JFskiDan

I know zippo about champagne, but if you tell me what kind you are bringing i can add to the pile.

Im a gonna ski Blue tomorrow as well. Probably the last weekday i will be able to play hooky for this year.

Nice. maybe she likes fishing too.....

Im gonna be suprised if JF is open this weekend. But, if Montage and Bear are closing after this weekend, maybe they open just so they dont have to claim they were the first to close. i looked at the cams last weekend at Frost and there wasnt much activity on east mt.

I understand why they are doing it. But at the same time, i cant believe the guy that came up with this idea is like, "yeah, this will work, nobody will really notice". When they close challange at the same time? its like skiing there on opening weekend. The little 12' chute they kept open on Solitude was really just so funny as well.

Still no snow in tampa. Blowin' shit up though.

No snow in Tampa.

0-16".

looks like your timing was spot on. really, really jealous.

trees look awesome.

i believe you could actually make this a GSS free thread?

off to a better start than we were in CO. i think it started snowing again out west.

I thought TTC6 drove a vette.

I guess thats how they do it in vermont.

Got tire chains for the vette? Its gonna be deep on sunday.

Carpool?

I am reviewing the models. The Okie-dokie model is aggressive with the cold air, and amount of precipitaion, The GSS is being a cunt and bringing some warm air in with it overnight. It shows mixed precipitation starting just before Karaoke, but most likely ending right before facebook selfies. yes, 0-16" for all of Carbon County should be a good forecast.

Lets hope it is all snow.

you are hardcore. i have zero interest in going outside today for what the poconos has to offer.

Check with the easter bunny or tooth fairy.....oh wait.....they dont exist either.

Castlerock is so much fun. Hopefully you do know that flashing your Blue pass will get you a $50 lift ticket for the day. (at least it was last year)

pretty sure you need them. At least thats what i would keep repeating to myself. like, i need to have an even number pairs of skis, so i need these. this will also work for uneven as well.

Flight delayed 15 mins. Boarded, now sitting on the end of the taxiway in the PHL penelty box due to weather in PHL.

Vermont -1 is like -40 everywhere else.

Conditions saturday were more like i thought friday would be. mixed conditions all over the mountain. the first groomed trail was reminiscent of trails in PA after a rain/freeze cycle. Areas of the mountain definitely went through a thaw/freeze cycle. Within the same set of trees, you could have some decent powder, packed powder, and crusted up frozen snow, so it was pretty unpredictable. Day 3 proved to be the great equalizer for all of us, as we were all feeling a little beat up. Our first run we hiked up to the radio tower and took wake up call, and it was straight up shit. Chunky, frozen, hard to navigate snow. Back up to the radio tower for some redemption, we took St Pats. Decent snow in there all around, some pretty tricky spots to navigate, but a fun time. St Pats Back up to Morningside again, which, takes a little doing, since you still have to ski down to storm peak express, down to morningside lift, and up morningside. Unfortunately you just cant lap the chutes/Christmas tree area, there is still quite a ways to go down, and it was really taking a toll on our legs. So RR and myself decided we would do the chutes again. Now i was completely content skiing chute 3, which we did the previous day. It is steep enough that it is challenging, but not off the charts. RR talks me into chute 2. Chute 2 is straight up nasty steep, the god damn steepest thing i have ever been on. Makes the fucking elevator look like a beginners bump. Cliffs to navigate around, and it lives up to its name, since to get around the cliffs you have to ski through a series of chutes in between the cliffs. Its was one of those deals were i kind of said to myself, if this goes bad, its gonna go real bad. Luckily the snow is still really good in there. The pictures dont do it justice here, it really just doesnt show how straight down to the bottom of hell this thing goes. i cant imagine what chute 1 is like. PC didnt join us on that run, and that actually proved to be the smart move, as he found some nice trees that were still skiable on the other side by Rolex. By the time RR and myself got to the base we were cooked, and PC was still off skiing. on to Winter Park. The place we are staying in Winter Park is baller.