Zee Lights

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

  On 12/13/2022 at 6:55 PM, 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.

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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]

  On 12/14/2022 at 10:46 AM, RidgeRacer said:

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

 

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

[RidgeRacer]

  On 12/14/2022 at 6:22 PM, 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

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

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

  On 12/14/2022 at 8:54 PM, 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 

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

[RidgeRacer]

  On 12/14/2022 at 9:01 PM, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

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

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Yeah I never made it. 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

  On 12/15/2022 at 1:25 AM, RidgeRacer said:

Yeah I never made it. 

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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]

  On 12/15/2022 at 1:45 AM, 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.  

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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]

  On 12/15/2022 at 10:18 AM, 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.

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It’s a marathon not a sprint. 

[enjoralas]

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

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

  On 12/15/2022 at 3:06 PM, enjoralas said:

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

 

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

[enjoralas]

  On 12/15/2022 at 3:08 PM, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

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

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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]

  On 12/15/2022 at 11:09 PM, enjoralas said:

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

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

[enjoralas]

  On 12/15/2022 at 11:17 PM, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

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

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

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

  On 12/15/2022 at 11:19 PM, enjoralas said:

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

 

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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]

  On 12/15/2022 at 11:30 PM, 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 

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You can fap off to this site…

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

 

Edited December 16, 2022 by indiggio

[saltyant]

  On 12/16/2022 at 1:40 AM, indiggio said:

You can fap off to this site…

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

 

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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]

  On 12/16/2022 at 1:40 AM, indiggio said:

You can fap off to this site…

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

 

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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]

  On 12/16/2022 at 1:51 AM, 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

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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]

  On 12/16/2022 at 2:37 AM, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

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

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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.