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Bluebird! Snow is excellent, chalk like on piste. Off is crusty. Excellent views today. Can see the north rim on the Grand canyon pretty clearly. Sunshine and groomers kinda day for sure. They do need snow though. Still fantastic... Demoing Nordica enforcers which I really like. May purchase after the season. Great day!!

Arrived in flag around 12am local time. Ride up was smooth as always with a pit stop a del taco for a burrito (side note…del taco has the best fries. Sounds crazy but it’s true. They’re crinkle cut). Anyway…Since snowbowl road is a pain in the ass I asked the rental car place for awd and they gave me a pretty cool jeep gladiator. No new snow today but sunny skies and highs in the 30s. Should be awesome. Stoke levels are a 10 out of 10.

Im leaving for Killington Sunday, riding Mon, Tues, Wed.

Posted up at EWR. Destination...Phoenix to pick up my kid, then drive to Flagstaff later tonight. Plan is to ski tomorrow, Thurs and Friday. Tomorrow looks like we'll be skiing under the Arizona sun while for Thurs and Fri it's looking like snow... forecast is calling for 1 to 3 for Thur and same for Friday. Should be fun. Pic from last year below!

Just got back from an afternoon session at Camel. It was drizzling when I left my house but that turned to a wet snow going up the access road to the Camel. I opted to go up the tubing road and park right by the Stevenson, it felt a bit nostalgic. Snow was quite nice, surface was mostly a natural wet creamy layer and little ice for the most part even on the steeps. The park is still dismal with only a down rail and small jump. Cant complain with some suprise winter scenery laps at the Camel today. All in all JADIP in the Pocohoes.

If you haven’t been in the local ER, you really haven’t skied an area

A few more pics. Boy I lucked out. Skiing in southern Vermont has been infinitely better than anything in Pennsylvania this season.

January 30, 2024 Day 7 of 7. Hey All, I’m back from my last ski day of this trip which is my 20th trip to JHMR. I first visited in 2002 then returned annually 2005-2020, skipped 2021 and been back 2022-2024. Last night there were clear skies but this morning there was a cloud/fog layer about 1,000 feet up spritzing light snowfall in the valley. 8am departure to the resort had us there around 820am…last boot up of the trip and my bad foot didn’t even hurt getting into my boot..a little tender but no big dealio. We hoofed it up to the gondola in upper 20s temperatures and shot the shit and rode the gondola with the Long Island guy who used to work for Billy Joel and his buddy from NYC area who’s spent the last ten winters in JH and who’s going to Bali/vietnam/Bangkok to surf and have fun next week. I told him to watch out for the ladyboys. First run on amphitheater the cord was a little stiff but pure sunshine and visibility until right before the base of the Thunder quad. Up Thunder and into Laramie bowl which had similar stiff cord but full visibility. Up Sublette and did Rendevous trail which was similar conditions, pleasant enough. Then Sublette over to Laramie bowl again which was now starting to corn up a little in the warm sun, then the cat track down to Thunder in fog. Up Thunder and did amphitheater from the top, then we did Jerry’s way for Salty and Mute. Up Thunder again and another Laramie bowl which was even better but so many people standing at the edge like it was Corbetts coulour. Sublette had about a half full lift corral, lots of schoolers, not new schoolers but ski schoolers who get to cut the lines. Then a run from Sublette to the base via Rendevous trail and lower tram line. Lower tram line was in deep dense fog but I was able to see enough to ski moderate speeds..was almost spring like in the beginning and refrozen crud lower down. NMSki had a cab to catch to the airport and me and atomic Jeff had an early lunch at the four seasons. Short day today but we still got a decent amount of skiing in and was nice being in the sun for a couple hours up high. Some people even said,”you’ve got to stay high today”…I’m not the person they have to remind cough cough. All in all this turned out to be an excellent and successful trip. Everybody had fun, we got as much skiing as we wanted to get in, generally around 20k or so of vert a day..I think mute and Atomic Jeff did 24k the other day but they skied a run or so more than me. I weigh about 20 pounds less than last year which made a big difference in my energy levels..even walking uphill to the gondola felt way better. I also didn’t drink that much which helped. Except for a few crowded runs and liftlines, the mountain was generally pretty quiet while the town was more hopping. Last Sublette ride, our lift riding companion was talking about going to Switzerland next week and I was asking about how he’s getting there and it turns out he has his own G4, a house in NYC also and a smaller plane for Europe. Serious wallets!!!! I only took a few pictures today here they are.

