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White pass is awesome. I'll post more pics later. Gonna do a few more runs and get ready to head to Spokane. Snow overnight and snowing all day. Only downside is the visibility is terrible so you can't see mount Rainier.

Ran into @enjoralas in the lodge who informed me that I missed creme brulee day, dammit! As Philly team fans say, "There's always next year..." Had to be carried out both Saturday and Sunday, as the snow softened and the bumps turned HERO. Can barely walk this morning as the legs are just complete @toast21602 Will be interested to see what's in store for the coming weekend, what they can cobble together. Definitely Razor's and Nightweaver have plenty of snow, but the runouts will probably need some Old MacDonald treatment. After the impressive magic they pulled on upper Paradise to get it covered, I'm pretty sure they won't have any problems opening. Where they got the snow for Paradise is a complete mystery.

Mostly rode the stuff off coulior chair...glades off west ridge were great. Some of the trails don't have much pitch but the glades, blacks, and double blacks are pretty good. There are also some open bowls, but some had choppy snow, glades were much better. Had a beer, bratwurst, and soup at the mid mountain lodge. Overall, definitely the best snow I've had. All the mountains i hit were great but I think white pass and lost trail are my favorites.

Hey All, I’m back from another fun morning at Blue mountain the true mountain. Today might even be closing day. I arrived at the lower lot at 7:23am and it was cloudy with the temperature in the mid 40s. In the house was a smallish crew. Familiar faces like Atomic Jeff, JFDan, Dirtwolf, PARidge, BenM, Enjorales, TP4, Johnny Law, Bethlehem Ford crew and Indiggio. I started on the super summit safari six pack and first skied lazy mile which was pretty nice and smooth..The falls was glacial ice. Paradise wasn’t as smooth as Lazy but not that bad just a lot of solid. Coming soon was nice and skied that twice it was spring conditions. Challenge was pretty solid and a huge bare area on the right side of the second headwall. Razors had good and bad areas. I took one run down Burma road and it’s still holding on just barely..the last stretch had about an inch and a half of base and as Toast says it’s all about the base. I repeated lazy mile and ended with a Paraweaver run. Fun parking lot I had a couple beers and enjorales made breakfast sandos, Pork loin, short rib, flatbreads, creme brûlée and sausages. Now I’m at work trying to do a few things before I do THC experiments on myself. JADIP

Hit on a dry fly definitely counts.

Interested for sure to see. It's so warm (70) and humid outside.now. When I look across the valley I can't even see blue. It's a haze. Thursday and Fri are supposed to be like this too. Yes nmdw has a ton of snow but is it enough to get down through homestretch and back to the lift, not to mention from the lift up top to the actual trail? My guess is if they open it's Vista only depending on how the snow fares over there. Either way I'm ok to hang 'em up and embrace camping and hiking weather.

Was there anything left up top of sidewinder? Looks like no Friday this week. Support your local Amphibian

Nice upgrade from your skis...

Near as I could tell, it rolled down the hill on its own. I was on a lift on the opposite ridge when I saw it. I think it was kicked off up high. Then these guys came down after it and it looked like they were sculpting it into a jump. But really, that means that slope needs closing. I don't know why ski patrol wasn't chasing them off. Similar but slightly steeper areas on similar-facing ridges are all closed because of avalanche danger. If this well-pounded slope is shedding sections that way it's not safe. I've been next to an avalanche years back. Missed being hit by seconds.

Rode at lookout pass from 9 to 1...conditions ranged from soft groomers, firm corduroy, and crusty snow in the glades. There looks to be some good access to backcountry areas there. They have a ton of snow, seems to snow there a lot more than Silver which is like 20 minutes away. Fished a little on the way back and now enroute to central Washington. Hanging out at Post Falls Brewing, great beer. Hitting white pass in Washington tomorrow. Possibly 49 degrees north Tuesday although my flight boards at 1 25, so may skip riding and fish/hit a brewery

Bittersweet leaving today. I feel like this may be it for the season. Sad for that...but happy that it really was another great season. Thanks for spoiling us again with the food @enjoralas. As for the skiing. Good coverage all things considered. Yesterday took it's toll in spots. Like @GrilledSteezeSandwich said it was probably the quietest that I can recall seeing blue on a weekend. I can't imagine they're making much money so a shout out to Blue for opening up for the pass holders this weekend (and maybe next). Definitely grateful for that

Spent a bluebird day yesterday, skiing with the kids in the morning and grandkids in the afternoon. Not quite frozen cord in the morning up top, mashed potatoes lower down in the afternoon. No bowls, but a lot of ponderosa pines. Well maintained, good logistics, kind of an upscale type of place, a Sierra’s Park City with a hotel lower mid mountain. Shuttle from the parking lots worked well, light lift lines and slopes not crowded up top. Cross country trip went well, except they closed 80 in Wyoming for us when we hit Green River due to extreme blow over risk for campers. So we detoured down 191 past Flaming gorge to Rt 40 and over to SLC. Big storm coming in to Truckee tonight so we are making discretion the better part of valor and heading out this afternoon. Don’t want to have to put the chains on this beast.

Sweet report..I have to checkout some of these places..the area you visited is sort of a Bermuda Triangle of places I haven’t been. What kind of rental car do you have? Coeur d’Alene I used to hear about a lot when I lived in Bozeman and a guy I went to college with took a job in Hamilton Montana and Lookout was his local. Gonna look a map of that area.

Enjo's grill was on fire again yesterday. good stuff. skiing was kinda meh, maybe if the weather was a little nicer the score would have gone up, but it was a solid 3.2. it will be super interesting to see what they have in store for this weekend, Main looks finished, Homie stretch has a big dirt stretch in it. Not super impressed with how much snow was left on Vista or Burma. And lower Paradise cant be real good at this point.

Nymphs, leech patterns, and san Juan worms. The big trout I lost in Montana was on a stonefly pattern and had some hits on dry flies

Mongo snow ball contest?

Day 64. Started out kind of misty, but turned into a nice day.

This is grate. I remember this one day back in 2017 when I skied Honeymoon 49 times out of my 49 runs, and we took a break and consumed sugar cookies and hot cocoa for sustenance. That was radical. My only regret is that @enjoralas was not there to ski with us. It's grate that Cliffhanger was better than anything at Blue, maybe I'll get a Camelback season pass again in 3025. Be sure to post a report at Vail, I went there a few weeks ago and skied some knee deep perder and drank some fancy wine at an expensive restaurant. I saw a McDonalds across the street from my hotel house if you want to save some johnny cash.

Lost trail was awesome. The chair 4 stuff reminds me a bit of the stuff off Millie at Brighton. Chutes, cliffs, trees, bowls, and some nice groomers. Started off by hitting some stuff off the chair near the lodge...then over to chair 4. Did a trail and then a chute called wall of fame and also a few tree runs. It was a little sketchy and icy at the top but the rest was nice. Also hit some groomers which were firm to start but softened up by mid morning. Went out sacajawea trees, which turned out to be a bad idea as I ended up hiking back pretty far once it flattened out. Trees got pretty tight but at the top they were pretty manageable.

Quit your whining Senor panini last year you got bad sunburn on your arms and webMD said you had MRSA which was false.. and how about those NY Metz…any leftover fries from the party those were good. Like Bay fries A Bay Bay A Bay Bay

Yesterday was so so so so much fun, hyper big shout out to enjo as always dude you are the absolute goat. I've skied enough hills to know at the end of the day it's the people that make a place and it was an honor and a pleasure.

That's rad, all the rain coming this weekend will be really grate for the snow making retention pond skimming ponds.