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Colorado is having a fantastic November! I just got back from Eldora. They opened another lift, nothing really open on that side yet, but all the guns were blowing. Mary Jane is opening this week and they usually don't open until first week to mid December. When I rolled in at 8:50 I expected a mostly empty parking lot since it's Monday. Wasn't thinking the kids are off from school. It was pretty busy.The new RFID readers are very glitchy. Sometimes they work great, sometimes they suck. Hope they make some adjustments other than the lifties walking over to you saying "put the pass right next to the card reader."

I love the bar at Montage.

I think what Blue does boils down to this. Do they do what makes passholders happy, gives them the least grief on Facespace, and open up whatever they can manage to get enough snow on and groomed out just in time for this weekends shit house weather, or do they just blow what ever they can and leave it in piles? Lets face it. The forecast looks great for making snow on Thursday, and goes in the toilet after that. I hope it changes, but after friday sometime, it just looks dismal for Blue making snow for a few days. This sucks, but at least there is skiing elsewhere. Camelback can pretty much suck balls. Drinking at the bar at Montage would be more enjoyable than skiing at Camelback.

Yawn.

Facebook post announced Black Friday deals. $39 off peak tix and $49 peak for the few here without a pass. $10 bonus per hundo on gift card purchases for a discount of about 9%. Probably grab $500 to get a free $50. Not sure how much I have left on all those Sweet Deals cards I racked up.

Man, does that sound familiar. huh. Glad to hear things are cranking up in Colorado.

I'll be up in Scranton for Thanksgiving so some early season turns at Montage might be in order on Root Friday.

Montage will be an option this weekend and if memory serves me right they usually open with at least one trail on the North Face.

Yeah, definitely better just sitting on your ass.

hmmm.... tough call. I've never skied at Montage. It's probably 2-1/2 hours for me. If there is no Blue, it's 2-3/4-3 to Belleayre or Hunter....2-1/2 to Montage, 2 to BB....Boy, I really hope Blue opens....

Was nice seeing this earlier

Sugarbush is ok. They have gone with a different opening strategy the past two seasons and it has really turned thing upside down in terms of expansion. It used to be that early season snowmaking was concentrated on Jester and Downspout, which would allow for uploading and downloading on Bravo if necessary. They would then add Organgrinder and Ripcord if temps only allowed for snowmaking up top, then they would make the t2b route lower Downspout, Lower Jester, Coffee Run. The problem with that, was that then traffic had to go over Downspout twice as much (from Bravo to HG, then from the top back to HG, or past it down to the base), so the relative steepness and traffic would create an icy chute early in the day. Now they have decided to blow on Jester/Downspout only if temperatures allow snowmaking at only elevation. So, when they have temperatures down low, they concentrate on Snowball/Spring Fling. It’s wider and you only have traffic going down it once, so it degrades slower. Unfortunately, they got base temps the same time as elevation temps this year, so Jester and Downspout weren’t ready. They had Jester and Valley House Traverse (connector for t2b from HG terrain) ready, but not Downspout because we just don’t have enough capacity. Since we only have the Valley House available, we had Snowball/Spring Fling ready, and with our aggressive opening strategy, they opened all natural terrain off that lift as well. Unfortunately, they had the busiest opening day ever, and that stuff is all really beat up. So, Snowball/Spring Fling is good with low traffic, but the natural stuff is pretty snirty. On the flip side, the Swiss women’s national team is coming tomorrow to train, so we will get to watch some cool runs!

If it really does come down to blowing whales and sitting on them vs opening a trail or two, I would almost hope they wait to open. would prefer decent conditions and opening and staying open.

At Blue you have to keep pass in side pocket sometimes people do a little hokey pokey dance lol

I keep my pass in my chest pocket. Guess I have to start rubbing my boob on the card reader. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’m surprised you didn’t go to BB this last weekend.

I'm pretty blown away that Montage might open before Blue. Very interested to see what they open with on Friday. P.S. - i am starting to get the feeling GSS doesnt want to ski at Boulder.

True if I owned Blue I would gather all the snowmakers into my office and give them a pep talk and tell them that if you can make enough snow to open on Black Friday that I’d give them all $10 WaWa giftcards. You’d be amazed at how motivated they’d be with a little incentive.

Good thing you got out yesterday. Imagine just sitting around in a hotel room instead of skiing!? Montage does have a bit better climate than Blue, so that plays to their advantage. Montage seems to be improving year after year with all of their activities and year-round events outside of skiing so it is nice to see them try to make a push to open to get some of that early season market.

it was awesome

Not sure why but I thought that our real cat mimicking the Halloween decoration in the window was pretty funny

No problem. I had an old CB trail map in my room, but 5 minutes ago it was updated.

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Website says no skiing for antman until Friday. I think if they were going to open for Wednesday they would be putting that out on social media as much as possible at this point.