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Hey All, I'm back from another fun session at Blue mountain the true mountain. I arrived at the lower lot at 7:22am and Antman was already in the house and the temperature was around 20 degrees. Also in the house were Atomic Jeff, Toast, Johnny Law, NMSki, Ryan, PARidge, Enjorales, ZZSlope, JFDan, Nastar Glenn, Indiggio and many others. I managed the 2nd civilian six pack since I didn't get after it and I think they actually let us out at 759am wow.. First run was on Challenge for me because I wanted a continuous run not the Razors to falls which is sort of awkward..with the bottom of Razors closed for the mogul competition. Skied challenge again and was frozen cord pretty good. Main Street had the nicest snow and nightmare Dreamweaver was also real good. I skied challenge and switchback the most and only skied sidewinder twice. Skied 8-10:15 got 7 runs first hour and 6 runs second hour and 2 third hour. Every run was good. Only a few semi crowded runs. No real lift lines and the lift only stopped once or twice. Then hungout in the lot had some beer, hungout with some Long Island deadheads, had a stellar Antman donut so light and airy and a soft pretzel from Nastar Glenn. As ice cube once said,"today was a good day". I'll post some lifestyle shots later. This is all I have for now. Temperature was 39 degrees when I left a little after noon and 45 down in the A. Blue blew snow all over the place as well.

Nice pic!. We skied a bunch of trees today at Blue and they were magnificent as well. Lots of perder. it looked like this....

Smh Oh lordy wow, just wow (did I miss one?)

Awesome day of skiing. Plenty of tree lines to be had, and we were not the only ones skiing them. The snow in the trees and on the sides of trails was unreal. The kind of light foamy powder you slide through with zero resistance, that I have virtually never encountered in PA and hardly ever this side of Utah. Definitely my fav PA Ski destination. Only the 4th time I have been there in 4 decades. Re VT, one of my kids on our run down the narrow natural snow trail Lehigh said "this reminds me of Bromley," which is where she had her fav ski day ever. They also both said they thought it was well worth the $10 they contributed to the extra cost of skiing Elk when we had Blue passes. Bought them each a ski pin to end the day :-)

Fear will make a person freeze up.

First video on MTV

I don't think it's an issue of intelligence/dimness, but rather how good you are at very quickly assessing a situation under a lot of stress and uncertainty. Jumping off a chairlift is such a counter-intuitive thing to do, you'd have to fully understand what was happening to the chairs when they hit the bullwheel. If you're facing uphill and all you know is that you're moving backward, I think a reasonable person could conclude that the safest thing to do is stay on the chair. In part because not jumping off a chairlift is such an ingrained habit. And then by the time you realize you're wrong, it's too late. It's easy for us to watch with a bird's eye view and see people being dumb, but they didn't have all the information we have when we watch the vid. EDIT: Jesus, though, that last person in the red jacket. At that point people are yelling and you can hear the chairs smashing. That was hard to watch.

So only $27 net after the little ones ponied up their share! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Good day. NMSKI, thanks for the beer - I already know what you will get in return, besides a reach-around.

Great song.

Or the Bangles or Buggles.

And all wear the same hats!

I'm sure they hired stylists. I prefer horse with no name.

Guns on on Vista and in the Valley. Awesomeness

This is the first time I have ever encountered such an effort on this forum to talk someone out of skiing Blue.

Thanks For The Ignore... Signed Enjorales?

Elk it is. The Helicopter vid was the deciding factor for the holdout.

