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Hey All, I’m back from another spring session at Blue mountain the true mountain. I arrived at the lower lot around 820am and it was in the upper 30s with moderate winds. It felt darn chilly initially. In the house were Mixilplix, PARidge, MBike Mike, Slim, Airhead, Indiggio, Tarpenhead, Schifdawg, Nancy, Wally, Harold, Kumar, Bethlehem ford guy, Jimmy and many others. Razors was a little firm initially but pretty smooth and I got several nice runs in it without many people, one run in nightmare dreamweaver which has excellent coverage after pushing out the jumps. I did one run on Burma mid session and decent and the last corner, I pushed a little hard with my poles and one of my poles snapped…they don’t owe me anything as they’re over 10 years old. Riding the quad I was looking for the best pole to grab for the rest of the session and found a similar length atomic pile on the ground next to the race shack. The rest of the session I skied only razors and it got progressively softer and very pleasant. I skied until 1120, I didn’t hang around for any beer…I didn’t sleep much last night and sweat a lot today and more in the mood for water and Gatorade. A few rumors are circulating that Blue is going to reopen Friday and Saturday again. I don’t know about that with rain and warmish weather in the forecast but you never know. All in all fun skiing and definitely bonus skiing. Last picture showing they’re open this Friday 12-8 but might not have edited it from yesterday.

Razors got really nice after it softened up a little.

If it's over (which I think it is) today was an absolutely incredible way to end the season. Full speed laps on a flat NMDW and Razors with great coverage and decent snow. All things considered Blue worked magic the latter half of March when things were looking dire. Mad props to blue

Bumps were firm early so a bunch of high speed runs on razors was nice. The wind tamed down considerably from yesterday. Things softened up and the bumps got deeper than I liked . Upper razors bumps were oddly spaced and pretty icy. The crew was working on a second line when I had to bail around noon. Such a nice day and I wish I could have stayed till the end. I went with my Retro attire today, 42 year old Descante pants and CB powder shirt. Got some compliments from the “old guys “ lol.

Traded a day at Blue for this

Looooooking mighty fine in them there pants son! Ain’t no way I could fit in my pants from that era! Funniest thing was I rode the lift with a rando who was very interested and asked if I was skiing with and knew the guy in the retro Descente pants 😬 great ski day skiing tele in the am then swapped out the heels to run some bumps but outta synch with everyone so kinda weird ending to the season, did some grillage with the bfg crew and peaced out, later gator!

And the clock strikes 5…guess that’s it for PA… I’m still pumped over the black atomic ski pole..and the one run on Raisins ledge I skied with one pole felt weird. With early bird season passes still for sale at Blue for a few more days, this was a heck of a move for Blue to sell more season passes and also get some of the camelback people to see the light…what’s this light all y’all are talking about..the light is Blue….

Super good time this morning..First few runs down either trail you could really let it go...Great weather....Started to get pretty rowdy a lil before noon...A worthy end of season morning...

Nice to finally meet you in person. felt cool knowing we were the only people skiing in the state of Pennsylvania today. Like we were part of an exclusive club. Lol

Came up on my feed as well

Lol , I barely fit on the last latch. The zipper doesn’t close 100% . Running the bumps I was hoping it would hold otherwise I would have them around my ankles in an instant😁

Today is the only day this season I stopped mid run, to say wazup to the bumpers and wait for Nancy and Schif.

I’ve had an Ikon pass for past 3 years, love it. Was considering not getting another for next year- had a pretty good discount working in healthcare, but now I’m retired. But IDK, think I’ll regret it if I don’t.

Beautiful but windy day at Blue...Things looked in great shape...First couple of runs down Razors was just unadulterated smoothness....Got slightly more spicy as the afternoon progressed...NM/DW is clean all the way down....Super fun early but it seemed to be the trail most people wanted to be on...They have a some of decent snow piles off to the side which I assume is for tomorrow....Some small scrapey spots here and there/small bumps but nothing to stop you from doing what you want....Coverage was most excellent for this time of year....The run out from DM/DW and home stretch where the only thin spots I noticed....Super fun time at Blue this afternoon...

Ski Day 3 - sunshine ☀️ - Tuesday @Schif and I skied with each other for most of day 1 and 2. So by day 3, we tried to do a group ski for a bit. here is the ski day 3 video recap. The sun was shining! You could actually see the mountains. It was so refreshing to not be in a snow globe. you could see a ton of fresh slides across the mountain too. We tried to go to Val Thorens with the group but mostly stayed in Meribel-Mottaret. There were powder stashes just off piste and it was lovely. The groomed parts eventually became quite scrappy in Meribel-Mottaret, so we broke off into a smaller group and went to Val Thorens. These are the runs we * think * we did. 1. Tougnete 1 2. Combes 3. ROC de tougne 4. ROC de Tougne 5. Chatelet x 2 6. Mont Vallon 7. Combes 1 8. ROC de tougne The group wanted to stop for hot chocolate and meet up with the full group. We wanted to keep skiing. So we stopped briefly and then broke away from the group but took Amy with us. We headed over to Val Thorens and it was lovely. We wish we could have gotten there earlier. I think we did these lifts while at VT. 1. Granges 2. Roc 1 3. Brueyeres 1 4. VT3 plein sud 5. VT15 6. VT4 7. Plan des mains 8. Pas du lac 1 to 2 to folie douche We went to Folie Douche around 4pm for the final hour and it was amazing. note: after I posted this I noticed the shirtless guy and the couple making out. It’s basically the Jersey Shore. 😂 Again - crushed a pitcher with Mike, had champagne sprayed on us, danced on tables, people were shirtless or bra only, and you know - typical Sweet Madness stuff. Since Folie closes at 5pm, we skied to Rond Point. But since it was a sunny gorgeous day - there was quite the line. We listened to the music and wish we had some backpack beers to jam out. It was S’s birthday so we all went out to dinner at La Galette (restaurant-lagalette-meribel.com). We ate fondue and raclette. It was delicious. we went to another bar for 1 drink and were up quite late. We check out of the Airbnb the next day - so we had a bunch of bags to pack. We skiied 1 more day and switched to a hotel the next day

You’re welcome and anytime @saltyant

@saltyant this is from five years ago back when we were all young.

Someone stopped me up to say I was the best dressed skier on the mountain lol . He went on to tell me that he saw something similar “ new” recently. Maybe they will make a comeback? I’ve got a theory that I ski faster with them rather then my baggy pants. ?

Saw that at rope drop. My wife was cleaning closets a couple of weeks ago, and made me throw out my Obermyer padded sweater I wore on ski trips together with her from the early 80s. Stretch pants went a long time ago.

Likewise, your group likes to rip top to bottom.

First civilian tracks on NM/DW today. Like skiing on smooth butter. That one run was worth a trip up, not to mention letting the skis loose on lower Razors after the narrow bottleneck.

Ikon pass is great 😇

Changed reservations to Tues-Thurs. Things looking better.

@EdBacon you’d like this. When I was a kid I studied topo maps galore at the library back before google earth and altimeter watches were a thing and have been to West Point and bear mountain so familiar with the ski hill. I also had a tour of the naval academy with my camp in fifth grade and that was rad got to see the 10 meter platform diving boards. Higher than a Mofo.

He’s been at Blue some this season and please make this a day of kindness..