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So google and facebook has provided me with this.....
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Holy crap. i have walked from the lot to the ski shop 4 times now and walked right over the concrete they were sitting on, and didnt realize they were gone. I never saw those things open ever. Thats an interesting addition. If Blue owns this item, my guess is it will barely be open, and barely make a profit. If this is someone else's, they will make money with it. not sure why they would bring someone else in to compete with the cafeteria, but remember its Blue.
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Frost had a stellar opening for sure. they opened with a bunch of slopes. I was a pass holder for many years, loved skiing the glades, elevator, etc. Lots of stuff off trail when there is a base, and you are correct, the snow is really pretty good there. My last year there, i felt like the place was falling apart, well maybe not falling apart, but there was a huge lack of maintenance in the glades, and a little while after opening, the glades just werent great without them blowing snow, which they werent. I spent half a day cleaning tree branches out of the elevator glade, just so it could be skied. its ridiculously hard to pull branches out of a foot of manmade snow on top of it. The elevator needed cleaned up again, but i neglected to bring my brush mower, and it was going to be tough to do with snow on it. The last year i was there, the elevator was pretty much un-skiable. What really did it for me, was when they started closing challange, telstar, solitude and Floyds. When they close of all this terrain, the mountain becomes incredibly small. Skiing sensation, and local weather woman Cecily Tynan got a ride off the mountain on a toboggan on one of these days. you can pretty much attribute her injury to all traffic having to go down lightning and rivershot. i was there. it wasnt a good plan for that day. Frost can be baller on a pow day, and the trees will be money, but theres not tons of pitch. Sometimes getting to something that has some pitch can be a problem. The East Mountain lift has been a problem since long before i was there. Its the only lift me, and a bunch of other PASR's were told to jump off of. We had just loaded, and most of us werent that far off the ground. I skied there last year over Christmas with my neighbor. They didnt have quite the good start last year as they did this year, and i was bored pretty quick. But, snow was good, no crowds....just like you said. Dont get me wrong, Blue has its own wonderful set of issues as well. But they also have longer trails, high speed lifts, and trails that turn. Parking lot is pretty cool, and there are a bunch of good people that ski there, that keep things entertaining. But a really good mid-week pow day a Blue? It can be pretty awesome.
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Great day.
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This was my situation at about 4 pm. Watching this was entertaining. There are 3 cars kind of at the top of the hill that were passing each other as one would kind of get stuck then the car behind would go into the other lane and then get stuck right in front of the car it just passed. Luckily no traffic was comng the other way for what ever reason. Its just the right amount of snow to make the roads really slick, at the worst time. Someone could just make a fortune teaching people how to drive in the snow.
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Should get like a free cocoa or something when you get the red chair.
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Weekend roll call thread...12/16-17
JFskiDan replied to GrilledSteezeSandwich's topic in Blue Mountain
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Yeah, i cant wait till they stop doing that.
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This isnt going to make my day at work any easier. I might have a meeting today.....and thats the only reason i went to work.
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way to get after it. super jelly.
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You did not do Honeybee bowl. Trust me.
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I'm suprised at that as well. Probably lots more open this weekend. Frost will have a decent opening.
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Widowmaker should be a double black.....always titties deep with pow. Most average skiers at Blue dont carry avy gear. Somewhere off of Burma should be marked as a black diamond as well. Where switchback meets main street should be a double black, usually after about 10 am on a weekend. This should probably apply to the top of Falls too. The new trail will be a double black as well, i am sure of it. Honeybee bowl is a black or double black. Maybe triple black. take your pick.
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Guns on. Or, really heavy fog in the valley, take your pick. Gonna be a long stretch of snowmaking coming up.
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Nice. way to get after it, Montage.
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that makes a ton of sense to me. Nobody else is open midweek, and all they will run is two lifts. seems like a no brainer to me. I was thinking about skiing Friday, but thats Christmas bonus day. Might not be the best day to take off.
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12/10/17..best snow..biggest crowds of the year..
JFskiDan replied to GrilledSteezeSandwich's topic in Blue Mountain
If they were gonna open that trail as a natural snow only trail, they would need to name it "stumpy". -
TR: 11/18/17 Rainy pre-Thanksgiving laps
JFskiDan replied to enjoralas's topic in Jack Frost & Big Boulder
When i looked yesterday out of shear curiosity, BB had 3 slopes open. Little Boulder, Tannenbaum, and Love. i would have thought they would have had more than that. JF is supposed to open Friday with 6-8 trails. -
But if you had a good day what was your justification for giving you a refund? Thats what i cant wrap my head around either. I'm just gonna leave it at that. I doubt that they will let that happen again. They did screw the pooch on that one there. I know everybody here knew it was gonna be a lift line shit show with opening upper main, lazy, and the "snow in the backyard crowd". I didnt like standing in line for our last two runs, and it turns out that would be considered a short wait. I went to the parking lot. Sure would like to have skied more, but, again....its December 10th. Limited Terrain. Next weekend will be different.
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Good. That will give sallyant something to complain about next weekend.
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Underpromise, and overdeliver. i heard that somewhere earlier this week. way to go Blue.
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i agree. steam engines are awesome.
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Blue Mountain Drive at 3pm tomorrow.......
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Absolutely. i'm not hard to shop for.
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Ok. When are we doing Christmas gift exchange? i got you that Taylor Swift trapper keeper you were hoping for.