Johnny Law

Expectations lol.......gotta embrace the yin and yang, the good and the bad.....some of the best night's I've ever skied was with straight up dog shit murder conditions......shit gets fun then just trying to see how fast and clean you can ski in such terrible snow

Chair 40...nice......

Y'all for real ? Reverse camber is not for hard snow

Was legit excellent day, snow was pretty awesome, good peeps and beer. Big shout out to enjorales for the meat shit was tight.

Thanks everyone for the kind words today was super dope, one of my best ski days ever. Injuries are never fun and not skiing sucks hairy donkey dick. I never doubted I'd ski this year but not drinking at 1030am and hanging out with you losers adds some extra suck. Snow today was excellent and paradise/challenge were a sweet bonus. It's most excellent to be back.

Switchback was the last trail designed by a professional and it shows, it's a straight build up of speed to narrowish left right left that sort of plays with a double fall line. That's probably the most complex turns on the hill, the top left right on NMDW and sometimes the big bottom left are better turns but switchback is the best actual interesting trail at blue. Doug is right too you have to ski it in about 4 turns. No way that trail is way too complex for the zinc-ies, the top is flat so they blow into the actual turns way too hot to trot, slam on the brakes and then flail around the corners. Before the first turn is generally pretty firm as again they just slam them sideways in a desperate attempt to kill speed, then because it narrows a burm forms on the left hand side which funnels people into a smaller and smaller track which makes the final left more of a straight. Bumps on that trail would straight up murder people and destroy the speed that makes a mostly flatish trail interesting. Bump up Widowmaker top to bottom, it's a straight down the mtn trail and Blue has two better ones in Challenge and Razors.

Lazy is too slow unless the snow is almost perfect, Main st has better consistent pitch to make turns.

Fuck that looks so nice.......

I drive from Conshie to Blue kinda alot and that's just how it is. Some days it's an hour some days it's two, no use fighting it you can't do fuck all about it. I always look at it the other way I'm skiing for 2/3hours but I could be at home or work.

Don't listen to anyone here, not even me. All they do is yell out some ski they had they thought was dope and even half decent skiers could get a fucking 2x4 down the hill. What do you like about your current skis ? What do you not like about your current skis ? What radius do you prefer ? What do you want to do with these skis ? Do you want a ski you have to drive all the fucking time or something more playful ? There is an enormous amount of bullshit out there about skis and at least in my mind it only really comes down to three things, radius, stiffness throughout the ski and shape/dimensions. I have skis across the radius, from 11 sl skis to 35+ big mtn ak skis and I've used them all at Blue for certain things. 203 shiros were redic redic when it went to random ass piles at say lower main st, they simply did not care but they also didn't really carve until I got them moving because my ass doesn't weigh enough or ski well enough for that kind of radius. SL skis are super dope but your going to make 100000 turns and be out of gas about half way down most runs. Skis that do everything tend to do everything ok but nothing amazing. Find out what radius your looking for and think about do I want one ski for everywhere I go or a quiver. Identify well made skis that fit your criteria and then go from there. Waist dimension is not nearly as important as people think, unless your racing or carve like AS it ain't going to mean shit. Do not listen to buy ski X that shit is worthless. I don't know that much about your skiing and what your after but I'd guess one ski quiver, my recommendation would be something like a Moment PB&J, ON3P Wren 98 or Kartel 98 if you want more jibby but again the specific ski is irrelevant until you know the criteria. Ride a bunch of people's skis or demo if you can try all kinds of shit even shit you don't think you'd like and identify the physical criteria your looking for and then ask lots of people about say a mid 20's radius, even flex, stiff, 100mm waist ski that can handle bigish dumps while being able to hack super firm hardpack in PA. Justo or Toast may have a totally differnt idea about what that ski is then say me or doug or whatever and that's cool because we all ski differently.

Zinc-ies have to be from that area but not all people from that area are Zinc-ies, its the LV equivalent of Reading's Mushroom pickers. I'm not sure exactly how to describe them but there is a certain subset of people at blue that you can just tell are Zinc-ies. It's kinda like a townie but more redneck less wanna be gangster. If you met that instructor girl last year that was straight up thirsty for it (particuarly NMSKI lol) she was a Zinc-ie though maybe slightly too educated. A good clue your talking to a Zinc-ie is when the conversation is over and your main thought is WTF.

That looks real nice

hahahahhaha I know Palmerton is where the zinc mine was, it's still a huge superfund clean up but I assume all super close area natives are zinc-ies

hahahah I always forget he was randomly there, that was just awesome because the rest is like aggressively flat but it has this random ass 5ft drop Justo's power cut line last year was pretty rare for Blue I don't think I've ever skied that before......shit how could I forget about Edge's spines dude loves to grind the spines

What's fucked up is that's the first thing I think of when it's windy in the winter.......ahh looks like Blue is blowing another glacier for the zincies.......I feel like that needs a K but zinc has a C....can I get the official spelling of zincies

This is scary accurate.....I'd add the sketchiest run on the hill is the burma lift line, bigger than it looks drop to cinder block filled gully, toast almost took my head off....most difficult thing I've ever done on boots is shit in the old Killington bathrooms at Ramshead IIRC, shitter was like on the floor which with boots on put you in this like aggressive hover/squat technique and the door was .7 inches away from the end of the toilet. If you gotta drop the cosby kids off while skiing that's an automatic level 4 because it's going to take at least 3mins to get all your gear off now imagine you ski all day and you can't even take a load off when your taking a dump, I mean all the shitting angles were just way off......if I was smart I think I would have crafted a couple of prusik like devices out of TP and shit in comfort.......

ghhahaha I didn't see that before but it does kind of look like he's jerking off

Nice, I'm hoping for like a super rich lady with like a driver and shit type character. I think that could really round out our cast of characters and add a really interesting perspective. Like pinky up, drinking ipa's from a china cup and plate. See I love this kind of shit....one random Monday night at like 830pm, totally empty, Edge, The dude and I are hauling down main st and about 3/4 of the way down is a hippie looking semi-hot girl "skiing". In reality she's going about 20ft to complete explosion, at first I thought she was fucking with us, like who loses skis, hat, gloves going that slow but on like the 400th time we lifted her back up and got her going we realized she's like on the ninth moon of Jupiter. Xanax, paint thinner who the fuck knows but this bitch was high as fuck. Eventually we got her to the double double....two days later the dude says she came back the next night and the cops had to come she was so fucked up while trying to buy a ticket in the upper lodge. Blue is just like this site....what a perfect collection of fucking weirdos

Thanks man......LOL

This but really how hard is it to stay on the moving couch..... I like how every year it's the same shit but peeps still show up expecting something different, stop fighting it and embrace the shit show that is blue sometimes. Early season is always questionable snow, kooks fucking everywhere doing all kinds of irrelevant shit down lower main, long ass poorly organized lift lines and season passes that only kind of scan. It's the magic that makes Blue Blue, best terrain in eastern PA, excellent equipment with people that only kind of know what they are doing. Shit is good, embrace the bs.....I mean beers in the lot are actually what early dec skiing is all about how stoked can you get on repeat laps on midway to lower main minefield.

Lehigh could do maybe 4" but virga concerns all around

hahaha........good good not too long I think now

9th/10th but unless it comes way left it wouldn't give PA more than 2-4" plus it may go OTS

There is a storm on the clock......everything except GFS says coastal blaster, couple inches in PA....GFS says OTS.....early early but still nice to see a possibility.