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And with things going the way they are at JFBB right now, it’s a good opportunity for blue to reel in all those passholders who were going there for park and make some money off them.

They should make a jump over the quad crossing that would be rad Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Main was ROTE too... razors not bad, enjoyable evening View never gets old Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Sounds to me like Salty is Salty over his banning.

I'm 99.9% certain it's a strategic move on their part to grab JFBB passholders. If so good on them. I just hope the park folks don't get angry when@AtomicSkier is blowing through with his Clark Griswold non choloric silicon base ski wax that creates a surface 500x more slippery than any cooking oil. And everyone else (including myself) follow 10 seconds later.

Fuck yeah! I’m good 👍

Wednesday 10/6/2021 Flew into Salt Lake City after a layover in Denver on Wednesday. Very easy flying right now from PHL to DEN on Southwest. I actually had an entire row to myself so that was nice. As an update, economy parking is closed at the Philadelphia airport right now so they are only charging $3 more per day to park in the garage that's right next to the terminals. Got picked up at the SLC airport and went to neighborhood dog park (Herman Franks) where Wally got to run around for a little while and showed off some of his leaping skills. After that we went to Wasatch Brewery in the Sugarhouse section of Salt Lake City. We had Wally with us so we ended up eating outside on the patio in one of those igloos. It was actually really nice, there were lights strung above it, Wally could hang out off his leash and there was a space heater and blankets though it wasn't terribly cold. I had a Buffalo Burger and @skiincy had a turkey burger with grilled mushrooms. Nancy had the Apricot Hefeweizen and I had the Evo Amber Ale, both the big 22 oz pours. Went back to the AirBnB, unpacked and went to bed early in preparation for Snowbird the next day

You're creating a false equivalency here though. One of those two sides has a thought process that is at least mostly based in reality. The other preemptively refused to acknowledge the results of an election because its leader said it was rigged before it even happened. While I agree with you that there's probably a lot more people who share 75% of the same stances occupying a large portion of the middle ground here, the far left in this country generally falls pretty well in line with what a lot of europe already has (strong workers' rights, equal access to affordable if not universal government-sponsored healthcare, a look toward a greener future on energy policy), the far right at this point much more closely aligns with what was going on in europe pre-WWII. One of those two ideologies likely much more closely lines up with what that hypothetical 75% in the middle actually wants. Not sure why I'm even posting this; arguing about politics on the internet is just asking for flaming pitchforks...

PTSD joke in...1....2.... you would have to ask Glenn's son and Instructor Jack... they thought I broke my back lol

they should seed some where they've never seeded them before on a zero visibility day and not put any markers up, that would be rad

So you put one steep ass rail up top. Go around the corner with a horribly setup wall ride. Empty space into a banked corner to the right. Small rail section on a 20 degree slant. 2 jumps. Rails. Empty corner to the left. Small jump. Bomb into paradise and hit a 9 year old.

