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Another sunny morning here. The place is a ghost town and the groomers are even better today because of that.

Breckenridge was rad. Started at 8:27 under sunny sky's. There wasn't much fresh Perder but still found some secret stashes. Skied da groomers, da bowls, da moegools, and da glades. Pretty sick #JADIP #WTGAI #sickbird #gnarlybird

Lovely sunny morning at Blue. Very good grooming on Razors and that's all I skied. Was firm, fast, and smooth. Sun was shining. JADIP.

You're forgetting one major factor. You have to ski Camelback

This morning, I woke up at 6:30am. Ate some leftover dinner for breakfast. Left my house at 7am and was at the baggage drop at 7:30am. I got there at the same time as the Halifax Thunderbird Lacrosse team was checking in. I listened to their stories from last night in Philly … sounds like they like to have a good time. They’re playing in Vancouver on March 5th next. I had a layover in Toronto and saw my luggage leave the plane but my luggage had other plans. It made its way on a different plane. i packed a carryon but all my ski gear is in my bag that’s definitely not here. Positively? It seems like all ski gear that went from Philly to Toronto to (what’s suppose to be) Vancouver got redirected in transit and is on the next flights. I’m on a shuttle to Vancouver. sounds like they’re going to drop my ski bag off at the hotel around 1am. (Fingers crossed)

Minnewaska SP 2/2722 Last night I was searching for some favorable XCD conditions within day trip distance and was coming up empty when I stumbled on a decent snow report for Minnewaska SF XC trails. After some communication and navigational challenges got on the snow solo around 10:30. Some guidance in the parking lot had me on my way to the Castle rock trail on the skinny NNN setup, great fast snow, bright sun, mid 30’s and a breeze (quite stiff on the return NW exposures). As an intermediate at best classic skier it was cool watching the skater boiz and girlz fly by me. I had never really skate ski’d and worked on it for a while until the ball of my right foot and arch objected , I even passed some little kids lol Such a cool place with endless vistas of cliffs, hills and the mountain (Bearpen?)to the north. Ended up doing almost 9 mi for a great loop, hopefully not the last hurrah.

At Catamount this morning. They got a bunch of snow from the Friday storm and it looks like a fun hill. Pumped for a morning at a new place!

Fun morning today...Rode the quad exclusively and worked my way east to west then back...Wind really picked up as the day went on and made Tutts a bit of a chore...TCS was pretty slick so only did that once....Even a marbled up Challenge was fun..Only ever waited a few minutes in VIP line at the quad... @enjoralas all of your delicacies were on point today....The cheese steak was delicious...

Arrived!! From the digs… Slim testing the snow depth…

That pic is so classic East Coast...

Fantastic morning so far. Felt parched so needed to hydrate. I’ll post a report sometime later. Low crowds. Great snow. Happy Sunday!

Up at 0 dark thirty, no big surprise there, to finish packing, shower, egg sangwich, peruse the musings of PASR and make ready for next awesome ski adventure for the upcoming week. Will be off to meet with Slim, Donny, Rick for the ride over to Newark and a straight shot into Bozeman. Looking like a great day to fly and hoping that the airlines think so too. Stay tuned for further updates...

Night sesh for me also.

I'll be up later probs around 5:30ish

1. Blue is not Camelbacks sister resort... 2. Blue opened and stayed open before Camelback.. 3. Camelback has no value...

Day 6, solo skiing with groomers in mind since my legs just arent as fresh as they could be. Small crowd to start, which i thought would be the theme of the day. 2 laps on International with some nice fresh cord. A lap on Paradise, then i made the decision to see if East River was cooperating, which it was. I talked with some type of employee on one lift ride that said a groomer hit one of the East River towers Thursday night which caused it to be closed Friday, i saw a groomer toting a welder down to it at one point, and then it was just a little pissed off on Saturday, i think they were able to run it, but not full speed. East River is a nice area, and has some great trees, so of course i couldnt resist. Made the best of the trees, even though it probably wasnt too pretty, but we just dont get to ski decent stuff off trail at Blue enough, so its hard to pass up. Went to eat when the lift lines started getting a little longer then normal at noon, odd thing was, the restaurant was empty. Ran some groomers from the base after lunch, alternating between silver queen and red lady, depending on the line situation. The Teocali lift was down for maintenance the past two days. no big deal, as that lift really doesnt go anywhere i was concerned with, but on the lift ride with the CB employee, who i think was an instructor, eluded to the fact that "maintenance" was code word for "lack of employees". Im not super happy with Vail, i just dont like their business model, and what they are doing to skiing in general. i feel like Vail just wants to show the skiing public who is boss. I like to think Vail has fucked up Crested Butte the least of all its resorts. We will see. I never saw "epic" lines when i was here, but Barb says things have picked up over the past 2 years here.

Anyone trying for an PASR Elk day? I have weekday passes from the Warren Miller film this year that are good after 3/1. I know @enjoralasand @popshave passes so hopefully they're down. Boo needs a 2 week notice so trying to get a date locked. A Monday or Thursday works best for me but can probably make anything work.

These stickers were on the gas pump at my local Wawa. Gave me a good laugh.

