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Headed for home tomorrow. A fun week, beautiful country. Only had one day that visibility was so low, I couldn’t ski. Ended the trip with 18 inches fresh snow and a blue bird day. Taking the train every where is nice, too. Price included with your lift ticket IMG_1888.mov

Vt on presidents is like a UN meeting and as such I was looking for a place to beat the crowds. Trackbiker or someone had mentioned the Bowl last week and it clicked in my head that Saturday would be Winter Rodeo. Imagine a frat party at a ski mtn or Mt Rose's beer fest but with less drinking. The day starts with a big Gs race for all the local colleges and considering who they are that is some very good skiers. Then by about noon the dj comes out and everyone really gets going. I don't know what the ratio is at Middlebury but had I known about it in my teens I would have flunked out of there for sure. Partying aside the bowl delivered the goods, from bell to bell I never waited in line and the trails were mostly empty. The snow was a mix of super grip groomer and chundery off trail. The off trail was deepish but not easy to rotate in. The groomers at the bowl are generally good however their grooming is on par with a college hill and the real star is the tree zones. My favorite is big tree off 11 but all of it was good tail gunning super soft. Liftline was the classic VT mix of excellent and shit all at the same time and I lapped that until my back said no more. I cannot speak highly enough about the bowl. You want to get away from it all or experience what magic was like before it became magic I say give the bowl a long look. It's lifts are slow and the vert nothing to write home about but it's classic VT skiing which is sadly becoming a dying art.

Hey All, I’m back from a fun morning at Blue mountain the true mountain. I arrived at the lower lot at about 715 and it was in the mid 20s and cloudy with a chance of meatballs. Second civilian OG six pack to challenge which was nice lipstick on a pig…groomed sugar was pretty nice. Second run on challenge nice and by third run it was pretty trashed slick and cookied up so I’m glad that held up until 820. Main Street was ok initially as was lazy mile. Coming soon had a little fresh manmade on top of the boilerplate…crowds were moderate, it wasn’t the record crowds I expected but prob got alot worse later. Switchback had variable snow and the run I skied it was really busy. I found the best snow late in the session on the left side of nightmare dreamweaver and skied that Twice. Fun parking lot, there had to be about 15 PASRs in the house basically everybody except Zonked, Nancy, Toast and Root and JLaw. Now it’s snowing and on the drive home people were going 10’under the speed limit due to flurries. Now at work like a dork and then gonna get pizza and chillax until I go out in 9’hours. Everybody have fun tomorrow in the rain…

By far the highlight of my ski session, maybe even the entire morning, was when Atomic Jeff came out of nowhere at the headwall of Switchback and turned right in front of me, then blasted off at a high rate of speed. That was so rad. I wish I captured that moment on my GoPro. I also got to ride the "cool chair" with some radical PASRs on the Main Street Lift. That was sick. I think one time @NMSKI was even on the lift with me. That maybe happens once, maybe twice in a lifetime to ride with such a celebrity. Overall an outstanding day, ski you guys on March 15

I must have been out of it when I post this topic. I have no recollection of posting this.

Winter is back! Finally. Snowed about 6” overnight. By the time I left the house it was 8+. Roads were awful so I just went into town the XC ski the park with the local ladies. Took my fatter skis and broke trail, good workout. got my jeep stuck coming home. Our plow guy seems to do our road last. Took about an hour to get it unstuck. puking snow now. Supposed to get another 4-8 today

First time poster long time reader here. Elks lifts are slow but their lines are typically way shorter and trails less crowded when compared to Blue. Guess I would prefer to be sitting on a slow chair than shuffling through a crowded line.

It’s 2025 and some ski resorts well only a few don’t allow snowboarders. Is that wrong or warranted? I’ll make some coffee all y’all talk amongst yourselves.

No he was at Jack Frost

First three maybe four runs were super fun...You could actually see the multi dimensional snow first time Side...Raceway/Midway/LM were quite good...along with Switch..But the bottom seemed to fall out in quickly..Everything seemed to become icey/scratchy or you were dealing with the thickness of the sugar..Still fun to be on the mountain and riding.

Was he at Blue Mountain today? The guy with the Eagles hat who laughed at my very funny jokes? I think there were 2 or 3 OG PASRs there today that I haven't met. I need to expand my taxidermied squirrels collection of my favorite PASRs

@TT C6 is interested.

