snowstorm Wednesday. I'm off work tomorrow will be at Blue tomorrow morming. Anybody else??

Duh! Only Bayside High's most eligible bachelor, at least since Jessie locked down AC Slater.

Best part of yesterday was @JFskiDan "Coming in hot" right into the RFID system! There was also some first chair mess-up, as the RFID turned on before 8am. The PASR 1st chair had to get off, and skate/walk around the chair back into the queue. Good times.

Why is this in Sunday’s report? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Left at 6 for bell with #2. Have a bogo voucher. New they had no power as of 5:30 AM but hey, gotta try. Thruway was a packed conga line of every skier on the ice coast heading north at 80 mph. Got to bell before opening and was told nope. Maybe noon. So I pooped in the dark and proceeded to platty which have not been in at least 7 years. Let me tell you if you have never been. Platty is the mother fuckin tits McGee!!!!!!! Idk what they got 20, 25?or 30. Already tracked out when we got there ( lots full, had to walk maybe 1/3 mile from road parking spot). But endless endless pow bumps of medium density snow. All day long. Top half of the triple Lift line was bumps. I’m not talking under the lift. I’m talking waiting on line to load the lift. I’m in heaven and of course I gotta keep up with a 20 yo. Some folks going in woods. I made some side excursions running the outside bmp lines but nothing serious. All day long soundless powder bumps! Not the conditions our intrepid PASRs got yesterday but a best of the year date for me. Legs are cooked . Drinking a bomber sized bottle of polish beer waiting for #2 to get kicked off the mountain. Platty I love u A good sign on drive up

I just saw the final count was 45" at the summit 41" at the base - holy perderrrr!

Word. I'm going to bring 2 dozen, (1) box will be 4 glazed, choc/vanilla frosting each and the other box will be 12 randoms. Anybody...let me know if you want something specific!

Sure got a nice March save after a dismal Feb, just like last year.

Working on the "yeah, so it doesnt look like i will be in Wednesday" at work right now. The timing on this looks real good. Overnight Tuesday and into Wednesday.

FWIW Jerry the awesome parking lot guy told us they are planning to shut down 3/18. He also said he gets the blue 4x4 thingy up to 120mph so...

I know I haven’t been particularly active lately. It’s mostly because I have been too busy at work to spend any serious time riding. There also haven’t been many worthwhile days to ride. I don’t mean to be a total doucher, because I’m super stoked some of you got up there, but I seem to be the only one who got really lucky on all accounts. I was headed to Vermont on Friday, and after looking at the forecast, and realizing I was going to be driving through the storm the whole time, I decided that I should head up Thursday night, get a room, and hit Plattekill in the morning. Truth be told, I’m not a huge fan of Hunter or Windham, and when there are goods to be had, I’m not hitting Bell, even if it is closer than Platty by a solid 45 minutes. So, after work on Thursday, about 4:15, I got in the car and headed north. It started raining almost immediately. I booked a room at the Hanah Mountain Resort, which is about 15 minutes from Platty, and pulled in about 10:30. The room cost $82, was a little dated, but it was clean. It had just started some mixed precipitation when I went to bed, but I had high hopes for the morning. I woke up early to about 8” of snow on the ground. I packed up and headed to Cassie’s Cafe in Roxbury for breakfast. I sat down at a high top table with two old timers from the area and passed the time with conversation while waiting for my food. Following an excellent breakfast burrito, I headed to the mountain. I was probably the 15th car in the lot at about 9 AM. It was snowing hard. I went inside to get my lift ticket, and surprise, they were running a special where the first 50 people received a $25 lift ticket. I booted up and was on the lift at 9:15. There was never a lift line all day. Both the double and triple were running all day. We found on later in the morning, via a mountain employee, that ALL other mountains in the Catskills were closed, EXCEPT for Plattekill. There was a huge cheer from everyone in the lodge. That’s when I knew I should never doubt my instincts. The early snow was wet, but later on in the day the temp dropped from 28 to 24, and it became less dense. The base was rough due to the fact that it was 50 degrees the day before, but it was quickly changing. Despite everything being open, there wasn’t much of a base on the natural trails or woods, so we mostly kept to the snowmaking trails. If you had a pair of beater skis, everything would have been in play. About 11:15, after 7 leg burning runs, I decided to head in to dry off and get a drink. When I went back outside an hour later, everything had changed. The wind had kicked up, the temps had dropped, and the snow was lighter. I went down the lift line of the triple, and I experienced the deepest east coast snow I have ever had. The snow was knee to thigh deep. The wind was wind loading everything skiers left. The snow was dumping, and it was free refills all afternoon. I had to hit that trail three times straight before heading back to the double. After a random run down some winding trails, I decided to hit the trail skiers right of the lift line. It was exactly like the triple lift line. Deep, wind loaded, and fresh every run. I decided to spend my last 3 runs of the day there. It was too good not to. After 14 runs, and knowing I had a 6 hour drive (with snow) to the Bush, I headed out. My back leg was completely shot. The parking lot was a complete disaster with 5 foot drifts in places. People parked too tight for the plow to get through, so I had to borrow a shovel from Laszlo, who was out shoveling the entrance doors to his lodge, to dig myself out. I have a ton of respect for that guy. He is out there doing all the hard work everyone else does. After 30 minutes of digging, spinning my tires, and being immensely thankful for backing my car in, I was finally on the road. The GPS decided to take me on Rt. 30 to I-88 to I-90 to I-87. Rt. 30 was one of the toughest drives I have ever done in the snow. The falling snow, combined with the winds, left for a surface that didn’t look like it had been plowed for hours. I was one of the very few idiots on the road, and there weren’t even tire tracks from other people to follow. Half the time I had to look at the line of telephone poles and estimate the road being 20 feet to the left of them. However, as I approached I-88 the snow began to lighten. After a couple miles on I-88 the road was clear and I was able to get to normal speeds for the rest of the trip. All in all, it’s probably a top 3 east coast ski day after Valentines Day 2014 and Le Massif 2017. If I had left before lunch, it would have been nothing to write home about. However, the wind loaded sides of the trail after lunch were some of the best powder I have ever had. All in all, it was a great day. I’m glad I did it. I was able to take some pictures, but it was all before lunch. It was too cold with the wind and snowing too hard for me to take my hand out to get my phone afterward.

