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Fun day at Blue today. In the house (that I saw. But I'm oblivious) we're JFDan, atomicskier, Dirtwolf, Ryan, Ben, mbike, mix, nastar Glenn and lots of others. Guns were ablaze very early on. Excellent, top notch conditions those first few runs on vista, mid, lower main. Grippy and fast snow. In fact that particular run held the whole morning which was nice. Next up was lazy which is indeed open. The snow wasn't bad but it was filled with rollers and divots (and people). First run on it was good. Cookie free too which was a plus. Kinda narrow though meaning lots of braking, especially later on. Coming soon was a mess, slick and divots everywhere. Didn't ski paradise. Overall a good day but the crowds ultimately descended as did the race team who was seemingly everywhere today. All told it was a good day and the crowds did seem a bit spread out more ... especially those first few runs when everyone went to lazy and we got to rip vista, mid, main on great snow. Perhaps the runs of the year so far.

Midway to lower main didnt disappoint. Coming soon did. Might have been ok earlier, but after sucking down a bunch of runs on midway, coming soon was slick with pockets of snow, and it was littered with the race team. They installed some ripples on coming soon which i didnt think were there yesterday. Lazy was wall to wall people, and just pretty comical at best. Snow was actually better than the typical opening day for a trail i thought. not quite as crowded today as i thought it would be, but still crowded. Production on Razors for 24 hrs of really marginal snowmaking was disappointing at best. A+ for effort by Blue, but it shows that temps well below 30 degrees are what we need.

Vista/Midway/Lower Main was good...The rest was meh... TCS was slickety slick....Lazy was a big rumble strip...Although to be fair Paradise wasn't bad until you got past the TCS intersection...and somehow caught a somewhat empty run down Burma(with a couple of patrol at corners)....Big crowds with BMR and kooks ....Still better than sittin at home watchin cartoons with a bowl of Fruity Pebbles....

Indeed, more terrain for the masses is better for all.

We’ll see shortly I guess. I’m just happy it’s open

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.

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…

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.

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.

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.

Lol , and you’re not in the ER ? Thanks for the buddy pass last year.

I think I finished the last Yoo-Hoo from @AirheadD8yesterday. TFTY (thanks for the Yoo-Hoos)

You even offered me a Yoo Hoo..that was radical.

Looks like I'll be lapping Midway and Main St all morning tomorrow. It was pretty radical last weekend too. TFTI

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.

Lazy is opening Xmas is saved and gonna be the whole mile for you purists I love cutting the corner onto shuttle…

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.

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

Blue never used to be that busy until December 26th…I think bear creek not being open and not much better skiing up north right now is making them extra busy plus so many season passholders. I’m still wondering how many Ikoners are at Blue and would be interesting to know how much Blue gets from each visit. Prob like $35 or something, can’t be much. I’m sick of the slow sign lower Main Street to shuttle shit..but better than not skiing. Some forecasters are hinting at a pattern change after one more shitty weather week. Thanks for all the reports, today was the first day I missed this season and won’t be around this weekend as I’m playing Santa Claus for young and old relatives.

why

Headed there shortly to brave the madness...

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.

He really milked those Yoo Hoos..

Tut to connector does not count! We save that for when @saltyantvisits.