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Fastest quad was 4 minutes 35 seconds, Main St express 5 28, Challenge exp 5 7. I was only on the Challenge Express 3 days all year. I guess the quad can be pretty fast if there are no stops.

Should we open up a birding thread? bb.mp4

Nice day here Sunday. Conditions held up well after the rain. Pretty firm but nicely groomed first thing. It softened up a little after noontime, but that just made it more grippy. 31 runs, top speed of 40.9, and Carv Ski:IQ of 130 (the highest I’ve hit). Sunny. Windy to start off, but it died down. A lot of kids on the slopes, but easy to avoid. Never more than a 1 or 2 chair line. Midway and Draufganger getting narrow with some skid marks, but Boulder trail was still nice and wide with no ruts. A little surprised that I liked Boulder better than Frost. Frost East Mtn has a 7 minute 45 second lift ride for 540 vertical feet. Boulder has 6 minutes for 400 feet, and a more consistent slope. Plus it doesn’t have that long runout at the bottom.

Got on the slopes a little later. Dreamweaver pretty crowded with people lining up to hit the jumps. Razors headwall getting bumped up but lower down is nice. Burma also open. Crowded, but the quad is not too bad. People not staying long.

Another nice day at BB. The blew some snow on the top and bottom connectors, but none (I think) on the main slopes. Trails getting narrower, but no skid marks. Plans to eventually put in a new trail under the lift with the room freed up from replacing the 3 double chairs with a quad.

The Matterhorn just before the XC area is a great after ski bar.

Guns are on. 29.8 degrees at 1000 ft elevation.

More turns today at Boulder. Slopeside Mountain Laurel:

Another nice morning at BB. Trails are getting narrower. Practicing my Carv turns. Max Ski IQ 119 today, 120 yesterday.

There are a few small easily avoided thin spots. Same slow speed, but you won’t get splinters from the chairs. Might see you there tomorrow late morning. No need to get there first thing.

Nice morning at BB. Haven’t been there in 10 years. New lifts, but not much else has changed. All black slopes had decent coverage and well groomed. Big Boulder trail (where they ran the races) was nice and wide and had some nice turns on it. About 20 cars in the lot.

JF closing today, but BB will remain open 9-4 all week due to better conditions. Haven’t been there in several years.

Challenge closed, Lazy pretty sketchy, DW/NM open. They pushed the snow on Falls down to Homestretch. Razors is nice.

Saw the ski patrol take the poles down once the barrier was up. Thought at the time they were bringing up some groomers to start fixing it. A week before I was up at Stowe a snowboarder wound up upside down in a similar pothole in some closed glades. Not so lucky as the one yesterday.

Big orange rope.

Big pothole on Nightmare Dreamweaver, where they put the new drainage line in at the bottom of the top headwall. Initially the ski patrol blocked off the jump, forcing people to go on the slot to the left. But I think they were getting too close to the pole even then, so they closed the run. Hopefully they’ll do some maintenance and reopen it tomorrow. Nice day, gave the people on the quad a show second to last run, sliding on my butt down Falls, fortunately not a yard sale. They ran Challenge lift for a few minutes, but never opened it. Chute was in good shape as well as most of Lazy (some gravel starting to show midway). IMG_8450.mov

Yes, skiers right side down first headwall. Need some skier work to round them out. Wonder if they will groom out TCS, or call it until next year.

Razor’s headwall was really soft and getting bumped up, but was the price you had to pay for the sweet, sweet ice starting half way down the trail.

Came in 4th in men’s moguls 2018 Olympics. His technique is to keep the foot all the way in the front of the boot.

A lot of people flail their poles and snowplow the bumps, so your mistake is understandable. 😂

Skied from about 10 to 12, thunderbolt and East Mountain were open as well as exhibition. Nice soft snow on top of a firm base. Snow started getting sticky about noon.

Twern’t me.

Razors and NMDW were nice. Had to turn on top of the bumps on CS cause the troughs were ice. Sky top and Curzi’s cabin closed (had to go through terrain park to get to Chute. Not much of a crowd. Maybe JF tomorrow.

They underestimated how much abuse their customers can put up with. 😂