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Heard whistles from true chairlift thought wtf am I at blue? Just the redcoats doing sled practice on river shot. Getting a little busy now. Both emtn chairs going.

So is it ok to sing along with candy night if you have the slope all to yourself?

Should have brought my gs skis. These 165s aren't hitting Mach 1 going down floyds.

Jadip. 19, no wind not a cloud in the sky. Slopes smooth and fast. Purple wax fresh edges. Lodge and east mtn quiet except for some hot skiers.

Jadip. 19, no wind not a cloud in the sky. Slopes smooth and fast. Purple wax fresh edges. Lodge and east mtn quiet except for some hot skiers.

Is there a jpeg of the sticker? We could make our own.

No, my fanny got too big for the pack (good thing we aren't in the UK). Whats in your fanny pack? On our way out this afternoon we took the Exhibition chair back to the lodge, and I noticed there is a nice patch of seeded moguls on the skier left of the trail. Have to give them a try tomorrow.

Cloudy about 45, no wind. Very firm base with light loose stuff on top. Elevator glade looked nice and soft so I decided to try it and went in the middle entrance. Big mistake. It was frozen solid and I did'nt't look too graceful getting out. Elevator was another story. Nice and smooth. Started at the peak did some turns, built up some speed, and traversed up to the top on skiers left and headed down again. Starting to develop a compression if you hit the bottom with too much speed. Challenge and tbolt glades are pretty icy. Those two slopes have some small ice spots in the middle in the mid afternoon. Crowds from the discount ticket prices aren't too bad, either in the lodge or the slopes. Challenge lift did stop a lot though.

Apparently it was rain 20 miles south where I live. I"m on the road now though, sorry I missed it.

Using your poles in getting off isn't as bad as pushing off the chair.

Much as I like JF, I have to admit you are right. Pretty short. The challenge is just taking that first step off the top into the steepest part of the slope. After the first turn or two, its all about controlling your speed so you don't hit the crudish bottom going too fast.

Challenge glade a little icier than it was yesterday afternoon - might be better later in the day. As if there aren't enough shots of Elevator, here is a different perspective with a ski patroller about to launch.

Warmer 35 at 8am, mostly cloudy no wind. Slopes in usual great shape. Elevator right side is anlittle bumped, but middle and left is still wide open

I've seen them doing this at Whiteface. They take a run with a fair amount of loose snow, and use a small cat. The cat moves forward, then reverses one tread spinning to the right, then moves forward and it reverses the other tread and spins to the left. It does this up the run, then turns and does the same thing going down the run next to the line it just made. It does this about a dozen times, and you have a nice mogul run. What the technique is for using the plow in front (if they lift it and lower it in the process), but I think they don't use the grinder in back. I'm sure there is a lot more skill to it than it appears watching it. Sure wish JF would seed a mogul field - they are a lot more fun than the natural mogul buildup after a snow dump.

Don't know why the image didn't turn out above. Between the cold, small screen, needing reading glasses and the end of the chair lift ride approaching, I tend to make some typos. You can see the rocks on the bottom left (on top of the little cliff) just before you would swing around the tree with the snow on the trunk and shoot down the slot between the boulders. Its a lot steeper than it looks in the photo - I was having a hard time holding my edge taking this shot. Respected by bases too much to try it (and I'm keeping to that story). Left about 2, and the snow was still great. Like spring skiing without the mashed potatoes and ice. Wifey finally tried on the Burning Luvs I bought her and loved them.

Snow on risk it looks great, but there is not enough. There are some rocks showing on the entrance to the slot between the boulders.

Warmer. Partly sunny mid 40s snow soft and carve able bit still fast. East mtn and elevator in good shape and not at all crowded.

No once you hit the bottom you have to turn to your left to avoid the trees between the bottom and floyds. But you can start on the right at top and traverse down and to your left across the face o the hill and shoot out onto the bottom of river shot carrying a lot of speed. But it's more fun to make linked turns down the face.

Don't let the b00 mountain people annoy you - to them anything with a particle size of less than 1/2 inch is powder . I'll be up Friday, unfortunately it was back to work for me on Monday.

Since you asked - jfskidan (aka you know who) waiting to go over the edge at Elevator (his orange hood doesn't show as clearly in the picture as it did by eyeball). One other PASRer on his way down. Elevator from the other side (not a PASRer though as far as I know). Doesn't look as steep from this vantage as my gut said it was. One of those slopes where the cookies you kick up on your turns tumble down the slope ahead of you (or maybe I just ski it too slowly).

Cold 14f sunny. Race today on Challenge and the glade is closed also. East mtn in great shape. Lodge crowded with racing families but slopes quiet so far.

I should be there at 8 over on east mtn. Blue/purple jacket Rossi 9s oversize.

The slopes can be pretty ripped up at 4pm, and pristine the next day since there is no night skiing, and they have time to blow if needed and groom everything. But there is tons of snow on the slopes, so if they don't blow there is plenty of base to be able to groom it smooth. But I think the previous poster had it right - the crowd will be in the lodge (they had the keggers stacked up today), not on the slopes, especially not on the east side. Saturday should be great (as long as they pick up all the beer cans).

No, I generally don't ski the slopes he is on.

Fresh snow on all the slopes. A little warmer today. Soft cord on the groomers. Elevator soft, no ice anywhere, carveable and easy to control speed. Blackmores Night type of day. Fast and melllow.