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Had a window around lunch time and with the countdown on wanted to get up. Shit was a mist to a hard rain so not a blockbuster yet by anymeans. Negative crowds, for every person that showed up two left but I did see Jimmmmmmmmmy and Harold. Snow was spectacular consistent slush and you could do whatever you want with the ski. The caveat of course is between a heavy fog on the upper 2/3 and rain Stevie Wonder could see better so you could only let them go in spots. Browns town coming through all over the place and lower DW you gotta get out your compass and sextant as its a little bit of a navigational challenge. Super fun smash and grab type outing and hopefully the rain wants to change over a bit sometime soon.

Here's my 2 cents on the happenings of the past few days. Saturday at Loveland was out of this world good. 15 inches minimum but definitely spots where it was knee deep. Face shots to be had for the majority of the day. Lots of hoots and hollers. Le Tits McGee for sure. The vibe from the minute we got there to the minute we left was so on point. Banjo music playing in the lodge while the stoke meter was at the point of bursting for all the hardcore people eating breakfast that got up at 430am. We started out along with everyone else on Chet's Dream and took a nice completely untracked blue cruiser. I made a wrong turn and wound up back at Chet's where I was in a decently long line when the rest of the crew made their way over to Chair 6. I was a little nervous after that first run. My legs were on fire and I was definitely breathing hard. That went away as fast as it came though and i felt great the rest of the day. I made my way down to 6 and caught up with them. Lapped 6 for a bit, untouched snow the whole time before we moved over to Chair 4. First run on that I forgot that there is a midstation so I got off early but it didn't matter. Fresh untouched snow was everywhere to be found. Back up 4 a few more times until the sign at the midstation said Chair 8 was open. I took Sunburst Bowl down to the Zip Trail got to 8. 8 might have been the most consistent fun laps of the day. There was just so much untracked snow to be had it was amazing. The woods below Hook em' Horns were super fun as was the wide open spaces above that. On my second run here I was carrying too much speed into the trail that funnels to the lift and got bounced on a bump and took a nice little tumble. People were having some pretty good crashes all over but the snow was so soft you just popped back up and kept on going. Around 12 or so we noticed that they were finally loading people on Chair 9 so we took the long catwalk traverse from 8 down to 4, up 4 and then more fantastic floaty, slashy, deep turns in beautiful snow to get to Chair 9. This one takes you up to the top of the ridge and is a slow quad with a defunct midstation. The weather up on the ridge was pretty terrible, as it usually is. Wind was really rough. Worth the trip though as we went a little way skiers right off of the top and dropped into Primer Bowl for some insanely good turns. Just being at the top like that takes a lot out of you since it's so cold and windy so the rest of the crew dropped back down below and I headed up 9 solo. I hiked the ridge for a while and dropped into Jelly Roll. It was around 1:30 at this point and the mountain was getting mostly skied off so I cruised all the way back down to the lodge to meet up with the rest of the gang. All in all this was a 15/10 day.

Did 22 runs(!!!) on Saturday with my niece. It was more than likely her last day of the season so I didnt mind doing so many runs lol.

Some pics

Just got back from a morning Eldora session. Typical Eldora wind this morning, runs not too bad but lifts were windy AF. They got some snow over the weekend and 2” overnight. Conditions were very good. Crowds were non existent. Decided to try and focus on trees today. Did 4 of my runs in Jolly Jolie glades. Not exactly skiing, but sliding around. It made me laugh that they are marked a double black and not half as steep as the tree run we did in CB which was only a single black. But it definitely made my session more fun to check out something new at Eldora. One lonely picture

In the words of @GrilledSteezeSandwich and @saltyant this is getting good. Sunday we skied Loveland with about 4-6” of new snow yesterday. I’ll write more later. Monday & Tuesday we’re working remotely and staying in the Denver area. Then —> next skiing adventure is Vail from Wednesday - Friday with @Schif and these are these are the upcoming reports.. I don’t know what “sneaky fun powder” is but I’m pumped. General Colorado snow forecast is snow on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. And this Vail specific report shows Wednesday - Friday as well.

