eaf

Are there renewal discounts for BM? Didn't find anything on their website...

Unless it rattles under your skis, which is what usually happens. But perhaps not at CB?

None of it makes sense though. Snowmaking quitting, water shortage, pass issues. Aren't these mountains under the same management?? And first tracks are overrated. It's all frozen anyway.

Yeah, Blue definitely rocks this year, esp. the last few weeks with the cold weather and with 3 expresses running in the middle of the week. WJW. I now have these occasional attacks of nostalgia remembering how there would be a mile long line in front of the only express, with the second one scheduled to open only in an hour 'cause there's no staff. Or how I'd go down from Summit lodge at 9am only to find that they're not loading any lifts yet. Those good old times...

Hey, @saltyant, heard a ridiculous thing on the lifts yesterday about CB still being like 33% open and lots of season pass holders holding an eternal gripe against it and swearing to never ever... Something related to lack of water?? Checked the maps, and it ain't true at all. Maybe not 100% open, but definitely way more than 33%. How was your experience this year?

All they'll have next week is NMDW, Razors and Burma. Lazy looks good in the middle so far, but I doubt the bottom part will survive.

Even Mountain Creek is open this and next midweek. Wow. What the hell is BM saving its snow for, if there's no way to be on it?

WTF!

Damn... Just why?? Tomorrow it rains only in the morning, and on Wednesday in the afternoon. Wednesday morning would be great, and they'd have plenty of time to groom before it.

I was finding it pretty good before, it was in fact one of my favorite trails. But smth is odd about it this season indeed.

It was pretty good today, albeit a little crowded. An event with racers continuously going up and down the Quad side didn't help. Somewhat surprising is how well the mountain is holding up, especially after the yesterday's report of bare spots - no bare spots today, not even brown spots on Sidewinder, there wasn't even a hint of spring, so white and cold it was. Still I think that earlier this week conditions were better, softer and more pleasant to carve. Today most of the morning it was riding on a frozen base, rattling on small hard bumps and holes left from wet grooming, and was there even a field of blue ice at the very bottom of Paradise? Lazy was clearly the worst with its minefield closer to the sharp right turn, and after trying all the trails several times I eventually settled on Widowmaker->Midway->Main being the best route down. Not crowded, not frozen, nice snow, less people to get back on the lift.

Wow, @theprogram4 says "worst conditions of the year", DiMe talks about beautiful smooth packed man made powder. I figure, it's worth coming over tomorrow and checking the mystery out.

What was bad today, aside from the wind?

Thanks for contributing, momsnobztoo

And this has to do with MC what exactly?

I'll never see those $5. Someone must feel lucky (myself?) that I didn't raise a ticket after seeing nothing but a SOS on my phone in the parking lot that morning. Damn, what I didn't do... Begged for a paperclip at the customer service, converted SIM to an eSIM. Rebooted the stupid phone and whacked it a few times. Luckily for me, there seems to be a marginal WiFi zone at the Quad base, so whatever short time I was spending while turning around was enough to download pending messages.

Oh, I wholeheartedly agree. I shouldn't be saying it before wrapping up and driving back tomorrow, but BM felt to be at its prime at the end of last week. If you're not on the slopes, you're totally missing out. Damn, I feel like it will be a struggle tomorrow between wanting to stay an extra hour and being pressed in Teams. I just hope that AT&T won't have another bad day...

I'll curse them if they don't make it into April. At least, this is my plan, and they'd better abide by it. But you've got to admit, they had a tremendous come back after a pretty lousy and depressing start this year. Jeez, that Paradise opened so late and hardly half of its usual width. Now it's thick and wide, and they stashed mounds of snow on NMDW. I anticipate a lovely and crowdless March. Best time of the year.

Can't believe it still looks like winter on the mountain. When I skied it last week, seeing all the rain in the forecast, I was sure that it would be the end of it. Tomorrow's a must, looks like!

Nah. When crowds are manageable and snow is good (as it was on any of the recent weekdays), MC is much more interesting to explore than BM or CB, both of which feel more compact and offering repetitive skiing, often just looping the same couple of trails that happen to be good today. If I lived 45 minutes away from MC, I'd absolutely get a pass there.

Meh, they like to overextend their season. I skied MC a few times late in March when they really should've closed already. It was all dirt and slush. Connectivity between peaks is often an issue too. But yeah, I saw their post with big yellow guns. It would be cool to see improved snow making. And I don't think that shorter season is their fault. It's just a little warmer in that area than in Poconos, and that makes some difference.

Yesterday's sale at MC was quite a show. They first released only 1000 passes, and it completely blew up with people unable to checkout for hours, going in circles and complaining on FB. Then they added another 1000 passes, wiped out the initial FB post with bitching comments and replaced it with a new "we know that a lot of you missed on the sale" one. And the new round of comments is nothing but praises. $279 is a good price, no doubts about it. The catch is the usual one - they have shorter season and less reliable snow than BM or CB.

BM trivia that they periodically run on those huge screens claims among other things that there are SIX terrain parks on the mountain. Are there really?

I'll disagree about Sidewinder. It was great and overall in better shape than yesterday - softer and with no frozen bumps. Smooth flying all the way down. Rollers were there indeed, but that just contributed to the fun ride as the lighting was adequate. Despite considerable cloudness it wasn't hard to make your way, and lack of people plus extreme width of trail just made it a real pleasant trail overall. Same as Paradise for that matter. Lazy on the other hand had stupid fresh/soft/slow snow on top and fast crumbs about halfway down. One pass was enough for me. Switchback didn't impress, it was somewhat scraped in spots. Other trails didn't really stand out, I barely rode them once each. Less people than yesterday despite the race, and despite my initial fears, racers weren't overtaking Quad at all, as they tend to do.

And cheapest passes. Heard a couple complain today that their pass got a $20 raise to $80 something. Hope they won't have to pull extra money out of their IRAs to pay for it. Otherwise they may need to pay income tax on it as well, which may make skiing totally unaffordable for them.