03-19-09 TR Blue

[Robert2]

The snow gods must have seen me coming today.

The Timmy bus picked me up at 10 and got me to Blue about 10:40

and during the ride there the rain turned to clumpy wet snowflakes.

The driver was damned pissed off he still had to deal with snow!!!!!!!

 

I checked in the office, bought my season pass , and met with

Kathie and Dennis Krell.

The jacket raised a few eyebrows.

 

So on to the snow.

The rain stopped before I got outside and it actually was very nippy.

I rode Burma and Paradise and saw from the lift ride that the rest of the

mountain still had great coverage and grooming.

There was some crud here and there but for most of my rides I had no

problem finding good ridable snow.

There was nothing sticky about this morning.

The only large icy area that I found was all the way at the top

of Paradise. As I strapped in for the ride I decided I did not want to

carry the camera in my hand on ice because I would crush the camera if

I fell.

I had no problem with control so I took out the camera at the first turn

on paradise where there was piles of snowcone sugar.

So I got video of the rest of the ride which mostly had good groomed snow

and some patches of ice.

I found the ride to be very pleasant, in control, lots of snow to brake on

to check speed and the hard ice was groomed to my liking also.

I could pop up on edge and ride fast if

I wanted and then find some powder to slow down before the turns.

I'll post the video of Paradise when I get home late tonight.

My overall impression of Blue today was that the surface conditions are still very

ridable and probably will be until Sunday... closing day.

See you all Sunday at the season pass party?

[RidgeRacer]

R2 is a Blue season pass holder now??

[NazarethSkier]

R2 is a Blue season pass holder now??

 

The more the merrier.

 

Glad to hear you had a good time at Blue!

[jhartley]

Anybody have any details on what we're looking at for the park this weekend? I hope they'll try to put together one final solid weekend.

 

I also have to add that the Valley School trail is the PERFECT spot for a post-March 22 rail garden. It could be operated without any other amenities being open and its the perfect width, pitch, and length for a few rows of low flat rails. Come on Blue, a few more dollars in your pocket and some very happy customers!

[toast21602]

Anybody have any details on what we're looking at for the park this weekend? I hope they'll try to put together one final solid weekend.

 

I also have to add that the Valley School trail is the PERFECT spot for a post-March 22 rail garden. It could be operated without any other amenities being open and its the perfect width, pitch, and length for a few rows of low flat rails. Come on Blue, a few more dollars in your pocket and some very happy customers!

 

park crue effed up. i pulled in today and they were sitting in their shack jamming to tunes. i went out on the snow, check out the park, and shit was falling over from the rain/melt, lips were not maintained, and jumps were getting smaller. went i left 3 hours later, they were still in their shack smoking cigs and jamming to tunes and didnt go out once to fix anything. if you are going to Blue for the park this weekend, you will be pissed. you should know by now that park crue doesnt give a crap anymore at the end of the season.

 

oh another note... something tragic must have happened to robert2... because he was nowhere to be found on the mountain today.

[toast21602]

Wow Robert..it's cool that it was snowing earlier and than you got to meet Dennis and Kathy. I'm glad you had fun..I skied Blue for an hour earlier and unfortunately they closed at 5PM..so I went to the bar..

 

they closed at 5?

[toast21602]

oh damn. well i'll be up tomorrow around 10:30 trying to get a sweet goggle tan.

[Robert2]

R2 is a Blue season pass holder now??

 

Yep. I'll be at Blue Friday nights next year meeting a school bus.

All other days I'll be at JF.

 

 

Nothing really tragic happened. I was under dressed on my legs.

I wore long underwear and rain pants.

Standard stuff for days like Wednesday's 60 degree warm weather but not warm enough for

today before the sun came out real late in the day.

I played for an hour , got cold legs, tight muscles, came in and went to the bar.

This is the second time I underdressed and froze this season. Go figure it happens on my second

to last day on the snow.

Its OK. I got what I came for and I will be back.

If toast found me I probably would have stayed out longer but I figured the fat lady was singing.