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Fantastic morning so far. Great snow. Great conditions.

It's in play

Low crowds, good people. I feel lucky White Lightening was freshly groomed. Thanks for the beer @PSUFly In for lunch now with a Cali Club and New Trail Goggles.

Sure is! And it’s absolutely perfect.

10 outta 10

3rd day of skiing in the C-O, Sore but wanting some mo’. 7am - We got out of bed, Lots of advil cause we’re on the mend. Grabbed bfast & packed the car, Hyped the playlist since we weren’t going very far. (An original poem, deliriously written on the plane home) ——— February 7, 2022 — keystone Since I have an epic pass, Schif used my "buddy pass". He paid like $120 instead of the $180 window price. We took the Gondola - Summit Chair - Santiago - Outback Express .. all a couple times. No lines for a Monday and scooted right on up. Once we got to Outback Express, my brother & @Schif decided to hike a bit. They can explain it in better detail. I lapped Outback Express until I caught them at the bottom. again the line were short. Went to the Santiago - Ruby - Summit Chair lifts. Skiied a bunch of laps. Favorite run of Keystone is Starfire which reminds me of Razors but a bit longer. It was just a bluebird western groomer kind of day. Our flight was at 7pm, so we knew we needed to leave the mountain by 2/2:30pm. After skiing about 14 lifts, 25k vert, we got Pizza on the Run and made a little tailgate with our leftover food. We drove up and over Loveland Pass, ogling at the lines in the snow. Some people were hiking up and skiing down. Some guys were grilling at top of the pass. Classic Colorado kind of day. Got back to Denver. Showered. Packed. And made it to the airport in time. While walking through the airport, Schif pointed out the the floors were tittie sparkling too Quick Colorado weekend ski trip -- totally worth it. Landed into Philly around 12:30am. But do you know PHL puts skis on the circular luggage carousel? And the big skis get stuck on the merry go round? 🤯🤦🏼‍♀️ Eventually home by 1:30am. And crashed hard.

Can’t forget @RidgeRacer

Pictures don’t even do the area justice. Another gorgeous sunny day here. Snowshoed part way up to Snodgrass. this girl was kicking ass, went up that head wall like it was nothing. It is much steeper than it looks.

White lightning love

pops' run down WL

Today was sofa king good. Great crew, great conditions, zero crowds, lots of laughs, an old forge pizza in the oven! Awesome time had by all with the one exception of the aforementioned post by enjo which he did not have to disclose.... because what happens at Montage, stays at Montage 😉

Liquid bread [emoji506]

The gang is all here. Foggy as hell right now at these high elevations. Hoping it breaks. LFG!

Maybe Blue can give them a good deal on the quad and then replace that POS. Or maybe when the Summit Safari 8pack goes in from the base to the top of the doubles they can sell the out doubles to them. Short transport distance should make it easy. Just fly the whole thing over when you pluck it off the mountain.

Yeah great trip, I think around 1300 miles total. The drive wasn't bad except driving through CT at rush hour tonight. Also, picked up a few beers I'll share of course

Don’t cunt up my thread with politics boys. 😘

Hey All, I’m back from another morning session at Blue mountain the true mountain. I arrived at the lower lot at 840am. The drive up was slow with 22 traffic and all the pot holes. It was 30 degrees under a rising sun. In the house were Bethlehem ford guy, Rodney, C1er, Gary’s son Josh, Terry and many other boomers, jibhonks and noobs. First civilian six pack and I began on razors which was pretty good..firm, not icy but they blew a little in the middle section which was a bit chunky, challenge was pretty similar. The run of the day was Switchback, I lapped that three times in a row and only saw two people on it total. I then skied paradise which was pleasant and uncrowded, then another run on Switchback. I took the Main Street chair up to the famous widow maker. While widow didn’t have titty deep pow wow it did still have fresh cord. I skied widowmaker to midway which was nice to Burma which was jam packed with peeps back to the six pack. By now there was maybe a 15 chair wait on the six pack..the quad was running but not loading people. If it was quad only liftlines would be much longer. Last run was another paradise so 9 runs total by 10:20am. It was interesting skiing alone for the first time this season. Lots of goobers on the lifts drinking and acting a fool. Near the end of my session I saw Bethlehem ford guy on tuts lane and told him Switchback was good and he said they were going to ski lazy mile and then take a shot of bourbon..WTGAI i should be back Thursday AM JADIP

After skiing Loveland, I came back to the hotel and literally crashed. My brother went to Bakers Brew in Silverthorne and he was a fan. He said it looked like an old Perkins but the food was great and priced well. After a groggy, super dehydrated nap, I got out of the bed and my calves were sore. The altitude and out of shape’ness was wrecking us. We finally mustered up energy and went into Frisco to Outer Range Brewery. Decor was rad. Chairs were cool. Music was lit. After waiting in line for 10-15 minute and chatting with interesting people, it was finally time to order. Then, the cook came out and taped off the menu items that they ran out of …. But he was able to mix up the chicken pieces and make it work. @Schif got the 1/2 chicken with the sweet chili sauce. I got the 1/4 chicken with the honey roasted peanut sauce. It came with jasmine rice and what looked like a salad but was just straight cilantro so that was odd. Oh and they had cucumbers with a lemon vinaigrette. They call it “house pickles”. I would still 100% order again but might ask an alternative to the “house pickles” and cilantro. All the beers looked amazing. They even had a “Steezy” beer (first beer on the left). Was it named after the @GrilledSteezeSandwich himself? Or another steezy person? We will never know … It was refreshing to have a place in summit county that wasn’t the typical burgers, chicken fingers, and nachos. Great vibe. Unique food. Good beers. 10/10.

