JFskiDan

Good news is Barbs knee is feeling better, but unfortunately not able to make it out today. Went out with Barbs friend Ilise, and despite the fact she snowboards, she pretty much kicks butt. So yesterday the East River lift was closed, and with a little bit of snow that fell the night before, we heading right there, since that was going to have the best snow. When we got down there, the lift was stopped. we were there long enough to click out, as the lift was doing a start/stop kinda thing for a while before it did get going at slow speed. good news, cause theres no way out of there without hiking up a ways to the Paradise lift. It stopped once or twice on the ride up, after we passed a guy up on one of the towers, so we bailed on staying in that area for fear of getting stuck down there. Skied a little bit of trees, but at this point my legs arent going to put up with much more of that. Stuck to some groomers after that. got pretty crowded, it is after all, a weekend. Stopped at Uley's Cabin, as they were celebrating Uleys birthday, who is supposed to be 107 years old. Had a bowl of Elk Chili and a beer, which got us some tickets for the raffle of a snowboard. I didnt win, and i wasnt too disappointed, i mean, who needs one of those things anyways? Nice pit stop with some good views. The Spice Girls showed up. There were four of them in total. Random tree pics.

i had some help from Barb, she had me ditch one upper layer before we started, and i was fine for the trip. As you know, zero degrees here and zero at home are 2 different things, so i constantly second guess myself out here anyways.

Skin lap at the resort this morning. 1 mile up. currently back at Barbs eating everything in the fridge. Going back to ski shortly with another friend of Barbs who snowboards. Already trying to get her to ditch that and throw on some skis.

Thanks for making me feel really old.

What if you have the Indy Pass? asking for a friend. @Ski2Live Live2Ski

I think you should start warming up to the idea thats not gonna happen for a 4th year.

what a day. Started off by getting a ride to the mountain from Barbs neighbor in her suburban. Reminiscent of 7 dudes and gear for the ride to Jackson, since this time i had to sit in a childs car seat. It was snowing pretty good on the ride up, it let up just a little for opening but vis was really pretty low. Snow was lighter today, and did feel like there was more than the 5-6" that was on the snow stake. i did find where the snowstake is located, and its pretty low on the mountain, so that makes sense. i ran Paradise lift for some powder turns, then in and out of some trees, big powdery bumps, really beat myself up pretty good by 10:30 when i met Barb at East River, so taking a little leg break over by the umbrella bar was welcoming. after a few runs, we took lunch at the umbrella bar, since all of a sudden the sun came out. so things went from this, to this by lunch. That was pretty short lived, as we were sitting at the umbrella bar, the wind picked up, and in the distance you could see clouds rolling in, and when we were finished lunch, it went back to this. After lunch i ran some laps off the Silver Queen, vis on the trails was poor, trees were good, but my legs started telling me it was time to go. Once i got back to Barbs, it started just dumping when we took a walk up the street into town. some other random pics from today. Forecast is 8-16" overnight.

since skitoolive passed on the purchase, i was more than happy to take his spot as a season pass holder. i am sure Blue is just up in arms about him not being a season passholder, but somehow they will get by.

there was a Bear wandering around one day early season for opening they had to poke with a stick to get moving.

so, 16 degrees and the snow was really heavy for whatever reason, maybe it was windblown. kind of snow where people were pretty much eating shit pretty regularly. Anyways a pretty damn nice day today all the way around. it was definitely some work to float this heavy stuff, but got actually easier to ski once it was cut up a bit. First runs for Barb and I were off Paradise bowl, and thats where i quickly found out how heavy the snow was, i skied off the groomer track and it kinda sucked me in, threw me around some, ending up skiing switch a little before i gathered things back up and got things going in the right direction again. played in some trees, but the overnight snow isnt doing tons to fill in the steeper areas which are pretty trenched out, and scrapey underneath from basically 30 days with no snow. The bumps on the trails were really better than most stuff in the trees. Barb and i split up for a few runs before meeting back up for lunch. Found some better trees around International, had no idea where i was actually going, got kinda lost, and ended up at the Umbrella bar. Managed to make it back to Paradise to meet Barb for lunch a little late. Ate lunch, Barb headed back to her place, and i was just gonna cruise a couple more trails. They had sent a couple couple bombs off earlier as they were working on the high stuff, both Tbars had delayed openings. The Tbars opened after lunch, even though i saw people standing in line before lunch. i rode the Paradise lift with an instructor who said the stuff off the high lift was kinda blown off, exposed rocks, but the stuff off the North lift was better, but still not great. i wasnt up for the line up at the Tbars, and since im solo, legs were telling me go home, so i passed on that today. Snow is supposed to continue until thursday sometime. It didnt snow too hard during the day, but looking out the window now, things have really picked up some, and its after 4 pm here, so things should get a nice refill, and we will be at it again tomorrow. pics in a few.

In the line up. Gonna be busy. To be expected. Vis might be a little low light snowfall

Pasr cameo appearance on the "Blue Mountain is great" video at about 40 seconds in.

price seems pretty much in line with what everyone really was thinking. i am sure they have no idea how the paid parking will actually work without creating just a huge back up of cars trying to get out.

Yes it is. We will see if this verifies

Doesnt matter. Its not on one of his many multi mountain passes. Blue looked empty from the fox 29 video.

Phl was a little sluggish this morning. Usually i zip right through, but enough time to grab an overpriced coffee. sitting in DFW, flight to gunnison is a little delayed, it looks like they switched planes on me. Another coffee, and maybe a chick fil a breakfast sandwich. Everyone knows im a sucker for a breakfast sandwich.

Good skiing today. Baby bumps on tcs were fun, upper main was very nice, lower was just a notch below. Best run for me was widow-midway.

TLDR.

I thought there was a breakfast bagel place close by you were stalking, or making a few laps around the block before stopping at the DG, to make sure @RidgeRacer wasnt following you. Again, just glad i wasnt picking my nose when you saw me.

Word on the street is Stowe is done making snow for the year. Accept the fact that Knob is rarely 100% unless its a big snow year for them. They dont care if you go or not. Ski where conditions are best, which may mean opening up the drawstrings on your purse, and skiing outside your pass.

They do, but Biden made the price of them go through the roof, so i will have to slum it with the regular stuffed ones.