Switchback ? Finally! Boner city for realz

First 3 runs today were great. Then things got really chopped up (34 degrees, very light mist, a little foggy on top). Chunky on top, soft lower down (can I say that on a public forum?). A lot of work to ski it. They removed the features on Barb’s way, hopefully going to blow some snow on it. They blew a little snow last night on switchback. They closed freefall a little after opening. Initial conditions were much better groomed than yesterday.

Im willing to bet they can get double what any hotel nearby costs, as long as they have some decent ammenities, and is really slopeside. There will be the 5 percenters, like yourself, that would clearly be bothered with driving back and forth to a hotel off property to save $80. If you look around on any of those Frontier flights you take, those are the same people.

Montage now has a dedicated page on their site. States coming 2025. Updated renderings look nice. I Would still prefer a high speed top to bottom lift. https://www.montagemountainresorts.com/hotel/

Conditions definitely challenging today. Lazy to Lower Sidewinder ROTD. Top of Main was nice, but then you had to navigate the mine field on Lower Main. NMDW was decent, along with TCS. I used my new boots for the first time today, and I was on the struggle bus for a while. Not the best day to test out new gear. But I’m really enjoying this lack of crowds. School buses rolled in prior to our leaving-always interesting watching a bunch of middle school kids.

The biggest problem with Denton Hill is it's in the middle of nowhere with a low population density. I always wanted to check it out but I can be at a lot of other larger places in half the time. Their best option would be to get any schools in decent driving distance to start after school programs.

They aren’t slopeside..

Go for the leg sweep.

Grate

Better conditions tonight...Sweet and Low most everywhere....Fast surface and got kinda heavy in some places...The steeper areas were all good though...I ran Timberline right before they closed it for NASTAR and it was pretty meh with some dark spots showin...Empty again tonight...No wait time...Another super fun time....

Can’t believe you grouped me with Salty. Probably going to have fight in the parking lot now

Rode from 9-1 today. Place was empty. Conditions were meh. To quote a legend, “Ice is nice, speed is good!!!!!!!!”

Bingo.

I'm seriously feeling the post Jackson Hole blues right now as I slump into my desk chair to stare at my computer for 8 hours and catch up on emails and work BS. After a few runs yesterday morning before heading to the airport, travel back was a breeze through ORD to PHL, and I rolled back into the kunk around midnight. After thinking about it the whole way home last night, I can say is that JH is a place that feels very different from anywhere else I have skied before. My two big takeaways are: The sheer consistency of the steepness across the mountain. I like the natural feel of the mountain. It is like skiing as Mother Nature designed it. My 4 days were the perfect intro and got a taste of everything there is to offer. Yea, the first day I was not feeling well and made a vomit deposit in the hobacks. On second day I felt like a weakling due to not eating at all the first day. Had some terrible vis days and some sun at times. A little sad about no pow other than an angry inch but oh well. Last run off the tram down a sunny Rendezvous bowl then ducking under the clouds to bottom before heading to the airport was a perfect way to wrap the trip up. Can not wait to get back. Thanks to the boys @GrilledSteezeSandwich @AtomicSkier @mute1080 @NMSKI for being fantastic guides and showing me around. Oh, and a word of advice... Never trust a fart...

2023 Black Crows Corvus 188.2, 107 under foot. Mounted once, used less than 10 times. Top sheet and bases are in great shape. Previously mounted with Attack 13s at 330 bsl $550. Price goes down for most PASRs, goes up for GrilledSteeze.

Last night they were blowing on upper main and starting to fire up fan guns on vista and midway when I left at 6:30 / 35d lol.

We camp out that way sometimes. Drove past there, stopped and checked it out, doesn’t look like much. It may be better off as a mountain biking/ hiking area. I can’t see it making it as a ski area.

Grate pics! I'm jelly you got a blue bird day. Those are my favourite.

