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Fun overcast Spring day at Belle with junior - lot's of soft snow, some bumps, a little mud and grass! Rain soaked snow stayed pretty fast through the morning then got sticky after lunch when he sun poke through the clouds a bit

'belle is *planning* on being open Fri-Sun and the weekend of the 12-13th https://www.belleayre.com/belleayre-operations-update/ At least I had an awesome last day at blue although I would of liked to have bashed a few slush bumps last weekend

oops sorry potato chips lol threes a baked potato restaurant in allentown, some of my co-workers get lunch there a lot but not my thing although they smell and look good.

BMR Frankie will be the MC again this year I guess my obnoxious "Bring back Frank-eeee!!" chants last year worked lol

I just read somewhere that PA is actually the highest tater producing state...

After learning about the Killington-Pico Interconnect Trail while skiing Pico a few years back I added it to my Ski Bucket List. On Tuesday Mrs. SnoBunSki was doing a PSIA cert at Killington and it being a gorgeous bluebird day, decided to give it a go. I set off from Killington Rams Head to skin up and over to Pico’s Summit Glade, one of my all time favorite trails.. After an easy skin up to the trailhead I cut over to the Interconnect and after some mellow climbing I soon had Killington in the rear view mirror Coverage was good although I was hoping for a snowmobile trail through the woods more than a groomer wide super highway. As I approached the switchbacks just before Pico the snow started thinning and eventually gave way to grass and dirt for a few hundred yards with a great view back to K. Over the saddle the snow picked up again to connect to the Summit Glade trail with a nice view for a bevy, lunch and skin strip. I was looking forward to a challenging spring tele run down Summit Glade but it was not to be had. Temps had risen to the upper 40’s/low 50’s but the bumps had yet to soften so I cut over to the frozen crud on 49er. It softened up about half way down allowing for some fun spring tele turns down to the base. I saw The Bus pulling out just as I got to the base so I hoofed it up to Long Trail Inn to burn some time before the next one, stats below.

yes, miss you foolz

pepperoni and chicken pesto pizza breads seemed to be a hit last year so I'll do them again

So any word on the hill/ lot for PASR party or closing day?

Yea I don’t know WTF is going to on, even happening at the face, I noticed some cans on the summit lift. From today's WF conditions report: peaking of spring… as the snow melts, some less-than-picturesque sights start to appear—trash. I’ve been noticing wrappers, empty cans, bottles, and litter from the parking lots to the summit. Let’s keep Whiteface looking as epic as the riding—do a pocket check before hitting the slopes, and use the trash and recycling bins placed throughout the mountain. Winter is only as sustainable as we make it. Since I’m whining wassup with peeps just leaving their skis on the snow?!? The few night sesh’s I did at blue you couldn’t get off the snow without walking across people’s shit?! I’ve seen it everywhere else we’ve been this season too… that why racks are for (old man yells at sky)

This, OG ditch

Although I’ve made many March trips to Whiteface this may the first true Spring day. Lookout Mountain was soft and bumped on Wilmington, Hoyt’s and Lookout Below. Lookout and Castlerock are my two favorite pods in the East We headed up to the summit and the slides looked juicy, hopped off the lift to Gold status! said adios to Mrs S and boot packed up and traversed over to 2b. So good and felt I ski’d it well, unexpected check off the bucket list ! Another great day at da Face

Yesterday during our post bumpfest beer @Dirtwolf and I saw one going back to roost against the setting sun, never get's old

CS bumps= munneh

Still a lot of snow. I don't know how 'bush works their spring skiing but with the early season TBD passes I get another visit after April 1 so planning on heading up again

Friday at Mt. Ellen was great in the morning if you stayed on the groomers, they stayed nice and grippy all day as the clouds and wind moved in. Enough to close the lifts a little early around 3 but we had had it by then anyway. Finished the day with a stop at Lawson's and American Flatbread, Saturday put the sugar in Sugarbush, checked out Lincoln Peak. Ungroomed trails looked enticing but had you quickly looking to exit back on to the groomers. Mrs SnoBunSki thought the conditions were better than Friday but the flat light and another day of groomers left me somewhat uninspired so we headed back to Lawson's again, then dinner at Mad Taco. Love the eats and drink in the Mad River Valley! Sunday we we stopped and ski'd Pico on the way home for more of the same, capping off a nice weekend of getting your carve on some firm cord, some great food, company and beers!

After the thaw and rain yesterday was expecting everything to be locked in, pleasantly surprised to find pixie dust on corduroy crust morning conditions and views exceeded expectations in a groomer zoomer sort of way Snow stayed grippy and edge able all day as winds and clouds increased enough to shut down the Mt. Ellen lifts and head to Lawsons

Have you ever seen npr tiny desk lol?

If you're' bored and feel like reading it hers a post from a few years back: Some years ago I did the XC trails at Greek Peak and had a fun workout so I picked up a cheapo metal edge XC "BC" setup. It was great fun tooling around the local woods and mtb trails – a great mix of my favorite aspects of both skiing and mountain biking. So much fun I upgraded to some epochs with 3 pins/leathers and started taking them along on trips and expanding my terrain, blowing off friends at Stratton to ski Stratton Pond trail etc. There was a lot of highly entertaining XCD energy on the interwebz back then to add to the stoke. I was getting myself in trouble quickly though on the descents with some ass puckering moments so I started taking the XCD setup to the hill to try to get a handle on the turn. The fishscales suck on PA groomed “snow” though so I threw some 3 pins on an old pair of twin tips and got some used 2 -buckle plastic boots to ease the frustration. I started breaking them out every Sunday for a few runs just to up my XCD game. As my skill progressed and started finding “the turn”, I started staying out longer and longer with them. After my hip replacement I try to limit my bump skiing to a few runs on the softest days. With tele found I could attempt to ski low impact bumps and tele-surfing moguls might even be more fun than alpine?! Between Jake and a few others there's a decent tele tribe here at blue and was typically committing to regular Tele Sundays. I still like the power and speed of alpine and don’t think I’ll ever switch full time. I really like the simplicity, freedom and lightness of my current tele touring setup and don’t have any plans on upgrading and will just leave it as two different activities to do on the mountain. Still rockin’ the 3-pins and two buckle boots although considering getting an NTN setup one of these days.

Fuuuuuck yea !

Happy World Telemark Day from Greek! Looks like the band might get back together

Nice! How's is Donny's friend? He's a good dude. What do y'all keep in your packs, mainly for hydration? Speaker 🤣? I've only used a pack for on piste lift served if the forecast is supposed to change drastically throughout the day or carry a lot of beers lol

Inspired by the snow squall I did a little Shawnee uphill after work on Indy, goal was two transitions and 1,000 vert, ended up just short at 963’. I don’t think I saw 20 people lol

PM me if you do Montage and want some company

Since I was already soaked after skiing Sunday morning I pushed all the slush off the driveway when I got home. Our walk is another story. I ran out of ice melt/salt so I tried using a length of roof de-icer cable with a tarp over it to melt it. Worked pretty good but it doesn't really drain anywhere so it would just refreeze when I I tried to leaf blow / sweep the water off. Just made it slicker... No rock salt/ice melt to be found anywhere so got a bag of pool salt from Walmart, ice gone.