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Hey All, I’m back from another session at Blue mountain the true mountain. I arrived at the lower lot around 8:32 and it was in the mid 30s under mostly cloudy sky’s with a moderate breeze. In the house were JLaw, AJeff, BFord crew, C1er and many others. The super summit safari had a few issues initially but were sorted out in a few minutes. First run down east put to vista to midway to lower main wasn’t that good…kind of inconsistent..some slick not really any cookies. Up the quad and Freefall was rough..slick and rolly polly..lower paradise seemed to have at least as much coverage as Saturday. Back up the quad again and the right side of tuts lane had the best snow on the hill was like a western groomer. Then back to reality as midway and lower main kept getting slicker and busier although nothing terrible. The slow signs were set up differently leading into shuttle and there was a patroller down there the first hour out of skis signalling for people to pump the brakes. I only skied six runs as it wasn’t that good..still better than not skiing. Tomorrow I’m not skiing and this weekend I’ll be in VA. Ski a lot of you on the 26th. Maybe salty or ridge can take care of the weekend roll call thread. JADIP

That whole intersection is dumb but they seem to love having the steepest fastest sections of the hill dump out into something dumb. Coming Soon is prett flat until the bottom pitch which dumps straight out onto their number 1 beginner trail, specifically the corner they most like to stop and scratch their balls in. Lest we forget the most interesting part of side dumps into a multi way interchange as well. Cutting trails that way is faster and cheaper to bump the count but as Killy and other found out it creates lots of crashes and now they've ripped most of them out. Ideally Burma would go the other way around the ski patrol building or they remove that issue entirely and have separate lanes back to the lifts. Even more ideally you figure out a logical base area configuration but before that you gotta figure out what to do with the base itself etc etc etc.....this also basically is the same issue with all the roads in the NE.

Being a ski patroller is the worst job ever.

Ski patroller at the bottom of where Main Street lift used to be was trying to control speed coming off lower main and snowboarders plopping down in the middle of the trail. Had an electronic device to ding your pass. He said 2 dings and the pass is invalid for the day. Said it was the worst job ever.

Was super sweet to get back at it and not work this morning. I was impressed with how much they got out of last night, I thought pdis may need more time but it's pretty much exactly last weekend. Guns were on too long and there are some slick spots, down the gut on midway is like wet marble but lower was pretty good. Christmas week will be mad interesting unless they limit tickets

Tow rope would be a quick, cheap solution.

Oh boy.... ski patrol has ding guns now! What are the range on tbose things. If we ever get an ikonic natty dump can they ding us from the chair lift if we go off piste? Today was quite pocono packed powder conditions. Midway to Main was far better than Nile Mile. Park still super fun.

They need to just get people to keep moving there. Take the "slow" signs down, put up signs that say "no stopping". or, signs that say "stop and scratch balls at the base, not here" for the snowboarders and Palmeranians to understand. im never gonna be able to understand all of the stopping mid trail that goes on around Blue. But, if the parking lot dealio ever starts to become a problem, im planning on tailgating at the top of falls. im skiing tomorrow, feeling conditions have no where to go but up.

Then SP is stuck doing the worst job ever!

Boarders and a lot of skiers still won’t have enough speed coming from burma.

If they'd regrade that intersection so there's not a hump at the beginning of Shuttle to keep people moving, they wouldn't have that problem.

Wow glad he didn’t give me a big dinger although I was skiing super slow today. C1er I feel like you may have liked the conditions today because you ski very well tuned skis

Ah yes, job security. People often forget the speed limits on roads were set for safety standards under normal operating conditions and NOT for unfavorable conditions. common sense isn’t so common anymore.

Wow https://unofficialnetworks.com/2023/12/15/letter-to-the-editor-immediate-action-required-overcrowding-at-colorado-ski-resorts/amp/

Wild ride...