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One 5 Happy to be alive. Hit a deer last night (minor) half a mile later ran over a mouse. Left home by a quarter mile this morning and almost hit three deer . Arrived 8:30 safely. First chair quad to coming soon first tracks okish . 6 Pack and first tracks on the side country Vista witch was smooth as silk. Skied midway skiers left side and cut to right for some leftover bumps. Skied on till 9:45-10 Back to coming soon after I hooked up with my friend Paul, it needs some luvin for sure. Sun was now out and midway sides and main st were in great shape. Accidentally met Johnny Law and took a couple runs together , he rips ! Last run down coming soon was not fun and Dream weaver intersection had some gravel mixed in. Fubar constipation started to develop at the usual place bottom of main intersection. Bailed 12.15 ish. Nice day

On the snow at 3. Did talk to a BMR employee and confirmed Coming Soon will be closed for training both mornings. ’Twas bad. Some new blown snow on the sides but mostly glacial brick. Did pick up my newly mounted sticks so stoke is high. Still blowing so might be there first 24 hour blow job of the season?! Did notice they are blowing the backside of tubing that connects to finish line? Never saw that before and can’t figure out why. Second pic below

Glad your ok after hitting the deer. Sitting in my car for a safety break. Got here at 10:30 and been lapping just midway to main and the park. The snow is incredible on mid to main, fast and edgable feels like condition man made perder. New park build is lots of fun as well! Looking good for upper main tomorrow. I heard sad rumors of Freefall being closed for the race team this weekend.

They should give up on Razors and get Widowmaker open. Race team can train on that like the old days.

Keep in mind these snow totals are for 3 storms over an entire week, but let’s just say Chris Tomer’s forecasts has me a little excited.

Hope they make enough snow last night and tonight to widen lower Paradise significantly, with all that race kid traffic ripping down it after they're all concentrated on Coming Soon.

Yes, Nice to meet you and take some runs. You fly!!!

Indeed! Maximum fuckery will ensue! I'm also being realistic along about 11:00am or so both days. Can't wait for Coming Soon Sunday! It's going to be wall-to-wall bumps and a minefield of Jerries strewn about!

Also, remember how empty the place was? That shit dont happen any more.

Change in the parking lot like a regular steezer.

That February was probably my most memorable BC skiing. My niece and I skinned up from Weisport to Jim Thorpe and skied the rockslide. I had looked at that line for 15 years. My father in law lived across the river. Thanks for the flashback.

No PASR discount code?! Even Tanczos has a discount code for PASRs on top of parking lot delivery

It will still be busy af, then come March when it's actually good and crazy nice out no one will be there..

Whatever you’re smoking pass it this way…crossover to lower razors lol.

Can you post a link to the rental with pricing. I’m sure somebody on here is interested in a southern Vermont ski trip.

Today was somewhat extreme… Snow - 10/10, Viz - 0/10. When we woke up, it was already snowing for a while, and the forecast was promising a full day of snowfall. All lifts were opening on schedule (except for the stupid Zermatt link, as usual), so we followed the chain of three lifts to get as high on the Italian side as possible, in hope of perhaps getting over clouds, but nope. It was snowing all over the place, and the place itself was completely unrecognizable. Completely blinded by the surrounding whiteness, with not even a hint of shadows, we cautiously made our way down, and the already familiar way skied soooo much differently this time. We were probably among the first on the slopes with no other people in sight, and 3” of virgin fresh light snow under our skis. Where we used to cruise, we now had to push. Where we used to fly, we were now floating. We really could only make our way out by watching the trail markers, as everything around was just solid white. Even later during the day, after the snow turned rough, we really couldn’t see the waves, only feel them, and often at the very last moment. Quite a few falls ‘cause we could barely estimate the incoming trail pitch, forget about skiing around bad spots. Anyway, after a couple of top to bottom runs we retreated to some moderate terrain at Plan Maison where it was ok to ski even in the blind. Hardly any people, some funny conversations. A woman was skiing with a local guide and was clearly upset with the weather. She had no days left, was going to taxi to Geneva the next day (3.5 hours) to fly to London, then another 3 hour drive home, then fly to NYC in a day, followed by Miami and LA. What a life! Some kid was hoping for a break later in the day because “it would be so cool to ski this powder”. The break never came. It was a spectacular winter day. Not much chance to zoom around the mountain, had to be super cautious due to the viz, but still tons of fun! If you don’t see much in some pictures, that’s because we didn’t either, lol. Was going to ski tomorrow as well, but managed to stretch something in the back of my knee in the stupid parking lot, so if ice doesn’t help, will just drive to Milan and then ride to Venice to limp around.

With extra natural on it mixed in, it'd be in good shape. Possibly best days of the season so far and BMR is gonna take over the slope? Blue gonna hear it on socials if they do that!

Wait wait are you the dude with the loaf sticker I was talking to on the lift ? Props on the float into the hard scrabble, some boulders in there so like I said on the lift that's impressive navigation

FIFY

Not bad , Vista side country is velvet.

This whole weekend is gonna be a complete shitshow. Buckle up.

