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I guess now is as good of a time as any to start this years Jackson hole report. I’m currently about a half hour into my flight to JH my 17th trip there. I skied JH in 2002 and 2005-this season every year. Jackson hole is a great place to ski because it’s steep, the town has everything and the village is nice as well...it snows a lot and also sunny. Mute and Ryan are currently on the flight from Chicago to JH and me and Atomic Jeff are on the Newark to JH flight. JFDan and NMSki come out in two days. Looks like a pow day for tomorrow with 4-10” forecast in the next 24 hours. Over 300” of snow so far this season and upper mountain base depths over 80”....should be good..Stay tuned to this thread for updates..as Mrs. snowbunski says,”Aholes in JHole”

1/27/20 It’s the wife’s birthday month <sigh> and she decided she wanted to see NH, so with Loon on the Ikon pass, the destination was set! Woke up at usual 0’dark thirty, had some breakfast, packed the car and departed about 6:00am. Leisurely and uneventful drive up to NH. Decided to drive up to Wildcat to see if we could get a view of Mt. Washington, but it was socked in, so just decided to head to the studio AirBnB at The Lodge. I think it may be smaller than GSS’ “house”! Pretty much the entire ride down from Wildcat to Lincoln flurries were falling, so conditions were looking good for tomorrow. Hopefully the knee/leg will hold up! The wife had found Rek-Lis brewing up in Bethlehem (yes they pronounce every syllable), so we made our way up in the flurries. We ventured up the Notch and then over hill and Dale and arrived at the brewery. Not a big place and quite crowded for a snowy Monday night. Mondays have a $10 beer & pizza deal, so we got that and an order of poutine, having two Wik-id IPAs. IPAs were good as was the pizza and the poutine was great. Also had their Gentleman’s stout and wife had a boozy Stuff of Kings Belgian Strong Ale. All in all, worth the drive. Mt. Washington from Wildcat The Lodge at Loon Studio room Wik-id IPA at Rek-Lis Pizza and poutine

1/28/20 Woke up to a cloudy sky with flurries still falling. Made way over to the main resort area, which was virtually empty for a Tuesday. Pretty much all of Lincoln is pretty devoid of traffic during the week, but with all the condos & townhouses around here, I think this place is just a mad house in the weekends. Pulled into the lot and to our surprise, there’s a real steam train that shuttles people between bases, cool! The sound of the steam whistle echoes throughout the entire valley when it gets underway. After booting up, made my way over to the Kancamagus lift, looking forward to seeing the 8-pack, but nope, it’s still just a quad. Looking at the sign says “Coming December 2020”, bummer. Oh well... It was snowing pretty good up top and there was a couple of inches everywhere and the snow beneath was grippy, as it was kinda warmish and damp. Having a bum knee/leg, I took it easy, but still tried some blacks, all of which are groomed to perfection and the skiff of snow made them even better. I ran through all the pods and couldn’t find nary a bump line anywhere. I also took a run through the Loon Mountain Park that has some pretty wicked booters and landings. The leg was giving me grief, so headed down to catch up with the wife. We took the steam train down to the gondola station and hit the Paul Bunyan bar for a beer and to check the place out. It was quaint, but kinda weak in comparison to other apres bars. Headed back to the lodge to hit the hot tub. Afterwards we hit the shops in town and then to the Woodstock Station Inn & Brewery. This is a cool place, but a little on the pricy side. Had a couple IPAs, Cajun fried pickles and a Cuban wrap sandwich, all of which were very good. Loon parking lot Steam train Top of North peak Paul Bunyan bar Just for @mbike-ski Woodstock Station Inn & Brewery Cajun fried pickles

Sixers game with my son tonight.

True. I met some people in a parking lot at Blue a couple weeks ago. I grew up skiing and teaching kids at BB ski school. Spent 10 years out west skiing in CO, UT, and California. May not be the fastest skier but I know about the best breakfast burritos out west.

