Johnny Law

Maybe it's becuase I keep going to Florida but I thought today was the best turns of the year. The first couple were damn near perfect and for a turn you could be skiing anywhere. Even the stuff below the inch had good grip. I love the high walls on the ditch, it ruins your speed but you can get so high and slutty. Ridge was in front of me I think and his tails looked quite majestic in the glimmering snow. It got super crowded fast and I'm always 50/50 on another run but I'm only asking to make 945 before it's butts to nuts at all three lifts.

Yes, there isn't much that would compel me to Florida twice during ski season. I hope they don't suck.

Just do the math on the surface area alone and the real discussion is single vs dual rope. No single rope can hold a candle to dual rope.

Read the words it's not talking about wind loading values but protecting riders...... unless they put all the chairs in a wind tunnel it's all guessing and even then the direction and placement is way way way way more important.

I don't think that says what you think it says, anyways none of it matters as the primary factors are so dominant the number of times the bubble non bubble matters is minimal. Placement would be far far far more important, same thing with fences or similar. Think quincy at dv and why all the lifts at flagstaff are positioned the way they are.

That's fucking insane, you couldn't pay me 125 to ski there for 8hrs on Saturday but short of the covid year demand seems high.

It's the same root cause as everything else. In their eternal quest to suck every last penny possible out of the place they found the limit where people stop coming because the experience is shit. The real question is how much do they even care ? Skiing is a shitty business and I have to believe all the other shit they have going on makes way more money so from a business perspective replacing lifts or doing maintenance doesn't make alot of sense if you believe you don't need the skiing to bring them in the door. Blue for all it's many faults only really has skiing to make money from so the skiing at least in theory can never be that bad.

Now I'm hungry for nuggets...... that was a dope day

It seems more busy this year in general and my theory is it's in part because CB is sucking pretty hard. Today was dope, NMDW delivered excellent turns with more winter like snow. Vis was not great and I had trouble spotting the left but it was so nice to let them fly. Switch is always super fun and totally empty at least when I was on it which is just so nice after the weekend crowds. I'm headed to Miami and won't be back until this weekend but while getting a mount the main shop lady said they have already sold a stupid number of tickets for this weekend but it could be all lies and innuendo too, it is blue after all.

There is alot of boa hate out there but some of it is just bullshit. Boa is lace ups that are easier to use and slightly more comfortable. You got slop so your wasting energy in the transfer because in 4 buckle boots two aren't doing anything and one is mostly along for the ride. Lace ups or boa tries to decrease the slop and increase the points of contact giving you more effective transfer and less muscle fatigue. It's simple physics and proven over and over again in world cup, they don't temp cycle their boots afterall just becuase they hate feet. Some peeps question the durability but it's used it all kinds of other stuff without issue and I've seen lots of conventional boots ruin someone's day. I'm not an all out boot performance guy so I don't care but alot of the hate is just resistance to new things.

The first two might have been better than yesterday but it fell apart fast, everything is an icy rounded pellet and there is no cohesion. Switch I thought was best once shit was skied in but I truly think ever since covid it's just generally more busy and some days it's a lost cause. Good lot session made up for it and hopefully they get some natural and it all goes back together.

Maybe as I haven't skied with everyone in a bit or because yesterday sucked I thought today was quite good. The first two down challenge you could really slut it up and set the charge level to plaid. Always good to have switch in the mix and the speed bump they built to slow you down makes an excellent little booter. I will always vote for lumpy side but if they don't do that it's nice to have a trail to catch some air. Everything else than NmDW is kinda warmup and while I never got it right today there is a nice ledge on the left that should make for a really nice left air right air combo. Personally I hope they never put features on it again but I'm probably smoking crack. Hopefully with some cold over night it sets up a bit nicer, you can feel the Glacier under the scratch and the scratch in certain parts didn't make 930.

I'm 50/50 on the super ops or the special j ski fast-forward but damn those rossis are blindingly hot

Weren't you talking about new pants too? Won't be able to recognize you

Hit me up if you want to take some laps or are heading in the direction of blue. Holy shit homey that poles and gloves in the same season. I got mad gear for Christmas including the holy grail of pants color but also picked up these.

I 1000% agree and thought on the lift like jlaw aren't we smarter than this ? But clearly not as I was there. I think normally I'm pretty gracious in my opinions on conditions but even with all of that and taking the blue factor into account I still think they need to do a better job on lifts. It's always the same issues time and time again, like the quad tires that one year. A true og fills them with nitrogen because then it will only loose air from the shitty tires and even half ass is to come out 15mins early and inflate the tires if it's cold but it took them like seasons to figure that out.

I knew today would be rough but it sucked way more than even I thought it could. The snow was always going to be sugar over firm but the lift thing plus the nature of the crowd had me throwing in the towel after an hour and half. The old sixer is down as they were pumping water out of the lower house area which made the lines long to start. Also because of where they go that means alot of ass skiers on main/switch who shouldn't be off the learning hill let alone there. The snow on switch I thought was best as it was super lumpy fun but I felt like I was storming the shores on dday trying to find a way through as everyone is eating shit all around me. They are blowing directly into the sensors on the new six and it was stopping alot. Eventually around 1215 it really shit the bed and I couldn't stomach anymore and peaced out. Snow they can't do much about but the lifts are directly within their control and it doesn't take a scientist to figure out when they blow into the lift mechanicals they don't work very well. Let's just say they are legitimately the only hill that can't sort this out then at least have the lifty in the box know the override sequence so we don't always have to wait 20mins for the supervisor to press 4 buttons. Some worthy turns out there but probably my worst day at blue in a long time.

So many texts about UT and PCMR ...... I've been in Florida which has been super nice but no skiing though I did find this and they can't lie on the box

I had negative time but the first runs were the best of the year. Little crunchy under razors but main was a dream where you can just attack attack attack. Around 10 it started to get busy and razors and such didn't hold on well but main I thought was definitely worth getting chewed out and.......

Ahh the skid mark, if I recall it got bigger until there was an isthmus and then finally it got colder. I think it's one of the best starts ever, Razors pre Christmas and with temps tonight we should get some big ass piles. Today was le tits, cold but with the sun and no wind it was comfortable and the snow was super good on main and pretty good everywhere else. It did get crowded fast and further proof they need the quad running to thin the herds.

Rode with Atomic and his friend this morning. Not bad but not great either. Dis was super hard and fast first thing but too many goobers to take full advantage. Lazy was probably the best of the bunch and was soft set it and forget it. Full main was super nice and up until midway held good grip and fast snow but then went to shit. The morale of the story is shit is coming apart, lower main by 1030 was rowdy and the dreaded sugar was showing up in spots. Some good turns out there but the snow quality is poor at the moment generally. Also the quad was running but had that particular industrial smell. Idk what it is exactly but slightly burning/hydraulic/ industrial solvent smell though for the quad that's probably a good sign.

I'm section ECU so next to the students but I'll be in town later tonight. I think we are eating at Indian pavilion and then going to the Nittany lion Inn but I'm sure everyone else will be too so not certain about that last part. I'll message you my digits

Friday and Sunday, Saturday I'm freezing my ass off at state college

He's definitely around as I've seen at least twice but I think someone said he has a bum knee or something so he's not 100%

James the Wu from Oz clan got stuck and evacd from the lift at CB yesterday. He said it took 3-4 hrs and super sucked. At the end they got some free tendies at least.......I was trying to ask c1er if he got stuck but I was on the wrong side of the chair.