JFskiDan

Thats not gonna make for the greatest weekend then.

with 2 buddy passes. thats a steal. I hope they will do the $50 with the payment plan. i think they did it last year. i spend money like crazy this time of year so the payment plan hurts a mush less. Downside is with the dumpster fire that was Camelback this year, Blue is gonna be busier. I cant for the life of me figure why people continue to go there.

My driveway is lookin pretty shiny too right about now, but its flat so very manageable. My deck was fairly treacherous as well, but i worked on that a little on Sunday when it was raining to knock that down to just mildly treacherous. im not a fan of salt or calcium either. that shit just inevitably gets tracked all over inside the house. People in the development posting on FB looking for people to come spread salt on their driveways like crazy.

Power is back on, i think it went back on around midnight. so, i figured out why when the wind blew, there was always this weird banging noise, which whenever i heard it, i thought to myself what ever it is, it will self correct. Turns out it was either the window shutter or downspout that got ripped off my house that was loose and making noise with the wind. No more noise, i mean obviously since neither of them are attached to the house anymore. Crazy windy though.

Im back in Delco, but thanks anyways.

Great. Power is out. I hear a few generators running. Time to go add to that i guess.

The snow that has fallen on top of everything around my house which is covered in ice, now brings "slippery" to a new level.

its seems to bother some in Utah over Alta. Dom and i talked to a bunch of guys at Snowbird and they gave us some "Alta Snowboard Team" stickers.

So, i could see Mr. Moore keeping things status quo, but i would think any new owner buying a run down ski joint (and yes, i'm gonna say it, but there is nothing new about Elk, and anyone purchasing it should see it needs many lift upgrades) would welcome any type of additional skier visits. I would bet that Indy has really helped out Magic, which i mean, look at that place. Wanna talk about a shoe string budget? But they totally embrace the Indy pass. Buying a pre existing ski joint these days seems to me like a huge gamble, unless you have some type of huge corporation behind you with deep pockets. If i was buying Elk i would do what i could to get Blue Mountain crowds there every day.

Were you able to talk to any long time season passholders about who owns the place now?

Nice. you should take @Benm. High speed lifts.

Nice. i think i will save mine for this. Second dumb question, i want to give my buddy passes to two specific people to use at their leisure. do i transfer them via email, or do i go to guest services and turn them into an RFID card?

how do you do that? can you enter it on the website when you go to renew?

Dont forget - for those of you with a Blue pass, its probably a good idea to use up that $50 credit, and buddy passes before renewing.

i didnt consider this. its a likely scenario for sure.

i was there last year for that, and yeah, i got to talk to a bunch of people that worked at Buckmans that got to try out some new skis. lol.

Next time you and i are on the lift with 4 other randoms, we can start one. I have something in mind.

i just cant believe with internet sleuths like @Benm that there isnt record of a property transfer, however, i did a little work and couldnt find anything. Keeping the buyers a secret i feel is a major undertaking. You know enough of the right people know, and all it takes is one little slip. Maybe KSL should get with the buyers since they are trying to unload Blue.

Those long time season passholders are always in the know. if any of this is true, it is absolutely the best kept secret in the history of ski joints.

$799 with $50 renewel Gift Card that most will forget about.

Yep, i remember that talk as well. And putting tubing over there is a great idea in my opinion. But think of the massive undertaking that would be. Permits, Grading, electric, pipe, water, buildings, etc. huge.

taking bets on $$$$ ?

just for fun, i looked at this on GE. I mean, they could do this, (in Red), but thats a shit ton of work, and it would wipe out that little hike park or learning center what ever that is. it doesnt make sense to do all this work and connect it back to P-dise at the pond. it cant go around the pond the other way, unless tubing isnt there any more. if it hooks left and goes in between tubing and the ponds, that area is basically flat VIA topography/elevation map. If they didnt have snowmaking on skier right of P-dise, they cold just mow down the trees on the right some, and make it Snowbasin wide. I can think of like 100 other things Blue needs to "fix" before doing this, so to me just none of this makes any sense to me, but, we are talking about Blue, so.......

Looks like things are getting better for the resorts that have been lacking for sure. Fun fact - Jay peak has had 289" so far this year. More than Jackson and Alta.

The light is flat everywhere in the AM, these things are kind of an issue. i do like the "Brighton - esque" stuff they put on Sidewinder, but i went down that Saturday pretty much trying to do a recon mission that since i really didnt know where they were, and ended up catching one with just a little bit of air and landing on a second just before the lip, and that was a little uncomfortable on the feet for sure. i had no idea about the one on Challenge and rolled the windows up pretty good on that one too. Oh, and even if NMDW has the best snow, there is so much park crap on that now its the dumbest trail on the mountain.