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I’ll bring homemade biscuits for the gravy

I've been getting less bang for my buck the last couple years from my Blue pass, but by making the investment in the pass it makes me have an incentive to get out there at least once per week when I'm not traveling somewhere else. It would suck to show up and pay $100 bucks to ski there. If things are cranking in early December and they keep open all the way through you can make it really worth your while. The shutdown in mid-december and some family stuff cost me 2 or 3 valuable ski days this year. I have blue + Ikon for 2022-23 and I think its gonna work out great.

Rode this morning, C1er, BenM and BFG crew in the house. Stiffer frozen cord first thing that was 30% rattle your bones, oddly some of the trails had pockets of 3d snow that was considerably softer but it was probably tough grooming last night. We followed the sun and as it warmed up the snow went to a super nice fast soft serve ice cream. Widow-midway/chute-main was rotd, excellent huck your meet soft snow. Sidewinder too was most excellent down to the turn as the top had baked up nice fast jump off everything snow. Quad only but light crowds of mostly slow skiers so I didn't notice them. We were a bit early on the cut over to soft snow, it was good but my guess is the c1er and those that could ski until later are getting primo corn harvest. Coverage is most excellent, deep across the hill with no spots I saw anywhere. My guess would be anyone thinking about the twilight session would get classic blue super spring skiing.

At least another week boys and girls.

If tonight is anything like last night it's going to be springtastic later!!!

i think when you compare the price of the pass to a similar hill, like Elk, its actually on point. I dont find $650 this overwhelming amount of money considering. I mean, yeah, ski sawmill, montage etc will have lower priced passes. No disrespect to Montage, i like the place, but i just dont think its, well, somewhere i could spend every weekend. I think everyone should really stop comparing any season pass to an Epic pass. Its a different product/model. Plus, i think Blue out performed all of the local Vail resorts this year in snowmaking alone.

Are you really comparing blue to roundtop and whitetail here?

Edge is bringing the nose beers.

is this rhetorical?

Thanks Antman. I'm truly humbled that the members of the pasr community like my posts and pictures. I don't do this for me. I do it for all of you. It's my life's work...and I will continue to provide the best reports that I possibly can so long as I have no one to talk to on a lift and / or do not drop my phone while riding said lift. Thank you. I am honored

@RidgeRacer

Fun night. Chatted with @momskeeztoo and Marty on the walk out. Sounded like they had a grate day and we’re still there after 5. Rain held off but it did get quite dark before sunset and was hoping the lights would come on. Razors was my ROTN with a close second to TCS after skating for it since only the 6 was open. Ending up with a full chair after meeting up with @mbike-ski, @Dirtwolf, @NMSKI, and mini @NMSKI. Mini NM is quite the ripper and hopped right into Barney’s without even a pause at the top. 59° when we left at 745 so hopefully they have some magic to keep the snow around.

After skiing we hit up Big mountain creperie for lunch. Bailed at 2pm. My wife and wanted to see if we could make it home before dark. Mission accomplished and in record time! Left LP at 2pm. Rolled in at 7:18. 5hrs 18min with one stop for gas. 3200 vert hill in 5 hr total travel time. Works for me. Great time as always up there.

Nice night Barneys was pretty nice. Spring peepers serenade on my way out.

certain people wouldn't be happy until everyone skiing blue made 100k+/yr

I think it's incredibly dumb ... to suggest that more people use things like credit cards, especially for non-essentials.

not surprised. personally, and i get that it's not as easy now with the online only purchases, i'd rather give that pass to a family so that it doesn't evaporate into the ether.

My thought is if you don’t have a Blue pass, it will dramatically hurt the number of days you ski next season. You have 11 days so far at Blue and I’m sure you’ll have a few more so this years pass was worth it for you even though you got off to a late start and were away quite a bit.

It's time to buy a pass and honestly it's not as easy to do this year as in past years. I think $650 is the tipping point for people like me that live farther away. $650 is still a no brainer for someone within a 30 minute drive of Blue but it starts to get untenable for someone like me who's a weekend warrior and hopes to not be too busy for a few RAWS. Especially with all the other pass options out there for New York, Indy, Epic and Ikon it actually is more to think about than I thought. Any thoughts from the Philly and Philly burbs guys?

Was a very fun night! I always enjoy the sporty slush. After skiing in those conditions on his tiny little season rentals my sons legs were cooked.

I think so. She's a fan of LP...already wants to go back.

Thanks. I was on the fence but I heard there was dark mode. Really classed the place up

yo gabba gabba is a kids tv show that brought us wonderful things like Biz's Beat of the Day:

I’m bringing champagne and sausage. @AtomicSkierusually brings OJ.

I'll be up in NEPA this weekend, would we want some pizza? I know it's already been done once.

Today was the most delightful skiing day at Blue. So relaxed and completely void of the usual anxiety. Skiing directly to the lift, warm and sunny, and yet with pretty good snow. Too bad I have to work sometimes, otherwise I'd just stay there all day. Nobody at the rope drop, and the pic of the pool under construction as a bonus.

i'm surprised you're not selling it on craigslist. you're leaving money on the table doug heresy

FWIW.... Awesome!!

blues SP money train is dunzo. 529 was a great value during the pandemic for people to get out and do something. too big of an increase for people who are casual skiers, remote work diminishing, safe/social distancing activities are an afterthought now. i don't think they'll come even remotely close to selling out of passes. it'll cap at 749 and be available throughout the season.

I did think about that actually but realistically how long/how many times can I head up to NEPA for a weekend and ski a smaller, less diverse mountain with slow lifts and really enjoy it? Montage was/is amazing if you live really close and can pop in after work, ski the whole North Face once and head back home for dinner. Not sure it's a week after week destination if you need to drive. My goal next year is to enjoy my weekends here in PA and do at least one decent sized western trip, maybe two.

He could go epic and be at frost for local stuff. Not ideal at all as Schif belongs at blue and blue belongs with Schif, plus Vail. But it's an option for him. Blue is definitely forcing people's hands with the price hike so early.

You crushed your Indy Pass this year. Saved about $150 off of window prices compared to what I paid for the pass. Maybe there is still a day left for me to use... Next year it will be even easier since I paid ~$250 with renew discount. I think I have a better understanding of how to get the most out of it this year after watching your epic (Indy) adventures.

@Papasteeze finally fought @ski9999

Any table is collapsible after 8 ipas.

I can bring blueberry bagels that no one eats and then bring them home.

Fuck all the haters saying Blue is closing 3/20

That's good news...

Fuckkkkkkkkkkkk yesssssssssssss 🙌

That looks so good!. Raw dawgin' it tomorrow

Lololololol. What a dumb thing to say. A majority of Americans don’t have $650 in their bank account right now

if you need it sure.

I thought i read that both of them would show up, and care should be taken to pick the one from 21/22 to hand out first.

@Schif have you considered going back to Montage? That plus an Indy add on would be appealing.

Indy pass is worth it for sure. You can get your money's worth in a short trip to VT or NH, plus the few PA mountains and NY that are possible for a day trip. Ikon base pass is reasonable too especially if you end up going out west again

wait, so mini law is a ramones fan?!

https://freewillbrewing.store/products/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-charcuterie One of my favorites

Just so you know there is a line today to tell me to fuck off. I meant it as a compliment but regardless I'd rather do 18 runs on razors.

I can get down moguls without falling most of the time. Cant do short radius turns to save muh life. Maybe I'll try some drills on my RTMs

Good thing mark re-upped his pass yesterday @AtomicSkier

I’ll probably be there Sunday.