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This place is insane! It’s truly three dimensional, meaning all shops, apartments, parking, etc are built on different levels. If you see on google maps that grocery store is right next to you, don’t believe it - it’s actually 50 feet down, and to get there you need to take a longish detour along narrow road with cars but no sidewalks. When we arrived yesterday night, we foolishly thought that we would quickly drive up to the ski rental place to pick up a missing pair of skis and be on our way to the apartment. Bahaha! The street is pedestrian only, and there’s no parking nearby. Actually there is, but it’s 50 feet up, and yeah, a detour would be needed and no walking shortcut. Anyway, the weather was spectacular. We woke up to 3-5” of new snow and blue skies. I don’t know why they delayed opening the upper mountain, and why they never opened pass to Zermatt (yup, we didn’t get there today). The cashier even made us sign a waiver that we understand that we’re buying Italian top to bottom day pass while the upper lifts are still on wind hold, and won’t ask for a refund if they never open. Well, by the time we finally reached the top, the entire Italian side opened up, and there was no serious wind in sight. This Zermatt uncertainty is actually very irritating. Contrary to Switzerland (where you can buy a lift ticket 24/7 using a vending machine near the lift or train station), there’s nothing like this here. You either buy the pass online and wait in pick up line, or you buy it on the mountain and wait in even longer line. And you may not even know if Zermatt is going to be reachable when you’re in line because it’s still TBD. Of course the international pass is a little extra, and the cashier cannot give you any advice. Snow is fantastic top to bottom. Nothing like last year where only the highest trails were nice, the lowest were non-existent and in the middle there was frozen teeth rattling cord. Not this time. Crowds are spread out, and lines are typically a minute or two except for a couple hub places where one could wait 10-15 mins to get on a lift.

Just got back from a short morning session at Blue The True. Arrived in the lower lot at 9:15 and headed over to the Comet. First run I opted for the longest run available tut, connector, vista to burma. Rock solid groomers fast and still edgable but a little sketchy. Things started softening up around 10:30 when the guns were getting shut down. Looks like they're focusing most their efforts on reconditioning whats open and getting Lazy Mile back open as well as add Upper Main to the mix. I would be shocked if Upper Man didn't join the lineup this weekend. Upper paradise needs more work and Razors has not made much progress. Tonights the worth snowmaking night of the week followed by the two best tomorrow and Friday. Id expect in the least the return of Lazy Mile, Paradise and an additional Upper Main come Saturday. All in all JADIP now time for sleeps.

Well, turns out the forecasts are not to be trusted here. No significant snowfall yet, and the biggest issue was maneuvering the car on steep icy driveway and in the most tiniest garage, but hey, we made it after all! But the night was brutal, lol. Turns out that they turn off heating in the entire town between 23:00 and 6:00, somehow we were not communicated this, and spent part of the night kicking the radiators and reading thermostat manual. Going to the lift now!

Root post this on Facebook. Remember we have power…and don’t have to be a Karen to get things done. You’re my boy Blue!!!

Zee Lights. Elk Report..It never got above 32 today. Guns on Delaware, Terrain Park, Lenape and Snow Bowl all day. Very surprised they haven't started on Slalom yet. WVIA day as well as college Wednesday today so much more crowded than a usual Wednesday. Quad opened .. no lift lines to speak of. Snow was loose packed powder, no ice, no brown squirts anywhere. A typical Elk overcast flat light day... Beer was cold...

listen up Karen........Im going for a little reverse psychology here. Plus i would rather be surprised than disappointed. I have already deployed my shovels, but i think holding off on getting the snowblower out of the shed, moved to the garage, and started up, in hopes that will increase our chances for more snow.

Oh, and you know how those “Made in Italy” poles are actually made? They throw skis on the ground, wait for them to sprout and gather the harvest.

So your saying it'll just be an average snow storm?

