Leaderboard

Went to bed and it was like the tropics. Woke up to this.

Left this morning when the concrete guys were doing our second pour (on freaking Dec 11th) Decided to go to Buttermilk today, they just opened on Sat. Parked at Tiehack, booted up and walked 100’ to the lift, amazing! Saw lots of uphill peeps starting from the bottom and suddenly felt very lazy that today was a lift serviced day. The snow felt a bit better than the other day. Buttermilk is about 2000’ lower than Aspen so coverage seemed thin. Vegetation popping up everywhere. My second run I took another trail and half way down there were lots of brown spots. I was trying to avoid them and then proceeded to eat shit. Looked up where my pole was and saw a nice brown patch I must have skied over, whoops. Never took a lift with anyone, skied right on each time, very empty. When I got home I ran into the neighborhood snow plow guy (who is chatty). He asked me if I wanted to go to Highlands with him later this week, so I guess I will get to check out that mountain for the first time. It’s always good to be on the good side of the snow plow guy! ** edit food report for Doug**. I made homemade floutas/taquitos and took one for a pocket lunch. Even good cold.

Looking at Main Street cam, it looks like it survived better than I expected. There were some skid marks on Saturday and with how warm it was and then the rain, I thought lower would have some bare spots, but looks like it came through ok.

i was pretty nervous to look at the cams, but yeah, things look ok. better than expected. whats super interesting is if you look at the slopestyle cam, its obvious it snowed there, looking at the sides of the trail. but on main street cam, no snow on the side of the trail. same in the valley. i get it, elevation, but theres not that much between vista and main.

Maybe the wrecked Asian we saw last weekend was back? We were in the super 6 line and 3 Asian boarders were in front of us, one was blazing away on a joint right at the gate and could barely stand up. Of course, they didn't have a clue how to get on the lift, taking a couple of steps out from the gate and tried to sit on the chair as it came around. The liftie told the one guy you can't be smoking that here to which the guy replied "Sorry, I thought I was in Jersey. Isn't it legal here?" They had to stop the lift and get the 3 out of the way since there was a full boat at the line for the chair they tried to sit on. Later, Slim saw the guy chowing down in the lower lodge, said he must've had the munchies big time with the way he was eating.

Elk announced today they are opening for the season this Friday from 8:30 to 4:30...

Forecast for the next few days is so-so. i mean, it could be worse. Thurs night into friday looks to have the most significant window. other nights are just a few hours, but im sure that will help refresh whats open. Keep in mind, that last monday is Christmas. I really hope we get some more open before then. hopefully they go aggressive when they can turn the shit on.

Rome Warden 155 / Rome 390 Boss

Late night on the keyboard and next thing ya know these are at my door....Fritschi Tecton 12 Gonna put them on some Lib Tech Wunderstick 100s...... Question to the touring peeps...Do hybrid bindings get mounted in the marked sweet spot? Next..Should I trust trust Blue to mount these correctly? Could only get them with 110 brakes so I hope they can tweek them in a little.... I really have no legit reason to own these ......

Hey All, Im back from another fun session at Blue mountain the true mountain. I arrived at the lower lot at 720am and it was in the low 40s under cloudy sky’s with pea soup fog on the upper mountain. In the house were Atomic Jeff, BenM, NMSki, PARidge, enjorales, MBike mike, Mrs Snowbunski, Bethlehem Ford crew. Dirtwolf, Matt Edge, PSUFly, JFDan, Mute, Becky Boo and many more. Second civilian super summit safari six pack into the fog. CSS can’t see shit conditions on easy out and vista and the fog lifted on midway. The snow was soft and pleasent until lower Main Street which was that rolly Polly conditions. Crowds increased a bit every run..really not a lot of people out just limited terrain. I did one burma road and sort of caught an edge but recovered..there are snow snakes lurking out there. Also skied over to homestretch twice for a little peace and quiet and smooth snow. Fun parking lot today with beers and snacks and nice comfortable temperatures. The second thaw of the season is officially on with warmth and rain for the next two days..I think Blue will survive this but again they’ll be back to resurfacing existing terrain midweek. Let’s hope for a prolonged cold spell soon. JADIP

Negative only was down as my daughter was performing at Epcot. I did ride Guardians which was dope af and velcicoaster which is the best roller coaster I've ever been on. It was cool but now I would really prefer if it got cold.

