saltyant

Last year I wore glasses and hardly ever wore goggles at all because the damn glasses would fog up. Now that I switched to contacts, I always wear goggles and they never fog up. I'll never go back to glasses voluntarily again.

Sorry to hear that. Hope you can get out to JF tomorrow. Colliding with a skier or boarder is my biggest fear of skiing, and then we also have to worry about uncontrollable airboards at Montage. They might as well just let people snowtube down the ski slopes too.

I was perfectly fine today because I took Robert2's advice and dressed like an astronaut. All I wear is a cheap base layer. This weather is the best for skiing, I'd even prefer it 15-20 colder than it is now to 40-50's. Bunch of gerries.

Lol, and you guys say I complain...

Yep, might as well get it over with early. I started skiing slightly off trails more today, searching for powder stashes. Guess you inevitable run into a few rocks in the woods, eh?

I know your pain man. I know your pain.

Those options at Jackson Hole sound great to me, if you go mid-week. Today at CB I tried two of the fixed grip chairs due to the lines at the 2 HSQs, and they were just taking too long for me. I swear, they would stop at least 2 or 3 times per ride, and the stops were always 3-5 minutes long. Nope, I found that for the Sullivan side of the mountain, it's still much faster to take the HSQ by crossing the long line perpendicular, skiing over to the other side of the line where there's much fewer people, entering the singles line, and then being cool to Kyle so he pairs me up with a group quickly. Last year a lift attendant named Andrea yelled rudely at me when I suggested she pair people up at the HSQ, since the lines were long. I promptly filed a complaint to CB management and recommended she receive remedial training in customer service.

Thanks. Just checked the trail report and they opened Cliffhanger and Pocono Raceway. So I'm pretty excited for those two additions. I'll try to get up at 6 am tomorrow morning to get First Trax. Yes, I'll have to find some new shades. Sunglasses are new to me since I wore glasses for over 15 years, and I used to have to wear sunglasses that go over your glasses like these: The RTMs were a major success despite shortness. Someone mentioned that I should just rent powder skis if I ever decide to go west or to Alaska. Understandable that this forum probably strongly disagrees with that statement, but just repeating something someone else told me. The only thing I ate today was 1 Fig Newton bar that I had in my pocket. I had 2 bowls of Corn Pops for breakfast. I skied well all day until around 3 pm, when I think I ran out of sugar and started to get physically tired from not eating enough. At least skiing I can quit and go home, but it really sucks when that happens on the bike and I'm 20 or more miles from home. In cycling it's referred to as a "bonk". I noticed lodges are always the most crowded places on the mountain. Last year when I worked as a lift attendant for one day, we were told that we were no longer allowed to sit in the lodge on our lunch break due to the huge crowds and lack of space. So we would have to eat lunch/dinner in the lift shack like some kind of animal.

Elk has really fun trails, the snow quality is top notch, it's not really crowded, and I enjoy how it's in such a rural backwoods location. The downsides are of course the lifts are slow, and it's expensive as hell. But I'll try to get up there once or twice this season.

Still haven't read it? I just checked a second ago to see if you read it before you posted this because it's been 75 minutes since you announced you would SU.

I like to visit all the resorts at least once, but when it comes down to it for me it's a toss up between BM and CB.

Wow very nice S2L!!! I need to get some money savings tips from you.

The lodge is nice and all, but the runs are too short for the long lift rides. I'll probably go one more time and get my money back for my other pass. I think it's well worth the extra 30 minutes of driving to Blue to get much, much more vert in during the same amount of time.

Look Steeze I could see your house from Bear Creek the other night.

Good one eaf. You need to come to CB some time so we can ski together. Too bad you missed opening day or you could have had some hot cocoa and sugar cookies with Ski2Live and myself.

Thanks for asking Steeze. Since I already have a midweek pass for JF for about the same price, I'll use that one day. However, I'll probably only check out JF one time since EAF said the lifts are too slow.

SU? Suit up? Sit up?

Back from a very fun session at Camelback Mountain. Since my $8.00 Wal-Mart sunglasses broke yesterday, I had to contend with the sun in my eyes on both legs of the drive across I-80. However, it was insanely rad to wear my fighter pilot style Smith goggles all day long, and I looked like a true expert skier on my new but short 170cm RTMs. I arrived at my favorite parking spot near the Stevenson Lift around 9:30 am. The inaugural run on my RTMs was tragic. Not more than 10 seconds after snapping my boots into the bindings, I skied over some thin cover on my way to Stevenson Lift, thereby scratching the perfectly manicured base on my brand new skis before even getting to the lift. My first trail of the day was Nile Mile. The cord was sadly gone for the day, but the packed powder conditions were amazing, and I made awesome turns on my RTMs. The RTMs felt identical to the ones I demoed last week, except I knew in my mind that the 3D glass feature of the 2018 model was absent, and that would likely ruin my skiing experience for the next several years until I could afford the extra $300 for 3D glass. All of the runs were open except for Cliffhanger, Pharaoh, Bactrian, Lower Marc Antony, Pocono Raceway, Uncle Bill’s Way, and The Hump. My favorite run of the day was Big Pocono, which is the steepest intermediate run at CB. Because it was mostly all boilerplate, the gapers stayed away from it, allowing me to make wide turns. After a few runs I think I started carving correctly, and I found the RTMs much easier to move around than the Elons. Overall, an insanely fun and rad day. It was a little busier than I thought it would be, but the lift lines flowed smoothly, and I high-fived Kyle, my favorite lift attendant, for doing a great job pairing me with other rides all day long. The lodge was a mad house at noon, and I could not even find a single chair to sit in, so I had to sit in a hallway near an employee door. Thankfully the hotel is open now, so I can take my breaks there instead going forward. I plan to make another trip tomorrow, and am bracing for the largest crowds of the year. But I’m trying very hard to build a tolerance for large crowds, since I am throwing around the idea of taking a 2 day trip to a New York resort over MLK day weekend. I don’t know yet for sure – I’m thinking Hunter, Windham, or something no more than 3-4 hours.

Ski2Live I agree with you 100%. That's really dumb, and Montage only has 2 green runs, so your choices are very limited when with young children. On my first run every at Montage, the airboarders bombed down the hill all around me. At another session, someone took one on a blue hill and had to be tobogganed off. I would never airboard, it looks more dangerous than tubing.

What does Steeze say about me? I hope not anything too awful, like calling me a gaper or a gerry.

Ok but only if I can room with toast and JFDan at the same time, and only if JFDan will mount my bindings for me.

Lol not at all. He seemed like a pro, except he didnt have a GoPro.

I just rode the lift with a dude who is on the same ski, 171 cm, 6 foot tall and larger than me. Vindication!

Ah okay. I'll just stay at CB then and disappear from PASR forever.