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In Ferris Buehlerian style I postponed work and hit the road for a super exclusive xxxlub in the Skills. Somehow it's winder than Blue, like every trash can must be in the Hudson windy but the bright sun makes it warm. While technically snowing it's so light it evaporates as quickly as it appears. For an exclusive xxxxluub the lodge looks like the first class lounge at the Scranton Wilkes-Barre international Airport circa 1973.....which I kinda love. Appropriate for the greater Winkle area the upper mtn pod has been asleep foprp a bit and it's the lower quad and the sixer thatmnemonic goes to the other nipple top. The quad pod had 3 legit ways down all pretty much variations of lazy mile. While excellent look out the window skiing probably not the thrill your looking for. The sixer pod though was the star of the show with 9 or 10 legit ways down, all good smooth super grippy snow. A short shot called the wall held soft moguls but I thought the best was one called like maverick and wheelchair, trail maps don't concern me. Long razors like straight shots with nobody home I mostly ran those. Around 230 being the good worker I am, I decided it best to get to work and now I'm driving past the scenic lamington River. Super good day and worth checking out during the week, particularly if you have an ikon.

Impromptu road trip to West Mountain for some random hill skiing today. Super reminiscent of the old Blue Mountain vibe. Small place with not a lot open but thanks to Indy I got to check it out. I love these little gems that remind me of what skiing used to be. The snow was nice. Coverage good in some spots, thin in others, non existent on a few trails. A lot of fun runs here and fully open would be a total blast. If anybody gets the chance to swing by this joint I’d recommend. JADIP?

Dreamy between paradise and ripcord.

It’s so easy to get mad at blue for stuff. Then they go and do this on the first day of spring ❤️

Today was crazy just crazy. Snowstorm up in the high peaks, then super slushy grippy slow snow down lower. Just eating food my brah cooks at the condominium, we'll go out for pizza and beer tomorrow.

It was a gooood day. Neat little room at Madbush Falls. Also decided to sample some Vermont adult recreatuon product and somw Chinese.

Stowe

Slated to arrive at Bush north for early loading of the Green Mountain Express chair about 8:15. This should get good.

Today started with a nice snow shower. I hope the crew over in Park City has a piece of that. It softened the surface up enough to make fir a very fun day. Visibility up top was pretty bad most of the day. The mountain staff posted signs “Experts Only” so I think that scared off the tourists bad the lift lines in Mineral were pretty short. 👍 The most fun for me was getting into some of the chutes and trees over in Little Cloud area, My post yesterday was a wet avalanche debris. Kind of scary.

Just saw they called Ellen summit chair no go for the day but Heavens Gate about to finally open at Lincoln! Gonna drive over to Lincoln now and take all the preserved fresh on Summit @ Ellen in the morning. Drive up now, it's all waiting untouched up there for tomorrow and winds are gonna be light!

Going to Stratton tomorrow.

i could have sworn that they basically have a cooling system to get the water to a lower than pond temperature. maybe that has something to do with it. also weather went from 'Heavy Rain' to just 'Rain' on sat. so thats good... i guess

I’m really excited about tomorrow!

Scoring below. Glenn House.

Summit still on wind hold prob all day. Tomorrow may be GREAT up there.

was also thinking this. i'm wondering if they'll throw a couple of bonus trails in there... dare i say... lower main (because chute was still fine and it only needed a little bit of work at the chicane) and lazy (from what i recall it was just the bottom merge into main that was bad, or no?).

Twas ready for a little hike action today but 🚫 I found out why shortly later 😳 Bulletproof morning. Fast corn to slush cycle in Mineral Basin so that was the play.

Twin Peaks

Another nice day at BB. The blew some snow on the top and bottom connectors, but none (I think) on the main slopes. Trails getting narrower, but no skid marks. Plans to eventually put in a new trail under the lift with the room freed up from replacing the 3 double chairs with a quad.

The Matterhorn just before the XC area is a great after ski bar.

Another Friday night RAW on tap for me then

quite impressed they are blowing on Razors.

I got the impression from their post that that's their plan.

Pulling an audible. Heading to Mount Ellen at 07:00 and staying one more night up there. 😇

Dumping on Stattons webcams and dumping at Magic Mountain base area where I'm staying 🥰🥰😍😇😇😍

More turns today at Boulder. Slopeside Mountain Laurel:

Scoring in Kidderbrook area top to bottom because the inconvenience of the sun bowl to ursa lift path. I guess people forget it too. Staying at Upper Pass Lodge at the base of Magic Mountain.

Im not sure its open but thanks! Least tracked trail this time of day.

Mmmhmmm about 3-4" and snowing lightly ungroomed bump runs filled in nicely 😇

Just boarded URSA to top. Parked Sun Bowl.

Maybe I am losing my mind but I am kind of digging the the chalk in the steeps here. Crew was feeling sendy this afternoon. I Jerry landed it but one of us cleared the cat track was hoping to hike up Baldy to go check out Livin the Dream but closed 😢 Shot of Jameson for Apres 😎

The sun was bright ☀️. The snow was everything from boilerplate to pure slush. And a little bit of nice chalk in between. mountain reported 21” last week but the Cirque traverse was pretty rocky. Welcome to March sunshine. Great Scott was actually decent just the drop in was sketchy. Had a little late morning show as two guys had hiked up the peak and went into a (as I heard) a rarely open line called Pipeline. Winds were calm up top which I guess I can count as a win.

I'm probably going Saturday Gotta milk it.

Starting my TR early as I'm rolling solo straight from work (NYC) to the Green Mountains at 05:00 and may keep this going live for my entertainment and yours. Plan to arrive in the Sun Bowl lot about 8:45, run in get Ikon pass, change and fueled by caffeine and stoke hit the snow. Stratton claims 4" Monday night into Tuesday with light snow continuing through tonight and currently the potential for a mini system to dump another 5" for me Wednesday night into Thursday. I am expecting gondy windhold Thursday regardless but if the freshies comes, this could get Ikonic....

Was just thinking that although humidity is super low so they can blow snow above freezing

Friday and Sunday

Guns are on. 29.8 degrees at 1000 ft elevation.

Yes, I remember you mentioned it a few years ago in a Deer Valley trip report and made it a point to ride. TFTI

Ok thanks. Still getting my bearings.

Every day is men’s day

WTGAI LFG RAW JADIP IceisNice SUJOPO

Suns coming out and tonights snow total potential went up. Things may really get Ikonic tomorrow 😇

No perder days like @DiMe is getting in Stratton but every day has been sunny and 50 degrees. Grate for running groomers but no so grate for ungroomed. Had my first high speed crash in years. WTF happened, IDK.

Yes I was in Aspen recently. Skied with @Barb. Was great seeing @Barb. Skied two days at Snowmass, two at Ajax (lapping the new Heros terrain constantly), a day at Highlands for Cloud 9, and a quick session at Buttermilk.

They reported like 20 inches of snow here last week but sure doesn’t seem like it up on that ridge line. I am guessing it was very windy last week blowing snow out of the top of those lines she the bright March sun the past few days nuking the rest. Once you cleared the drop in area and the exposed rocks it was fun.