Looks like snowmaking temps every night this week, no?

They got the same guns on Paradise too now, at least I think they are the same. All new guns top to bottom this summer, but it didn't work out for them. I read somewhere they said they lost a lot of the production on Paradise into the trees with the wind. Hopefully the wind stays away drunk the snowmaking windows this week

Yeah, not gonna hold my breath for that one, but if this forecast holds, they have a shot at it. not a lock by any means, but they would have to go full send on it when they can. One would think that free fall is pretty much being held hostage by Paradise, since they have those really nice guns on FF. I think they would want Paradise and FF open for Christmas, so it makes sense that they would give it the old college try.....not the college i went to, but the good kind of college.

Did you get to go on space mountain at least?

I’m at about 1000 ft and we got half an inch. Melting now.

hopefully its just a troll on the loose. Never a good thing to hear.

While I appreciate the creativity, I cannot count this as a day lol

No no.... They feeled. There's a difference.

Someone fell off a lift last night according to one comment on the interweb

Was great to get out for day one and see everyone. Feels good to get the ski legs going, and was interesting to see the biggest ass in the whole world while having a brewski in the lot.

If your gonna have a non alcoholic beer, Barq's is definitely the right play 👌. Kinda sad it's only a six. I didnt know Blue had a pizza truck option.

What a shit show. Later I might calculate the skier/rider density per square inch of perd coverage on Vista

Glad someone tried the new pizza! Looks rather delicious.

After the lot hangout I headed back inside to try to get Thing 2's 9 and under pass activated. Took a look at the line at Guest Services and noped outta there. On the way out figured, "I'm here, let's pop in and see what the lineblooks like at the top lodge." Was pretty shocked at the number of cars up there, even with the whole second row blocked off while they do the paid parking conversion I didn't expect the top lot to be that full compared to the bottom lot. Went in and there was about 10 people in line with 3 windows open, not bad so stuck it out. About 25 minutes and got it taken care of no problem, also got them to put my entitlements back on my 40th anniversary pass after I forgot it last week and had to get a new card. Popped out to the courtyard to check out the menu for Wood Fired Pizza, amd pricing is right on where we figured it would be at $15 for a plain, but 12 inch pies instead of the 10 I thought it would be: I was hungry, so figured what the hell amd bought a Dreamweaver: It was ready in about 5 minutes, it wasnt busy at all. It was quite good, plenty of toppings and didn't skimp on the sausage/pepperoni. Good tasting sauce and nice crispy crust but still soft dough. Value wise was it a $19 worth pizza? Probably not, but factoring in entertainment venue pricing I think it was a good value, certainly better than what you would walk out of the cafeteria with for $19.

Fun spring like conditions today...Thought Midway to skier right down Lower Main was $$$$....Had to ride the gaps to avoid all the nonsense...Patrollers blowing whistles on Burma....Good afternoon temps to wash the MINI and get a coat of wax on it...

Oh no, I missed that the waffle cabin opened today.

Fun morning! Crowds are probably insane now that the sun is out. Praying for cold this upcoming week. Off to put upChristmas lights. Debating on going full on Clark Griswold this year.

Just got home from another fun session at Blue the True! Arrived in the lower lot at 7:52am, parked next to the Main Street Express lift shack and made my way over to the lift just as the gates dropped. On the way up I thought it was funny that my car said 41 when the forecast before leaving said 32. Hero snow from the get made from some super fun main to park laps! Got 12 runs in before the runs started feeling like a pinball machine with all the peoples. All in all JADIP, be back Friday!

I'm in the red dot, shame it's not snow.

don't forget the edibles for that light show

bailing on tonight, will just bring old skis tomorrrow

Ski2live typing up his cost analysis for you at this moment

Yeah. Couldn't figure out my old password and the reset email never came, so I made a new account. Hope everyone had a great spring/summer/fall. Skiing saturday so my youngest can try their new skis before X-mas trip. Deciding between checking out Blue's new chairlift, or Belleayre's new chairlift!

Beautiful morning!!!

Mad inversion right now 37 at the upper entrance and 33 at the base. I bet it feels like Tallahassee at the peak.

A winter wonderland outside

Pair of these on the way…