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OMG I'm laughing so hard!!!

Hey All, I'm back from a fun powder day at Blue mountain the true mountain. After closing down the bar last night for karaoke I woke up bright eyed and bushy tailed ready for the best pow day at Blue mountain this season. Left a little after 630am and arrived at the lower lot around 7:25am. In the lower lot was Johnny Laws Moe-Tel aka his car and a few minutes later he emerged from his slumber. Chilled with him for a bit and ate a few of his mini donuts and then Atomic Jeff, Justo, Toast, Shadows, GSSucks, -Dan, VTMark and Root all arrived although I didn't see Root only his car. About 6-7" of new snow was on the ground and by opening bell the snow was tapering off. Consistency of the snow was somewhere between medium density and Sierra cement..I'll give it a 7.5 on the density scale with cold smoke being a 1 and pure wet mank being a 10. Due to the density of the snow it stuck to all surfaces except for the challenge and razors headwalls despite intense winds. First run was nightmare to Dreamweaver and was totally untracked and they must have groomed it before the storm fell cause it was virtually bottomless and some funky drifts as well..breaking trail on homestretch meant a slow slog..I'm so pissed at Blue for adding that just to up their vertical..losers. Second run was a repeat of the first still huge swaths of untracked. Then razors which had tons of untracked and some funky drifts as well and more speed than nightmare to Dreamweaver. Repeated razors again then skied the woods next to Main Street to X-ing to Main Street to switchback. Switchback was already totally chopped out and choppy as fuck.. Up the Main Street chair for the first time since December and to the famous Widowmaker. I believe some of the boys skied tbar line but Widowmaker had a decent amount of untracked. Chute was tracked out but I found 4 or 5 fresh turns between chute and midway..lower Main Street by this point zero untracked push piles and skied off areas. Did find some u tracked next to the jumps in lower park and some hit a technical line ending I. The valley school area. By now there was actually a liftline on the six pack at 9:30am which isn't even always the case on weekends but the roads were good and a lot of people had off work and school. Next up was challenge..got some fresh in the right side spine but had to avoid a few snow boulders lower on challenge got the last remnants of fresh on the side then up six pack again and got the last of the fresh on razors and razorback. Went to the lot had one beer then went to the BMDI with Johnny law and atomic Jeff and it was closed so then went to Whitehall diner with just Johnny law. Now back in the A roads are fine although tonight I think they could get slick. Was so nice to ski some untracked snow just a totally different type of skiing..I wish blue mountain was about 10 degrees steeper but for being under 20 miles away I can't complain. JADIP

Got at least 8 powder runs...at the Whitehall diner with Johnny law. Report to come later. . The Law-tel base at 730

I don't think I'll ever ski at Montage or Camelback or Jack Frost again. None compare to blue.

Ski2Live you'd like Jackson hole.

Easy easy drive probably 5-6" so far and snowing hard.

First 1/3 of drive was super easy.

Way to get after it!!! Just rolled in from karaoke. Snow just starting in the A. Definitely saw some ladies tonight that should be having my baby..but no time for love making gotta rest up for 6am wake up call at casa de GSS Did somebody say no rain???

That's every hotel under $139 a night.

You know my friends dad owns the Ramada that you stayed at.

Way to get after it...I can't cancel a ski trip..I've gone to Stowe after a thaw freeze and ended up with some unexpected fresh snow and good tree skiing.

It's also well plowed.

If you want an easier drive go 22 to 145 north to blue mountain drive. That's how atomic Jeff is driving up.

Getting stoked for tomorrow morning!!!!

Herbs and Jerrys

You've got to practice smart style in the park remember to EasystyleIt...Look before you leap..call your drop in multiple languages, wreck yourself before you wreck yourself..

Nice report Ridge did you have any wipeouts??

Vermont has been getting rocked all season. It's our turn.

5 hour drive.

The best road conditions will be on blue mountain drive.

Lots of subpar skiers slipping their way down as well. It's their right to ski or ride how they like. Everybody starts as a beginner. JF runs also only last about 23.5 seconds.

You could take a bus to targhee. Targhee is like okemo compared to Jackson hole though and often foggy. The one time I skied Snow King was the day JH shut down all their lifts at 11am and I took a bus there after lunch and drinks and bought a 2 hour ticket. Steep mountain but only a few ways down. That day is documented in this video. I have a cameo at 4:14 in. And 7:30 in shows the blizzard that shut the place down. This was 2009 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ip09iryWIwQ

I would want to build a lodge and parking lot on flat ground. I don't know much about construction but it seems like a lot less earth to move. I'm happy for snowboarders cause they gave us powder skis. Also if I developed a ski area I would surely have a runout at the base if feasible. Not only to pad the vertical stat a little but to make the runs last a little longer and give people a little breather at the end of the run. What's the point of getting to 40 or 50mph by the bottom of falls or Dreamweaver just to have to throw me sideways and stop...seems like a waste of energy to me... I remember the last year Blue mountain didn't allow snowboarding 1995-96. I was in the summit lodge and saw a family of 5 with 4 skiers and one snowboarder leaving first thing. It was because Blue didn't allow snowboarding..(they were one of the final holdouts) so the family of 5 was likely headed for camelback or Jack Frost. Hundreds of dollars of lost revenue and I'm sure that sort of thing happened daily. It's the same sport we just use different tools.

Oh Lordy...

I see grand targhee and snow King getting a huge boost in business. Wouldn't those giant generators have to be delivered from somewhere and installed...I don't know how they could run several upper mountain lifts and lodges on those.