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Well that's embarrassing, I checked my charge card from last year and the prices are the same. Just the $60 insurance add-on. When you get to be my age and still try to do the stuff you did when you were 50, the insurance is not a bad idea. Drifter pass is 18 to 29. Gen Y?

On a less encouraging note, looks like JF tickets went up $160 for my wife and I. $100 ticket price and $60 'insurance' (without which it appears the ticket is completely non refundable for any reason). Have to decide before the end of April, but my wife is skipping a season pass next year, with all the rain and Friday low price ticket floods, she didn't come close to getting the money's worth. The $300 'millennial' offer is good until December. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Back from Whiteface, skied 7 of 8 days with 2 travel days. After the storm on Tuesday, only the lower mountain was open on Wednesday due to high winds. Thursday the upper was open but totally not groomed, so I didn't head up. Friday Mountain Run and Skyward were groomed, but bumped up quickly, Saturday the grooming lasted longer. Top of Mountain Run was totally blown off down to ice, but the lower 3/4s and Freeway were great. Wilderness was pretty bumped, but had a groomed path down the side. Niagara and Victoria headwalls got pretty bumped after lunch. Lookout lift was running on Saturday (!) but the runs looked pretty sketchy, and a bunch of people were poaching the slides, with blind eyes from the top chair 6 lifties. Weather was cloudless and warm on Saturday, with Mount Washington beyond Lake Champlain clearly visible from the top of Skyward on Big Whiteface. Great trip. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

I'm a groomer kind of guy. Besides, you're looking at one of the reasons I usually buy used skis on eBay. Too many other toys.

The KOA near Whiteface was bought a couple of years ago by people that keep it open all year, so we have electric. Not locking hubs, just standard Ford 4 (6 actually) wheel drive. With all that weight, it handles pretty well in the snow. They make triple slide outs now, ours is a single, which is plenty for my wife, our dog and I.

Goes pretty much anywhere. We use it to have my wife come out to the projects I work on, since retirement is a ways away.

Just Rossi 88s

Icy skiing over the weekend (although lower Mountain Run, Wilderness, Niagara headwall, and Thruway were nice. 35 inches of snow yesterday, spent the morning digging out, and hit the mountain in the afternoon. Gondola, Cloudspin and Mountain Run lifts closed, but Face Lift and Freeway lifts open. A lot of people on the slopes, most struggling with the poof like I was. This morning after cleaning off the truck and camper roof twice yesterday. No snow on the ground Monday. Last night, our Pilot and brother-in-law's trailer. Actually that wasn't our Pilot, it was his F-150

I think probably. Get the weekend one with blackouts. My wife will skip it, though. Hopefully they will have the black Friday sale again.

So I didn't have much time Friday due to a eye doctor appointment to get more contacts, so I decided to hop over to Blue 4 or 5 miles down the road from me. Get there about 10. It wasn't awful, after waiting on line 20 minutes to get a ticket, the 6 pack line and slopes were uncrowded. Fans were blowing when I got there, but stopped after the first couple of runs. Challenge and Razors were pretty nice, but kind of gravelly after picking up some speed and with some ice in the middle. Mainstreet and Dreamweaver were a lot smoother with some loose stuff, but had people on them. Liked the high speed lifts, but had to talk to people on the chair-what's with that? At Frost, once I have to start sharing a chair, it's time to leave. Back to Frost today. 14 degrees at 8 o'clock. They actually blew a lot of snow (in March!). Floyd's was groomed pretty nice, the bottom of Rivershot wasn't groomed and was a little rattle-ly. Headwalls were a mix of soft cord and machine powder. They did get half an inch from flurries last night. Telstar was closed and pretty bare, never ski that anyway - no great loss. T bolt was groomed and very smooth and fast, Challenge was left with some powder laid down after the groomer finished. A fairly strong wind blowing up the hill covered tracks pretty quickly. First run on Challenge-see anything missing? Hint: starts with t and ends with ks.

My wife was out Monday and conditions were a lot better. She even did runs of Rivershot and Floyd's getting ready for our Whiteface trip coming up.

Hope the groomers have enough snow left do their magic, the slopes were as bad as I've ever seen them, even on closing days. Tbolt and Challenge were solid ice. They ran groomer down East Mountain last night, otherwise it would have been a mess. Packed it in after a few runs.