Lol at Blue using a power outage as a marketing tactic.

Right now I’m thinking Blue on Wednesday, Belle on Thursday.

Ha. I knew someone would call me out on that. I hate driving in the snow, and my small car does not fare well in deep pow pow. I'm fine skiing groomed packed powder. Maybe there will be some left over moegouls for me to run on Tunkhannock or something.

Solid plan.

Deal!

Fine. Three-way hug with Dom.

same. that would go good with the 6pack I found in my car.

I forgot i got a smores too

Found a Chinese place Sat just off 33 that will be a regular stop on the way home on days skiing with the girls - got a nice combo plate we all split for less than the price of a burger at Blue. We do look forward to trying the S'mores Skillet at Slopeside I won for filling out a survey to tell Blue that they need a singles line and need all lifts running on weekends. Will go down nicely with 3 way hot cocoa.

Wow just wow!!! Will be funny to see the complaints on Facebook.

Nice report. I heard they had their busiest day since Lazlo bought the place in '93.

Welcome back Ridge!!!

After a busy day of work Friday and sneaking in some peeks of the radar, juicy forecasts and trip reports we found our unit at Greek was available and decided to head up. My cousin was flying back from Seattle and needed her car dropped off at ABE and we had to pick up mrs snobunski’s boots at (closed) blue mountain and headed out around 6. Eight and a half hours later we arrived at Hope Lake Lodge...spent 2-1/2 hours STOPPED on 81... first time Ive ever watched two amazon episodes (boardwalk) and had beers in traffic. A little slow moving this morning but had breakfast and were on the hill just before 9. Greek just can’t catch a break this year and only got around 6 in, with lots blown around. Junior and his girl were gonna meet us but 81 was still,impassible and ended up at j frost. Without the snowmaking power or push Greeks in a bad way But everything ski’d pretty well, spent most of the day lapping mars hill (chair 5) alternating between the groomed and dense chop. Did an obligatory R/A Woods off of #2, was full of snow snakes and mrs s got bitten good...odyssey was tits maggee but realized it too late in the day for laps The thing is love most about Greek is the slow lifts and lack of crowds get me in my mellow GP groove. All in all another Classic day with good snow, intermittent snow showers, good food and beer and even ran into a few old friends from trips past. I hate trip reports without pics but an also lazy with taking them Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Sick bird !!!

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Walking down the access road pick up stops and ask if we need a ride. Heck ya. More like 3/4 mile walk. I must have been staring at the snow on the walk up and not notice the walk [emoji41] Slopes never crowded, lift lines moved. Lazlo made serious bank today

Doesn't Camelback groom everything out though?

Giftcards for everyone!

It's amazing fun..you just need speed and pitch..sometimes if it's deep you want to ski in others tracks on the flatter sections and then hop in the untracked where it's steeper. While it's not perder, a small amount of heavy wet snow will keep you above the nasties below. Always nice not to hit bottom.

Woah, and I didn't believe you at first. Sickbird!!!

They're Jerry skis!!!

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Fuck you i wont chew what you tell me

I used to love going to the record store. Went every time I got paid. Tower Records, I believe in Doylestown shopping center.

You are set at goldminers. I’m a puruvian fan myself. Make sure you go to the bar at the puruvian - top 3 ski bar in North America. Truth. Don’t know if you have been there or not but no where gets tracked out faster then Alta / Snowbird so be prepared. Far right (skiers perspective) at Catherine’s will hold on longest. If they open east castle then the effort will be worth it. Devils castle and lower woods will hold on for a while as well. After things get tracked out drop any line between high rustler to gunsight will be awesome. Be careful not to get cliffed out in eagles nest area. Jelly, enjoy. PS. If you got nothing bigger then RTMs then rent

Don't remember exactly but I am pretty sure we did not have a color TV until I was a teenager. The U on a TV as NMSki said was for UHF, a TV with that was exotic, 3, 6, and 10 was it at our house. We had rotary phones for a long time, impossible to win a radio call in contest with them.

Slightly off topic but (1) of the house phones I had growing up was a wall hung rotary phone. My mom finally got rid of it awhile back but i loved that thing.

An 8 track player and a reverb unit in a 68 Camaro, with two (stereo) speakers cut into the "parcel" shelf at the back window..... now that's an old phart!!

Holy shit; I had to reschedule a meeting in Truckee from Friday to Monday because of snow. I thought it was a little weird for them to cancel on account of snow. Just looked at the forecast, and there is up to FIVE FEET of snow predicted to fall in 48 hours in the High Sierra. I'm bringing my boots and calling Sunday a good day to be Sally.

This is how I got started as a rapper.

Another nice spring day shredding the powdirt. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk