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Awesome time with my teens. Skied about 30k of vert today including moguls, trees, steeps. Stayed at the Christy Lodge in Avon. Got some HH jackets at an end of season sale. Boarding the red eye in an hour.

Awesome trip with a great crew, and it went by way too fast. I’ll remember the day we had at the bush for a long time. I love spring skiing just as much as about anything and we sure skied our asses off! Agree with Law that there was no place better to be than with a good group of guys post skiing stoke, drinking a heady topper while the sun is about to set over the mountain. pics of various places:

Day 57. Forget Super Bowl Sunday and New Year's Day. The new "skier's secret" day is Easter. 19 chair rides and I only rode with someone else twice. No one here. On a day like this.

Stop trolling salty. Ski 2 appreciate the tr. Looks awesome.

Day 58. Another bright blue day.

You mark this on your calendar?

Thanks, today is the 5 year anniversary of when Vail bought Blue Mountain Hill stations.

Anyone still gonna be up this week? Im riding Killington Tuesday, Stratton Wednesday and Thursday.

I really only leave my poles and skis unattended when I use the restroom. On ski trips if I eat lunch on the hill which is pretty rare, I eat somewhere mid mountain and I’m not concerned about somebody walking off with my skis there. At the base on a ski trip I go back to the car and take off my boots if I wanna drink and dine somewhere and back when that wasn’t an option I used a lock a long time ago. I even had a second hand ski tote. Back to the poles, atomic Jeff said Scott aluminum poles are indestructible. I saw Johnny law pole wack a mini cornice off of sky top south and it busted his bamboo pole..the side of Burma road seems like a nice resting place for the bottom half of a ten year old pole.

If you ski with two different poles they probably will never get stolen. I don’t think I’ve ever seen poles bent in the way that yours were. Mine usually break before they bend in those funky curves. You’re the amazing Kreskin of ski poles.

I renewed my Blue pass for next season earlier. I did the payment plan wanted to use last years and this years gift cards towards purchase but prob use them for a new pair of matching poles next season. Amazing I haven’t spent any money at Blue the last two seasons. It was a couple seasons ago I bought pizza there. Was a little sad bringing in the unopened six pack I brought yesterday back into my crib. PPSRD was at work earlier bringing in yesterdays mail…did three hours of work…the only thing that could cheer me up now would be a trip to Niagara Falls. It’s so beautiful there maybe I’ll go next weekend…the hills were alive with the sound of skiers and now they have descended back to their lairs. Yeah I’ll probably post some long ass stoned ramblings this summer and I can cause I’m the second best PASR after @theprogram4 and @Johnny Law was the most dedicated PASR this season. Me I officially post the most photos with a garbage can in the foreground no big dealio I’ll give myself a high five.

No, we've shared bags when we flew to Colorado a couple of times. I won't share nachos but I'll share a skig bag though.

My weekend turned into a bit of a landmine that blew up in my face so I could only ride with the crew on Saturday but it was just perfect. It started firm af but as the sun came out the super soft started coming through. We went in search of the steep bumps and the bush delivered with super soft blasters. NM put the pedal to 150 and was channeling his inner plake at ludicrous speed. Under sunny skies and warm temps we ran castle Rock, heavens gate and north links until they closed. Celebrations for such a day were in order and Lawsons Castlerock and headys went down easy, for at least a moment I'd wager there was no better place to be.

Sunday, a little Magic. Still love this place, but really want to hit it with more open. above freezing overnight, so, some firm stuff with a little Blue Mountain type cookies, which softened up pretty fast. Very similar to last year as to what was open. A few groomed runs, and some fun spicy snow, grass, rocks with a few drainage pipe crossings mixed in. Got warm real quick, and that made the run outs real slow, and pretty grabby by 1 pm. Got to ride the black lift. Had a nice burger at the BLT. On the road now.

Saturday, sugarbush. Sometime in the middle of the night @Johnny Law showed up. He headed to the resort a little earlier than us, as we were thinking 10:30 to let some stuff soften up. Firm-ish conditions up top, with softer stuff towards the bottom. The sun started doing its thing and softening stuff up that was in the sun, shady stuff was just a little pokey, but getting there. 1 pm we met up with jeffs buddy nick for some nice laps at castlerock. Terrain at CR was a little limited, selective at times, but still went. Big fun bumps with a good collection of rocks mixed in. Finished off the day with a few runs off heavens gate, ran till just after 3pm or so. sugarbush rocks, sugarbush skied well, and has real nice coverage. That was a pretty energetic day, as even @NMSKI said he was pretty much drained.

Lacking in the trip report for sure. Friday, killington. Very firm to start. Cloudy. No crowds. Ski on every lift like skiitoolive. We ended up on some trail, which should have been called “certain death” as it was the slickest, and most un-skiable trail i have been on in a while. People were eating shit on it hard and ending up in the grass. Skiing the frozen junky bumps on the side was better than doing the power slide in the grass. sun poked out just enough to soften some stuff up. Not entire runs, but parts of runs. Killington has good coverage.

Renewed my pass. I can't see them opening next weekend. Been a good run, like @Doug said tho, i need closure. Anyone have pics of these epic pants? Also I'm not so sure the elk sale is a done deal, could be wrong tho. Old curmudgeon might have had an issue with lighting.

Came up on my feed as well

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

WJW, $149 a night is pretty cheap for being close to Vail. You must have saved a lot by taking the Frontier red eye flight.

A for effort, S for stupid, and S for Salty = ASS

And an S for stupid.