Day 2. Snowbird. The Bird is the word. 9am-3:45pm 21.276 vertical feet // 15 lifts Woke up early and got ready to head to Snowbird, UT for the day. Made some eggs and tried to stay hydrated. Threw a few things in the car, dropped off the dog, and started the drive into Little Cottonwood Canyon. About 35 minutes later at 8:15am, we got a nice parking spot near Snowbird Center and booted up. Walked up to the ticket window which is located in the Tram building and had to wait a few minutes for it to open. Just as a heads up --The sign read "Friends & Family: $98" but that rate is only valid for Snowbird passholders, not Ikon. Ikon passholders get 25% off the combo Snowbird/Alta ticket. Snowbird only gives the 25% off the Snowbird/Alta combo ticket, which is significantly more expensive than just the Snowbird alone one. It still works out to be a little bit less than window price but not the kind of discount that you would expect. Ticket was acquired and we went to the line for the tram. They are pretty serious about masking up all over the resort and Buffs or bandannas don't cut it. There was a girl walking around the line handing out masks, if you didn't have one, and everyone was pretty good about keeping their distance. They are only letting 25 people in each tram so they actually had a number of barrels filled with water for ballast. We got first tram of the day and dropped down the back side right away into Mineral Basin. Not having any idea where we were -- we stuck to the Lupine Loop and then down to Bassanova, occasionally popping off of the cat track but coming back onto it fairly quickly. Back up Mineral Basin Express and down Path to Paradise where we both dropped into the bowl at different spots but wound up at the bottom of Mineral Basin Express. Went up Mineral Basin Express and @skiincy had to jump on a call, so she went into the Summit at Snowbird and I took another run. This is the point where Snowbird really started to hit me. The size of this place was stunning from the first Tram ride but at this point I realized that Snowbird, like the Honey Badger, don't care. Outside of the marked "easier way down", which has pitches towards the lift that are as steep as Razor's Edge, there is absolutely no signage and it's a complete free for all. As I'm writing this, I had to reference the trail names on Nancy's Ikon ski tracker - otherwise, we would have no idea of some of these names. On this solo run I hopped off the cat track pretty early and dove down through some fun steeps and wound up in a pretty gnarly and narrow chute that came out of nowhere. I got down to the bottom of the Mineral Basin lift and was really sucking wind. Thankfully I didn't get altitude sickness but I had no idea how high Snowbird really was (11,000 feet at the top of the Tram). After these 3 runs my boots were a little too tight so I popped into the Summit at Snowbird and took a 10 minute break where I downed a few glasses of water. Back out with Nancy this time and we explored Mineral Basin a little more. It was sunny and beautiful over there. The snow was a little crusty but not bad. We went back to the front side of Snowbird at this point and took Chip's Run down occasionally dropping off of the trail onto Hot Foot Gully, and Who Dunnit before ending at the Peruvian Express lift. Up the lift and through the Peruvian Tunnel back to Mineral Basin where we did two laps off of the Baldy Lift. I would try to list the trails we took but honestly with the complete lack of signage it could have been almost anything. Back up Peruvian Express and our day at Mineral Basin was over. We headed skiers left now and dropped down Old Ladies to Regulator Johnson and Barry Barry Steep until we wound up at the bottom of the Gad Valley at the bottom of the Gadzoom lift. At this point I was really sucking wind and my foot was hurting so we hopped on the parking lot shuttle and got dropped off at the car for lunch. We had some sandwiches and I had lots of Gatorade and water before we walked over to the Tram again. Had to wait for one Tram before we headed up on the second one. Weather at the top of the tram was rough with clouds blowing over the top of the mountain and a strong wind. Back down Regulator Johnson (or there abouts) and down to the Gadzoom lift for two laps. We hit up the Gad 2 lift for one run because Nancy wanted to go down Bananas as a last run which turned out to be ungroomed and a long bumpy last run of the day to completely drain our legs and my lungs. The drive back to Salt Lake City was pretty simple, we picked up an exhausted Wally and the three of us crashed almost immediately.

Trip reports to come soon.

Sure does. Barb Green was actually at the top on the 6er with warm cookies for us.

Also, if they really wanted to appeal to another crowd, let Chute bump up. Still blows my mind why they wont. At one point Frost had Floyds bumped and it was so much fun.

Is it normal that his third testicle is now larger than the other two?

I think we had the most fun on the mini ramp in front of the lodge. Lol

They should turn razors into a race cour.... nvm.

Here are some picture for @Schif’s post. The nacho appetizer was delicious. I appreciate a flatter mountain of nachos. We still have leftovers in the fridge from Wasatch. wally didn’t actually hate his man bun or the igloo life despite the smug 😐 look on his face no one else was in the igloo area. I feel like if this was Philly - it would have been packed and you would needed to have a reservation.