Saw this guy when I got out of my car to go for a quick run this evening. Foxes are such cool animals. 🦊

Adding to @Schif TR report The Stag Rack is awesome. I know a bunch of people who use it in the PNW, Colorado, and Utah. It's more than just a suction cup. Check it out. It's easy on and off and significantly less expensive than a traditional rack. https://www.stagrack.com/ The top of Mt Ellen was wild. The headwind made it feel like the mountain didn't want you to ski down. It was only a little cold...... Here's a short video from the top of Ellen. https://imgur.com/9r2bQhm But, it wasn't all ice and white out conditions. Early in the day at Sugarbush, there were clear views and open runs.

Hi All, Not sure if anyone noticed but I wasn't at Blue Mountain this weekend. A week or so ago Nancy, who invited herself to sausage Sunday a few weeks ago, threw out the idea of heading north since the weather wasn't looking great here in PA. Well after consulting the various weather models I agreed and the trip commenced. We met at her place near Bala Cynwyd on Friday night after work and loaded her car. Loading up is notable in this case because of the real star of this trip the Stag Rack. Brand new roof rack, I helped take it out of the box and set it up. The Stag Rack is a car roof rack that quickly and easily changes from ski, to bike really quickly. Also it sticks to the roof of your car using vacuum cups. I was sitting in the car ready to research new gear because I was convinced that there was no way this thing would work and there would be shreds of skis and snowboards all over City Ave before we even hit the highway. Needless to say the rack worked like a charm and was rock solid the whole way. Well we drove up without a real solid plan and made better time than expected so we snagged a room at the Holiday Inn in Rutland around 12:30am and crashed. Up bright and early and cruised up to Sugarbush. Got there right at 9 and booted up in the lot and walked to the lodge. Grabbed my ticket and nearly killed Nancy when she said she wanted to run to the bathroom. When we got on the snow it was a quick trip up the Gate House express Quad and then right up the North Lynx triple. Started with a trip down birch run and back up the triple. Came back down the other side of that on sunrise next and then continued down Sleeper to the bottom. Back up the quad and a run down Sleeper chutes and sleeper. Moved over to the Super Bravo quad now and lapped this chair twice doing birdland to lower jester and then lower organgrinder (or 'organizer" to Nancy). Third run from this chair we kept it moving and tried all of lower jester. Next chair to try was the valley house quad. Disliked the fact that it was a fixed grip and the strange moving walkway thing for loading but the terrain here was fun. Only used this chair for two back to back laps when some locals let me know that we should try the Heavens Gate chair for some steeps. It seemed like to this point we were stuck in pods of mostly blues. The weather was cloudy all day and the summit was socked in with fog from the second I pulled in. Heading up Heavens Gate was a trip into the storm. Visibility was next to nothing and it was a little windy up there. Any exposed spots up that high were wind blown and icy. Regardless of that it was still really fun. I couldn't see a thing at the top of Sigis Ripcord and made a hard turn where I shouldn't have and took a little spill that ended up in a 150 foot slide. Not too bad actually and lower than that the snow was pretty good. Tried jester next and it was fun but the trip back to the Heavens Gate chair was long and winding and took some effort of you were a rookie at the mountain. At this point my left foot was hurting a little but so we took organgrinder too to bottom and ran to the car for a quick lunch of mandarins, granola bars, a few beers, and string cheese. Back on the hill and a few more laps on Super Bravo chair. At this point the mountain was foggy, there was a bit of sleet and things were fairly skied off. Getting a little tired as it was the longest session of the year but we decided to pop over to Mt Ellen to see what that was all about around 2pm. Drove over since the slide Brook chair that connects the mountains was closed. Got there, parked montage style close to the chair and went right up the Green mountain express chair. Off at the top and got right on the Summit quad. This lift ride was unbearably long due to the fact it is a fixed grip chair and it was windy, sleeting and you couldn't see anything past the chair in front of you. The summit of Mt Ellen made me think of a nature documentary where they show where no animals actually live. The wind was blowing so hard that it actually stopped me at one trail intersection and if I squared up against it it would blow you back a bit. FIS looked miserable (as much as I could see through the dots of ice on my goggles) so it was down Rim Run to Elbow to The Cliffs and Straight Shot. My legs and foot were on fire at this point so that was the end of the day. Ran into the lodge at Mt Ellen for a beer and to enjoy the band before heading back to Sugarbush to listen to the band over there in the main Lodge and hang by a fire pit. Short Version Snow- not great but not terrible. Varied from nice snow to scraped boilerplate to ungroomed trails that had some dirt showing. Some of the natural snow trails didn't look skiable to me but that didn't stop scores of people from being on them. Crowds: absolutely insane. Lines were enormous all day and really didn't let up much. The singles line was definitely my friend. Terrain: since the whole Castle Rock area was closed and a lot of the diamonds and doubles were natural snow only and were really thin the place seemed to skew more towards blues if you didn't want to hit up the thin trails. I tried a few and they weren't as bad as they look bit still not great. The whole place skied like a bunch of different mountains all stitched together. Fun but kind of annoying with the lack of high speed chairs and the fact that you had to take two lifts to get to the summit anywhere. I would be curious to try it out again after a lot of snowfall but otherwise wouldn't be clamoring to get back. Also I saw a guy wearing the same boots as @enjoralas dad. Never saw another pair of those so that's cool.