It's already been downgraded to just be 6 inches total. Trust the Buoy

It is the first potential snow storm in two years so they need to get the clicks 😂

I can duck into the lab in Philly or Boston as long as I'm a reasonable distance drive away. I'll be working remote on off days from wherever. Not going to use up all my vacation days without my wife. But it does mean I can't go too far out. I probably won't get interrupted and could just say tough if they need me back on short notice but I'd rather not tempt fate.

Holy cow, it’s Jan 1st, I hardly got any time to sleep the night before, and now it’s going to be another sleepless night on a red-eye to Malpensa! After an unbelievably warm, wet and snowless trip to Jungfrau last year, this time we decided to play it safe and get up high in the sky to Breuil-Cervinia-Zermatt area, approaching it from the Italian side. And of course, as the luck of the draw goes, this year there’s plenty of snow everywhere, and on top of Matterhorn there are actually 60mph winds, so we might not even be able to cross into Switzerland over the 4 days of skiing, since the only way to do it is to get over the ridge at 3500m. Something tells me though that before I get a chance to try that, I’ll be trying chains on my way to Cervinia, which is like, maaaan, this would be a perfect year to take trains on the Switzerland side rather than drive in snow in Italy. Anyway, the plan is to ski as much as we can and wherever we can, and use the first opportunity to sneak out to Zermatt, like these people did, but the other way around (https://yawninggetsyoueverywhere.com/2022/03/18/skiing-from-zermatt-to-cervinia). Only 5-6 hours roundtrip with a nice opportunity to miscalculate something and end up spending the night in the wrong country. Will we get a car good enough to take us up to Cervinia? Will the winds cooperate? Will we be too dumb not to cross over back to the Italian slopes in time? LOL, better get drunk soon to stop worrying about this nonsense!

I can barely take any of the credit or maybe I’m just humble in the new year but I give props to Indiggio and RidgeRacer..and Root and others who took the time to help make a difference and go Blue for listening to their customers. Whoever is answering the questions on their social media is sharp. When @RajeevGuptaSucheeta visits he’ll get all the answers he needs there.

Thank you for your service. Salute!

Depends if the blower is in Malvern on the Poke N Hoes. If in Malvern I approve and in the poconos I don’t.

Wow you were so young. Wow he never had an air conditioner before I guess with hazletons high altitude it’s not needed

This is getting good.

Ok Debbie

My grandfather met Tom Clark in the early 90s and won and air condition unit. It was rad. I'm in the video, see if you can spot me. A few years ago I met Tom Clark at the train museum in Scranton. We shook hands as we admired the miniature locomotive display. Then we parted ways probably forever - him to the Pacific Northwest, and me to Mack-Ah-Doodle-Doo.

Kurt Aaron is the raddest. I love when he takes his dog Ranger to the fair and tells me to tie down my garbage can if it might be a little windy. If not for him my garbage can may have possibly perhaps blown over on its side once by now.

Rumour has it he got butthurt from trolls on the interwebs and responded inappropriately.

This, and im just not enthused by the data from the bouy.

Looks like @JFskiDan's user icon, except they need to change the 2s, 4 & 6 to 0.

Not sure who mike masco is but I hope he’s right

Loon is only two hours from Boston..pretty easy to do a 10-11 day trip and work a few of them remote take a few days off and lump together two weekends for skifari. I always thought by now I could take a month off to ski out west but I’m actually needed at work pretty much..and usually by the end of a week long ski trip I’ve had my fill and ready to get back to making money.

Yeah I was wondering why only the northeast if three weeks..but id fly out west and rent a car…life is a highway I wanna ride it all night long. Welcome back Johnny law!!

I wish I hadn’t heard about this storm til Friday night cause now I’m spending way too much time and worry looking into a forecast that will change 100 times between now and Saturday

as long as I can get the xc skis out somewhere I'll be happy..

Main and Nile Mile were suprisingly good after it softened a little. The only rocky area still is lower paradise. Its widened but still some pebbles mixed in the snow.

I think seeing double digits out of this storm is unlikely.