Johnny Law

Tonight was the best snow I've ever skied at blue. Very fast with endless grip, cold with the guns on but beautiful night with the full moon. Still no blowing on nightmare/dreamweaver or switchback. It was so good doesnt even matter paradise was even good, really fast.

LOL........... nah, Doug is good people

hahah, for those I will make an exception

Gotta apologize to Doug, turns out he may be right. Mt Holly calling in 8". Mt. Holly is the most conservative of NWS stations so........

Will do, they blow crap snow and very little of it so you got to wait until mother nature puts a base down for them. It's a weird place, got to know what your getting into but it's legit glade skiing for PA and they cut logging roads all over the mtn. The access road is one of the sketchiest in PA. When the Knob is on though there is nothing comparable in the state. Legit steeps and trees, a bowl of sorts and alot of soul.

Sat/Sun lower lot....I only drink shirley temple's

Best hill in PA and it's not even close. Gotta run out there this year.

No model is showing 12-18" for anywhere outside of Nova Scotia. GFS is saying maybe 6" and GFS has been coming in too wet, EURO is 4-8". 3-6" is a reasonable bet with some light mixing on the tail end Sunday morning. This will likely show up Friday night, build moisture until Sat morning and then snow lightly all day and night, with about 1/10th of an inch or less of sleet before it moves out. Anything over 5" requires a ratio of 15/1 or 20/1, it's too warm and 20/1 is like diamond dust, it doesn't snow diamond dust in the Mid Atlantic. If you got a 15/1 ratio and the phasing from the beach maybe then you would have enough moisture for 12" but that is highly unlikely. I would love to rip 18" of cream cheese at the Blue with ARG's but that is highly unlikely. Tuesday's storm is classic clipper Miller B, they don't bring much moisture and don't hang out at the beach long enough to gain much, it will swoop by dropping some inches in a very confined location, wrap around and oragraphic lift will help but that ain't us. Green Spine will probably be the spot. Pattern is pretty good though, cold artic air from the AO with pretty good NAO blocking, if moisture comes it's probably going to snow.

If your doing a 4 corners trip but most people don't do that. Fly into Alb, hit Taos, then run into Southern CO, hit Silverton, Wolf, Durango and Telluride. Go home out of telluride-Denver or something similar.

It was Taos. Mother fucker.... Taos was a hold out from a different time. As a money thing it probably had to happen, they've had $$$ issues off an on for 40 years. So fucking lame on the Kachina lift, it will probably be the Kachina lift presented by Amway or something equally as retarded. Better than Vail turning it into Northstar at Tahoe South or DV 2 but the 80 year old man in me is unhappy.

Sorry dude I know you didn't, I didn't mean that response to indicate you personally, just general questions to the group.

Why ban him ? He's cool, so somebody got pissy. Being offended is a meaningless statement, its an adult whine. Honestly, I thought JS's reply was far more juvenile and I like JS.....the ban hammer almost ensures this shit cooks at a low burn for months. If I am fucking something up my fault but TP4 can't be an alias as I met the guy.

Philly, this is a southern event.

Another SEPA storm coming in tomorrow, a band will hit 4-8". Outside of the band it drops quickly, doubt it will make the hills but Love Park should be pretty good.