Sorry to poach on your thread.. Tram up then back and forth from Sublette and Thunder pic Downhill chute

The Holiday Inn near Grand River Junction, VT was huge. It had covered parking and could easily sleep 6 people for about $120/night. Only downside is there's no hot tub. As @Schif's lifestyle photographer, I captured this before we left.

some chute just below Central Chute. Chute a little rocky but exit bowl was money powder

Finally settled into the 49er about 14 hours after I woke up. Yes I woke up at 330am and just stayed up...got a last SUJO in..shit showered and shaved and left for Newark at 645am. Arrived at Newark airport at 815 parked at the parking spot met Atomic Jeff..checked in luggage..went through the TSA precheck to the lounge then a knockoff Hudson news for pretzels and bottle of water. Flight left early and arrived early..uneventful except for the obnoxious kid with super passive parents in front of me. Its always a nice feeling walking off the plane and feeling that Rocky Mountain high cough cough. Got baggage and got a sweet rental car..a top of the line Toyota 4Runner has everything power windows, fold down seats even a plug to charge phone. Picked up Mute in town and he was kind enough to bring us road sodas. Drove to Teton village to get our passes as tomorrow AM ticket office opens at 8am and don’t wanna deal with that tomorrow because guess what boys and girls..it’s gonna be a powder day...they say don’t go chasing waterfalls but the atmospheric river is streaming across Idaho..who da Hoe..slamming into the Tetons and dropping prodigious amounts of snow on the ski slopes. Well gotta get some ice for my jack and coke and I got sausages to suck down in Jeff’s room. JADIJH

Eat a salad. Jelly

Good we need more females here.

Some late January action in Jackson top of Rendevous was white out so nothing to show there

No idea who this guy is, but he knows his shit about burritos! Go to Beto's.

Welcome to PASR @skiincy! Its such a stupid site. Hope you love it and hate it as much as the rest of us.

Wahahahah I have my badge ready for Jackson hole...new report starts when I arrive.

TFTI

Make sure @mute1080 grabs some ribbon for his skis so he doesn’t lose them in the perder.

Cheeseburger in paradise.

That’s a nice piece of stone! Probably gives Doug a chubby.

Hope you heal up quickly indiggio. It's the worst when you get taken out by someone who doesn't know what they're doing.

Thanks everyone for your concern. Lots of CBD salve, NSAIDs, ice packs, alcohol, etc. being used to return ASAP!

Don’t oversleep.

