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I dunno, for me "Real good" & "great" is stretching it. Your bar is set way lower than mine. After the first run, I'd say ok, at best. Well, better than nothing. Rolling up 946 by the school, a bald eagle crossed the road in front of me. Maybe it'll be a good day... 27' in the lot as I pulled in. As I look across the row while booting up, there's a Jerry wearing sweatpants tucked into the tops of his boots. Nope, guess it's gonna be one of those days... First run down took P-dis and it was probably ROTD with new snow and all but a single SP track down the upper. Lower had some washboard and slick in spots. Coming Soon was next and marbles already appearing and the headwall must have only had a skitch of snow blown on it because it was already slick and had to dodge a boarder sitting in the middle. Now I know it's gonna be one of those days. Over to the other side to get Burma done before the masses. Vista, with its fan guns, had some of the best snow on the mountain. Welp too late, had to dodge early rising beginners down Burma. Icy in the usual spots... Midway was already marbled up by the time we got there with some slick spots down the middle. Lower main was fair, but it too had marbles appearing. They had 3 slow signs to the far right at the merge, leaving just enough space between them and the edge to sneak past, but you had to watch for incoming people that wanted to swipe right into your path. Later the left side of Midway had some softer scrapings forming into bumps with the middle being scraped off pretty good, but annoying beginners were standing on the side right in the line. By 11:30am both lift lines were back to the readers, so we called it.

Finally some winter spirit and winter conditions. The snow was great right from the start, no ice, no cookies, grippy and fast with just some freshly blown spots, since the guns were still on. Both Quad and and Main Street Express working, though the MSE had a period when it was slower than the slowest lift at JFBB. Paradise is still narrow, which took some fun out of it, esp. after crowds came, Burma was at timed impassable with all the people on it, but Main Street and Midway were plain spectacular, and so was the Coming Soon. It got kinda crowded 90 mins into skiing, and by 12 it became unbearable with the Quad line up to the gates. Luckily they started the line management, and the single lane absolutely rocked. Great morning, people were still pouring in at 12, and the new and slick parking on top got its first paying customers.

Thought today was pretty decent. Midway was skiable mini marbles, and lower main was pretty good. Crowds were horrible by 10:30. The slow signs are just making getting through there worse. This weekend is gonna be super interesting with crowds. lower upper main looks like its getting filled in, but upper upper main didnt look like it had as much snowmaking on it. Upper Razors was getting treated, but looks like they turned them on not long before opening, as they were just making stuff white. Lazy had a fairly impressive amount of snow on it compared to upper main. i think they still have some guns on.

Yes, was a zoo. Upper main is possible I guess? I didn't get a close enough look but they somehow make paradise work.

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.

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.

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.

I thought MS was the best of the year today. I love that you clowns all start on the quad for some reason. There is no way that Paradise or CS is going to be better than MS. And that held true today.

Yeah I looked at the webcam and that was that. See you all tomorrow bright and early

Meh, IDK. I sharpened my skis yesterday following GSS's report, perhaps that made some difference. And I'll disagree about Midway and Main Street. They held up way, way better than what I've seen this year before. As for borders, there was truly a heap of them today. I never know how to pass them safely, but at least they weren't trashing the snow that bad, due to cold and firmness.

Blue mountain: don’t go too fast at the bottom of Main Street also Blue Mountain: don’t stop at the bottom of Main Street even though our speed restrictions are the reason you have to stop

They need to stop you to scan it... Right?

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.

Opening tomorrow morning, season pass holders and hotel guests only, VERY limited terrain.

Just returned from a quick jaunt. Only did three runs all down coming soon. One look at the lower main/shuttle nightmare and thought best to avoid it. Generally pretty firm on the center of everything I rode. Milked the pushed off snow from the center down skiers left and flirted with the ditch a little. Traffic from the bottom of coming soon to lift was horrendous. Looking forward to an “open” run in the morning for sure…

Imagine if they brought back 4pm grooming…wow that was nice fresh cord on paradise, fresh cord on lazy..as the sun is setting. But as Billy Joel said the good old days weren’t always good and tomorrows not as bad as it seems.

im going with no way that upper main will be open tomorrow. i am sort of wondering if they try to do a single track down lazy. Obviously cant see all of lazy but the bottom near shuttle had some decent whales, and the top looked better than upper upper main. @Benm no snowmaking on come around.

Those were some interesting days at Blue. I blame that stupid TV show...

Actually, was on my Deacons (advertised as front side rippers) and having a great time. My son is out from Sacramento, normally skis Kores, but he just brought his boots. Tried my Experience 88s but the springs in the bindings were too worn out to keep them from popping off. Had his old pair of race room Fischer slalom world cups he switched to. First time on them in 10 years, and the took him for quite the ride.

Anyone coming this morning the lower corner on the way down is a little slick with them blowing. My pos had no issue because it's slow af but if you like to give it alot of tire

more big brother shit than that, i read something last week epic(?) shut down some passes based on tracking apps linked to RFID cards for peeps skiing closed terrain... fuck vail last night was a *little* slick lol, 3 and out

I always said they need a webcam at the top of the old 6 pointed at the unload hill. People would watch the mayhem for hours. Blue could even sell subscriptions!

“Baby it’s cold outside”

Guns still going on Vista and P-dis! WJW!

Haha that won’t happen…people are just so dumb why wouldn’t you try to carry speed before a flat area? I understand snowboarders aren’t as bright but still.

Agreed, would be awesome but also probably a shit show of its own.

At least we don’t have to also worry about the people coming from lazy mile lol

Being a ski patroller is the worst job ever.

I think i have said all of those things over the past month.

New Christmas weather map out!

Cause he didn’t buy a house 3 miles from Blue to watch the action on the webcams like me and @saltyant

why

Headed there shortly to brave the madness...

Looks like minimal skiing for me next week

Will be the same thing they have open now. Have you seen the forecast? A couple more hours of snowmaking and that’s it.

I thought today was best day of the season so far. Mainly due to lack of crowds prior to 1 pm. Got a total of 13 runs in. And yes, a bit icy. Paradise was certainly an improvement over Saturday until the narrow bottom. TCS was nice. I got cut off on the bottom of Paradise, did a nice face plant and have 2 nice dings between my eyes. But all in all, a fun day. I’m not back until Tuesday after Christmas, so everyone have a great weekend at Blue.

Define "salvage" I think between tonight and Thursday night, they should be able to cobble back together what was open this past weekend. But then again, here comes our current weather pattern next week. 2 steps forward, 1.5 back.