March 11, 2023 - part 3 Oops that last pic was the first run of the day line. I meant to delete it. —— so after my legs turned to jello, I strolled into the lodge. In the cafeteria, Toyota had a booth where they were giving away 2 snowboards daily and a big raffle at the end season for a car. so. you enter your info on an iPad and you can get sunglasses, a buff, or hand warmers. So we all snagged a cool pair of Loveland shades. then you go to the table where there’s a bunch of stickers. And if you turn over one with a Toyota logo, you win a free Never Summer snowboard. I was like - really? So you just flip it and you get to walk away with it? and that’s what happened 🤷🏼‍♀️ crazy thing is … my brother won a Never Summer splitboard early season at a ski party. Then gave it to @Schif. So kinda funny that we’re 2 for 2 in snowboard giveaways. this is the women’s proto type 2 with custom graphics of the Colorado C from the state flag. I haven’t snowboarded since 2012’ish. since we’re going to Vail for a few days, I’m going to put bindings on it and take it for a spin. All in all - amazing day. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ powder day to remember + a free snowboard. … anyway - Saturday ended with me giving Schif a quick tour of downtown Denver including the Union Station (because trains), Coors Field, Larmier Street, 16th Street, and LoHi. at the house, we had some air fryer chicken and veggies then headed to bed by 9:30pm for some more Sunday skiing.

Jimmmmmmy came to my work after skiing and said it was grate. If you need a Miller Lite and he says he doesn’t have any, he’s a liar.

Late session after bouncing back from a nasty respiratory virus. Fast mashed multicolor potatoes . Sasquatch was nice with some slushy bumps. The whole mountain skied pretty well. Things are quite variable with mud to 3’ base . I hope that they can get to the weekend. I’m not sure if this was my last day or not but I’m going to miss the F lift dance party music. Maybe next year they can add strobes and a mirror ball.

March 11, 2023 - part 2 we got in line at 8am. Chair opened at 8:30am. lots of hoots and cheers. some people skinned up and skied down. Sometimes it was ski patrol coming down. Here’s a video of ski patrol with the crowd clapping. the line for lift 1 (aka Chet’s dream) was surprisingly short. quick selfie for our family text thread. Almost immediately the four of us got separated in the lift line and just like that - no friends on a powder day. it was deep, like knee to waist deep. It was incredible. @Schif will add color but it was great snow all around. The lifts were opening gradually and somehow we got the luck where 6, 4, 8, 9, opened shortly after we got there. There was powder to be found everywhere. the clouds started to move and blue sky shines through. Ski tracks were starting to form everywhere. This was probably the most people ever in front of me. The lift lines were near non existent. More line pics. Loveland is awesome. I stopped briefly at the hut off of lift 8 around 11am. Still untracked lines existed. we eventually started skiing together’ish towards the end of the day. Cheeks are red from the wind burn or maybe it’s from the smiling. I got this short video of Schif ripping down 9 (?) or maybe off of life 4. This is already really long … part 3 coming

Learning to ski bumps helps immensely when skiing trees.

So what else is new?

Get your blood work done.

We get little bits maybe 5 out of 7 days a week. Big dumps are unusual. The bigger point is, bring your flat light goggles. Sunny days are a gift.

WTGAI!

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March 20-24 are when I'm skiing the Breckenridge perder so this is getting good

Did not do Goat. Did Chin Clip, Upper Smuggler's, Nosedive, Liftline, Haystack, Centerline and plenty of glades. Girls have done most of that too. Also skied lots of awesome glades with girls at Magic on Saturday. Skied 6 of the past 8 days

That stinks. I would've tried it myself anyway just to check. I haven't been impressed with the Blue shop this season. If you're shopping for new though I'll vouch for outdoorxl.com. I just got those Sender 94s from them, mounted with Pivot 15s for at least $100 less than I saw anywhere else, even with $80 shipping. And I ordered on Tuesday and they arrived Friday.

Lil better than yesterday cept for some dark spots with the reduced daylight in the am...Lift dogs for the win and @enjoralas came through as usual with some fine meats and shrimps....

Placed my bets on JF today and it was just OK... not Grate like on Tuesday. They must have groomed after some snowfall because the snow on the trails was about half as deep (3") as the snow in the parking lot (6"). Got there at 8:00 sharp and immediately hiked the steep hill to the Expert Lift (eastern side) for a nice fresh untracked run down Floyd's. It was grate. Then met up with a friend of a friend, who is now a friend, and we skied an untracked River Shot which was amazing. Those were the only 2 untracked runs really. It got crowded faaaast and by 9:30 there were about 100 people in line. The A-Lift was INOP for the morning which made it exhausting to traverse to the western slopes, which were less crowded and skied just as nice as the X-Pert slopes. We left after 2 hours since the short runs and loooong lift rides started to get boring. Also the snow wasn't deep enough for glades like Happy Land. All in all an OK day at JF, JAD-IP.