Fun morning. The first two runs before it deteriorated were A+

Conditions are great. Like 2-3 feet of snow on the ground here in southern VT. But where to go? All this snow but if I go to Mr Snow I can either rid icy moguls, fast groomer boomers, or go into the woods and try to make jump turns between down rutted out tree runs. You know. Where are the goods? Right? So forget Mr Snow and PBRomley (Magic don't open till tomorrow but it's gonna rain RIP). Gotta go find those fresh lines. Yesterday I checked out Prospect and was very happy. Today I headed further down VT Route 9 (that's the Molly Stark highway if you didn't know, see Jon Stark said he didn't mind getting shot by the British to get away from his wife so they named a highway after her in the 60s or something). Before you start winding down towards peanut Brittleboro you'll come around a wide bend in the road with a pullout and a scenic view towards New Hampshire and Grand Monadnock Mountain. This is Hogback Mountain. The actual mountain is called Olga. The ski area is Hogback. Closed in the 1980s. They had like seventeen different T-bars. No chairlifts. The lodge is now a distillery. There's a gift shop. And the trails are open to hiking and skiing. Boy what I day. Spent a solid couple hours on the skins looking at the old T-bars. They still maintain a little shelter hut thing at the top to smoke the Mary Janes in or whatever. Seems like a chill spot. Lots of skin tracks all over. And lots and lots of powder. Real powder. Sink down to your thigh powder. What a day. Wish this place was steeper though. Very easy, mellow mountain. About 500 vertical feet from top to bottom. Made some nice floaty turns. What a feeling. The bottom of the trails is below the highway and the parking lot, so you have to hike back out to get back to the car. Ate a turkey sandwich and headed out as the sun started to come down with storm clouds building behind. It's been a great few days. You can find some good stuff out there if you work at it.

The snow that has fallen on top of everything around my house which is covered in ice, now brings "slippery" to a new level.

Snowboarders are the worst. But really, I don't care if a few mountains dont allow boarders. Back when I was into BMX biking, bikes were banned from a lot of skate parks so I'm used to it. As long as I don't get banned from drinking beer with skiers in the Blue Mountain parking lot, I'm good

Very stoned last night and best I can do is accidently purchase season pass on company card. I did that once before. Honestly it should be considered wellness like a gym membership.

25 is the max, if I am driving a sustained speed of 15 or 20 on the flats I might switch out of 4 low. If I go too slow in 4 high for extended periods I start smelling the gear oil. After watching the recovery videos I got a kinetic recovery rope in additional to my tow strap. Not sure I’d have the guts to actually use it. I subscribe to the philosophy that off road capabilities are to get you out of trouble, not into it. Plus, it is really my wife’s jeep.

I like to put it in low any time I am going under 20 for a sustained period, especially when climbing a hill. Easier on the transmission and transaxle. Had to get my 2015 JK front locker replaced because it wouldn’t come out of being locked. Pretty pricey. Should have had air lockers put in instead of getting the stock locker repaired. Love watching the off road rescue videos on Facebook.

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Visited Prospect Mountain today. Opened in 1938 and operated on and off until 1991. About ten years ago it was reopened as a backcountry and nordic ski area. This place is a blast. Lodge straight from the 1960s. Wood paneled everything. Metal wickets for your ticket. Wood fired stove with bricks on top to stick in your stinky wet boots. Homemade cookies at the counter. I got a bowl of chili. There's a designated uphill track straight up the old T-bar lift line. The split board did its job. First time using one. I think I got the hang of it by the end of the day. The mountain tops out at 2770 feet and you get around 600 feet of vertical. A good first test for uphilling since I've never done it before. The trails are still cleared so there's lots of options down from the top, plus a few places where they've thinned out the trees. They're sitting on around 24-36 inches of snowpack right now in the southern Greens. About 8-10 inches fell on Sunday and a couple more last night. Fresh tracks could be had on a lot of the trails. The lift line and two of the wider ways down the mountain seem to get the most traffic. Those were choppy pow but still pretty fun. No real steep sections except for maybe the top of the T-bar tow line. Big old cross country championship thing going on today. Lots of buses in the lot. Place was packed with high schoolers. Girls race was on during my second run. Accidentally came out of a trail onto the race track. I think they rang the cowbell for me. It was all good. Love the split board. Today was tons of fun.

