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Great day also, other than my pole trying to stab me in the quad lift line. Second time in a week. I think my poles are possessed.

-15 on the car thermometer this morning driving thru Kunkletown and Little Gap.

Floyd’s is apparently finally open.

Good day today, Tuesday. 2 degrees on the car thermometer at the house, but it read -8 in the Buckwa creek valley north of Blue. Everything was in good shape, with NM/DW closed for major grooming. Very light crowds. Warmed up to 17 at the mountain by noon.

I think it had one pretty steep run. My son was in a race there over 15 years ago and one of the racers crashed and burned and got pretty messed up. If I recall correctly, he was helicoptered out. Had a nice WPA type lodge with a bunch of people using straight skis.

Only the first row of slopeside parking was open, because they were expecting 18 buses this afternoon to use the roped off area. They did have a security guard directing people into that row if there were open spaces available. This prevented people from having to back out if there are no spaces. They were grooming out Nightmare/ Dream Weaver, putting in some big features, and they were also working on the broken down groomer on razors edge. Conditions were a lot like yesterday, but with bright sunshine and no wind. Lazy mile was in much better shape than yesterday. Sidewinder was the ROTD, Switch was nice too. First tracks down Paradise was sweet.

Skier turned out to be Ok, just a little cut on his face.

A lot of Camelback trash talking on the Blue lifts today from Camelback regulars.

Learning hill was packed today. Even had the Wednesday adaptive skier group on it.

Grooming and snow conditions were top notch. Did huge turns on Sidewinder. Up to 13,000 turns this season. Unfortunately saw a skier get clobbered by a boarder coming off midway. Wasn’t moving, ski patrol got there quickly. Be safe out there.

The new lifts replacing the twin lifts Boulder and Frost are pretty nice.

It was on far skier’s right a ways above Razors Edge. The ski patrol put an orange fence around it.

Good time had by all.

There can only be one. Dug my slalom skis out of the attic, sharpened and waxed them, and spent the morning on Razors in the race clinic. Nice setup by blue, a course of brushes and stubs to start off, then a couple dozen slalom gates. Been quite a while since Nastar was a thing on the east coast. But even without the course set up, razors would have been closed because there is a broken down groomer on the slope. They almost canceled the slalom clinic because of it. Supposedly nine days to get the drive motor repaired, hopefully they’ll tow it off somewhere before that.

Razors was surprisingly quiet and even the top headway was grippy. Brought out my ancient slaloms after seeing the conditions yesterday morning, and skied until my legs got wobbly.