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Between lift outages and the 1 out of 10 conditions (even for me) in spots today was wild. Always better skiing than not but ouch. On a positive note it was nice seeing the guns on. Always enjoy a good snowmaking cloud from a far. On another positive note it's snowing! I was able to snap the below pic on lazy this morning. Ski you tomorrow

Hey All, I’m back from another session at Blue mountain the true mountain. I arrived at the lower lot at 725am and it was in the mid 20s under cloudy skies. In the house were Atomic Jeff, JFDan, RidgeRacer, Nastar glenn, Mute, Boobear,BenM, PSUFly, mixilplix, antman, Bethlehem ford crew, GahSkier, Indiggio, Justo, GSSucks, The RealKT and last but not least Johnny Law. First up the super summit safari six pack which stopped a few times on the first ride. Upper Main Street is open and it was craptastic..uneven and cookies..lower wasn’t much better. Over to the quad and yes coming soon was closed for race training, not just blue racers but racers from other mountains as well. Paradise was ok, lower is still a little thin and not that smooth. Then the run of the day, yes boys and girls lazy mike is open again and it now has excellent coverage of the largest cookies and they got larger farther down on the run. For competent skiers it was a challenge being in control…once and done for me…Burma had the best snow on the hill and only about 100 people on it and finished off on paradise which still had ok snow but super crowded. All in all conditions today were a lot worse than expected but at least Blue added to their base to combat future rain and thaws. Fun and chilly parking lot today and hungout for about two hours. Flakes are flying and some are talking about returning tonight to ski during the storm. JADIP

its snowing at Blue. If you want a good laugh, look at the Valley cam. Holy fuck its crowded.

Well, this was the last day of skiing, actually the last morning. Had a train to catch and were somewhat worried about how fast we’d be able to get down from the mountains, given all the recent snow and road conditions. So, bought morning tickets and ran to the lift opening. We were never able to go higher than the top of the first lift. Even chairs at the Plato Maison were not spinning because of wind and clouds up top, so we had to loop the few trails that were available to us. The previous days experience mattered a lot, we’ve never made the wrong turn, never got to the wrong lift, didn’t get stuck in lines, we ripped the reds at max speed overdosing on adrenaline. While people were waiting in line for gondolas to open, we ran upstairs to catch the tram. When gondolas did open up, we were cutting lines taking up free spaces in half full cabins, since the early weekend crowd felt too relaxed and wanted to ride alone, while we were in a mission! People were waiting for half an hour on snow in vain hoping for the next lift to the next Plato to open up, we didn’t have those 30 mins. And those lifts never opened up anyway. The reds were insanely good and fast. We literally bombed them down, especially at first, when others either didn’t arrive yet or were thinking if it’s worth to wait to go further up or take the trail down. Chair lift from the other side of the town didn’t start in time, so those crowds were also cut off the slopes for some time. I could still feel some pain in the back of the knee when fully stretching the leg or walking in ski boots, but when skiing, in the ski stance, half bent, it felt fine reacting perhaps only to strong vibration, which there wasn’t too much of, given the state of the freshly made soft groomers. Didn’t have much time for pics on the slopes but had hell of a time finding the place where to drop off the car in Milano, then getting to the right train station. Made it!

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 a 1 hour and 45 minute drive each direction, I have to get my money’s worth lol

I can’t believe that’s me & 9.

It Was So Bad

After doing 2 runs on paradise I had decent expectations...then I hit lazy mile, which was more cookies than I could ever want. Still a good time, beers in the lot and stopped for a poke bowl off cedar Crest Blvd on the way home.

I didn’t see Salty until at the Philly pretzel factory next to where I picked up a pizza.

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.

Been a minute since I had something to post here....Early evening 4ish mile tour through the hood..I even saw a train...Sorry for the sub par pics...

Yup it's chonky right now. Looks to be showing down but i dunno. Radar and hourlies are telling me otherwise. This has to be eight in at least.

Snowing pretty good…3.5”

It's coming down pretty good here. Trash truck is back in action, did the trash, roads were sketchy even a half hour ago. Barely got up the driveway.

Also MBIke mike. Most PASRs of any day this season and most people as well at the ski area.

Speaking of salty, I was behind a Pendot truck driving slow and using 5 tons per mile. I turned off onto another road. First storm people don’t remember how to drive and I guess the Pendot employees either. Snowing my way about 3/8” and coming down pretty good. Tomorrow afternoon looks like more snow sneaking in so I’m thinking over perform .

Definite for Sunday. Thinking roads probably won’t be too bad.

He said it on the MSE when we could see Switchback and said we had to go on the quad to see Sidewinder. We were perplexed 🤷🏼‍♂️

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.

We are at almost a foot.

My friend Paul is #15

This deal isn’t the best and it isn’t the wurst.

You have to go to My Stats in your Blue account. James prob wont be beat he's there every morning before work for 10+ runs, not even a car wreck stops him. I'm in 20th.

Not snow here anymore some sort of mixed precip and can hear sleet pellets. This snowstorm kind of meh so far…gonna check Radar again. I’ve seen this setup and trend so many times it’s just so predictable.

Nothing much to add, as we found everything the same as others. Right side of Paradise mid way down had some nice snow on the ridge, but dealing with the line at the quad wasn't worth it. Rolled the dice on the quad at open in the hopes of getting a single run down Coming Soon, no luck. They had it closed from the get-go. Found some fun along the left side of upper Main in the guns, since you took your life into your hands out in the middle of Main with all the people attempting to navigate the cookies and the pack of boarders sitting smack dab in the middle of the run! Took to the lot for a beer about 10:30, hoping that the 4 hour crowd would ease the lift lines, nope! Went back out and braved the lines for a couple more and called it.

1/2” in Allentown so far.

TP4 also in the house. He has to be beating the boomers in runs in the leaderboard. He’s been putting in some legit sessions. Maybe the most dedicated PASR

Will you be though?

Chopfin...pretty good. Did a build your own noodle bowl and the pineapple Express bowl so the wife and I can split them. Both are very tasty

It’s impressive how bad it actually can be. First camp day for BeckyBoo so we hung in the parking lot late. Must have been epic out there by the look of the lines

Once I hit kutztown, 222 was pretty well covered. Maybe will actually get some decent snow

only 1 pic of the graffiti covered train? Props for taking it though. By far the best pic in this thread by a long shot!

I don't remember an entire state. But I'll go back

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Be thankful

thought about skiing this afternoon. Thanks for making me look like a genius.

buy an ad like a normal person or at least give a discount for spamming the board and google maps says its 11min

My guess is when the sun went away the snow firmed up plus more traffic scrapes the loose snow. Looks a lot busier on webcams. I’m ready for the early open tomorrow boom boom boom.

Guy on the lift this afternoon was telling us he thinks their big secret opening this weekend is Sidewinder. Wild. No blowing on it except Crossover which doesn’t really make sense since Falls hasn’t even been attempted yet.

tomorrow is gonna be the first day of the season for a lot of people or maybe the 2nd or third. Non die hards just getting into it but they have 17 runs and 7 lifts to enjoy maybe more. They need to make each feature on Barbs way count as a run..Barbs Down Flat down, Barbs disco box and I’m done here.

Bought a big broom.

He was hanging out in the tubing bathrooms

Best day ever today, should have been there

@saltyant how has camelback been?