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It’s good today. Been snowing all morning. Maybe 2” on top of what was groomed. Snow is a bit sticky but quite a nice surprise this morning. Glad I’m up here.

Keeping a watchful eye on the storm rolling up the coast early in the week had me hoping we could be in front of it before it hit, but that proved to be out of the question as it decided to move faster than initially forecast. As the snow began to fall Sunday night, I was hoping for the worst, a quick changeover to rain so it wouldn’t take an eternity to drive from Hellertown to Lake Placid. We needed to stop in Wilkes-Barre to pick up the son and then head on to upstate NY. Awake all night, I could hear the pitter-patter on the skylight. Since I could hear it, it had to have switched to sleet or rain, but couldn’t tell which. Finally got fed up and looked to see the road out front just wet. At least part of the ride would be easy. Checking the radar showed a mixed bag of precipitation all the way to Lake Placid. Rain in the Lehigh Valley, freezing rain around Hazelton, sleet and then snow up in Scranton-WB all the way up. Wonderful! Left around 5:45am to get to WB after the kid’s shift. Usual 90 minute drive took 2 hours. Wet snow started just above the Blue Ridge and continued into WB. After packing the car, I could see some blue skies breaking through, but radar up North showed different. The entire ride on 84 across to the NY thruway was white knuckle, snow-covered. Most if the thruway to Albany was clear sailing until Lake Gorge when the snow began to fall again, but good. More gestures to slow down followed from the wife, which just made me drive even faster! The drive on 9 & 73 was Interesting and fun, over hill and Dale, back into the wilderness. Who found this place for Olympics is beyond me! Just then the ski jumps come into view, cool! Checked into out cozy tiny home & then went out in search of beer and food. Just down the road is Big Slide brewery, so we picked up a crawler of their Giant Double IPA which was quite good. Also picked up some Lake Placid brewery’s Shredder IPA. First choice for food was Smoke Signals BBQ based upon numerous recommendations including @RidgeRacer, but passing by it didn’t look like it was open, maybe the holiday? Dunno. Son made executive decision for pizza, so it was a Supreme and garlic cheese bread from Bazzi’s pizza, both of which hit the spot. Gonna be another chilly one at Whiteface tomorrow with a high of 7! Time to suck it up! Ski The East! Spicy roads… Ski jumps… Around town… Supreme pizza & beer…

Lmao! I’m here at Lake Placid Brewery and pub eating chow before heading to Indigios tiny house after an uneventful drive up and I figure instead of asking how his drive up was to check this site first. Indigo is a GSS-approved poster! Psyched to ski WF tomorrow and doing it with Indigio and son! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The universe shines on blue the true today, the triumvirate of MacArthur fast food is complete. Voltron has formed, the power rangers have morphed the almighty Shake Shack is coming to MacArthur road. Short of them adding a 1000ft of vert to blue this is the best news.

Ski day 1 Loaded up the car about 7:00am into 12’ and flurries which would be the high temp for the day!! The son had put the directions into his phone and Away we went. Driving out of Lake Placid and up towards the mountain, passing the golf course and Cobble Mountain Lodge, I thought of @RidgeRacer and @saltyant . We continued to drive a bit longer than I expected from looking at the map, but the son assured me we were going the correct way. We came to a T and he instructed me to turn left, Ok. As we climbed an ever steepening road, we came to Santa’s Workshop in North Pole, NY. Next I see a sign for Toll Ahead. Tolls on a ski road? WTF? About this time I was pretty sure something was amiss, as the son was tapping something into his phone. “Uh oh”, he uttered. “Uh oh, what?”, I responded. “Uh, looks like there’s a Whiteface Mountain and Whiteface Mountain Resort and I think I chose the wrong one”. Bah! We had just taken a 15 minute excursion, but got to see where Santa builds his toys! When we finally managed to get to the mountain, parked and actually booted up in the lodge which I never do, but the frigid temps and length of hike proved it worthwhile. Unfortunately with the flurries falling, views of the summits were obscured. Started out on the gondola and down Excelsior just to see how the conditions are. The report said the mountain got 9” from yesterday’s storm, but you wouldn’t know it as the wind had blown most of it away. Rode Little Whiteface and lapped the runs in that area for a while. Took a run all the way down and rode the quad back up. By then the brutal cold had pushed us into the lodge to warm up. After warming up, we took the summit quad up to the peak. Lots of the upper runs have not had much blown on them and the wind was howling, so we headed back down to lap the lower runs. They’re calling for snow tomorrow, so we quit kinda early and headed back with visions of BBQ in our heads. Placed an order for brisket and brisket sandwich from Smoke Signals, both of which were delicious. Not a good photo day… Today’s beer… Brisket and chopped brisket sandwich with Habanero BBQ sauce and the wife’s salad…

Excellent pictures Ski2Live

Pic I took a long time ago

yep, and i think it has been proven, that if you like your home mountain, it pays off in spades for Vail not to buy it. We would still be riding the main street chair at this time. And, all you guys eat waaaay too much fast food. lol.

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Snowing @Mont Bleu

No crowds to speak of tonight and conditions were to be as expected. Grooming was in progress on sidewinder and looked like they were making some good progress.

They need to run the six pack if they don’t have the staff to run both detachables.

I'll admit to being one of those people who was excited about the potential for a multi-mountain pass if they were bought by somebody. Turns our KSL was probably the best option of all those who could have bought Blue.