Sitting on the plane. 10 minutes late to push back already. Here's Sunset in Denver. See you back in PA. More detailed trip reports to come.

Good day today. First heading to the bus stop this morning my neighbor stopped and gave me a ride and close in parking with her fancy country club status. Got 3rd chair in an empty morning. Weather about 3 degrees but the sun was out and it felt good. First run down Silver Queen and tried to head down to East River but trail to access was roped off. Liftee on the Teo said there was a mechanical hold. So up Teo lift then onto Paradise. Some good non committal bumps on the sides (my favorite kind). Did a few runs of those. Then some easy trees back to the base and up Silver Queen again. Ended the morning w some more mellow trees and took the 11 am bus home. Took my ski boots off and took the pooch for a nice long walk. CB is dog paradise! Lots of places you can just let them off leash. Walked into town for a chai and my coffee place just let go of the mask mandate. Dumb as it sounds, felt good to walk in maskless and see peoples smiles. Walked the length of town just since it was such a nice sunny day.

Today was super good. Sun poked out after lunch. Not a single lift line. Snow stayed great. We really enjoyed our time at Montage today 👌

Snow was great today. Had TCS all to myself this morning

“Uh oh..hit the breaks hit the breaks hit the breaks!! Niiiicceee”. Lmao. looks like you guys had a great time!

Touched up the edges last night, so early morning was a Razors session. Agree Switch was the run of the day though. Really like the top 3/4 of Main St, but the bottom is sketchy. Quad still wasn’t loading when I left at 11:30, but the six pack line wasn’t too bad.

Get better goggles like the ones above. I’ve used exclusively Oakley A frames for years and no issues and they’re like $150 goggles. With inferior goggles I have fogging issues on damp days

@mbike-ski has these too. These are the only goggles that actually work for sweaty guys who fog up the lenses when its super cold. I can't tell you how many days I've had frustration with foggy goggles before I got these.

Memory is the first to go!

Also 50 % off certain lenses if you buy a pair of goggles @NMSKI if you need an extra pair Atomic Orange, Crystal Ice, Silver Blaze, Clear, and Eclipse Black

Looks like you guys got some awesome conditions, especially on white lightning. @mute1080, hope you liked the beer, I'll have plenty of Tree House and other stuff at Blue next time.

Enjorales is ripping it..

Is lightning groomed?!?!

Thanks guys. Taking daughter to the doctor this morning. Have fun today and post pics. Hopefully be back at blue this weekend

Avoid western Ct at all costs. Next time go up the thruway and cut over at Albany Epic powder trip. Well done Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

all good family first, hopefully everyone feels better soon

Dillon Dam Brewery, Great food and Beer. Was there two summers ago . My son and daughter-in-law rented a pontoon boat as a late Father’s Day present. We spent 4 hours fishing and didn’t catch a thing but I didn’t care as the scenery was spectacular. The houses along one reservoir branch were built on a crazy cliff. We stopped there afterwards, our server was busy and a Brewmaster helped out , he noticed my sons Emmaus T shirt. He was from Philly area. Small world lol.

lol. We’re good I was trying to think of a post title and it found inspiration in the 2008 banger, Zack & Miri make a …

Mittersill is much better than the front side. Had to take 2 lifts to the summit, down an intermediate and then hike up this trail in the second pic Visibility from the summit in first pic

yea yea, what's for lunch?!

You can use CT at like 3am but otherwise my experience was similar to yours. Sick trip and sometimes the thruway is shit too particularly if it's snowing near albany

Not gonna shed a tear for either of those things going away TBH

I love the one I call mt. Nippletop, it's like a perfect cone I cannot figure out how they made it but it's a doozy. The section your talking about has more holes than pavement.

Great repotting….eye roll. Maybe it needs a new flux capacitor.

Not surprising. A quick google search by anyone at Vail Resorts would’ve given you an answer as to what works(ed) for big Boulder. I posted about the Preston and Steve thing the morning they announced it on air, it’s quite funny as they blamed resort management at first then quickly doubled back with the “staffing shortage” issue a possible problem. Is what it is. blue seems to have an idea of what’s going on as they’ve been pushing their parks HARD this year on social media.

Sorry about that

Mittersill glades (idiot's delight and candy land). Also a t bar ride and the race course which had nice snow

Pretty windy and cold up top. Lookout lift isn't open yet but it was spinning. Did a top to bottom run, and another run up top, skyward I think. Parts of that were icy but still some good soft snow

Hot damn...New cross country sticks....Bindings on order.....Gonna have to learn how to use kicker wax with these....