JF TR 12/22/09

[Robert2]

Its a tourist week with a lot of families skipping school to ski so it was

just a little active today... not crowded... a handful of people on the hills... nothing like WMMR day.

I never waited in a lift line today.

 

Jane's Lane was empty most of the day and I got to lap it for an hour with no other people getting in my way. Sort of the secret stash.

Noobies are afraid of the steep winding hills and expert skiers wouldn't be caught on a lame BLUE SQUARE on the west side of the mountain.

Cool. More private hill time for me.

The top of Jane's was still blowing fan guns.. lots of mounds of fresh snow while the headwalls and hills were real nice sweet'N low powder.

 

I couldn't help noticing how the snow guns were blasting on Lehigh while I was on the lift...

and how there was no OFF LIMITS ROPES up even though the snow was ungroomed.

Just one huge mass from top to bottom of fresh snow and still blowing.

I couldn't take it any longer... I just had to jump into that mist.

So I crossed over from Jane's Lane above the headwall and as soon as I hit the fresh powder

I sank into a two feet deep snowbank until I was almost flat and swimming in the snow.

As I tried to get up I looked mostly like I was just making snow angels.

So then I had to figure out if Lehigh was even ridable with snow this deep.

As I was getting covered by the blowing snowguns I figured this might not be a good idea

to get trapped under the blowing snow in deep snow all the way down the hill.

As always, I was dressed like an astronaut but I didn't want to press my luck with

this deep snow anymore so I unstrapped one boot and skated over to ONE PARK.

ONE PARK was dry , no snowmaking guns blasting, and the surface was immaculately groomed.

I liked the steepness between the features. I could get good speeds out of those angles.

I don't jump anything so I just blasted around the features and lapped ONE PARK a few times

while inspecting Exhibition from the lift.

Exhibition was 100% open.

I never made it to Exhibition though. I wore myself out lapping ONE PARK.

 

JADIP

[AngryHugo]

Great TR, Robert! Please don't die at JF (or anywhere else, for that matter).

[method9455]

Nice TR, wish we had crossed paths this week, I want to catch you one weekday later in the year when I'm up at JF.

 

Saw two newbies try to poach Lehigh yesterday and got stuck, I tried yelling "LEAN BACK" but they couldn't hear me over the guns. It looked a little wet and they had workers walking down it adjusting guns so I didn't poach and get in their way, but it looked fun.

 

Did you make it over to Challenge? It was empty yesterday because everyone was on the east mt lift and the connection to the top of Challenge was closed. I personally think Tbolt and Challenge are as much fun as River Shot because the top part of east mt is pretty flat and the trees aren't ready up there so you get basically 2 steep parts and thats it. Challenge and Tbolt are good the whole way. And without floyds open river shot gets skied off pretty quick.

[Robert2]

Did you make it over to Challenge?

Nope.

I've never been east of Exhibition.

I ride 3 hours every weekday all winter and I stay away from the black diamonds

because I'd like to come back the next day.

Its a retirement plan.

 

You make your fun any way you can where ever you play.

I don't need to get all worn out fast or hurt on black diamonds.

I'm in it for the whole winter, not just once so I'd like to make sure I

will be back the next day.

[Justin]

Nope.

I've never been east of Exhibition.

I ride 3 hours every weekday all winter and I stay away from the black diamonds

because I'd like to come back the next day.

Its a retirement plan.

 

You make your fun any way you can where ever you play.

I don't need to get all worn out fast or hurt on black diamonds.

I'm in it for the whole winter, not just once so I'd like to make sure I

will be back the next day.

East mtn is literally two headwalls with flat sections inbetween them, I think you'll be fine.

[Johnny Law]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARXfQzfl9EQ

[phillycore]

How was Floyds???

 

Don't be a cock Doug..

 

 

 

 

Nice TR Robert...

[Robert2]

The Simpsons History with Grandpop Simpson

 

Well thanks for that diaper load Johnny Law.

 

I don't watch the Simpsons on TV.

I always thought the Simpsons were garbage waiting to be taken to the curb.

Or more like the turd waiting to be flushed in the toilet.

 

Yea ...so keep imbedding Simpsons videos here on PASR.

Just another waste of bandwidth and more crap to skip over in a post.

[Robert2]

Robert2,,you forget to take your happy pill today???? You riding Blue anytime soon..the snow today was cocaine white...

 

HEELLLLS YEAA I got my happy pill today. I went snowboarding at JF. Thats my happy pill.

[RomeAgent]

Hey Rob, nice TR!

What was set up in the ONE park? Was it the usual 3 jump line with a few boxes up top and bottom? Heading up this weekend and was curious...Thanks

[method9455]

Hey Rob, nice TR!

What was set up in the ONE park? Was it the usual 3 jump line with a few boxes up top and bottom? Heading up this weekend and was curious...Thanks

 

 

Not to hijack but check out the bottom of this post for a list

 

http://www.paskiandride.com/forums/topic/14802-jf-12212009/page__view__findpost__p__248513

[RomeAgent]

Thanks for the TR from the 21st...sounds like a rad day. Hopefully, there will be more set up this weekend and the rain doesnt kill the stoke.

[method9455]

Thanks for the TR from the 21st...sounds like a rad day. Hopefully, there will be more set up this weekend and the rain doesnt kill the stoke.

 

I think we'll be OK, it's actually supposed to be ice and then fog and rain. So the ice will be the saving grace and hopefully seal things up a bit before hand. Fog is actually the real killer of snow, a cold rain won't do much damage (but a warm rain is a snowpack apocalypse) I don't know why, but it sucks to watch a pile of snow when it is foggy.