Out for an hour this morning. Tried to find a decent slope. Freefall and DW/NM wasn’t awful, but then you had the sugar on Paradise to deal with. Best slope was the Falls. Groomers ripped up Razors. Definitely wasn’t feeling the love this morning.

If we want Switchback (I have no hope for Sidewinder this year) we better hope it *doesn't* stay empty . . .

Quote from 72 year old on the gondola… ”The key to a healthy marriage is a full belly and empty balls”. Sheesh I have that and I don’t even have a girlfriend.

Pretty firm last night. They turned the guns on Lazy and Tuts around 6:40. Almost comical because everything blown on Tuts landed in Danielsville

We went out for a family ski last night around 6.... dust on crust at the top of the mountain and razors, challenge and main street looked and sounded glacial. On the the other trails there was sugar to be found on the sides and it got deeper the further down the mountain you went. Wish we could have made it earlier to run some of the other trails.

We were lucky when we went last year, only one day was so foggy that you couldn’t ski the top.

Guns are on! Looks like Vista only right now.

Indeed JADIP. Razors a little spicy with the ruts, didn’t even try Challenge- probably my least favorite trail there. Nice tailgate session after. Hopefully the crowds stay away all week.

Went for little over an hour after work...on snow maybe 4:45ish..Snow was just chopped/rutted up shit.....Started to cool down ....Trails that didn't get traffic started to set which made it a little spicy .....Place was pretty ghosted.....Zero wait at the lift.....Even though snow conditions sucked it was still fun to be sliding on snow..

Awesome day. Arrived at 1pm left at 4:30pm. Snow was fast but still plenty edgable everywhere except Barbs Way. Crowds non existent. All in all JADIP at Blue The True.

Post rain when above freezing are my favorite non pow conditions. I definitely prefer it to fresh manmade or that slow squeaky snow.

Damn I knew it was going to be empty, post rain has become the new best condition at blue. I have to be in NYC for work until Wednesday and I'm dying.

I’ve been to the JH ER, really nice place!!

Sick photos, really slutting it up and that is excellent flexibility on the spread eagle. You can tell you stretch

Fun times today even though it was a little gray. The steeps were smooth and very nice. Tower 3 was so nice we had to do it twice. @AtomicSkierin paintbrush @AtomicSkierin Tower 3 @dirtwolf in stokeville Dropping in to stokeville hot dogging after a fun tower 3 run

Nice day out there …

1/27/24… Day 4 of 7 Hey all, I’m back from another day at Jackson hole mountain resort. Hopes of a repeat of the exploding boner conditions of yesterdays start were dampened by flat light and much firmer snow. We began on Amphitheater to Thunder. Amphitheater was stiff cord…Grand had better cord and a bit better Visibility. Bivoac woods are big bumps not what. I wanted early in the session..then the boys did Paintbrush and I don’t like that run cause of exposure, I’ve only skied it a few times before so skipped it and skied around to the bottom and the boys were taking forever and taking pictures so I split up with them. I want to try and ski more solo on these ski trips because I never meet anybody when I’m in a group and like chatting with people on chairlifts. It was just really enjoyable skiing alone for about 5 more runs despite some pretty shitty ski conditions and also pretty crowded. The only fresh I found was in the campground stash parks off Casper and a little bit in the Casper woods. Had my pecker out peeing in the woods when a whole ski school group came by on either side of the tree I was standing behind…not much to see as the temperatures were in the high teens. I did two Casper laps, one on Teton lift all the way to the base and I was chilly so took the gondola. In the gondola liftline some jackalope holding his ski by the binding ripped his toe piece right off. By 11:30 all the main trails were real scrapped off..while not a problem for me it was hilarious seeing all the herb tourons eating shit, seemed like every lift ride and every run snowboarders were faceplanting and from the Teton lift I saw some guy fall on his back into a hole. I quit a little before the boys and then we went to the AlpenHof which was closed, we checked out the mangy which I knew wouldn’t have a table and they wanted snake river brewery which we already had twice so I’m at Bubbas solo now eating a brisket platter.

When I was there, no one tailgated. I don’t think it would go over well.

Only if it was this bad. A full week of this last week.