indiggio Posted December 22, 2016 Report Share Posted December 22, 2016 Up at 5:00 AM and looked out the window to see the car covered in snow, this might be a good day after all... Made an egg & cheese on an English muffin and packed up the goods and headed out. Snow was falling at a nice, steady pace. Since it was beginning to look a lot like Christmas, we decided to listen to Christmas tunes on Sirius on the ride up. Just beyond the halfway mark, we passed by a mishap where a car was off the side of the road and right behind it a pickup truck totally off the road. Another car had stopped and the people were all in their phones, so I didn't bother to stop. I also could see some flashing lights of a plow off in the distance. As we approached Jay, the snow started falling a bit heavier. We were glad we decided to wait to come up here with some snow in the forecast. We got into the lot, booted up and made our way to the customer service desk to pick up our Liftopia tickets. No problems getting the tickets today, so we headed up to the lifts. Of course, the tram isn't running due to the financing debacles going on here and we heard that a lot of the employees aren't very happy about all that's taking place. Unfortunately the Flyer quad was on wind-hold indefinitely, which left us on the Metro quad. We made our way down to Stateside area, which was the only game in town. After unknowingly getting on the Taxi quad and taking an inadvertent run down Kangaroo Trail, we finally got down to the Jet triple as the Bonaventure was also not running. Looking at Jet from the lift, they only blew/groomed snow on the side opposite the lift line and so there was a nice spline running down the lift towers. Being alone addicts and seeing nobody skiing them, we found excellent snow that all the traffic had pushed over just for us! I thought I'd even see Matt Edge grinding it, but no such luck! On one of the rides up, we saw a local jump in the treeline next to the lift between UN & Jet, so we decided to try that which proved to be a lot of fun. Unfortunately a lot of the trees we ventured into were dust on crust. Abandoning Jet, we tried out Hotshot and Mont l'Entrepide which were all bumps and a finally a pike to get back up to the lift. Back up, we ventured down Kitzbuehel, which again was all bumps, but by now about 6" had fallen, so they were becoming more fun. Through the Stateside glade and back to the triple. We made our way back to the Tram Haus for some lunch and then back out. The Flyer was now running, so we rode that. Just over the Ridge the winds were howling. Ski patrol was out roping off a lot of terrain, which we couldn't understand. On another lap, the quad stopped for like 15 minutes, probably another wind hold. Not wanting to sit on a lift going nowhere, we headed back to the triple. We did a few more laps on Jet/UN. Our legs decided we had enough and we bugged out. All in all, a pretty good day skiing some powder at Jay! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tnt Posted December 23, 2016 Report Share Posted December 23, 2016 Good stuff.... Did you try Beaver Pond or Andres? Seems like they are low enough angle that just a few inches makes them super fun after a freeze. This your last day? Or more tomorrow? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moe ghoul Posted December 23, 2016 Report Share Posted December 23, 2016 Good to hear the Jay cloud at work. We got a few inches in the Notch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indiggio Posted December 24, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 24, 2016 Did you try Beaver Pond or Andres? Seems like they are low enough angle that just a few inches makes them super fun after a freeze. This your last day? Or more tomorrow? No, we didn't make it out there. With all the wind holds on the quad, we decided that we'd be better off on the other side riding the triple. Yeah that was our last day, unfortunately. Probably some good conditions Friday to be had. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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