guitar73

always good time at stowe...thanks for sharing those pics!

I had kidney stones in college: it was the worst pain I ever had to endure...they gave me torridol (sp?). that stuff was wonderful. hang in there, it will get better!

hope you heal up quickly!

like i said before, bc and blue mtn are way too far south to only blow snow in the lo 20's and teens. they have to deal with that. obviously blue mtn has made it a priority to get the slopes open no matter what. it seems bc has different priorities.

that was a typo....should be TR. sorry!

exactly

i suppose it also depends on what quality of snow they want to blow. i wasn't sure what the rel humidity was last nite, but it wasn't muggy at all and there was very little cloud cover. if bc is going to wait until the lo 20's to the hi teens to blow then they are going to get screwed on the average winter. it's just way to far south to take that kind of gamble. i'm willing to bet blue mtn was blowing last nite.....

last nite mrs guitar and i hit up bear creek for the first time this season. it was def nice having a season pass; saved some time by not having to go to the ticket window etc. anyhow, we left our house around 5:50-ish and pulled into the parking lot around 6:50PM. as we came up the driveway it was nice to see the hill covered in white goodness and the lifts spinning. we got a sweet parking spot close to the rental shop. didn't bother with the lockers, just booted up at the car. we were all set and on the lift by 7:00PM. Temps were probably around 28 deg. (of particular note: they didn't blow snow at all while we were there....very suspect IMHO). There were no lift lines to speak of and the trails were not crowded at all. Snow around the base area was nice...def not the same stuff that they blow at blue mtn. we took the B-lift to the top and worked our way down to F-lift via broadway. the trail had good coverage up top, but it was a little narrow. eventhough there weren't a ton of people on the trail, several choke points developed. next we took the F-lift to the top and did another lap. after the third time we decided to hit up the B-lift area, and that's where we spent the rest of our nite. we did quite a few laps down kodiak. there was a nice headwall where kodiak and bear trap meet. i def hit that up to kinda practice going over cornices. anyhow, we really liked kodiak b/c it was wide and uncrowded...a great place to get some good practice in and to knock of the rust (so to speak). i was bummed that sasquatch wasn't open yet.....they had a couple of monster whalebacks there that looked like they would be really fun to hit. around 8:30 we went inside to get some coffee and tea. i do have to say that the base lodge @ bc makes the season pass cost totally worth it, lol. once we got done with the hot refreshments we went back out side and did a few more runs. called it a nite at 9:30PM. all in all we had a great time and the mrs and i look forward to getting some more practice runs in there. we'll probably try to get back there next monday or so.

we're wrapping it up here @ bc. snow was really nice, very little if any ice or hard pack. good times had by all.

scratch that.....wife and i are heading up tonite!

sweet. we were going to come out tonite, but we slept in too late this morning. we're planning to be there tomorrow nite...looking forward to more stuff being open

let's hope all the resorts blast the crap out of their trails over the next few days!! if this isn't snowmaking temps and humidity, i don't know what is....

we just bought a wii & I def wanna get wii ski. do you guys use the balance board to play it?

so I saw on epic that elk mtn was sued recently by the neighboring condo association for closing off a free access point btwn the mtn & the condo property. apparently the condo is seeking to cut-off elk's access to the 10 acre snow-making pond (which the condo owns??). has anyone heard about this & how will this affect elk's ski season?

looks like we're gonna get loads of rain over the few days...so much for any shot of skiing @ bc this year

nice pics! wish we could have been there.

now all we need is SNOW!

nice pics! glad to see they were able to blow a crap ton of snow last nite....here's hoping that most of it makes it to the next cold spell.

hopefully the rain doesn't put a damper on this.

on their website?

we'll be there sunday eve (most likely)

dude....i can't believe that people actually paid $47 to ski 1 run at belleayre....

here's hoping!

ain't that the truth, lol!

has this been confirmed? didn't see anything on their website yesterday...