Barb Posted December 22, 2024 Report Posted December 22, 2024 winter park gondola had a huge crack yesterday in what looks like a high stress point. Over 100 people had to be evacuated by ropes 1 3 Quote
momskeeztoo Posted December 23, 2024 Report Posted December 23, 2024 I read about that. How terrifying to have to be evacuated from a gondola. Quote
RidgeRacer Posted December 24, 2024 Report Posted December 24, 2024 Long time to be stuck in a gondola. You know someone probably farted. 1 2 Quote
Johnny Law Posted January 3 Report Posted January 3 So many texts about UT and PCMR ...... I've been in Florida which has been super nice but no skiing though I did find this and they can't lie on the box 3 1 Quote
indiggio Posted January 3 Report Posted January 3 10 hours ago, Johnny Law said: So many texts about UT and PCMR ...... I've been in Florida which has been super nice but no skiing though I did find this and they can't lie on the box Kinda disappointing that the waffle isn't in the shape of Bucee's head though... 1 1 Quote
mbike-ski Posted January 3 Report Posted January 3 2 hours ago, indiggio said: Kinda disappointing that the waffle isn't in the shape of Bucee's head though... that's the beauty of it, you get to nibble around the perimeter to make buccee heads! 2 2 Quote
AirheadD8 Posted January 14 Report Posted January 14 Son’s at again. Mars hiding behind the moon for a while. 8 Quote
Popular Post skiincy Posted January 20 Popular Post Report Posted January 20 @Schif and I missed a ski weekend — but — we have a lot of leftover wedding cake that we’ll bring to Bleu soon! 7 10 1 1 Quote
mbike-ski Posted February 21 Report Posted February 21 Inspired by the snow squall I did a little Shawnee uphill after work on Indy, goal was two transitions and 1,000 vert, ended up just short at 963’. I don’t think I saw 20 people lol 5 Quote
mbike-ski Posted March 2 Report Posted March 2 Happy World Telemark Day from Greek! Looks like the band might get back together 6 1 Quote
Barb Posted March 2 Report Posted March 2 How do you even start telemarking? Did you take a lesson? 1 Quote
indiggio Posted Monday at 02:58 PM Report Posted Monday at 02:58 PM On 3/1/2025 at 10:03 PM, Barb said: How do you even start telemarking? Did you take a lesson? They have Tele days up at Blue every so often to introduce people around here into it. Did it once with Tele-Jake, a Blue instructor. 1 Quote
mbike-ski Posted Monday at 03:21 PM Report Posted Monday at 03:21 PM On 3/1/2025 at 10:03 PM, Barb said: How do you even start telemarking? Did you take a lesson? If you're' bored and feel like reading it hers a post from a few years back: Some years ago I did the XC trails at Greek Peak and had a fun workout so I picked up a cheapo metal edge XC "BC" setup. It was great fun tooling around the local woods and mtb trails – a great mix of my favorite aspects of both skiing and mountain biking. So much fun I upgraded to some epochs with 3 pins/leathers and started taking them along on trips and expanding my terrain, blowing off friends at Stratton to ski Stratton Pond trail etc. There was a lot of highly entertaining XCD energy on the interwebz back then to add to the stoke. I was getting myself in trouble quickly though on the descents with some ass puckering moments so I started taking the XCD setup to the hill to try to get a handle on the turn. The fishscales suck on PA groomed “snow” though so I threw some 3 pins on an old pair of twin tips and got some used 2 -buckle plastic boots to ease the frustration. I started breaking them out every Sunday for a few runs just to up my XCD game. As my skill progressed and started finding “the turn”, I started staying out longer and longer with them. After my hip replacement I try to limit my bump skiing to a few runs on the softest days. With tele found I could attempt to ski low impact bumps and tele-surfing moguls might even be more fun than alpine?! Between Jake and a few others there's a decent tele tribe here at blue and was typically committing to regular Tele Sundays. I still like the power and speed of alpine and don’t think I’ll ever switch full time. I really like the simplicity, freedom and lightness of my current tele touring setup and don’t have any plans on upgrading and will just leave it as two different activities to do on the mountain. Still rockin’ the 3-pins and two buckle boots although considering getting an NTN setup one of these days. 4 1 1 Quote
Barb Posted Monday at 07:41 PM Report Posted Monday at 07:41 PM Sometimes I see tele lessons for never Evers like me and am intrigued. Maybe next winter I will try it. I have watched plenty of YouTube but just don’t feel like I could do any downhill without some instruction. When stuff gets steep-ish on my XC skis I just resort to snowplow or a sloppy snowplow kind of turn. I watch Jared Mannenin on YouTube and his outings look so fun! Also Tom M who I am sure you have seen. 4 Quote
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