I thought it was shit today compared to last week's conditions. It was loose and chunky AF under the barely 1" of new snow. New stuff was slow, too. Sunday's conditions were much better. 🤷‍♂️

Fuckin sweet day, sunny half way up the road and then wham blue cloud in effect. Sidewall deep sticky icky pow turns made for a surprise super sweet day and covered up the cookies you can still feel underneath. Surprise snow, surprise shake shack hashtag blue my mind

All of this testing reminds me of this oldie but goodie:

Trail.

WJW. I'd let my hands go numb for the PASRs if it meant sharing my experiences with the community. Just wow.

Nice looks siiiiiick

There were some real steep double blacks, some pleasant long winding trails, 3 very nice glades with well spaced trees at various degrees of incline from blue to black - a highlight, and a bunch of bike trails through the woods. With almost everything skiable on our day 2 it had enough for a satisfying couple days. The vertical is not huge and the lifts are all slow, but with the great conditions we got Monday it was a delight and had more to it to explore than my kids legs had stamina for deep somewhat heavy snow. And my back got a bit beat up lifting them out of it when they fell and got their skis caught in it.

The buoy is located in one of the more "trashy" (for lack of a nicer term) areas in the lake. with the contaminates there, it rarely actually freezes. it get slushy, but unless its like below 15 degrees for a week or so, it wont freeze.

Yeah a lot of people up today. The regular retired folks. GSS. Atomic. JLaw. BenM. Justo. Rose. Probably some more. Wrapping up now and it’s still snowing.

Looks nice! I'll be headed up tonight!

Nice report. Weather looks much better for tomorrow...should be nice! Then Antarctica like temps the next few days after (-21 for the low wed night!) First pic looks really good.

Shake Shack is in a sweet location. You said power rangers and it reminded me of this podcast. I was blown away to learn about how Power Rangers came to be. 💥🤯 https://www.npr.org/2018/09/21/650524515/power-rangers-haim-saban

They already got another hamster and wheel what more do you want them to do ?

The Adirondack High Peaks are one of the best mountain ranges in the east......I gained a lot of respect for ski jumpers once I saw those jumps...

I thought this was about fast food. If I was a moderator all you threadjacks would be tackled shackled and ejected and go straight to jail.

Love some high peaks daks action and it should be awesome skiing this week. The mountaineer is in Keene and is probably the best mountaineering shop in the north east. Their books alone and they have every piece of gear on earth.

I didn't remember you being super pro vail at least in my mind it was alot of Rodney's crew that thought it would be the second coming.

How was today a sleeper pow day when it was busy?

Weren’t able to keep the quad running for more than 5 minutes and the line exploded about 10:30.

He’d split it three ways with the twins if it was over $10

My bad...you said sample so I assumed. Typically samples are free.

A Jack-in-the-Box would be a fantastic addition as well.

It was a site but I rarely take out my phone amd take off my gloves on cold (Sunday) or snowy (Monday) days

In and out burger is super overrated

The best burgers and shakes in fast food, In and Out is close Whataburger further back but the Shack reigns supreme. The only one I haven't had is Culver's. Shake Shack is to McDonald's as Ferrari is to Ford so them and Wegmans won't come to reading as Berks people are too cheap.

I think they have one in the king of Prussia area.

MacArthur road is awesome. Philly burbs, specifically Chester county have horrible fast food restaurant selection. You can go to Allentown or Lancaster and find almost every fast food restaurant ever in a few mile stretch

Where did you get the idea this was free food? We bought it at the Mt. It was really bad except for the onion rings.

Toast we saw you a few times from the lift.

shoulda ponied up a few $ and ate at tracks

Epic might be the way to go next year. If all the bad publicity this year pushes people onto Ikon the crowds will just shift and maybe Vail resorts will be a little more mild.

Have a great time!

Stoked for you man. Can't wait to read the TR and hear your thoughts on WF. fingers crossed that the summit quad opens for you tomorrow. Not sure where they are with lookout mountain yet. Either way Essex, approach, northway speed runs to the base off little wf are always good first thing. Smoke signals is open from 4 to 9 tomorrow...Bazzis always comes through though. I've never seen that place closed. Hope you all have a great time. Potential for snow on Wednesday! Layer up though. Forecast looks brisk. Can't wait till we're there in March!

Looks fantastic! Have fun!

Yeah hard to believe it was the same mountain today. Everything had beautiful conditions, every lift running, no lines, every trail and glade skiable. They seemed to have a "please poach" policy. Impressed my girls motivated early enough for us to be on the 17th chair. Their cafeteria food is definitely subpar though. Beautifully clean roads all the way home. Made it door to door in 3.5 hrs.

Theres a ton of fun stuff to ski off trail at frost, but when there isnt enough snow, it can get old real fast skiing the trails. I saw some photos from yesterday that wernt so good either. Hopefully for the greater good of skiers, Vail gets their shit together. But they will probably just have the GM at frost put out one of their cookie cutter apology videos.

This new wintry mix is turning sloppy in Lancaster. I had to ski it in da moonlight before the rain melts it away. Wet and gliding surprisingly well on new tracks. The previous snow had been skiiable until wednesday Full🌝Moon It would be cool if the ski areas around here continued the party a bit later until like midnight especially under the full moon. I know there are some xc operations that do that.