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So, dont get me wrong, i like hanging out with you assholes, and conditions were great at Blue this past weekend, but we all know we cant have nice things 2 weekends in a row. Anyone interested in a road trip Friday or Saturday? I could easily be talked out of going to work on Friday, in fact, i would really almost prefer that. Elk? Greek Peak? I think Greek is skiing pretty well, but maybe @mbike-ski would have some "insider info?" Just for shits and giggles, take a look at the forecast for our northern areas for later this week. Car pool is cool, but my Vette only has room for 2, and you have to like Bud Light Lime, and Vanilla Ice.

Just got back from St Platty's. This place is absolutely ridiculous right now. The pow is thigh deep in some places. After two massive storms Plattekill has been getting 6-12 inch "refreshers" every day since last weekend. The result is a damn near pristine mountain and woods filled in about as much as you'll ever see them. Everything was in play and I mean everything. People were dropping into the woods everywhere. Everyone was getting at it. The stoke level was high and I had a lot of nice conversations with folks on the lifts. Arrived at 8:40 and caught the fourth or fifth chair up. I stuck to the double and mainly the woods accessible from there. Plunge and Freefall were left go and had basically a foot and a half pow on top of bumps leftover from Wednesday's Powderdaze. I didn't even feel the bumps, they were so filled in although as the day progressed they re-bumped up. Didn't matter. There is powder everywhere. The groomers were actually not so great. They were getting wind scoured and a little icy. No matter, the woods were where it was at. Next time I go I need to find somebody who knows the mountain, or explore after the woods are tracked out and its easier to navigate. It's difficult enough for me to ride two feet of pow but when you don't know where to point it to find the ways through the woods you find yourself stopping and getting stuck a lot in tight spots. For a skier this might not be as big a problem but on a board you absolutely need to keep your momentum going, so line pause is a no-no. Anyway, I found a bunch of fun stuff out there. Put together another little edit in lieu of pictures. Actually I can take some screenies. Enjoy

This morning's conditions were by far the best of the season at the mountain with the most skiable acres in the Poconos. I passed the toast sign on my way to Camelback which reminded me of toast. Then I parked in Lot 3 to get First Trax on the Sullivan Lift side, booted up in my car, and carried my new RTMs and poles up the hill towards the lift. The order of my first runs was Big Pocono, Asp, Rocket, Marjie’s, Upper and Lower Cleopatra, and then down the n00b hill to the Stevenson lift to hit up Nile Mile and then also Cliffhanger for the first time this season, which I did 7 times in a row. Conditions were top notch on most trails, except Cliffhanger which had some moderate death cookies in a few spots near the top due to its recent debut, but was still very rad. I found that carving on RTMs is lots of fun compared to on Elons, and found myself bored with all of the blue runs (except Big Pocono), so I stuck to mostly blacks throughout the day. It was by far the funnest skiing ever. Later on in the day, to change things up a bit and to search for some fresh powder, I made a run on Birches, which I consider the Juggernaut of CB because the beginning is very flat. Here I found some untracked pow on the far right side, and was able to found out exactly what it’s like to ski powder in Jackson Hole. But then I made the biggest mistake of the day. I found a huge powder stash on Laurel Glade – a massive hill of manmade snow under a snowmaking machine. Upon reaching the peak of this hill, I fell under all the powder and practically became buried. The light snow on the hill could not hold the weight of myself and my short RTM skis. I eventually climbed out of that predicament, and spent the next hour deicing my goggles and bindings and drying off my gloves and facemask in the lodge. The demo center helped to chip some ice off my bindings and didn’t even charge me anything. Around 1:30 I was hungry and getting a little tired, so I went to East Gourmet Buffet. There I had shrimp, mushrooms, white rice, hot and sour soup, and a Pepsi, which I considered a treat for myself due to the epic pow day, as I normally just get tap water. Afterwards I drove back to CB, but there were no parking spots anywhere except for at the snowtubing lot, which requires a long walk and wait for the shuttle. So at this point I decided to drive home, but first stopped at the outlets and bought some new shades. The first pair looked too much like Steeze’s shades, so I decided against them as not to emulate Steeze. Tomorrow I plan to return to CB for 7:30 am sharp and get all the fresh cord again, since I've become spoiled from this morning's conditions. Then on Monday I will buy a pass for Jack Frost and go there for the first time with a friend from college.