My Niece was a total beast. The day before she called me and canceled, she cracked a vertebrae after landing a jump wrong at Blue. After the snow she called and uncancelled lol. I carried the water and food. It was about 5 miles round trip.

Yes, they are some mighty pretty skis.

Love the top sheets on those Black Crows!

Be thankful

Also arrived @ 3. 'twas v bad. Happy I went but looking foward to the weekend.

Windham is like Okemo, I've ski'd both a few times and can't remember a damn thing about either one, good or bad. That in itself makes we never want to go back

Heard the same from multiple different people and not just the usual loud dudes. It makes sense from a dickhead perspective they bring the $$$$ but I still encourage general shenanigans if it snows for real.

Yeah baby.......its gonna snow Saturday night. And then monsoon again come Wednesday. Fuck. Fuckity Fuck Fuck.

Would you honestly expect anything less? They regularly do this and they haven't had anything to train on all season.

Managed to make opening this morning, was surprisingly empty and pretty ok. They blew a bit on the bottom of main but you could still let it go from the top of midway in giant plunging arcs with reasonable smoothness. Some hard spots around and some major sticky spots anywhere it got even kinda deep from blowing but a solid day and most excellent to see them blowing. Right shoulder of TCS was soft velvet as it was fresh blown on 2 inches but by my last run it was already mixed in pretty good with the much harder snow in the middle/left hand side. Lazy and upper main for sure, rasins had laughable amounts of production. Under the guns is maybe 6 inches and the far side is still grass. With decent temps and maybe some natural it should be decent conditions but who knows

If my Subaru can get thru all the perder, I will try. Camelback is looking like the best choice - flat interstate drive the whole way, opens earlier at 730, higher elevation and northerer which means more parder, and has steeper slopes than anything else on my KSL Resorts pass.

It's gonna be so deeeeeeeep. I plan on skiing on these so I don't get buried:

This

The stoke levels for skiing this weekend have risen dramatically

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yeah for sure, but i know better than subjecting myself to what will be a complete shitshow.

totals went up a bit. part of me is realllllly hoping they save upper main for a sunday open. prepping it sat afternoon before the snow.

Blue needs the old school locker room like in the bottom of DV. Mad peeps are old and want to change indoors so get a decent setup.

I'll be up tomorrow morning and all weekend, I am hoping to observe some real actual snowfall

Hehe, another 5 inches overnight. The driveway and the winding narrow road to the lift are all white, and you can’t see the mountains because of low clouds and snow still falling. The good news is that the forecast calls for clear skies in two hours. The bad news is that the Zermatt link is still red, and there’s even a notice now that they’re gonna close it for maintenance starting next week and until April. Just WTF?? Plenty of cars on the way to the lift trying to fight gravity, snow and ice. Some are spinning wheels polishing the black mirror, some chose to stop on the side (and block part of the already narrow road) to put the chains on. We march uphill with the skis on the shoulders, and I swear, I’m gonna get a heart attack on one of these marches one day. The cashiers again have no idea about what’s gonna be open and what not. Zermatt link is yellow, next update is in two hours. We choose to buy international tickets and hope for the best. And surely after the first gondola up we stare at the status board where the entire freaking mountain is in red, and the only way from here is the way down. Some people camp in the snow waiting for status update, we decide to go down once, since the line at the base wasn’t that long. And it would all work out great if we didn’t take the wrong turn and didn’t end up on the other side of town where there’s just one six pack chair up, and that chair is in start-n-stop mode, and the line is insaaaaane. Anyway, we made it. First up that chair lift, then down to the gondola, then higher and higher, and maybe 3/4 of the way up realized that our gamble will likely not work out today, as the wind is actually quite strong. It comes out of nowhere when you’re in the middle of the third lift, and hits you in the back draining all the heat and sending snow up the slopes. Initially even the Italian side of the resort was cut in half because the crossover was not reachable, but they opened it around noon. It was fun skiing. Lots of new snow in the lower part of the mountain, lots of off piste opportunities, softly packed groomers quickly turning rough as most people chose to stay there due to the cold and wind up top. And the temps really varied a lot. It was around freezing at the base and -12C on top plus the wind chill factor. So, if you go all the way from top to bottom, you start all chilled and with the mask on, and by the time you reach the line at the base you’re sweating bullets and opening all zippers. Even better skiing on upper part today than yesterday, despite it either not getting or not retaining much of the new snow. Bye-bye international add-on, but even on the Italian side we lost track of time and barely made it back to the Cervinia area before lift closure. Gonna snow all day tomorrow, I wonder how the viz and wind game will play out.

Not negative..trying to find a silver lining.

Ahhh that’s sweet 😌

Would love to have you...

Please post a link and pricing. I’m sure some PASRs are interested in a southern Vermont ski vacation.

Maybe the dude will be there unless they can get Bear creek open

😍😍😍

Almost hard to imagine it's the same place....I remember the drainage after the bowl that tried real hard to buck us....we rode the bowl for like a week or two I couldn't even imagine that now

Two runs on an empty Paradise first thing, then the rest of the morning on Coming Soon until the Paradise run out got too crowded. Good times.