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Today was the best blue mountain day of the season...I do declare!!! (Office reference) 10 out of 10! the stunt ditch is so so good and really Everything was great today...from the carpet on switch sweet sleepy hollow glade runs to Stalin's stunt ditch...today was blue in all it's glory. Great ski day!

Today was sooo good, we had a whole politburo going down Vladimir Shreddin. Our comrade Ridge racer has joined the revolution on a most fortuitous day. Most excellent crew as always but I super enjoy watching other people's creativity and how they ski it and thieving my favorite parts. Mute going left of the tree, toast tree airs, dirtwolfs pure speed in the trench etc etc there are a billion ways to ski it all super fun, scrappy, loose knees tight cheeks skiing. For all the fun it brings they should just turn that whole trail into a series of trenches. Unreal pattern we've been in, the other trails are perfect, even the glades where pretty good. I always feel lucky to be a skier, even more so with the blue crew but the last month has been like hitting the lottery lucky.

Endless fun in the Stunt Ditch this morning. Everything was very good, but gapping trees in the ditch, sliding tails up the side, and wind blown turns in the ditch were fantastic. Majority of our runs were there and every one felt different. I’m not one to take ditch pics, so here is one of Switch.

I'm way early so I'm starting the report. 15 degrees currently. Winds aren't crazy. Snowing lightly with a skiff of new snow overnight. Roads were fairly decent coming in. Groomers are out doing their thang. Today should be nice. I'm feeling like a western groomer day may be on tap. LFG

Another inversion day

All around good shit today! See y’all in a few weeks!

Fun XC trip through the woods at Penn Forest with @mbike-ski after riding at Blue....Looks like they had gotten more snow than Blue did..Snow was light and fluffy.....6 degree temps and super windy but hella fun...

TR 1-29, I lied yesterday when I said it was the best conditions of the year! Today blew it away. First chair today, first civilian tracks on F chair side in 4 to 5 inches of wonderful fluffy soft powder. Just WOW! TImberline was exceptional, Grizzly, Broadway, Polar Bear all exceptional also. Not crowded at all, thought I was skiing weekday until around 11 or so when people started to show up. I ran quite a few runs on the edge of skiers left on Timberline, nice powder stashes to pop in and out of. Same thing on Polar Bear skiers right- great play stuff! More than JADIP!

I’ve been pretty lax on the reports because every day here has been like groundhogs day. Jackson hole mountain resort received 20 feet of snow, most of it falling in late December and early January. A lot of it was heavy Pacific Northwest snow which filled in and pasted every nook and cranny of the mountain which has made for excellent coverage from top to bottom. North facing areas like Bivoac, Crags run, 10 sleep bowl and some cold lower mountain terrain like Slalom run has been nice chalk while south facing stuff has been a lot stiffer. The first ski day on Wednesday was extremely empty and had the best snow so far. Zero liftlines at all and Thursday continued with zero liftlines and I skied the Hobacks that day which had nice coverage but pure moguls, nowhere I could really let my skis run...the days generally began with an amphitheater from the gondola summit to the bottom of Thunder which the first three days was Boner Doner, today not so good more like Blues grooming. Laramie bowl and Grand have mostly been good, Rendevous trail is a clusterfuck..Bivoac I’ve skied every day was huge chalk and slick bumps day one..groomed day two loose snow flying everywhere and still chalky days three and four. The Casper lift has been closed the entire time so far which has made the Teton lift a bit busier but terrain in the Casper area has been emptier because you need to get to it from other lifts. Today did at least three nonstop top to bottom Teton lift laps which are like 3.5 minutes up and 2 minutes down and had some serious burn. Apres vous area has been crowded and cold... Everyday of this trip has been freezing at the bottom like -15 to -20 warming into the single digits while up high has been in the teens mostly. The first day was partly sunny and last three have been full sunshine. It hasn’t been frantic at all, we’ve been leaving the hotel at 8am and getting on the first or second civilian gondola everyday and I’m usually pretty stoned for the lucky people who get to hear about the tombstone industry and about pros and cons of pow days vs non pow days. Today after skiing had lunch at Osteria in the Hotel Terra..Caesar salad and Bolognese, two tables over was Kai Jones, pro skier and son of Teton Gravity research founder Jeremy Jones. Also got to chat with a Portland guy who is originally from Long Island who is living at the Antler Inn this winter for $1200 a month and has a $1080 senior citizen season pass along with an air fryer. Wintertime wnd the livings easy. He used to work for John Lennan, Billy Joel and Jerry Seinfeld..fucking legend.

