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Just checked out the webcams, the place is packed!

Hasn't helped Vail's stock price either...

Holy O' Sugar Batman! I don't think I've ever seen it so deep across the entire mountain. Lazy in particular had like knee deep piles of that shit in spots. Had me wishing I'd brought my Fatypuses for all that Pocono powder!

There's so many beer cans, you'd think they'd displace all the water!

Rumor has it someone fell off into the OG6 pond the other day and lifties had to wade in to fish them out. Guess that's why they're pumping out the pond...

I just hope Blue doesn't go the way of Cameltoe...

I was actually surprised last Saturday morning, when they were calling for freezing rain, they had all 3 lifts running at 4:00am to make sure they wouldn't be frozen! Guess they are trying...

You do realize you were at Blue??

Glades by Barney's doesn't get as much traffic as the one over by Lazy and can be fun when there's freshly blown snow.

Kinda disappointing that the waffle isn't in the shape of Bucee's head though...

I hear they're setting up shop to blow the glades. 100% on the way!

Oh yeah, those were some of the best times on that run! Sheer fun! People getting off the quad and asking if there are bumps and then turning around!

The problem is that the base is boiler/ice, there's no way around that until temps come up enough to soften it. Seeded or natural are both gonna get rutted/icy, if it's freezing out, unless it either snows or they blow snow, and even then that's just gonna get skied out. Gotta learn to ski where the soft snow is and avoid the icy ruts. There's more than one way to ski bumps... We're always talking that they should let Switchback go completely natural like they did after the one big snowstorm a few years back, but they'll never do it. Hell, some people were even complaining the other day about the random bumps in Coming Soon ditch!

Nope, we had to. They'll probably hold off on seeding Barney's for a bit yet, after the cold kicks in and they can blow some more snow on the area, after freshening up all the skid marks elsewhere.

Good day to start off the new year. Soft, fast snow, bumps, cold pizza (thanks @mbike-ski), beer, falling temps, short work week...

Wasn't horrible, wasn't spectacular. Just another day at Blue. Coming Soon ditch softened up and skied like a quarter pipe with soft snow that made for a good time. Ski y'all next year!

Not sure if a hairdryer has the horsepower to heat it up enough. Did you have/use a thermometer to tell?

Slim had some issues with his new boots and actually put the shell in the oven to soften it up. May want to chat with him on how he did it or Gargle around for suggestions, to heat them up before putting the clamp on, or go with the heat gun/IR handheld thermometer to just heat up that one section.

Excellent snow day yesterday! Finally hooked up with @tarponhead in the lot around 12 then went back out for some more until 2, then back out for the lot for some beers and watch a Blackhawk medevac helicopter come down the ridge from the Northwest. When it got to Blue it turned North right over the mountain, only a couple hundred feet above! Then it pulled a 180 and back over Blue to the South. ScreenRecording_12-28-2024 08-20-41_1.mov

Anyone that goes unconscious really should get their head checked, regardless of wearing a helmet or not. Undiagnosed brain bleeds can kill even after a few days of feeling ok.

See this one?

There wasn't any point fighting the PASRs for Razors, so we jumped over to get Coming Soon first thing. Of course, some boarder ski patrol just HAD to pull out their fucking entitlement card and rip the fresh from edge to edge, asshole! Nonetheless, first run down was a nice, fresh coating on top of packed cord. Even felt a slight float on every elongated turn. First run down side of Razors there was still enough fresh left for a fun run. Subsequent runs down there were patches of ice coming through, so you had to be on your toes, literally! Like other, Main Street was wonderful, as were the sides of pretty much every trail, having the fresh pushed out from the middle. Spent the morning tooling around the mountain with Santa as one of his cheerful reindeer. Merry Christmas all!

It was actually surprisingly fair. Got on it shortly after it opened, hearing reports it was frozen cord, but when we got on it it was broken up cord, not totally marbles yet, and the broken stuff was chalky enough to set an edge. We had been eyeing it up all morning, since they finished grooming it shortly after the open.