Since this will be my last year on a super pass situation, I figured I would try and hit some hills I’d never go and pay a day price for. Last time out I went to Liberty and roundtop. This time I’d go to whitetail. Watching the weather and their webcams, they were basically brought back to nothing and had to close. Before today they had about a solid week of snowmaking temps. I also noticed the weather at whitetail is pretty much the same as my home in south jersey save for a few degrees here and there, so today was my chance to hit them with good conditions this year. I left early and made my way three hours across southern pa through china level smog. There was also a terrible chemical/fecal smell the entire way from KOP to just past Harrisburg. Made me miss the somewhat decent environment up in the pokes. I checked whitetail out on google earth and watched some videos, and thought I had an idea of the area and what to expect but I would say the area exceeded my expectations. From google earth you cant really tell its nestled in a valley. The trails also make full use of the almost 1000 feet of vert as there is barely any runout. Some of the trails actually have a pretty steep head wall right before getting back to the lift. The snowmaking power was impressive, and even the blue trails rode like black trails you would see at other places. As there are three main lifts with three sort of peaks, we worked left to right and started on the beginner side. They were making snow on all the trails and it was a bit sticky so I could never really get that much speed. The beginner hill was about 500 ft of vert per my tracks app, and had a carpet loading triple. Pretty impressive. Two options were open from the triple, including one almost mile long trail that wraps around the side. Decent warm up. Base area with beginner triple to the left and high speed quad to the right. Looking up the triple. View the blue trails from the beginner triple. View of the rest of the resort from the top of one of the beginner trails. We moved to the intermediated pod, serviced by a high speed lift. Really fast with tight spacing. Snowmaking on all trails served, and they were pretty steep and used the full vert of the mountain. View of the beginner area from the quad. After quite a few runs we moved to the expert lift. only two trails were open out of the three, and the vert is a little shorter here at 7-800, but the trails use absolutely all of it without any runout whatsoever. Didn’t get any photos from over there are since I stopped pulling my phone out due the snowmaking. Nothing crazy steep but sustained and fun. Overall I was really impressed with the area. The snowmaking power was insane, and everything was really nice and well kept. It is interesting that they built a resort like this south facing, in an area with high temps and low snow, considering the north side of the mountain was undeveloped and would hold snow much better. If it was an hour closer I would even consider it for a home mountain pre-vail. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Guns back on. Haven't seen that sight in a few days.

Didn't CBK always have bumps up on Marje's Day Out? Or whatever that run is called?

There is a “salad” in that dish to the left 😂

THIS IS GR8!

Yolo!

Have a great time. Look forward to reading. Love me some Go Gos BTW.

Are you gonna try and ski in NH?

get well soon Indiggio!

looking forward to the report. have a good trip

Damn Jerry’s. Sending good vibes. Hopefully you’ll be out there soon.

Shame about Castlerock. fun area. Still, better than here.

I was just at Buckmans and the cashier mentioned she got injured from a Jerry on Lazy Mile. Those dang Jerries are dangerous. Get well soon @indiggio!

Sucks dude. Hope you heal up and get back out there quick.

Have a great time in J Hole fellas.

I said the same thing but wow was I shocked with how well it worked.

Welcome back to PASR. I’ll be in JH tomorrow afternoon.

Salty still gets carded for Yoo Hoo

Park was fun today.

Big Snow Indoor Ski Resort sounds like what somebody would call their cocaine party.

"Fooled Ya.." Mother Nature Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

This year we opted for a private guide and arrived in Ouray a week before the Ice Festival. Kind of nice how quiet it was. Starting our hike in. Our climbing area. My friend Shannon always kills it. My friend Natalie is an incredibly fast climber. Here is me totally stressed that I can hardly keep up with her pace belaying her. The climb out, always feel steep. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I think that might be right near Capitol Hill (surprisingly) and 15. If so, there is an awesome Mexican place called Red Iguana right on Temple.

Wahahahah