Leaderboard

Will get this out of the way before I get distracted...Fox! Oh yeah, prior to the tape drop yesterday, we all watched a pair of red foxes run up through the woods next to the adventure line across Vista! The lot was pretty empty this morning when I arrived, save for @Johnny Law, later ran into @Benm walking to the rope, along with Slim, Gary, Donny, Rick, Bethlehem Ford guy followed by @AtomicSkier. Sorry if I missed anyone, but that's about all my mind can hold. Conditions were marked improvement over yesterday's icy conditions. They topped off everything and Gary said that top of Main Street was going to be open, which it was. The snow was firm, chalk cord to start out with which made for excellent grip and carving. Unfortunately it was short-lived, after a fairly decent crowd got on everything, the slopes soon turned to cookies pretty much everywhere except for lower Midway where the fan gun was coating it with some fresh. Upper Main is only half-width, as they showed Barney's no love (here it comes...). I presume they rather used the water and air for blowing big time on Homestretch, Tut's and Lazy. Conditions there started out the same, nice chalky, grippy snow that eventually turned into cookies. The sides ended up being quite nice and soft though. Santas were even spotted around the mountain and ended up with a few runs with him. Even ran into @MrsSnowBunSki

Upper Main open for bidness.

Had 2 nice days skiing. Skied from 915-3 yesterday, had a delicious tailgate, didn’t leave until the lights came on. Snow was a bit slick, but softened up around 11am. Lots of Christmas cookies today, but was happy Upper Main was open.

I had planned to write a report, but my ADHD kicked in and got distracted. Went to put a letter in the mailbox prior to departure, only to find the mailbox door frozen shut. I immediately thought back to the WFMZ alert I received earlier about possibly icy road conditions, so I knew I had better drive carefully. It's good I did because I soon realized there was black ice around, which probably attributed to the 3 wrecks I passed by on the way to Blue. With the cold temps, I was expecting some chalky cord, only to find solid frozen cord that was quickly scraped off to fairly solid ice, that persisted until I left around 11. Unless you had some solid edges, you weren't carving a turn on that surface. However, after the sun came over the @RidgeRacer, lower Midway did start to soften, so later conditions may have been better. Unfortunately there would be no 3D surface. Due to the freezing fog that settled on the chair lift supports, wheels and cable, everyone was provided a Blue Mountain polka-dot bling to their outfit. As mentioned in another post, we found it strange that they blew all over the mountain, but gave absolutely no love to Tut's?? If they plan to open the valley up, they're gonna have to hit Tut's hard last night and hopefully get a little more chance tonight, we'll see. I suspect that Tut's is just going to be a WROD perhaps, just to get people back to the summit area.

We even had some Boilo yesterday.

Today had the best snow of the season so far, first full length main st was very good and I'd say second and third where just good before the cookies came out. Snow goes fast at blue when main st is 1/3rd width. They did awesome though making snow and lazy tuts all looking much better than yesterday.

pretty good summary. nothing really to add except tp4 also in the house parking lot was gettin busy by the time i arrived at maybe 8:42.

Closed out on roaring Brook instead for a full tour de Belle. Great day today

I hope you have a wonderful time.

@toastman and @saltyant and @RootDKJ they are still blowing on Home stretch

like a 20 ft wide strip of it. but yeah it was open and half decent unless someone was in front of you. still blowin snow wooooooo

I find it totally unfair that after so extensive snowmaking efforts, nobody cared to post a report here, so here goes. If you want a brief summary - it was awesome! The morning started with rain where I live, turned to clear, then to fog on I-78, then back to clear and once more to dense fog around Nazareth, but no worries, there were blue skies awaiting on top of the mountain, reflecting nicely in the thin layer of ice covering the parking lot. Yeah, it was somewhat scary to walk. I missed the rope drop because like my season pass on the opening day, I found my other guest card "cancelled" today, and it took them ages to sort it out in the system, ugh. But conditions were great! Grooming was best or second best of what I've seen this year, firm and frozen at first, but that contributed to surface holding up very well until noon and possibly beyond that. Both Main Street and Burma lifts were spinning, both covered with a layer of ice in the beginning. There were definitely more people than last week with some lines forming at times, but still never felt too crowded on the slopes, now that Burma's open too. It definitely looks much more like true December, with thick base and lots of freshly blown white snow all around. Let's hope they'll overachieve on promises and open something else by Friday!

Very fun night! Pretty much all scrapped off by the time I got there at 415 though. Glad to have Burma back and a new park set up. Guns blasting all over the mountain…is it Sunday yet??

Next time I sharpen my edges I have to remember to sharpen my poles too.

Surprised we can hear it over the constant scraping sound

Coming Soon 🧐

My daughter and I arrived around 11. Day 1 on my frequent skier card. Snow conditions are nice... somewhat slow on the flats. Temps are pleasant. semi crowded. They're saying 20 trails...its mainly stuff off the gondola which is more than fine. Masks mandatory on the gondola and in the lodge. Overall a Great day to be out in the Skillz. Sun seems to have disappeared though.

Had to make weekend roll call for the opening of the fastest 6pack in PA. I’ll be up Friday morning and Sunday is up in the air for me right now.

honestly, it's prob for the best. I realized that boilo isn't really something to sample. The first bit is strong. It gets much better by the second cup but prob tastes like shit to just taste unless already hammered. Regardless, tomorrow I'll be making another batch (proper, I didn't really like the progressive recipe). I'll bring it to the lot, but understand that its prob best to have a buzz before sampling. Ngl I'm gonna warm some up now.

Tomorrow morning...maybe Sunday morning

Nope @saltyant

Thanks @saltyant have fun at Hunter.

Please address it to Grilled sneeze spamwich Hotel house, Allentown pa.

@saltyant Try to get some pics...Hope you have a rad time...

Thanks, I'll send you guys a postcard or maybe a singing telegram of fa la la

i saw Santa!

Bah! Yes, I even said Hi to @theprogram4 getting on the lift. Sorry.

Give it time...

tubing cam back on. one of the sets of lanes is out of view but seems like it has a good bit. other two look pretty bare.

Guns back on for Home Stretch, and what looks like upper Lazy Mile and Tuts... among other random places.

That sweet sweet white noise of guns blasting in the background ❤️

Nice report, cool shot of the clouds!!!

They were quite nice.

As soon as I saw his picture it all made sense. His Twitter page is fun

reminds me of this absolute gem from a decade ago

WTF...keep us updated on Tuts Lane. That could be a missing link to touching the sky if they don’t go HAM on it tonight. Tonight is the last real good night of snowmaking for awhile. Tomorrow night could be ok. Some of you Boomers probably know the King Tut song by Steve Martin.

Roaring Brook and Onondaga are open. Nice surprise there

haha you're the only one who uses my real name. Be there soon! Had some some guests visit and did the Christmas thing. Then my parents, niece, and nephew visited so I did the kid things with them. Hoping to ski blue the week of December 27th.

Holy crap a lot of Covid out there. At the restaurant for dinner my parents asked for a table away from people. They’ve definitely been watching a lot of CNN and MSNBC.

Still waiting for @Benm’s…

True

Take it to the Hunter thread.

Fake news!!

WJW, isnt Nightmare open yet?? Ima head up to Hunter tomorrow, I need to ski the big leagues

Soon we will be seeing a new lift and trail expansion thanks to KSL