Nice, a few years back I had planned to ski Hogback but my back had other plans and spasmed the whole ride up from PA. Not sure if it’s still there but there was a distillery in the old lodge and spent the day medicatin’

You know those traction thingys work better when when you put them in the snow under the tars 🤣

MrsSnoBunSki and I set sail for Jay in the cold, rain and snow early Thursday morning, becoming all snow right around Albany. Friday morning we woke up to howling winds and boot deep snow. The wind would keep all the upper mountain lifts closed, so we lapped the the fractional Moons and Bushwacker before taking an early lunch. It was a ton of fun and the low angle trees would provide a good warmup for Saturday. After lunch we had the great idea to make the drive to check out Bolton Valley only to find that Indy redemptions are limited to one a day. Implementing Plan C we slummed it with a few beers at the Alchemist. A few more inches overnight and diminished winds gave the green light for Saturday morning, finding everything from a few inches on corduroy to knee deep snow all over the mountain. Lines moved quickly except for the tram (which we skipped - again!) It was hard to contain my powder frenzy but I did so enough to get my fill of trees and get MrSnoBunSki in and out of her comfort zone. My best day at Jay with no wind (’cept on the Flyer lol), deep blower, sun and snow showers. Dumping again when we left for home Sunday morning, we made a stop at Berkshire East which had gotten around 6" or so. More great snow but the lines were a little long so we only got 6-7 runs in before heading south to watch the Birds annihilate the Chiefs -GO BIRDS!!!

Wait what wow..

Seems about right. That looks almost as nice as the four seasons in Jackson hole. This morning at 10:20am the cocktail cart was open at Blue mountain and was tempted to get a Bloody Mary but $15 could be better spent on some Uber eats appetizer..can’t have it all sorry for threadjack…big props to your son for getting back after it after last season. A famous singer once said what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Why I ski the double black diamonds.

I stopped in for some afternoon laps on the way to VT. Snow was lots of soft semi sugar on glacier, it was super playful kinda trash. Maybe it's old but they have a sign now that reserves the right side close to the learning hill for passholders. It seems pretty permanent as its bolted to the pole. I was as shocked as anyone but it did seem to work and I pulled right up front. Between that and the vip line I waited maybe 2 min.

Nice report. Skied Berkshire East last Saturday. Conditions were great all over the mountain. The only line was at the HSQ. The quad with the carpet loader next to it is actually faster if there's a line at the HSQ. That and the Exhibition Quad were ski-on.

It was good but we had no fresh snow at all. Im at Killington today and we got a solid 6” of wet snow but zero lines ride onto any lift and fresh tracks all day in the woods. Copper Killy today

You should come. At the very least it’s a change of pace from blue. side note. I’d consider an Indy pass if Elk were on it.

If I were buying Elk the only lift I would completely replace would be the north face double or quad with a carpet loader quad at a higher line speed. The dual towers are already spaced for two quads and the trails on that side could eat a little more skier traffic. That quad seems to be just about the slowest of the lifts and the most problematic as well and a carpet loader I think would get the line up to a satisfying speed without being obnoxious with regards to maintenance/footprint/traffic etc. The way the twin main face doubles are set up it would be difficult to replace them without totally ruining the trails, base areas and overall layout. That side does not need additional lift capacity and those twin lifts are too iconic or dare I say cute in my personal opinion to rip out. The mid mountain lift I dont think gets enough traffic to warrant replacement. Halls are good lifts and Borvig is still supported by Partek. If anything get them in to overhaul the drives etc. Those two have a steep enough profile compared to the north face quad line that I dont think its painful to get to the top. The other thing that needs some minor attention I think is the basement of lodge and bathrooms. At least fresh paint and new ceiling tiles or something. And add a glade lol.

I should be good for the 24th. I have a couple extra free passes too

We have a spare bed in the condo, if @Benm doesn't mind sharing a room with Pops, he's more than welcome to join us!

Nice. you should take @Benm. High speed lifts.

Sad to miss this, but I'll console myself with our first ski day in Steamboat, first ever for my kids anywhere but Blue, lol

I can’t go I don’t have a ticket.

I don't sleep next to other dudes, sorry. But I might make an exception for MattEdge

I have to work. Thanks tho.