Nicely groomed with some fresh on top, still coming down, Shawnee is blowing too despite wind at top. Not crowded. Both quads and one of the double doubles running, 100% trails open. Successfully used Indy pass for the 1st time (lol). Renegade courderoy was untouched but a little slippery.

Awesome ski, navigational challenges kept us out of the wind until the headwind on the ski out almost took me floppy hippy hat

Today was a good day....Two laps on the Red Star ditch and then one on the capitalist side...Many laps on Side taking the Chamonix route ...Never had to feather the brakes on Switch....

Great day today. Got on snow a bit late about 9:40 but didn’t quit until after noon. Made 13 runs from Paradise to Widowmaker. Not a bad run to be had. See everyone tomorrow. Breakfast for lunch!

Side quest complete. Gonna jawn back over for some fast laps

Fun day! Wind had me a little sad at first because I was hoping it was d deep but just had to find the goods. Stunt ditch was ROTD and I could have played in there all day.

3-5 here in Pennsburg, hard to tell with the wind and fluffy snow. Shoutout to my lazy ass neighbors who trampled all over the front sidewalk while walking their dogs rather than actually shovel it. I loathe lazy people. Just got done shoveling and helping some people shovel. Fun 2 hours out in the snow. That’s it for my weather TR. lol.

Getting a little icy on the blacks and thighs getting a bit tired. Gonna try to find somewhere to xc and then I'll come back here later and Alpine. They have some surprisingly large terrain features on Delaware. Woods are skiable but there is a lot of logs and low branches except off Delaware which is pretty good actually. Zero lines since they opened the 2nd quad including the Tomahawk express, they are doing a good job pairing up groups on there. Most people I have talked too are here from NJ or Long Island where they claim 2 ft of snow.

I think not quite 3 hours I left a bit after 6:30 stopped at Sheetz. Stopped to check tire pressures twice because the light came on but they were fine. Normally takes 2. Skied around this pond and up Mt. Minisi, the AT was too rocky but there is a logging road or something going up next to it that worked pretty well. Passed a big group of people they were like wtf you doing. I had to take off the skis a couple spots on the way down that were too steep and too rocky to snowplow. I'm not sure if it was better or worse that the group packed all the snow down, at least I could see where the rocks were better. Did like 6 laps at Shawnee or so, I got my alpine skis tuned up properly at the shop a few weeks ago and wanted to check them out. Yuge improvement cutting into the hardpack I definitely should avoid cheaping out and get them professional tuned more often.

You guys going to come back bronzed up??

Today was fantastic. Some days I just think, man I'm lucky to be able to ski. Today was one one of those days.

>95% chance they are the same people who don’t return shopping carts?

I'm pretty sure that there are rules in the manifesto about saying anything further.

A little swirly in philly. Won’t make first chair but I never do 😂 i live on a main artery near City Avenue so it was mostly plowed. once on 76, I was behind 5 snowplows & salt truck that formed a V formation. the trucks were slow but it got me hyped. might ducks style. The salt trucks were my flying V

Im pretty sure we got more snow yesterday.

Sure does. HSQ. Makes the place better than JF.

Careful with your comments, you don’t wanna ruffle any feather around here. In all seriousness, does Shawnee have any high speed lifts?

It is the 6pack…

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Can’t really disagree with any of this. So much fun today. Such a good crew of people slaying and stunting in the trench.

