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Not necessarily. Beginners means that they're only starting. That's not mutually exclusive with them taking every opportunity at it. Anyway, I was right, the trips to Vermont are only to become annual.

I can't quite place you in the ski world. Sometimes you talk like a beginner, and now suddenly there are annual Vermont trips in the picture.

A couple of thousands?? What can you possibly spend so much on, if even new skis you're going to buy only in April and only deeply discounted. Do they do lap dances in that valley lodge? Is that why the upper one is for wankers?

Well, it's not very helpful comparing really old skis with what's out there now. In the far past they didn't even have edges, or those edges were screw-ins. So seeing those super-long straight and narrow K2 might give you a shot of nostalgia, but is that really something to go by in the current market? Materials are different, shorter skis today have better damping than longer ones yesterday. I'll readily agree that the modern trend is toward fat skis, but somehow I believed that it's also toward shorter ones. Now that I got thinking about it, the only reason why the trend might also be toward increasing the length is that rocker that reduces the effective edge length. But then again that rocker is a funny beast. Yesterday I tailed someone on Rossignol Sky 7, and that rockered tip was flapping up and down in the air all the way. So, what's the point?

184! Will you be competing in downhill category on them or are you just that tall?

Of all trails there I like Raceway (and the one parallel to it) the most. Wide, usually decent snow, separate lift, and rarely crowded.

Btw, as most probably know already, they've opened the other side at the Burma/Main Street lift, and also that green trail that ends at the lift. Interestingly, despite virtually no people both lifts were running.

That's the thing. Plenty. T-shirt, underarmor, sweater and a jacket, and still was freezing. Only 22F outside. Don't know what to think. There were girls who seemed like wearing nothing and still doing alright, and I was hardly warming up on the way down and then again going blue on the lift.

Yep. Hardly any people, no speed limit. And though the base is hard, it holds well, no obvious ice. Carving like on the rails, no need to check the speed or applied force. It just holds all the way through. Wow.

Yeah, yeah, you were all right. There isn't a hint of powder on the slopes, and skis rip right through the lazy mile. Amazing conditions. But maaan, am I cold or what??

Which part is bringing you so much joy? Me having SL skis or me thinking that they're not suitable for fresh snow? They're the best on hardpack and ice. For fresh I should've taken wider and longer ones.

Phew. Not all is lost

Nah, I don't think so. So he was using a gift card to buy a ticket, OK. Speaking of online system, BM's one is the worst. Really. The Worst. There is no way for me to associate a card that I got at a ticket window with the account and then do a refill. There is a webcode on the card, but there is nowhere to plug it to! So even if I buy a night ticket online, I still have to stop by the ticket window and either get another card or get the ticket associated with the previous one!

Ungroomed?! That sucks! I was gonna come tonight, but I have only slalom skis on me

Hey, it just occurred to me that you could've saved another $5 if you'd ordered it online! Another gift card coming?

Ha, that's how I feel when I come with friends who just take forever to change, take a sip of tea, stretch, and so on, and so forth. Come on, you lazy bums, you're eating my time! How come 2:08? I thought you were local?

They're positioned as freeride skis by Volkl. That's again something that's not happening very often here.

Explain why. The reviewers generally say that it's a ski that does awesome on deep powder, AND as a bonus it's also good on groomers. So people kind of emphasize that the main reason why the ski was made is the powder. Everything else is something that the ski just also happens to do good. Hence, why buy skis, which were not specifically made for local snow?

Jeez, here we go again. NJ people migrating in flocks to Blue mountain, the true mountain making everyone suffer in 1 hour lines. From what I've heard it's the NYC crowd that makes a difference at Blue.

Dude, isn't it ironic that with your blind despise of "NJ gapers" you kind of got the same treatment here with respect to CB?

WTH? Are you two in one?

I hope they'll open something new by Thursday. Then I'll just take a day off while the rest of the company is getting drunk on a holiday party.

I'm curious, where is this forum hosted, and who's the owner? If the owner is on the board?

Well in the context of skiing late spring is right before the end of the season. Which is rarely after mid April. No, I don't have season pass at Blue or anywhere else. I like variety. A Peak pass would be a no brainer if I lived farther north.

Jeez. They do say that lines were up to 1 hour today. And send bright rays of hate to those BM racers. I'm sure SP holders would get their share if VIP lines were open. My best memories of BM are those of late spring skiing (think about St. Patrick's day) and Sunday nights when upper lodge goes from full house to suddenly half empty, and you alternate between skiing moon-lit terrain and warming up. Not in the bar section, but in the hall that overlooks the slope. Often that hall is closed for special events. You do need slalom skis for all the ice at night. Let's see if the new groomer is gonna change that. The worst memory was the weekend when I ran into ticket line snaking around the sidewalk and the night when some boarder ran into my skis, undid the bindings, and the ski flew into the darkness of the forest. Spent literally an hour looking for it. It managed to get under a log between two boulders.