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I dunno what time all this took place, but you should have wandered over to see if my car was still there. I have jumper cables and/or could have given you a ride back to the hotel house, no problem.

I can hear your voice in my head telling this story like we're standing in the parking lot of Blue. Crackin' me up!

FAK! Upcoming week looking ugly... Back to the Colorado post to lift the spirit!

I dunno But if so, that would make sense. I thought it was just him being overly cautious. I never understood why people are so dead-set against wearing them.

I think Nastar Glen is far more paranoid about catching COVID.

I can't wait! This is grate!

Luckily our old house being a cape, I could use an A-frame ladder and reach the bottom/gutter area enough. The back of the current house is a walk-out basement and the roof is 30' up, uh, NOPE! Hence the melters. The roof rake has extensions, so I can easily reach the top roof from the ground.

Your company, your rules!

Here we go! One year, back in the 90's I think, when we got tons of snow, came home to the wife screaming that there's water coming in the bathroom window. I go back and see just a stream of water coming in the top of the window frame, WTF??? I go outside to see a 3' ice dam running the entire width of the roof. Luckily it was a cape cod and I immediately got out the ladder and hand axe and broke a channel for the water to escape. Never seen/heard/known about ice dams before that! Wasn't gonna happen when I built the new house. I had electrician run a separate line to outlets under the soffits on the North side of the house specifically for ice melters that I had installed the first year. Now, whenever it starts to snow, I flip the breaker and leave the melters on until it stops. Haven't had an ice dam since. For the front of the house, I have a roof rake. All you need to do is take about a foot or two of snow from the gutter back and the sun does the rest.

Whenever we go on trips, the well breaker goes off! I've contemplated various water monitoring systems that put sensors in key spots for just such cases.

That sucks! One morning around 2am I was awakened to a hissing noise and leapt outta bed to discover a braided water hose to one of the faucets in our master bath had broke. I was able to shut the water off in a minute or two, but even in that short time enough water escaped to get through the floor and fuck up the ceiling below. The joys of home ownership!

Pivot feature!

<stoke> Something looking good in the next Tuesday timeframe... </stoke>

Not to mention the nightmare it would be to shut down runs to do the grooming w/ the weekend crowds.

Damn! Looks horrible. So glad I'm sitting here working. 😭

Trying to up their zinc levels to help prevent COVID perhaps?

Looks like possible conveyor belt of storms for this week!

New York either. Followed one yesterday on just wet roads w/ flurries, doing 25 MPH the entire route.

Pretty much what he told me about Boulder. Just goes to show you that acquisitions are all they're cracked up to be. BB had a thriving park scene that in essence got thrown out the window.

Yeah he’s a hoot. Been skiing w/ him last couple of seasons now. Guess he had been big into park up at Boulder, but moved onto Blue and wanted to learn to ski bumps better. Didn’t take him long! He’s a great all-round skier.

Oh yeah, I know Adam.

Oh yeah, many of the troughs had rocks coming through. Hopefully tomorrow’s little dusting will help fill them in.

Since a few of the bumpers didn't get to ski the perder or Coming Soon this past week, we made a beeline to the quad hoping to take it right up at open and see if Coming Soon was still open and if it was, see what it was like. Unfortunately the quad attendants gave us the boot, as they said the quad was having some issues that needed investigation. First run down Challenge with the real snow mixed in was glorious and by the time we got back down, the quad was loading. Up the quad and down Coming Soon for the first time. Top was sun-baked refreeze and had to be careful as the snow would grab and edge and send you. Down to the headwall to find the entirety of which was one giant glorious mogul field. Surprisingly the snow was still very good, not like the man-made stuff we're used to. Also, since the bumps were naturally formed, they had nice spacing and you could get into a rhythm skiing them. Pretty much lapped Coming Soon all morning until the quad like became far too long a wait. Also, we took a few adventures into the woods off skier's left of CS. If Blue wanted, they could make that entire area a giant glade that would be a ton of fun.