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Hey All, I’m back from a fun session at Camelback. My first time there since 2013. I arrived at the main lot below guest services around 8am and in the house were Root, TP4 and Blue mountain liftee bob wearing a deadhead shirt. After receiving free ticket went over to the CBK lodge to boot up. The temperature was in the mid 40s under sunny sky’s. Began on the Stevenson lift in the shadow of the new hotel...the hotel and water park are huge and the parking lot for them was pretty filled up. First skied Cliffhanger which was stiff cruddy snow and a little semi frozen coed. Did Nile mile and took a piss on one of the corners. Repeated nile and cliffhanger then cut across to the Sullivan lift. The snow near the peak was stiff semi stiff but softened pretty fast. Skied the famous front four Marjies, The Hump and Asp and the rocket. All good marjies and big pocono the best..then made way back over to the east side via pocono raceway which had nice smooth corn... Revisited Cliffhanger again and still not very good @saltyant would have been sad because it’s his favorite double diamond. By now Nile mike was prime...best spring snow on the mountains and I put the hammer down on the turns. Ended the session with pocono raceway one more time and back to the car. Skied 20 runs total in about 2 hours then hungover in the lot for maybe 45 minutes. I wasnt super excited to ski camelback today but hard to pass up on free April skiing and I don’t have fuck all to do..one thing is that closing day at Blue is rowdy and at camelback the crowd was really mellow..and yes I haven’t been to camelback in 6 years well liftee bob hasn’t been there since 1985 wow just wow.

Great day of spring riding with Doug and Root. Only had to wear under armour and a t shirt. Didn't know this would be my last day, but looks like it is based on boulders Facebook. No big deal, this was one of my best seasons ever

Camelback is not a great mountain. It was great last week because it was free.

Day 3 - Killington Arrived at Bear mountain at 7:00 in order to secure a prime spot for the mogul party to low 30’s and 0 wind but lots of clouds up top. There was about an inch or so of wet, heavy snow that fell overnight. Made our way over to the other side of the mountain to try Superstar. The amount of snow they have on this trail is incredible. Off the lift and onto the top in the clouds. Right away vertigo set on and had to immediately stop as I couldn’t tell up from down in the whiteout. Headed to the side by the trees to get my bearings and meandered down. That was crazy! A second run and the same thing happened, so off to the woods we went. Spent most of the day in the woods until about lunchtime when temps started to rise and the clouds began to lift. The fresh snow up top was a welcome change from all the scraping the previous 2 days. Adter beating ourselves up in the bumps we headed back to Bear to catch some of the mogul comp. We arrived just in time to see Bumphead Chris’ run. The landing of the first jump was very steep and many had trouble with it including Chris. A clean run down the middle bumps and good 2nd jump only to tip in at the bottom and slide head-first across the finish line. There’s always next year! Off to the parking lot for many Apres ski beers, food and jocularity, followed up by a fun time at the Foundry.

Definitely one of the most scenic major airports to fly through.

Same here. If they open next weekend, I’m there.

Weird place that CB is

You took the Salty bait ski2live. For that you need you clean GSS new car with a toothbrush wearing an Alice the maid dress as punishment.

How do you figure more short runs are better than longer runs? The last 30 seconds of skiing a run at Blue you find yourself wishing you were standing in a lift line again?

Great fun this morning with GSS and tp4 for ski day #45. Everyone is so quite and polite at Camelback it’s weird.

Take it to the hunter thread.

Take it to the belleayre thread.

That’s when conditions are fun! I didn’t get any of that this year. Enjoy!

Keep trying. Perhaps she'll warm up to you. JK...Nice report

Made a pit stop at Great Divide. Was in Root Down in January when I was out here and I concur.

I didn’t stop at Barley Creek or Taco stand went to Cafe that had pizza in wind tap. Had two slices and a can of diet stoke. Minimum credit card transaction $5 and was $5.20 wooo

Just landed in Denver. Then the PHL.

I'm heading home too just boarded. DEN isn't as scenic. I have a layover in Chicago, looks like some good lunch options there

My local bar frys the soft shells like a chalupa I like tacos with ground beef no lime and shizz..but cool that they have authentic Mexican taco sandwiches in the Poke N Hoes.. drunk ghetto nacho creation from 230am..don’t worry about me ever taking over sausage Sunday..id be more likely to become a taint model..would require taintanance

Day 2 - Sugarbush Made the drive up from Killington, but didn’t have to leave early since they didn’t open until 10am. Pulled into the lot to 30 degrees and 0 wind and just a whisp of clouds. Should be a far better day than yesterday, weather-wise. Took the Bravo quad up and made our 1st run down Murphy’s Glade which was mostly frozen cord with some glacial ice spots mixed in for fun, as they’d catch you by surprise, lurking beneath a thin layer of scraped off cord. Then down Lower Jester, which has a little better conditions. Looks like it was gonna be another day of searching for good snow. Rode up Heaven’s Gate and down Sigi’s which had some nice groomed snow up top but got progressively worse as we went down thru Lower. Still it was very fast and edgeable. Before braking for lunch, we decided to try the other side of the mountain, hoping the sun had softened the snow up over there. Took a ride up Gate House and found the snow to be a lot better than anything we were on earlier, so planned on coming back here after lunch. After a liquid lunch, we headed back to Gate House area and with our newly acquired courage, we decided to give an ugly looking Sunrise a whirl. Lots of bare spots, rocks and debris littered the run, but we had a good old time picking our way down. With Sunrise under our belt, we tried our had at Morningstar, right under the lift. A few rocks, bare spots and bumps made for the run of the day. Later in the day we had the great idea of going up Castlerock. A few brave souls were coming down Lift Line and the scraping sounds they were making turned us off that, so we headed down Castlerock run. Having had enough of those frozen bumps, we headed back for a couple more Sunrise runs and then out to the lot for beers. Later in the evening we headed over to Sushi Yoshi for the pre-mogul party which was more subdued than last year for some reason.

Camelback is a great mountain. If not for Blue I would get a season pass there again in an instant. And the best part is the runs are shorter so you get more runs in.