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Today was good good. These opportunities don't come often in PA, so I had to try and pull it off today in between teaching and meetings. Pulled into the upper lot around 10:45. Parked in the first spot at the entrance. Booted up, skins on, pack filled, and headed back out. They plowed it pretty wide so there wasn't much space next to the road. I decided to head into the woods which were fairly open. Took that all the way down, skinned back over to the opening to find the cut. Just over a half mile in, I was where I needed to be. I made a right and skinned to top of the pitch before the line started to descend. I got there and it was completely untracked. I knew it was going to be a good run, or untracked because it was all grown in. Skins off. The first pitch only offers a few turns, and is a bit more hairy than I remembered. I got a handful of good turns there before if mellowed out again. At the base of that pitch I could see everything below all the way to the power line cut that was my access back. It was open, untouched, and delightful. I was able to get a few dozen fantastic turns down that face to the bottom where the power line was. I got to the bottom and there was nobody there to high-five so I did clapped my poles together a bunch to let out some of my excitement. Took a second to shed some layers because the power line traverse back to the road was about 1 mile. Skins on, and off I went. Not a bad traverse. It took me about 20 minutes and the worst part was navigating over some creeks that I didn't know were there. Got to the road, skinned up to the Burma lift, and then skied down to the 6er and took that ride up to see how the snow was. 5 minute lift line. Skied back to my car. Now sitting in a meeting and plotting when I can do it again if it doesn't get baked in the sun tomorrow. Start to finished took about 90 minutes even with stopping and waiting and all that jazz. 4 miles round trip. It goes, ladies and gents. There is no better time than now to hit that up. Another fucking great day to be a skier in PA.

I just left and crowds weren't too bad, 6 run an hour type skiing. What your getting is very rare, very good snow in pa. Dry light snow of meaningful quantities is exceptionally rare here. This morning the groomers were western like and the last days saw exceptional shenanigans with friends all over the mtn. If you can't see the inate undeniable fun that comes with 2ft if fresh you should take up stamp collecting or yelling at clouds.

I got some new skis and poles

New skis have arrived. Still waiting on the binders.

You sound fun.

Here are a few photos from the day #covidmasks Obligatory skis on the lift photo Tinymoose checking out the WL trees Bumps on WL. Snow was already starting to come down. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Sure was!

Post-storm sunsets rarely disappoint.

Today started out shitty for the first hour or so and then improved significantly. It even started to shower some fresh perder later in the day. Couldnt have asked for better conditions. Terrain was rad too. Maybe later I'll post about some trails I enjoyed but now time for SUJOPO

Did someone mention a train and XC skiing? From yesterday,....

yOU nEeD A SPoTTeR iF yOU wAnT tO sKI lIKe tHAt [emoji854] I had a Karen this year too

Yes it's still open with an experts only sign. Very good packed pow with some rando fluff around. Some boomer was given shadows the business about the lift line and then last run another even older dude came over to talk to me about the falls. 🙄🙄🙄 I swear it's the same random every year that feels the need to hunt me down in the lift line to talk about falls. Part of me wants to chase him down in the line and lecture him about how shitty he skis but I lack his over inflated sense of entitlement.

last night was beautiful 3D snow, right up my alley with tons of cream cheese bumps and good snow along the trail edges. Unfortunately the last 5 days of skiing and shoveling then sitting at work all day caught up with me and the old legs basically siezed up after 3 runs 😬

Had partial sun for one run then started snowing! Switching between fat flakes and graupel right now but mostly the latter. Gonna snow all day and night so tomorrow will definitely be a powder day. Snow today was good! Official snow report was only an inch but felt like a few inches of fresh. Visibility was really bad. I am ordering those prescription goggle inserts from sport RX because I can’t stand to be blind anymore on low visibility days. Hope they help. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Nope.....we've been staying local the past 3 winters b/c tinymoose went back to school to get an accounting degree. She only has two semesters left (graduating in December), so once she gets a job we should be able to afford to take some trips again.

4 pages in and we finally got a ski-related pic...

I'm sad I don't have more boner cities to give. @Benm nailed it. The untracked stuff might not have been quite as deep today as yesterday, but with coverage so good everywhere and everything in play, you could just ski so much more freely. You know it's gonna be a good day when you're standing in line waiting for the lift to spin and patrol announces to the crowd that they didn't groom everything, there's 4 foot drifts, and "just don't ski in the woods alone". Saw a few patrollers poaching some bike trails, so then all bets were off. Quad liftline hotlaps were 💯.

He almost always has a smile on his face. He's no @NMSKI, but he is still one happy dude.