Another nice morning and Blue Mountain the True Mountain. Roll call of PASR's includes @Benm. Booted up and got on the snow around 8:50. 2 minutes later we skiffed through the gates and were sitting on the 6er. Soon after our chair left the station, they stopped others from coming on because of their error for allowing us on 8 minutes early. Got to the top, waved to ski po, and took a lovely run down Razors. Got to the bottom around 9:00 and they still weren't letting people on. At 9:02 they officially opened for the rest of the country club members who do not have elite status like us. Lots of snow making. Sidewinder should be good to go soon. Paradise was a bakery, but everything else was pretty damn good. Razors and Challenge were the best first thing. MS good. Switch good. Things deteriorated as the morning went on. Glad we got that bonus run. Ski you all this weekend!

Hope you requested the @AtomicSkier special base grind so they're nice and fast with edges that will slice your gloves if you look at em wrong. 0.5° base 3° side or GTFO.

Lol, are you guys talking about the nets used in the lift lines? If so I’ve helped pick out at least 4-5 ski poles so far this season.

They tried that with rollers on Razors once.

Membership does have it's privileges....

The basket is for pow. your poles are sending you a secret message..."go out west young man"

I've had influenza vaccines that have hurt more than this. No issues here other than some minor soreness.

I don't know how many you have, but given that you dropped into Corbet's, I would imagine that they are very large

You only have 3?

I dig it. It’ll be nice to have a top to bottom park run and not have to either take the Main Street chair to hit come around, or cut across 4 trails to get to it at the halfway point

He texted me in Russian an hour ago ... something about a microchip.

Here’s my snowbird recap in photos. It’s quite a humbling mountain. Trammy tram was not as crowded as usual View from the tram looking towards SLC whaaat. The views are incredible. the quinsential photos for our moms to prove that we’re still alive. It’s not @enjoralas’s sausage Sunday, but we picked up some meats and snacks at Smiths. the beer is Czech your head and Lei Effect by Proper Brewing. here’s a cool pic of @Schifboarding. Cloud cover was heavy at times. And once, just off a green trail, a snow snake got me. It was funny and my legs were so tired. Snowbird is humbling. im all about skiing as much mountain as possible but please - no more election hoopla. I will not ski the election trail. And PS: bananas was bananas.

Take it to Facebook. Both sides will call you a racist.

Friday night and not mark them... 🤪

“Man I got mind control over the mods. Mods be like shut the fuck up! And I be quiet. But when they leave, I be talking again.” Edit: fuck you YouTube for messing with my Friday reference

The falls

@saltyant start posting again! I’ve been banned like 7-8 times and never let that stop me

tell me more...

was he the gentleman with the foo man choo moustache? When you blew by me on challenge I don't think you where actually touching the snow.

Already had a 3rd, on the lookout for the 4th!

Booter Mountain is back!

NMDW is (was) my favorite. The turns are perfectly spaced out. Turn 1 coming off a pitch keeps things interesting and allows you to take it multiple ways...but choose wisely because oh shit there's turn two. Then chill for a bit...grab speed and figure out how / which way you're gonna tackle a very sharp turn three. Takes skill if you enter it with speed....I always try to tackle it as smoothly as I can but it's tough. if you can conquer it you know your shit. then there's turn 4 which brings you to the merge with p dizzle. After all of that strategic and hella fun skiing pump the brakes because it's cruise time back to the lift.

Son got his and has the same pain in the arm, otherwise good.

I post this pic every year. Definitely my favorite picture taken at Blue.....

Guess there won’t be a bump line on Nightmare this season

Now I've never had a Flu Shot before, so this is likely typical, but I will say that the shoulder I received the shot in was very sore last night. Sore enough where I could not sleep on that side.. otherwise feel fine here

Prices are going up. That first week in March is at 68 bucks now (still ridiculous).@GrilledSteezeSandwich (or anyone else) ...if you plan on skiing WF or NY I'd grab tix now.

I remembered snowy peaks but I had to look up Maris.

can't wait for the meltdownnnnnnnnnnnnnn

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