Zee Lights

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

27 minutes ago, saltyant said:

$65 to ski 3 trails for 90 minutes, that's bananas. If they had a Blue light special like K-Mart perhaps their supply and demand would reach equilibrium.

Most people who buy a ticket ski for more than 90 minutes.  

[C1erArt]

Freefall was nice - a little chewed up at the bottom, but a lot of marbles on Paradise. Burma was OK, and even rode up on Vista a couple of times to enjoy the nice snow above the lodge. 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

I love seeing those snowmaking cannons blast.  What a nice little recovery and terrain expansion Blue is having.  Tubing will be ready they better have plenty of cocoa 

[RidgeRacer]

First night sesh of the season on tap for this evening. LFG

 

[Johnny Law]

7 hours ago, RidgeRacer said:

First night sesh of the season on tap for this evening. LFG

 

I'll be there around 5 or so, I'll keep an eye out.  It should be mad interesting and maybe pretty good

[RidgeRacer]

2 hours ago, Johnny Law said:

I'll be there around 5 or so, I'll keep an eye out.  It should be mad interesting and maybe pretty good

I'm looking at 6:30 or 7 at this point. I'm kinda nervous about conditions but I gotsta ski so whatever 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

6 minutes ago, RidgeRacer said:

I'm looking at 6:30 or 7 at this point. I'm kinda nervous about conditions but I gotsta ski so whatever 

Nothing to be nervous about…it’s PA it’s gonna be icy and maybe even a little sugar on the sides. 

[RidgeRacer]

3 hours ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

Nothing to be nervous about…it’s PA it’s gonna be icy and maybe even a little sugar on the sides. 

Yeah I never made it. 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

19 minutes ago, RidgeRacer said:

Yeah I never made it. 

I really hope my report earlier didn’t keep you from skiing.  Even in the worst conditions it’s always worth getting out there.  

[Johnny Law]

Tonight was actually pretty good, the upper part of coming soon was smooth fast with just a skootch on top.

It was effortless carving and while the lower headwall had a few spots the star was the ditch spine. The sugar had piled up deep and made for a super fun bounce. Big credit to dirty and edge for that line.  

Crowds weren't too bad some annoying race kids but maybe the best conditions I've skied all year and I rode nearly 3hrs which isn't bad for 1 1/2 trails plus a ski tour. 

Blowing on lazy, lower main/midway, tubing and the big fan guns at all the intersections.

 

[RidgeRacer]

8 hours ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

I really hope my report earlier didn’t keep you from skiing.  Even in the worst conditions it’s always worth getting out there.  

No not at all. Ended up working late and passed out on the couch. Trust me. I was annoyed with myself for not getting out but plenty of days ahead.

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

3 hours ago, RidgeRacer said:

No not at all. Ended up working late and passed out on the couch. Trust me. I was annoyed with myself for not getting out but plenty of days ahead.

It’s a marathon not a sprint. 

[enjoralas]

Looks like these guys are getting busted for trying to poach Terrain Run 😂

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

2 minutes ago, enjoralas said:

Looks like these guys are getting busted for trying to poach Terrain Run 😂

 

I don’t think the juice was worth the squeeze. 

[enjoralas]

1 minute ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

I don’t think the juice was worth the squeeze. 

Definitely not, they've been walked off the snow after what looked like a lengthy parlay session

[enjoralas]

People are non-stop poaching Terrain Run right now, lol. Who was up there today, was there a rope there?

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

7 minutes ago, enjoralas said:

People are non-stop poaching Terrain Run right now, lol. Who was up there today, was there a rope there?

I don’t think it’s called terrain run anymore.  

[enjoralas]

1 minute ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

I don’t think it’s called terrain run anymore.  

It'll ALWAYS be Terrain Run. You can't strip a classic like that of it's glory

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

8 minutes ago, enjoralas said:

It'll ALWAYS be Terrain Run. You can't strip a classic like that of it's glory

 

I wonder how they came up with the name Terrain run?  It used to just be lower sidewinder.  I really wish I saved all my old blue mountain brochures. I used to have an A-Z accordion file with ski brochures and trail maps I picked up at the Philly ski show at the convention center. That’s when Wawa was a novelty for Allentown people.  You had to go to Philly or Down da shore to get Wawa and they didn’t even have touch screens to order.  You gave your order to a person and they wrote down the order on a piece of paper.  Bananas 

[indiggio]

2 hours ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

I wonder how they came up with the name Terrain run?  It used to just be lower sidewinder.  I really wish I saved all my old blue mountain brochures. I used to have an A-Z accordion file with ski brochures and trail maps I picked up at the Philly ski show at the convention center. That’s when Wawa was a novelty for Allentown people.  You had to go to Philly or Down da shore to get Wawa and they didn’t even have touch screens to order.  You gave your order to a person and they wrote down the order on a piece of paper.  Bananas 

You can fap off to this site…

https://skimap.org/skiAreas/view/258

 

Edited December 16, 2022 by indiggio

[saltyant]

11 minutes ago, indiggio said:

You can fap off to this site…

https://skimap.org/skiAreas/view/258

 

This is grate, Challenge opened the same year that @atomic@skier8 and I were born. The trail map says it is Extremely Difficult. TFTI

Edited December 16, 2022 by saltyant

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

49 minutes ago, indiggio said:

You can fap off to this site…

https://skimap.org/skiAreas/view/258

 

Thanks I like that Upper Razors used to be called mogul run. It was so wide open it was like skiing on the moon. 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

39 minutes ago, saltyant said:

This is grate, Challenge opened the same year that @atomic@skier8 and I were born. The trail map says it is Extremely Difficult. TFTI

Double black Diamond honestly if nightmare is  a double black I think Coming soon should be. 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

I’ll study the maps a little more but at one time lazy was a Blue/green which is an appropriate rating for it.  Also they went from 921 vertical feet in 1988 to 923 vertical feet in 1991 must have been a new geological survey.  I enjoy the maps thanks for posting Indiggio!!

[saltyant]

2 minutes ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

Also they went from 921 vertical feet in 1988 to 923 vertical feet in 1991 must have been a new geological survey. 

Maybe the tectonic plates under the Poconos and Lehigh County collided within that time and caused Blue Mountain the True Mountain to grow an extra two feet, like Mount Everest is growing 4mm per year.