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I guess ill pick up where I left off, on my first lift ride. I took 3 warm up runs, just trying to get a feel of what they had open and what they didn't have open. They pretty much had the whole main face open which was nice. There were a decent amount of snow/ice chunk the size of softballs to start the morning which was a little surprising considering how I was blown away by their grooming my last trip. After a couple runs on the main face I then went over to Carinthia, which is the small face that they have dedicated to only terrain parks served by a HS quad. I did WAY more runs then I was planning to over there. I didn't want to take too many chances in the park since I had a 4ish hour ride home, but that thought process quickly went out the window. I wish i would've taken some pics or videos but I unfortunately did not. The park was great, a solid mix of medium to large rails with small to medium sized jumps all mixed into (1) long trail. Fantastic! I noticed this one guy who was really, REALLY good and waited a minute at the top to follow him and his crew down. By far the best terrain park snowboarding ive seen in person. Im sure you skiers can relate whether its GS, moguls(Jonnylaw seeing Moseley) or terrain parks, but you realize theres levels to this. And ill NEVER be on that level. Amazing to see and motivating to be honest. After about 10 runs over in the terrain parks I decided that was enough risk taking for the day/season and headed over to the North Face for some diamond runs before lunch. I did about 3-4 runs over there, unfortunately the fixed grip triple is less than ideal. THE LATTE PLACE WAS CLOSED FOR THE SEASON!! Ya boy was an angry elf!! ( not really, but i settled for a coffee lol). Took a 30 minute coffee/lunch/420 break and was back on the snow for my final runs of the season. I kept it low key by just doing a bunch of green and blue runs for the rest of the afternoon. not much to speak of to be honest. All in all i did 28 runs in about 6 hours. (2) things. A) The Detachable 6pack burble chairlift is soooo smooth. I love that lift. But at about 2pm the chairs were seemingly having trouble detaching and reattaching?? Is this a potential problem with detachables? Maybe that wasn't the issue but it sure seemed like it. Ill just say ive never seen a chairlift "push started" before. No really there was a guy pushing the chairs thru the terminal for a time while it was closed and a whole lot of banging around by a mechanic in the overhead area of the lift. I left the snow around 240 and pulled outta the parking lot by 3. It was a fantastic day and I would definitely take another day trip up here in the future. Granted under special circumstances such as the very beginning or end of a season. Thanks for reading my trip reports this season!

I was finishing some errands and helping my mom at her house yesterday. As I’m about to leave I say “mom I think gonna chase some snow tomorrow.” She turns around, rolls her eyes and asked a where, I say Vermont. “Anthony, Are you an idiot?” 330 wake up call, pulled outta my complex by 415 and was pulled over at 5 under a lame circumstance. That being said the officer was great. He changed my violation so I didn’t have to appear in court and the fine was only $50 so a big thank you to him. I pulled into the lot at 826. Not bad considering being pulled over and stopping for a coffee/bathroom. On the first lift up right now. apologies for the large font

I mean I can see their point to a degree. Skiing is an addiction. There's a lot worse shit that I could be hooked on. That usually helps put it in perspective for people.

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It was a good time.

We're not just going to do a cookout/hangout at my place like we did this past year?!?

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I'm getting stoked for some mtn bike overlap with the remaining ski season. I dropped my LA fitness membership so I haven't been in a pool or lifting weights in umpteen months. I swam at Smuggs while I was up there and will resume that. I can swim in the retention pond at the bottom of our hill when it warms up. I still have wet suits from my surfing days, I might see if I can squeeze into them and swim while its still chilly. Yeah, right. I think my point, if there is one, is that I gained back about 10 lbs, 214 this AM. I realized that I overestimated my caloric burn rate skiing. I tend to eat and drink a lot more in VT than I do here. OK.

To Add to the Saturday Night cringe...I’ve got to give it to those Sheila’s they really can dance

Not me but I’m a pretty aggressive tree skier...it forces you to really use your brain..ski good or eat wood.

True. Repeat of this last fall would be nice. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Salty check this out.

A bit firm at first, but softened up nicely. 15 runs then world class tailgate party. Met some super friendly and kind folk in Maine on 4/20 and even more today

Loving the pictures - looks good!

Nice dude. Enjoy. I hear you on the family stuff... After a broken shoulder 2 seasons ago and an injury in Jackson this year, people actually asked me if I was considering not skiing again. I'm pretty sure I looked at them like Arnold Schwarzenegger looked at the women with three boobs in Total Recall.