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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

That really would make that place 10x more appealing. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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.

Hey All, I'm back from a fun morning at Blue mountain the true mountain. I arrived at the lower lot at 725am with a slight detour due to hearing that 145 was closed in Laurys station so I took cherryville road instead. In the house were JFDan, Johnny Law, Atomic Jeff, tele matt, Nastar Glenn, Antwan, SaltyAnt, West Chester guys and many others. First civilian chair to a rowdy challenge which was a little bit of everything and homestretch was pretty grabby snow unless you had the blue wax on like Nastar Glenn. Next run on sidewinder was ice, soft, rocks, twigs, everything. Switchback and Nigjtmare to Dreamweaver were the best runs of the day. I didn't ski lazy or paradise probably were too slow with the winds. The quad was not running which made for some liftline on the six pack six pack but nothing major. Temperatures were in the 30s and there was a contest in Central Park along with racing on Raisins ledge..all in all fun skiing. I'm now posted up at grumpys.

Tried to sneak away for some evening skiing and went to Boreal, because they are open until 9 and because they are on the Max Pass. Had my own boots and figured I'd demo. Fail #1 on my part: no demos. Fail #2: thinking I could get food at 6pm at a resort that's open until 9. Nope. But I had a shitty day and really wanted to ski, so I rented. That's right: I channeled my inner Salty and rented 170 Volkls. 74s. I did about four runs and gave up. It was too horrible.

Rookm at the Camelback lodge tomorrow night is $159 on winter special. Comes with up to 4 lift tickets or tubing passes. Add 3 fake people to your room and sell the tickets for $40 each and enjoy your free* room with water park access. *still cost you $40 in taxes and fees

Two days late. Brilliant! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

See ya there. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Matt edges friend..

I did a hop turn on the lift on ramp..it was badass..JLaw said I got like 62 degrees around more than my favorite boy band..160 degrees wow

True..Nastar Glenn is the weird uncle..I was telling somebody Nastar Glenn got really high Saturday..I was talking about the pitch of his voice when he got excited wahahahahahahooey.

I'm glad a power outage didn't come between me and getting a season pass...

Salty thanks for updating your stats!!

Sunny day at Blue.

I saw the canyon road was a shit show yesterday, so good for you guys staying at Alta. Wildcat lift never disappoints. I read that Alta parking lot eventually grew full and had to turn people away.

7-whenever. Stop by before your turns or when you need a break and some food/beer. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Afternoon all, I just got back from my first day at bear in over 3 years. Woke up STILL without power. Took an ice cold shower due to no power and did a little foam rolling as today was my first back to back riding days in a few years. Pulled into the parking lot around 8am and was instantly taken aback by the lack of snow. I haven't checked but I would have to guess it rained here on Friday rather than snowed. They were selling all day tickets for only $25 so credit to them. Quite a few trails were closed including both Sasquatch and Extreme which are my favorite none park trails at Bear. The park set up was a nice change compared to riding the same park at Blue. They have a couple fun rails/setups that I really enjoyed but I only took 4 runs thru the park. I then went over to the back side and rode both timberline and grizzly twice each. By this time I was pretty bored and had about an hour to kill before my sister and nephew arrived so I went and grabbed a vanilla latte at the cafe thats located up in the hotel/spa part of the resort. Sat on one of the decks for awhile until my sister and nephew arrived.My sister then proceeded to zip tie her glove to her pants/ticket...fool. We took about 8 runs mainly down a couple of their beginner trails for awhile. I was happily surprised by my nephews progression since I last rode with him about a month ago. Hes able to link his carves together now and its finally starting to "click" for him! We grabbed some lunch and did a couple more runs before calling it a day. I definitely dont see Bear making it much longer but it was good to get back there again. The drive up, lodge and some of the trails brought back A LOT of memories from my close to 10 years holding a pass. Thanks for reading!

Today was mediocre. What is great about today is that Dom is back out on skis. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Correction... They didn't advertise "pow pow". They advertised "pow pow pow". Three pows! With three pows I'd pull up to that place expecting chest deep blower and for it to look like the scene from fucking Rocky 5 when Rocky was training in Siberia for his match against Ivan Drago. Anything short of that would have me complaining on social media too... Takes balls.

I call camelshit on that 18” claim.

Well,then I got 40” at my house if we are measuring drifts. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Only impact the snow seemed to have was that it was better than if it had rained more. Mystery why Nightmare is a double black when it lacks bumps. After convincing kids to try it (as double black is scary for them) they were like "this should be blue" and they were right.

Power out in my neighborhood but I have a generator mothafuckaz! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Don't listen to those goons. They're hating on the 81s or whatever it is that Salty skis. If Salty clicked into any pair of skis, they'd be immediately denounced. I ski RTMs but for some reason I don't get the shit-stream of abuse that he gets even though I'm just as annoying and also stole a PASR's parking spot. #RTMs4lyfe

i bet you think that post was about you.

I love log rolling. Those lumberjack competitions used to be the shit. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That actually a lot of choices. I miss "Wide World of Sports." Remember watching log rolling and stuff like that just because it was on, and there weren't any other options?

That's all there was when we were kids. And there were five of us, so if you wanted privacy you had to stretch the cord out the back door and just deal with the weather. It literally took physical effort to dial a number.

4- can;t forget the 8 tracks! and itunes makes 5! I would change purchased to "obtained" lol

I remember having a tv with the Zenith Space Command remote. It had one single button on it, and each time you pushed it the dial on the TV rotated one spot.

watched black and white through most of my childhood.

Ok, because you can't seriously fuck yourself up in Stowe or Killington.

I wasn't there monday, my last day up was saturday. I am sure I have ridden the lift with PASRs and not known it. I am doing myself a disservice by not stopping to visit with and get to know the PASRs in the parking lot.

It’s nice to be a VIP at Blue.