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Hey All, I’m back from another fun session at Blue mountain the true mountain. Everybody was in the house today except for Salty, Zonked, PARidge, ZZSlope and Phillycore. It was in the mid 20s under mostly sunny sky’s and the snowmaking cannons were blasting on nightmare to dreamweaver, coming soon, little gap, yeti and a few random areas. Apparently razors was bad to start so I began on paradise. Upper Main Street was good and lower was less brown than yesterday. After a few runs the super summit safari six pack was open and I finally got to ride it and what a ride…I still have a half Chubb which is like a 1/4 boner. It was rad skiing Widowmaker from the peak and upper upper Main Street..but with the new lift that area is way way busier as expected. The third time I went to the summit safari it was stopped for a bit so went back to the six pack and skied paradise and ended with fresh cord on coming soon to Barney’s bumps to upper Main Street to lower Main Street to shuttle to Central Park which had gates set up for me to practice. I thought I’d have a quick beer and peace out this AM as it was cold in the lot..famous last words as I hungout until 1. JADIP

Over 31 hours of blowing, over 6.5 million gallons of water, the Creek is back.

Conditions were indeed better but still kinda meh....but so far mother nature isn't playing nice this year....Raceway/Midway/Lower Main was OK...and surfing the sugar piles on Lower Paradise was a hoot...New lift is nice but as was said it dumps a lot of people on Main and Shuttle can get crowded with everybody having to go to the valley.....and every weekend there seems to be a new race group doing training somewhere..but despite everything it's tough to beat a not to cold sunny morning on the snow....

current view from the lodge at Aspen Mountain. Think I’m gonna call it a day unless the sun comes back out. Can’t see a thing. Got about 8 good runs in. No action shots unfortunately

The tour we had decided on did not look good from an avalanche perspective on the topo map. Lots of slides lately so we wanted to keep it mellow. Found a spot near the Reudi Reservoir 30 miles outside Basalt. Did not see another person today so that was nice. Did 2 miles up and 1300’ then turned around.

Today was considerably better than yesterday but that's an awfully low bar. Riding the new lift was dope to see the same old hill from new perspectives. I'm not a fan at all of how many people it puts on main, particularly if it fucks switch. Most excellent to hang in the lot with some sun, no matter the snow shooting the shit delivers.

As @Benm is trying to point out, this mornings music was baller. Echo what everybody else said. Way better than yesterday, sss6s is cool, main street was popular, and the comments from those that skied razors were funny. last run down main at 9:30 or whatever was still decent imo. Lower was soooo much better than yesterday. They must have put some stickum in the snow the blew on it last night. Its my guess they will keep making snow on nmdw and freeballing till tomorrow morning, since, again, that will be it for snowmaking for a few days. So maybe open wed, and then decent by the weekend.

Not a bad day today. Enjoyed riding the new lift.

and Monday

Lazy Mile and Sidewinder merge

This is rad. I spotted @enjoralas at 8:45 pre-fight.

Small interior upgrade, added 5 canless LED lights in my living room area that run off a dimmer switch. Ceiling fan is next on the list to get replaced with a slimmer flush mount fan.

I forgot about razors, it looked bad from the lift but it was even worse than I imagined. It was so hilariously uneven about half way down I can hear indiggio dying laughing behind me. It was mad cobble stone skiing

No.

Very spoiled here. There was one 5 min wait in Ajax lift. The rest we skied right on.

At least if you can't see anything it looks like nobody is home.......I heard Highlands the other day had a phantom 10" that skied deep on the lower half of the hill and I would just be happy if it stayed cold a bit.

Dave Kline is a legend and legends rule!!!

Dave Kline, who posted that video, is my neighbor. Thanks for posting

That was rad. I saw Mute and Ryan.

Salty did you get kicked out of the shot (40 seconds)? Haha

Look who it is. The paparazzi

Hyata and I were waiting for conditions to improve, looks like that ploy isn't panning out. I'll be up soon.

Fun morning with the family before the crowds. Skied until 930ish and then came back out for the new lift. Got to share a beer with @mbike-skifor the first ride 🍻

Mine doesn't switch. When I'm at TLCITW for a few days, and the forecast is below 30*, I'll turn off the HP system, and set the oil burner at 58*. When I return to a "cold" home I turn up the hot air oil burner until I'm at 68* then turn the HP on and oil burner off. I can usually get the home back up to temp in a half hour or so. I'm really surprised with the efficiency of the heat pump system both for heat in winter and air conditioning in summer. My summer electrical usage was 25% less with the new system than the old...

I saw a break in the radar and corresponding forecast change and decided to head up. In the house was C1er, a guy who worked at little gap with dope stories and some guy who was way too excited to throw his boots in a tree. Snow was very nice, a soft carpet of shaved ice consistency. Very similar to yesterday but a bit softer and more water in the upper layer so it wanted to come off in sheets. But the best condition was absolutely nobody home, 4 runs on main all by lonesome and 10 runs in an hour and half. With the requiste fog covering half the hill vis was just ok but on Razors and Main it didn't matter one bit. Set them up, let them go and boom you've gone plaid. Lots of action over at the new lift and it looks like it should be ready to go Saturday.

Had a great first day of the season in 10 years at Blue today. Made sure to keep it EXTRA SAFE at Blue the true with my rusty legs and PAs highest vertical available. Really love how the rfid tickets track your stats. Ended up with 15K Vertical "Metres"? In 15 runs. Looking forward to grabbing a early bird pass late Feb. Ski yall later

Hahaha. So true. It's the principal of the matter..... There's Principalities involved here Smokie !

Saturday with Becky Boo...maybe Sunday, too ?

Tis a glorious winter wonderland here in Marble. Decided to go skinning at Buttermilk. Buttermilk logistic are so freaking easy. The main parking lot is right at the bottom of the lift. There are 3 skin routes, I chose West Buttermilk since it’s the easiest and this was my first real uphill day. About 1200’ of vert. The parking for W Buttermilk is right in the trail! You walk out of your car and step on the snow. Stopped at the top at the Cliff House for a little water break. Overcast skies but warm temps. 2 storms rolling in this week. Woohoo!

Buckmans is having $28 tickets to Bear creek for 2 Wednesdays in Feb. Not sure how much that saves but I may pick one up.