I've spent maybe 30 days at Pow Mow over the last 10 or so years. It is flat relative to the other areas nearby. Also ignore their acreage claim 50% of it is lame and includes James which most people will not ski. Pow Country, James/Lighting ride and that area in the middle are really the only areas with decent vert. That's the bad, the good is you can meadow skip pow all day there and everyday after for a week after a storm. Powder Country is beyond sick, if you haven't ridden Pow Country you haven't really done Pow Mow. They almost always have considerably more snow than Basin, their neighbor, and when the conditions are right you can take 12$ cat rides to the col near James. 15 mins of skining later and your posted up on a pretty big mtn. Beyond the numbers and all that shit, Pow Mow is about the experience as a whole. The food is shit, the lodges are old and cramped, it was not uncommon years ago to run into the lift house to find the lifty asleep. It's an old school place that oozes soul and legit non-corporate character, its a ski mtn that is actually really only about skiing and snow. It's a heaven for those that like soft snow and no bullshit. Maybe 8 years back we rolled up after 30-40 inches had fallen over a number of days, I can't remember the day but it was during the week and they were opening pow country for the first time that year. We ran lap after lap of armpit deep blower, endless lines as far as the eye can see and saw maybe 20 other people all day. The bus that picks you up and brings you back up top adds that cat skiing thing were everything is perfect in the world, you can bullshit with friends about how fucking awesome this is because your in zero rush, unlike the rest of UT outside of Sundance, there is very little Bro-Brah let's fucking murder this pow in 20 mins shit going on. Woody ran the pow country bus back when it was a flat bed that would occaisionally bounce peeps out, woody is now the director of operations or some similar shit. Woody's sun now runs the buses and it's not uncommon to hear his dad rip him a new asshole for crashing the bus, being behind or anything really. One time when the bus broke they let us build a booter into their parking lot, employees, randoms all got in on the act. That's the kind of place Pow Mow is, that's why it's so important it retains that character in a world of sell outs. The pow skiing is fantastic but it's really the entire experience that brings people back. If you go and are the right type of person you will understand, Pow Mow will forever have a special place in my heart, some of my best days where spent their killing the meadows in waist deep. Being able to do that with nearly nobody around is not something you come across everyday, it's something that if you are a real snow person forever changes you. All of UT is great, the bird is everything you've heard it is. Solly has sold out but it's still fucking legit and relatively quiet. Alta is alta, there is not a place that tracks faster on earth but for those 2 hours life is pretty perfect. Basin is seriously underrated, the No-Name shit is a shangri la if your willing to do some work. Brighton is my favorite hill, Hidden is something you dream up in your head perfect, their is a veritable playground between Milly and Crest, Preston gate off snake is an entrance to a BC world almost unimaginable in scope and options. Still all things being equal, I'd probably ride at Pow Mow, the Pow Mow days really stick in my head, I can recall nearly every turn from that first run down Pow Country all those years ago. That feeling is something a billion fancy ass lodges and nice food cannot every compete with and that my friends is why you go. P.S. Sundance is a gnar little hill, timing is everything but hit that shit right and it's a steeper Pow Mow that is almost as good.

She grew up 10 mins from my house, weird people try to find her house, classic wyo family, lots of money I respectfully disagree, I mean Ylvis asked one of the most fundamental questions of existence....

hahah probably, may have to help my family move some shit down at the beach and this is looking like the best weekend to do it.

This is PASR all comments are in jest. LOL

Love the epic deviation in this thread

Mounting your own shit and waxing should be a requisite once you've skied a certain number of days in your life. Maybe edge work too but that can really fuck up your day if you screw it up. There was a dude on TGR selling a custom jig with various removable plates, Look/Rossi, Solly, Dynafit and Marker. I picked one up and they work fantastic, if you can't find a shop jig Jordan check the tech talk he may still have some.

Saturday is a good day, definitely better than Sunday, certainly no Friday post work when the options seem endless. College football is never as good as NFL but Saturday more people are out at the bars and what not. Overall my thoughts on Saturday are that's it's probably the best day of the week, I really like all of the days though even Monday.

Maybe....Maybe not.....maybe go fuck yourself

I think 100,000 people agree with you, so it's strange they don't offer one. I doubt it's a mold issue........

Stockli - how do you post an umlaut......the price though isn't even close Jeffery is mid 20's radius ? Pretty versatile ski if I remember right.......I wanna snag a 176 Tychoon in touring layup, would make an excellent EC touring ski

Blue's snow is a result of intent and equipment not knowledge. The old style guns are cheap but require better atmospheric conditions than the newer fans guns, additionally water heavy snow is cheaper as it's more resistant to fluctuations in weather and the constant pounding it takes from the 10000 idiots that constitute a good percentage of blue riders. Upper Main St is always better because it see's less traffic, more sun and doesn't require the newbs to make a billion turns. Lower Main St is narrow, generally in the shade and is steeper almost all the way down to the lift which is rare for a PA hill. This means all the newbs getting funneled into that lower section to ride the only decent lift open have to make a billion turns to slow down to get in the lift line. The snow there needs to be rock fucking hard to put up with the skiers and snowboards going 40 into the last 200ft where they jam on the breaks throwing all kinds of snow into the woods. The trail design at Blue is very good, Switchback is one of the best in the state, designed by someone who actually rides but lower main st is always going to be difficult.