Zee Lights

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

49 minutes ago, Johnny Law said:

Crazy if they open Friday, that's an early start for sure plus I like how they are blowing the Magellan route first thing

Magellan route is gonna be deep…operation Blizzard 2.0 this weekend is gonna be LIT…the snowmaking cannons will be blasting away for tens of hours…new lift opens mid December.  The stoke market is rising…🛎🛎🛎🛎🔔🔔🛎

[saltyant]

1 hour ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

Salty this is bonus skiing.  Don’t be a sandy vagina 

I got a few bites (one "sandy vagina" and one confused face) but the night is young.

[Mixilplix]

 That's a pretty aggressive snow making schedule for early season...When I drove home there was snow put down in a lot of places...Opening day in the Valley!

[Benm]

Not sure when they started, but guns are on in the valley near the lifts. 

Edited November 19, 2022 by Benm

[enjoralas]

1 hour ago, Benm said:

Not sure when they started, but guns are on in the valley near the lifts. 

Valley learning hill too. They're really getting after it

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Looking like they might be able to run the runs pretty much nonstop until Noon on Monday.  Maybe a few hour break this afternoon. 

[RidgeRacer]

17 hours ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

They’re focusing on west side terrain which I love.  Imagine skiing in a bump line on Freefall opening day and also rad that we won’t have to park at the top.  

Same. Opening day on Stalin's stunt ditch would be pretty incredible 

[theprogram4]

Hell yea blue!  I go a day without checking PASR regularly and miss this lol.  Stoked my season starts in 8 days!

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

The guns are still on..very impressive..I still think they might have to shut the guns off for a bit but tonight into tomorrow is gonna be $$$$$. The amount of guns going is phenomenal…they must have a lot of water in their snowmaking ponds. 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

I don’t know if it was brought up here yet but this season Blue is only offering 8 hour tickets and night tickets.  People were complaining about that on their Facebook.  Before they offered four hour tickets.  

[Mixilplix]

Looks like they are going all in for this season....

[AngryHugo]

Can't wait to go tubing this Friday

[enjoralas]

FYI, in case anyone (else) was looking to drop ‘em off for a very last minute tune, Blue is currently 2 weeks out. Dropped off a set that needs a bit of repair but elected to keep the main skis when I saw they were giving a return date of 12/3, I’ll get them waxed later

[saltyant]

On 11/18/2022 at 12:29 PM, Dirtwolf said:

get flight following if you do... busy busy airspace.

I got flight following from Allentown on 119.65. When I departed their airspace to the south, they said Philly approach was too busy to deal with a toy plane. @AtomicSkier toy plane talk

[saltyant]

4 hours ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

The guns are still on..very impressive..I still think they might have to shut the guns off for a bit but tonight into tomorrow is gonna be $$$$$. The amount of guns going is phenomenal…they must have a lot of water in their snowmaking ponds. 

Got a truly awesome view of the snow making activities from the air. I will have to post some pics later.

[JFskiDan]

2 hours ago, enjoralas said:

FYI, in case anyone (else) was looking to drop ‘em off for a very last minute tune, Blue is currently 2 weeks out. Dropped off a set that needs a bit of repair but elected to keep the main skis when I saw they were giving a return date of 12/3, I’ll get them waxed later

Sad face emoji. But thanks for the heads up. 

[saltyant]

A picture of Blue Mountain Ski Resort, taken on Saturday, 11/19/22 at 3:40 PM from around 2,200 feet MSL.

 

Two bonus pictures of the local hill station:

Edited November 20, 2022 by saltyant

[antman12]

1 minute ago, saltyant said:

A picture of Blue Mountain Ski Resort, taken on Saturday, 11/19/22 at 3:40 PM from around 2,200 feet MSL.

Whoa!!

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Cool pictures Salty.  They need to amp up production on homestretch. 

[JFskiDan]

11 hours ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

They need to amp up production on homestretch. 

#Vistaopening

[RidgeRacer]

Speaking of zee lights...I drove past last night and noticed that they added the new white lighting that they put on coming soon last year all the way down lower paradise into home stretch. There's still plenty of shitty orange lighting however it appears the days of orange lights may be coming to an end. Not gonna lie the whole mountain covered in the new white lighting probably gets me more excited than the new lift.

[tnt]

what's the guess on opening day?  Black friday?

 

 

[tnt]

On 11/18/2022 at 10:44 AM, saltyant said:

Tomorrow I am planning to fly over Bear Creek and Spring Mountain, and if my flying budget allows maybe I'll head up over Blue as well. I want to tour suburban Philly a little while remaining under the Class B 😬

Wow - do you guys have a gliding thread going?  Curious to read about this endeavor...

[RidgeRacer]

27 minutes ago, tnt said:

what's the guess on opening day?  Black friday?

 

 

Friday for certain 

Edited November 20, 2022 by RidgeRacer

[saltyant]

26 minutes ago, tnt said:

Wow - do you guys have a gliding thread going?  Curious to read about this endeavor...

I've only flown in a glider once. I rent a light sport plane out of Queen City. @AirheadD8 posts a lot of glider stories and pictures