Just got back from St Platty's. This place is absolutely ridiculous right now. The pow is thigh deep in some places. After two massive storms Plattekill has been getting 6-12 inch "refreshers" every day since last weekend. The result is a damn near pristine mountain and woods filled in about as much as you'll ever see them. Everything was in play and I mean everything. People were dropping into the woods everywhere. Everyone was getting at it. The stoke level was high and I had a lot of nice conversations with folks on the lifts. Arrived at 8:40 and caught the fourth or fifth chair up. I stuck to the double and mainly the woods accessible from there. Plunge and Freefall were left go and had basically a foot and a half pow on top of bumps leftover from Wednesday's Powderdaze. I didn't even feel the bumps, they were so filled in although as the day progressed they re-bumped up. Didn't matter. There is powder everywhere. The groomers were actually not so great. They were getting wind scoured and a little icy. No matter, the woods were where it was at. Next time I go I need to find somebody who knows the mountain, or explore after the woods are tracked out and its easier to navigate. It's difficult enough for me to ride two feet of pow but when you don't know where to point it to find the ways through the woods you find yourself stopping and getting stuck a lot in tight spots. For a skier this might not be as big a problem but on a board you absolutely need to keep your momentum going, so line pause is a no-no. Anyway, I found a bunch of fun stuff out there. Put together another little edit in lieu of pictures. Actually I can take some screenies. Enjoy

Looks good. Woods look like a bitch on a snowboard.

It's Georgia, not US. Nobody's gonna or will be able to sue anybody.

The snowmaking blog is hinting at staying open into April..I'm hoping they make the 14th-15th when I'm back from Colorado. https://bluemountainsnowmakers.com/2018/03/16/march-magic/

This is how deep it still is up by the old Tanglewood ski area. What im gathering so that the models are all over the place making this a low confirdence forecast but we could be in for another bomb cyclone.

I think the first 2 people to give ski2live $10 get to go to elk with him. I can be wrong though, im moving through this thread pretty quick just to see if phillycore is skiing this weekend.

Enjorales....I've only met you and your Dad a few times, but you're pretty fucking ok in my book. [emoji106] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The video reminds me of this..one of Indiggios favorites.

Yes. I’m sure missing the braggadocios posts about how little he pays for a day on the slopes, the reports describing the intricacies of splitting a single entree five ways, and the promised future music videos ham-fistedly cobbled together in MS Paint will leave me a hollow shell of my former self, but somehow I’ll have to scratch out a meager, meaningless existence anyway. I’d take solace in my children, but I guess I’m ruining them.

Oh boy... Looks like I got some reading to do!

I don’t give a shit what he thinks. He’s unredeemable, he’s on ignore. He’s the only person on PASR not welcome to eat the food from my grill. Well, unless he wants to contribute $10 per plate and “get some skin in the game.” And the Beagles is a dumb band name. That music video sucked, too. Music was alright tho.

Would you believe I also ask them to carry their own skis and poles from the car to the snow?

No one started a debate on financial practices in parenting. You brought it up as a straw man to obfuscate the fact that you’re a cheap shit.

Yea but i like assuming other anonomyous people are idiots. Makes me feel better.

I love the Six, love the pics haven't been there since my daughter was born

I'm actually down a pound this week even with the meat feast. Maybe cause I ate salad one day for dinner and took a lot of poops.

Thanks! Wish I had an extra 100lb like you. Wait. No I don’t. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You win today. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Do you take 30% of their ice cream to teach them about taxes?

i can show you some maps of Eastern PA getting crushed, and it snows from Tuesday to Thursday, or Baltimore getting 2', and nothing in Allentown. Its March, so its gotta line up pretty good. By Sunday there might be some kind of an idea of whats gonna happen. Could definitely be some good skiing next week though. Break out the RTM's.

I use my house alot, but, yes, it is actually empty a good bit of time. A townhouse at JF would really be empty alot. Those type home are empty really except for ski season. Theres actually alot of “stuff” going on in my developent year round, alot of people there use their homes almost every weekend. You should get a second hotel room, somewhere nice for the weekends after ski season. Live it up a little.

It’s like the drive, without Vermont.

Got the email. 6th grade Ski passes are $99 this year. I will take it $399 + 99 + 99 - 50 (sold off two Blue lift tkt vouchers for $25 each when I got this) = $547 for 3 of us to ski Blue all next season.

And then theres this map. The stoke stomper map. looooong ways away.