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skied at mount snow in the rain and my "gore tex" gloves soaked through, hands got cold, borrowed some medical gloves from the kitchen staff, put them on under the wet gloves, was ok the rest of the day. Now when I go on a ski trip I carry a pair of cotton gloves and a pair of dishwashing type gloves that fit over the cotton ones in case of rain. looks odd, works well.

I just glide quietly under the radar.

Add ZZslope and Hayata to that list. We were on the second six pack chair. We attempted to say hello to GSS in the six pack line shortly before 10am but he ignored us. Blue is really looking good, they have even blown snow in the glades, Great job blue. The piles on nightmare were massive. Widow maker was open with first day solid conditions but will improve like everything else has. Paradise was very busy today, lots of beginners, it looked like an oversized Burma, someone called it Burma East. They could have used some line management in the high speed lift lines the last 2 days. Real good day.

Yes, you can usually get quite a few fast laps first thing New Years Day before the crowd arrives.

Yes. Hayata and I were standing behind you guys waiting for first chair. He was wearing a red coat and I had a yellow coat on. I thought ROTD was main street, lazy was good but lost points for the snow guns being on. Paradise was decent. Burma had good conditions as well, on occasion we like to play "human slalom course" around the floundering beginners but when we skied it today, we had it to ourselves. At about 10:30 I skied razors and wow it was really cookied up, so next run I ran challenge for comparison, no cookies but getting icy. Sidewinder had good snow but they need to fill the sides the rest of the way in, hayata accidentally got off on the side because he couldn't see the edge. Great day overall, should be back tomorrow.

I wondered what all the footprints were from. that is a very long drop.

me too

Tequila always ended up bad for me. Walked away from alcohol many years ago.

Have a safe trip.

Yeah OK

See were it says drunkenly?

No. I haven't skied at night for a long time. Mainly because the route I take home is deer central (946, 412, 611). I have had quite a few deer hits over the years, so I am a little paranoid.

mine are called cat trax. they have a little bit of tread on them for better traction while walking.

Or when the top sheet designs form into one when you put your skis together! Best thing ever, both sets of my blizzards have that.

this is hayata

I usually start first at the top of the trail and about halfway down Hayata blows by me.

Have you sung that song at karaoke?

Not an easy group to keep up to.

He is a new poster here.

home stretch is/was smooth

Two of the card reader gates at the six have season pass line (or something like that) written on them, one on each end.

Just returned from a very good day on the slopes at Blue. Left home at 6:30am, arrived in the valley lot at 8:00am to a temperature of 11 degrees. A lot of snow being blown from challenge to paradise. Met up with Hayata who had spoken to blue Thursday night and was told the valley lodge would be open and the six would be accepting riders. While booting up in the valley lodge we were informed that the six would not be ready until 9 due to it being frozen, so the few of us in the lodge had to take the shuttle to the top to start the day. We skied to the main street chair, rode to the top then headed down lazy to take a look at the six. We discovered that by frozen they meant most of the chairs had upwards of 6 inches of frozen snow on them, the delay was needed to clean them off. The six opened around 9:30am, which was rather anticlimactic because it didn't add much to the open trail count. Lazy was rotd, Burma was a close second, midway was pretty good, main street was cookied up to start but improved as the morning progressed, come around was a little stiff, and the falls was icy boilerplate. Each of the lift lines has a red 40th anniversary chair in the chair 40 position. When we left after 15 or 16 laps the valley temperature was 21 degrees.

Those posts did do well didn't they?

That was the plan but an order of 21 skids of office paper got pushed back to today, and I needed to be there for snow removal, along with several other things I didn't feel right about leaving for others to do. Hayata spoke to blue this afternoon and they said the six will be spinning tomorrow.

keep posting your doing well saltyant.