Slopes in surprisingly good shape for 55 degrees at 9 AM. Warmish wind blowing down the hill, mostly sunny. T shirt and sunglasses, working on the tan kind of day. Skied mostly Rivershot for an hour until the flats started getting gray looking. A shot after my first run: Then did Challenge and T bolt for another couple of hours. Never got real slushy or draggy (I still need to put a spring skiing structure on my bases). 68 on the way home (thanks Exxon/Mobil). Ski for the Cure tomorrow. Probably wait until after the freeze Saturday night to go out again.

Was out for a couple of hours Friday, got there at noon, parking lots full, but slopes aren't too bad at first. East Mountain was in great shape with one chair running. Lapped Floyd's and Rivershot until the lift line got pretty bad after the lunch crowd got back on the slopes. No staff at the corrals this year make them a mess when the lines build up. Snow was softer today, didn't seem to freeze last night, got on the slope right at 8. Treated myself to slopeside parking right at the Challenge chairlift Floyd's was already blocked off for the race team when I got there, ran Rivershot until they started the second chair at 9, between the skiers, race team waiting for their shot at Floyd's, and red sled practice, the last drop of Rivershot got pretty crazy. Challenge and Tbolt were soft and crowded with lift lines building up quickly, so back home to watch the Saint Moritz worlds.

Don't do no steeking levels. Seriously though, I picked up a lot of tips when my son was on the race team that helped my straight ski bad habits. One of which was going into the back seat on scary steeps.

Quad burn - skiing in the back seat? Are you sitting back when you ski? At the end of the day you shins should feel it from forward pressuring your boots, not your thighs. Keep your hands in front and squish the bug under your toe.

Nice day on the mountain, got there about noon, 17 degrees, no wind, overcast but the sun trying to poke thru. Packed powder, with a couple inches of new snow on the ground, but the slopes were groomed out. Not crowded, and spent my time on East Mountain and Challenge/Thunderbolt. Conditions excellent, right side of tower 6 above elevator glade a lot of fun. Bumps on Exhibition were nice and soft too:

Icy slope and well waxed skis. I can see you picking up some speed on that last drop of Razor's Edge.

70 is pretty damn fast, not going to get there at Frost (unless you skate the flats and tuck headwalls and I'm not sure about making that turn at the bottom of Floyds), and I'm not getting there period. My son did the mid 70s at Whistler last year on his Fischer World Cups. 80s is Lindsey Vonn downhill speed on a very good day (her record is 83). There is a big difference in ski apps - if the app loses your position it can give a false very high reading when it re-obtains it. The algorithm Navionics uses tends not to do that - you can look at the graph on either side of the high reading and see if the high reading was an artificial artifact (although I think artificial artifact is redundant).

Exactly, you can show a line chart of your speed and altitude, and 'play' through your day. It is Navionics ski. They are a GPS company, and although other ski apps may have more features, after trying 3 or 4 other apps, I find Navionics to have the most consistent and what I think is the most accurate speed. If you click on a run on the left side, it highlights it on the right side map. You will notice at the bottom of Floyds, the track goes off the trail - I think thats because I tend to go into a half tuck and lose the view to the south where the satellites tend to be and the phone loses the satellites. But other apps are worse about going off track. The battery usage is pretty good, but if the battery dies, you lose the day. Also, if you leave it on for the drive home, there is no way to delete that part of the track.

Another good day, race on Challenge, practice on Telstar. High 20s, partly sunny, no wind. Nicely groomed again, with an inch of powder on top from overnight flurries. Got there early and skied for 90 minutes until the race teams started skiing in groups. Lapped Rivershot and Floyd's - something about hitting the top of Floyd's full speed and seeing the slope just drop away from you. Although Rivershot was faster today, but crowded up sooner. With all my bitching and moaning, I guess there is a reason why I'm still at JF:

Still interested, just trying to find the time when the weather is good.

Better day today. 27 degrees and the ice nicely ground up and formed into flat cord. Got in and on the slopes at 8 and only had to share the mountain with the red coats and one or two others until 9. Lapped Rivershot and Floyd's until 10 and called it a day. The cord was turning into sugar snow and people started traversing the slopes. Hopefully some snow blowing will happen this week. Lots of cars coming in as I was going out. Music at the lodge tonight.

Thinking about it for next year. Getting lonely here. Raised my season pass by $200 and then flood the slopes with $9 discount tickets. My wife has decided to skip her season pass next year. Lost track of R2.

Got out for a couple hours this afternoon, should have stayed home. Ice, sugar piles and out of control skiers. The place desperately needs to blow some snow. I'll see how things are first thing tomorrow morning. Best run of the day was down the center right of Exhibition - all the snow was scraped off and the ice was nice and smooth. Time to sharpen my edges again.