I have quads and a plow, but it never accumulates here. The once every 3 years it does all my neighbors bust out their snow removal equipment and try to do as many of our driveways as possible. This neighbor usually wins.

Reservations for the White Room? Oh yes thank you Broken Goggle JH

Lmao you prob never SU'ed in your life.

Urn your turns has taken a new meaning!

It wasn't even a good send, falls was pretty uneven, the winch cat is busted and stuck on the crossover. I had half a mind to want to go back up and really giver, if I'm going to be yelled at about something I want to have least earned it.

I'm impressed @eaf ... not only are you an expert on lift capacity maximization, you also know something about cars!

Nice quiet day at Blue on tap..I need to catch up on work but will be there tomorrow for opening.

Looks pretty flat @RidgeRacer @ridge

Is still showing here. Nothing crazy, flurries I guess. Either way... white stuff falling from the sky

My Subaru has a check engine light 90% of the time (slight exhaust leak throws a code for emissions efficiency)...then again, I have a code reader that allows me to monitor if something else has an issue.

Sad part is I know you're serious.

Loveland 2018 Perder. Almost every one of my April skifaris in Colorado I get pow days. That year I had four in a row..Abasin, copper, Abasin and Loveland and you used to snowboard..wow just wow.

today was fuckin batshit. i don't know how to explain it but it's as if they were both #1 days for me for different reasons. yesterday was sort of just enjoying powder for the first time and today was kind of no holds barred crazy. between having bumps everywhere mixed in with some untracked, getting lost in the woods, the mountains on falls, tbar line, seeing people skiing literally everything, it was just bonkers.

Got out for a flat tour around the parks by my house tonight. Not much breaking trail since this route sees a lot of hiker traffic. It’s pretty cool since there are a lot of little bridges across small streams. The lake that the one trail loops around is almost totally frozen, which made for some nice scenery. I also managed to not almost fall in the river tonight, very much unlike when I biked this route last week. Are dynafit toes always a pain to step into, or am I doing something wrong? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Finally some good shit. Well done salt man.

The area I took the pics was dust on crust, the actual trails had much nicer snow. No contacts, I usually don’t need my glasses outside. But I just have zero depth perception on low viz days.

You need that but ski fast finger blast

I almost lost my cool earlier. After long ass line a single refused to pair up with me on the quad and I yelled "I GUESS I HAVE LEOPRASY"

nope, we were tee'd up to a few years back thanks to J-Law and it everything was looking good. We kept lapping the summit chair but they never opened 'em. it was more of a SkiPo staffing issue than conditions if I recall. maybe thinking of our first tuckerman trip - damn need to do that again how do I get rid of this image lol (ok boomer)

Whenever a CEL comes on, my co-worker tells customers no worries, it’s simply an anti-theft feature. Simply pull over, pop open the hood, and check that the engine is still there

Gotta make the most of it! Have fun out there!

Most CEL's are for emissions, but it is likely monitoring for misfires, oil pressure, etc, but my knowledge of the Chevy Shitsonic are limited, and since its a budget car, it may just do the minimum the government calls for as far as emissions. I can tell you when a CEL comes on in a newer Mack truck, it will at some point derate the engine and pretty much render it useless. I take those very seriously.

What I've done in the past is take a piece of string and run it around the pulleys where the belt would be then take a measurement. Go the auto parts store and get a belt as close to that length as you can. The pulley adjustment should be enough to make it work.

There you go with the red arrows again....

I have faith that you're well capable of fixing it. If you can operate a zero-turn lawnmower and make lines like that, you can fix this.

Salty takes risks and lives life dangerously. All gas no brakes.

Tire pressure and check engine light. Seems smart to drive a few hundred miles each way with those lights on...or are those lights a car manufacturer scam to get people to bring their car in so they can make money?

Yeah, ok, so whats going on (most likely) is the engine spins a belt, or 2 that makes it "go", and spins the "spinny thing" to quote BenM. Pulling the handle engages a pulley that makes those things work. If the handles arent engaged, the belt is either not moving, or just spinning around an idler pulley. I would agree with Ben, sort of sounds like you have a disconnect somewhere between the handle and pulley, which might be the cable or a bracket. If this is the case, its very likely we can get around this with some shade tree mechanics. (my specialty).

Seems like it was like skiing in vermont without the drive

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I love Domenic’s face in that picture!

Damn, such a good day. I think the overnight snow was a little lighter than what we had for monday. No real lift issues today, i think we got going just after 9, so that was an improvement from yesterday. Skied around a lot, and got some real nice turns. Dom on coming soon. Gives you an idea of how wide this trail actually is. sloppy seconds wernt bad, at least in this case. bumps the size of volkswagons on falls when we left. Fun stuff. hopefully we get a refill this weekend.