Will do, not exactly sure on my plan yet. Thinking Jay friday/Saturday and Bolton Sunday. I'll shoot you a message by like Wednesday

Keep your rental receipt and make sure the airline reimburses you. I had the same thing happen to me once in Utah. That was the last time I flew with my boots in a checked bag.

I heard Berkshire East has been picking up a lot of people who used to day trip to Mt. Snow because of Mt. Snow's high day ticket prices and crowds. They added the reservation requirement to the Indy Pass about two weeks ago due to the larger crowds. Glad to see them doing well but it was always a good place to avoid crowds on a weekend. I heard Magic had record crowds on Saturday.

Montage is $499, $399 for existing passholders.

I should be there around the same time I'll keep an eye out for sure.

Too much work this morning, going to shoot for a night session so good to hear it's holding up nice. How were the crowds ? Still full on or more spring like?

Don't get any ideas Benjamin.

depends on when but could be tough. Have WF locked in second week in March.

I’m definitely down. Between Monday or Thursday I’d probably vote for a Thursday, and I know Pops would too. Since I’m fat and he’s old, not having it as my 3rd straight ski day would let us get the most out of the one day at Elk.

Saturday night Halifax dominated the wings all game, but the wings staged a comeback towards the end to make it 10-8. However, Halifax held on to earn the W. The wings have 8 games left with 7 on the road

I was there last Tuesday before the rain. Fun place. New owners are making some nice improvements. Are you planning on hitting Berkshire East?

Hey All, I’m back from another fun session at Blue mountain the true mountain. I arrived in the lower lot at 720am and it was in the low to mid 20s under sunny sky’s. In the house were Atomic Jeff, Dirt Wolf, benM, Enjorales, Pops, Mute, Boo bear, The Real KT, Mixilplix, Bethlehem Ford Guy, Spyder, TP4, VTMark and many others. First run on challenge was decent, second run on challenge was ok and then I watched that run turn to marbles. Main Street was decent with new manmade, I did lazy mile a few times cause the PASRs we’re enjoying it. One quad ride to coming soon and it was slick..slippery and shiny..Paradise was decent and I even smoked a run down nightmare to dreamweaver and it was the mini cookies...not very good. A fun parking lot and Enjorales grilled up various types of sausage, pork loin and even made Philly cheese steaks..Wiz Wit for me..yes made to order. All in all a fun session and I think I even got some color today or at least some Red...hard to believe it’s basically March now..we need to milk the rest of the skison.

A bunch of us from Blue are making our annual pilgrimage there this week. Looks like good weather.

Late start arrive 10:45 they got about 8” of fresh but had some FR on top I heard it was heavy yesterday. Today’s cooler temperatures made it perfect. Some nice bumps on Plunge I stayed on the double chair till after 2. I skied Blockbuster quite a few runs . They left a 7’ high whale up top witch I had to appease the little kid in me and go over the top . I lost some Ptex on Twist . It was thin in places but overall a pretty nice day. First picture, trail to the right of the lift is “Freefall” roped off but poachers carved it up.

i am like 95% sure they are in my closet. i will hit you up if they somehow went missing. Thats them. i am 95% sure i didnt actually go through with that. @toast21602.....dont worry.....i just didnt like the graphics. Not cause they ski like shit or anything.

He can have these I’m done with them lol

In the first run I knew I had to turn off my usual wtf meter. I was a guest in a foreign land, they were kind and although their customs seemed strange to me they couldn't be less threatening, the delta was so high at half speed it was nothing but orange cones everywhere. Most are well aware of my love of weird old equipment and it's like no place I've seen. The individual foot snowboards, lots of blades, 220 straight skis but the kicker was this dude. I spotted the zero tail fast, assumed logically he had broken them somehow. Yet his suit was HH and was skiing on a icon pass with his dad who had one of the big super soft soli pow skis for gapers. This was no accident, for some reason this was done on purpose. Was he a raxer from the Alps who got lost ? I maneuvered my way to be the single next to them so I would have time to conduct a thorough investigation. I buttered him up with bs about the day and then went for the kill. This madman bought the skis, picked out bindings and had them mounted then promptly took them home and cut as much tail as humanly possible off with a band saw. He was of the opinion that the tail of the ski was a detriment to skiing and had been doing so since learning as a child. He had been all over with his family, somehow taming big sky/ut/VT on 90cm length skis all up front. I only saw him ski 300ft at like negative pitch but he left a ww1 style trench giving a new definition to tail gunning. It was one of the most and least impressive thing I've seen in snowsports. It's like someone cutting both their legs off to become a better marathon runner.

some TRs from previous trips. Not sure what is in them. Probably a bunch of drunk posts.

Some XC skiing through the hood this afternoon......

I thought about taking the dog skijoring one day, she loves it on the longboard

Welp, forgot to check hours at suicide 6 and showed up to a closed resort today at ~noon. No big deal as I only planned to ski 2-3 hrs before heading north. Stupid is what stupid does… cannon tomorrow. psufly ping me before weekend. I got a mini blue possie for jay with me also( I thinks…)

Yeah! Sounded like an exciting game! Skis still not here …. Waiting on rentals ….