Yes yes yes and he’ll eat good goat @RajeevGuptaSucheeta

I’m going to Elk to the PASR day.

He’s too Hoidy Toidy for Bear Creek

Jimmy was telling me about how the ski patrol used to have keg parties closing day on the side of lazy mile. He greets me like he’s about to do a karate kick because he says “Hiya”

Sounds like the juice was worth the squeeze. I was at work the whole day, something that’s happened way more than I like during ski season. I did get a hug from an old lady, she didn’t want a handshake she said,”give me a snuggle” sheesh

mt holly seems to have halved estimates in the most recent report.

Your right.... i may leave the city in the am and arrive well in time for first chair. Ooooh decisions.

Count me in for everything but the water park.

Both of my Pocono weather weirdos are dropping totals as well. and neither were tossing out the big numbers like NWS. At this point, its kinda like that joke, 1-24". But lets go with it. it will probably fall somewhere in there.

Salty were you sniffing glue again?

Me, you, RidgeRacer and MattEdge should book a hotel room at the water park lodge base and we can ski all the perder. Maybe Atomic Skier will bring some extra Castle skis for us all for when it's deeeeeeeep. Then we can all split a hot cocoa 5 ways to save a few pennies

Either way I took off Tuesday night and will be watching the storm and web cams closely!

a lot of places are dropping totals but mt holly graphs have not moved at all in the last 3 issuances. unfortunately the warning has not been updated since 3am, so who knows what they're really thinking. as of now i'm more worried about wind and power outages than the snow. gotta get gas, kerosene and make the generator(s) accessible. gonna be interesting. agreed 100%. i'm expecting 3" of super wet snow.

nothing lucky about the amount of snow removal we'd have to do.

They probably want to groom early so there's lots of fresh perder (like, one inch deep)

Greek is now up to 15" of snow possible. If I wasn't off next week I'd try to go Wednesday

if you have montage tickets laying around and can duck out midweek, could be a good move going there if the roads are ok. this is event total through wed 8am --

Looks like things are shifting around some. Blue might get some snow, but im a skeptic at this point. Just based on how this year has gone, and its march, i would go on the low end of these numbers.

Dude. Really?

Hey All, I’m back from another fun session at Blue mountain the true mountain. I arrived at the lower lot at 715am and it was 26 degrees under mostly cloudy sky’s. In the house was everybody except for Schifdawg, Nancy, Airhead, Sibhusky, Barb, Zonked, Noxidee, Phillycore, Angryhugo and Metz the Jersey Boy. They blew snow all over including Main Street, lazy mile, paradise and in the OG six pack lift line. Second Civilian chair and started on Razors which was nice at the top but was choppy and not so good lower down. Coming soon was really nice and I skied that twice then over to the super summit safari six pack and did Main Street which wasn’t that good then lazy mike which was decent. I alternated between coming soon, lazy and switchback which was also nice. Skied about a dozen runs then hungout in the lot and drank some beer and it was also another sausage sunday. What made the sausage Sunday extra savory was when BenM whipped out a bunch of hot dog on the third lift ride to gobble down. It was my first lift glizzy and was quite the delicious experience. JADIP

Saturday, March 11, 2023 All week we were getting messages from Brian.He subscribes to Open Snow. The stoke was high. Brian, Kaitlyn (his fiancé), @Schif and myself were out of the house by 5:15am. the drive took 1hr 45min with the traffic and we were in the lot by 7:05am. People who left Denver late had a drive time of 3+ hours. I-70 was congested but stoke was still high. We got there plenty early. The Loveland snow stake was reading about 11” Somehow Spotify knew our energy and queue’d up Its Gonna Be a Good Day by Nappy Roots as we were booting up. The hype and stoke was incredible. We snagged breakfast in the lodge. Let’s have a moment of silence to admired Loveland breakfast. Prices are cheaper than the east coast and hands down delicious. Brian got the basin breakfast. Schif got a burrito with green chili. And me & Kaitlyn split one. more to come… I’m waiting for some videos to load

Just booked hotel for my son and I to ski in VT from 3/31 to 4/1. I’m hoping to do a long weekend the following weekend as well. Anybody interested in skiing with me in VT on Easter weekend?

Cb webcam 24 hour total overnight snow totals damn

This was my last night at BC...It was super fun ....and going at night brought back some good memories....Well worth the price of admission...even with a subpar season....Good conditions tonight...Nice night to end the season here...

I thought only cougars check you out

Coyote was checking me out when I was on my morning walk here in Albuquerque.