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Yeah man. Extreme edging is something you gotta work up to.

You gotta work on your edging.

Vail just announcing $100 million in "cost saving efficiencies" so who knows.

I liked the broken glass and skiing under the high tension line.

I mean favors in the sense that they keep it open more than two months total. They haven't exactly spread the love around at JF either.

When BB was a terrain park it had a justification for staying open. Vail very obviously favors JF over BB. I guess BB is small enough that Vail doesn't notice the loss on their overall bottom line.

I don't hate Mountain Creek.

Yeah they were doing a pond skim thing and a "rail jam" with the one rail in the "terrain park". The place felt very sad.

I'll give them another week before BB closes. Stopped by for about a half hour today around noon. Place was almost empty.

No that's a Camel Top.

Vail released Epic pricing for next season. The full Epic Pass is now $1051. The NE Value Pass is starting at $642. Looks like prices are up 7% from last year. These are early bird rates.

The Nut! I was there once like twenty years ago. I should go back.

$399 at Montage plus the Indy add-on is an absolute steal.

Pulled the trigger on the Indy add-on. Will be using BC as the local hill with a season pass.

I'd have to do Bear Creek as my season pass then jump on the Indy add-on March 1st (thats when BC season passes go on sale). That's probably the only thing from keeping me off Indy. They don't have a good local option coming out of SEPA besides BC as Shawnee and Montage are all 2hr+ drives for me.

I have to seriously think about Indy next year.

Sorry I couldn't make it today. Work called. Have a great time!

Floyds is fast and good. Mad Tree Glade is in. Looked icy but was OK. Nice day today.

Nobody is getting a cameltop now.

Yeah its still there. And the restaurant gift shop thing next to it.

When I was in high school we used to crash the restaurant all the time. Prices weren't that much different from the cafeteria and sometimes it was so crowded that was the only place to find a place to sit.

Could do that. The 24th.

Conditions are great. Like 2-3 feet of snow on the ground here in southern VT. But where to go? All this snow but if I go to Mr Snow I can either rid icy moguls, fast groomer boomers, or go into the woods and try to make jump turns between down rutted out tree runs. You know. Where are the goods? Right? So forget Mr Snow and PBRomley (Magic don't open till tomorrow but it's gonna rain RIP). Gotta go find those fresh lines. Yesterday I checked out Prospect and was very happy. Today I headed further down VT Route 9 (that's the Molly Stark highway if you didn't know, see Jon Stark said he didn't mind getting shot by the British to get away from his wife so they named a highway after her in the 60s or something). Before you start winding down towards peanut Brittleboro you'll come around a wide bend in the road with a pullout and a scenic view towards New Hampshire and Grand Monadnock Mountain. This is Hogback Mountain. The actual mountain is called Olga. The ski area is Hogback. Closed in the 1980s. They had like seventeen different T-bars. No chairlifts. The lodge is now a distillery. There's a gift shop. And the trails are open to hiking and skiing. Boy what I day. Spent a solid couple hours on the skins looking at the old T-bars. They still maintain a little shelter hut thing at the top to smoke the Mary Janes in or whatever. Seems like a chill spot. Lots of skin tracks all over. And lots and lots of powder. Real powder. Sink down to your thigh powder. What a day. Wish this place was steeper though. Very easy, mellow mountain. About 500 vertical feet from top to bottom. Made some nice floaty turns. What a feeling. The bottom of the trails is below the highway and the parking lot, so you have to hike back out to get back to the car. Ate a turkey sandwich and headed out as the sun started to come down with storm clouds building behind. It's been a great few days. You can find some good stuff out there if you work at it.

Yeah, on your right as you come up the mountain from Bennington on Route 9.

Bear Creek is already on Indy Pass so it would make sense for Elk to be added to the Indy Pass list. That would be nice. As for a hotel/high speed development... I've mixed feelings. I don't want them to change the character of the place.