AtomicSkier Posted March 2, 2014 Report Posted March 2, 2014 Great day at Blue Mountain. No Slif. No 3F temps. Me, Toast, Justo, Rose, and Mbike. Toast and I started on our slalom skis and did about a 1hr 15min session on those until our legs were beat then I grabbed the Mantras and Toast grabbed his park skis. I think Justo even has a pic of him hitting a rail. We just lapped Main Street bumps where were pretty nice, and lower Main Street was grippy carvable snow. Skied till about 10:30am...drank some beer, then went to CBI for lunch. JADIP. 3 Quote
zzslope Posted March 2, 2014 Report Posted March 2, 2014 Pretty busy by 10am. Many people on rental skis. Heard they had to cart two bump competitors from yesterday's event. Quote
toast21602 Posted March 2, 2014 Report Posted March 2, 2014 Yup, great day! Felt good to get back on the park skis and hit some rails after almost 3 years! The bumps were fun. The conditions were pretty great. And this 3-6" coming tonight will just make things better. Quote
sibhusky Posted March 3, 2014 Report Posted March 3, 2014 Let me get this straight... You skied 2.5 hours? Makes me feel a lot better about only skiing 3 runs today with a sore throat and a fever. Quote
AtomicSkier Posted March 3, 2014 Author Report Posted March 3, 2014 Let me get this straight... You skied 2.5 hours? Makes me feel a lot better about only skiing 3 runs today with a sore throat and a fever. We average about 2 hour sessions. I guess it's been awhile since you've skied with in PA. Doing the same 6 runs over and over again gets boring. Especially with 5000 other people. Quote
sibhusky Posted March 3, 2014 Report Posted March 3, 2014 Jeff, I spent from 1987 to 2003 skiing Camelback. From 8 to 2 or so, both days every weekend. 5000 would have been a light day. Quote
RootDKJ Posted March 3, 2014 Report Posted March 3, 2014 Let me get this straight... You skied 2.5 hours? Makes me feel a lot better about only skiing 3 runs today with a sore throat and a fever. I usually stay leave between 11 and 2 depending on the snow quality and beer quantity. 1 Quote
indiggio Posted March 3, 2014 Report Posted March 3, 2014 I usually do 8-4/5, depending on how jelly the legs are, except for yesterday when I had to leave for freaking homeowner emergency cutting into my skiing. 1 Quote
tarponhead Posted March 3, 2014 Report Posted March 3, 2014 And this 3-6" coming tonight will just make things better. This suxed. Left midday at Blue Saturday totally pumped for pow skiing today. Get back from Massachusettes late last night and saw the precip maps $hit all over my plans... 1 Quote
tarponhead Posted March 3, 2014 Report Posted March 3, 2014 I drank the kool aid when I saw the predictions last week. Live n learn. A lotta driving yes but no big deal. Glad I made it to Blue Saturday. 1 Quote
indiggio Posted March 3, 2014 Report Posted March 3, 2014 They leveled Barney's Saturday night, blew on them and reseeded for Sunday. Very soft and a lot of fast fun runs. Got pretty big and of course, icy by afternoon. Quote
indiggio Posted March 3, 2014 Report Posted March 3, 2014 Pretty busy by 10am. Lots of gapers out as well... Quote
AtomicSkier Posted March 3, 2014 Author Report Posted March 3, 2014 On that topic...we saw a kid with GSS's old tan jacket yesterday. 1 Quote
Justo8484 Posted March 3, 2014 Report Posted March 3, 2014 I thought Barney's was terrible yesterday, compared to what they've been. I think they need to do more than one night of snowmaking after reseeding when they're that small. You'd just pick up tons of speed without the larger faces to more easily control speed. Quote
indiggio Posted March 4, 2014 Report Posted March 4, 2014 Sounds like you were running them early in the day? After seeding, bumps are practically non-existent. Give people a few hours to run them in (or have SP destroy them with toboggan drills) and you'll have pretty deep bumps. Sometimes, but not often, they let the bumps go and just blow in them. Most of the time they mow em down, blow some snow on top, then reseed. Unfortunately when it's cold as crap, there's no way anything is going to stick to the boiler underneath and eventually the new stuff is going to get scraped off. Only spring conditions are going to change that. Quote
Justo8484 Posted March 4, 2014 Report Posted March 4, 2014 Sounds like you were running them early in the day? After seeding, bumps are practically non-existent. Give people a few hours to run them in (or have SP destroy them with toboggan drills) and you'll have pretty deep bumps. Sometimes, but not often, they let the bumps go and just blow in them. Most of the time they mow em down, blow some snow on top, then reseed. Unfortunately when it's cold as crap, there's no way anything is going to stick to the boiler underneath and eventually the new stuff is going to get scraped off. Only spring conditions are going to change that. skied them around 10ish and did a few laps? A nights worth of snowmaking would have done wonders, no amount of skiing them in would make them better with how slick they were, as far as I could tell. Lookin like Saturday is shaping up to be a glorious day of ripping bump and park laps though! 1 Quote
tarponhead Posted March 4, 2014 Report Posted March 4, 2014 Lookin like Saturday is shaping up to be a glorious day of ripping bump and park laps though! In the 40s! Yeah, by afternoon bumps should be really good. Quote
indiggio Posted March 4, 2014 Report Posted March 4, 2014 In the 40s! Yeah, by afternoon bumps should be really good. Gonna be big and deep! Quote
indiggio Posted March 4, 2014 Report Posted March 4, 2014 Might have to put a soft wax on for the warmer temps coming up. Wait for Thurs for temp predictions. Quote
toast21602 Posted March 4, 2014 Report Posted March 4, 2014 What's a soft wax? Not a hard wax. 1 Quote
AtomicSkier Posted March 4, 2014 Author Report Posted March 4, 2014 Never heard of it...atomic Jeff do you ever use a soft wax? warm waxes are generally soft....cold waxes are generally hard. I use warm waxes 95% of the time because I hate scraping cold waxes. Quote
indiggio Posted March 4, 2014 Report Posted March 4, 2014 Awaiting Johnny Law post on waxes, so I can learn more... 3 Quote
tarponhead Posted March 4, 2014 Report Posted March 4, 2014 Awaiting Johnny Law post on waxes, so I can learn more... Or u can google... Thinking of heading out Thursday afternoon. U interested? Quote
toast21602 Posted March 5, 2014 Report Posted March 5, 2014 this evening was lovely at Blue. fairly empty as well... hopefully more people get out and ski to keep this place running! 2 Quote
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