Fun day so far. Woke up and cleared the driveway with the snowblower, then a snowy drive on snow covered roads, been cleaning snow at work, then will do my parents house. I actually enjoy snow removal

Using the old eye ruler id say we got around 2.5” here in chesco

Forgot to mention ... it was -20F on the way to the mountain today. The second coldest drive I've ever had here.

Good day today. Had some friends drive down last night and another one her way tonight. Was the typical frigid morning so we waited until 10 to go. Light crowds and no lift lines. struggled on this run, note my very bad form.

There is a parking lot at the bottom off 611 I tried to go on the AT on the lower third or so but it wasn't fun had to keep taking the skis off wayyy to rocky. The other trails from that same parking lot further back from the river/cliff were actually pretty good though . High speed lift pictured above ^ it's like 10 years old maybe? Really well maintained and super fast. The rest of the lifts are Partek (also in great shape) which they run fairly sslow due to typical Shawnee clientele. Fun fact 55% of Shawnee skiers rent, and they have 4,000 sets of rental equipment https://www.stormskiing.com/p/podcast-61-shawnee-mountain-pennsylvania Yah pretty cool I havent actually gotten a good look at the water gap before

before anyone gets all defensive about the lift comment lol, I will point out that Bleu has 2 detaches that go higher and steeper, one is a sixer, and doubles operate faster, so they have shawnee beat. Nevertheless the Jawnee jaunteroo has got to be quite a bit quicker and it looks cooler so fight me

That looks legit. How long was the traverse?

Went to Jack Frost today. It was grate! Flo's Fooley was 10 out of 10. Met some cool bro who offered $30 for my extra Epic buddy pass that I'm not going to use, but I dont want Epic to lose revenue so I said no, buy your own pass. LFG WTGAI JADIP

Looks like a hyper good day with zero crowds

Agreed. The Siouxsie and the Banshees version of dear prudence also destroys the Beatles version

Just the scale of that place is insane and when something is really good sometimes you take zero pictures

Some pics from today.

TR 1/28. Rolled in at 8:30 to a snowy day. The snow showers turned out to be steady snow until noon. Best conditions of the year, soft, quiet snow on all trails. Kodiak, Upper Kodiak, Timberline, Broadway all exceptional. Grizzly has new seeded bumps that need to work in that cover the skiers left side, bumps go all the way to the bottom. Two big new snow features in Black Bear Park plus an additional ramp put on top of the big hump. Smiles on everyone's faces today! JADIP

Ride, nap, sixers, bed, ride, meat in your mouth, probably another nap.

Honestly I only got up this morning as I couldn't go yesterday with work and all the way up to first run down razors I figured a coating at best. Hopefully this is a good omen for tonight, even 3 would be nice.....especially wherever the wind ends up taking it all.

Fun RAW session tonight. Not much to report. 2 runs with my coworker +6 more solo. Decent snow, no ice and relatively light crowds.

Looking good antman; think I saw you in the a chair liftline. TR 1/24 was perhaps the best day at Bear this year! Snow was smooth and wonderful. ROTD Grizzly. TImberline a close second. Even with the event going on minimal to no lift lines. Kodiak was very nice up until we left at 1; Black Bear had really nice snow. Edgeable all over the mt. The wife did Extreme because the skiers right was looking real good and it was! Just a bit sketchy early in day to get to the good stuff. Blue Bird day! Also- kudoos to the lifties! Great staff this year.

Roundtop was great. Lines never exceeded 2 min. New mini glade is fun as were Ramrod and Gunbarrell. Never waited more than 3 min in line. Super friendly locals to chat with on lifts. Got 16 runs in. Good call. No food purchased.

Maybe AtomicSkier and JFDan will come and we can all sit together on the Minuteman Lift and sing folk songs just like the Mosquitos in Gilligans Island. I get to be Bingo and you guys can decide who will be Bango, Bongo and Irving.