3/14 Peerdy Day Live TR

[DiMe]

On the B chair for 2nd run.  Late start slid in a ditch 2 miles from the lot and required the assistance  of 2 kind men who stopped to push me out.  More to come... this is the most legit PA pow day ever.....

[DiMe]

Overstoked

[saltyant]

This is grate!! Looks deeeeeeeep. 

[DiMe]

Stilll dummmping.  Fresh lines every run there might be 50 people here?

Edited March 14, 2023 by DiMe

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

How many inches of snow is there?

[DiMe]

Quads are open.  Im guessing im cutting tracks between. 2-6" top to bottom.  Very light snow blowing around, skiers right got the stashes.  Gots all dat float, so stoked. 

[DiMe]

So deep Jerry disappear!

[DiMe]

Way moar than 6"

[DiMe]

I found the stash....... holy fuck.

[indiggio]

2 hours ago, DiMe said:

So deep Jerry disappear!

@saltyant didn't say he was going to Elk?!?!

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

3 minutes ago, indiggio said:

@saltyant didn't say he was going to Elk?!?!

Hey Saltyanus is no longer a Jerry anymore, he’s now a Gerald..

[saltyant]

1 hour ago, indiggio said:

@saltyant didn't say he was going to Elk?!?!

Ok Boomer

[indiggio]

Just now, saltyant said:

Ok Boomer

I'll see you in the bumps!

[saltyant]

3 hours ago, DiMe said:

I found the stash....... holy fuck.

Beware of tree wells... Always ski with a friend

[saltyant]

4 hours ago, DiMe said:

So deep Jerry disappear!

At least he didn't lose his poles in the perder like some Jerry did at Jackson Hole....

Edited March 14, 2023 by saltyant

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

7 minutes ago, saltyant said:

At least he didn't lose his poles in the perder like some Jerry did at Jackson Hole....

Come on salty let’s make this a day of kindness

[saltyant]

26 minutes ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

Come on salty let’s make this a day of kindness

You're right, I'm just hella jell of everyone getting perder. I've only got some bitch ass short perder runs down Floyds at Jackson Frost so far this season. WTGAI

Edited March 14, 2023 by saltyant

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

31 minutes ago, saltyant said:

You're right, I'm just hella jell of everyone getting perder. I've only got some bitch ass short perder runs down Floyds at Jackson Frost so far this season. WTGAI

Well maybe you’ll get some packed Perder next week in Jerryville, I mean Breck. 

[saltyant]

7 minutes ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

Jerryville

Let's make this a day of kindness. 

[DiMe]

Just got home from what was probably the best PA powder day of my life.  I have only been to Elk once before roughly 15 years ago.  I left for Elk with grass showing and light flurries in Stroudsburg, things changed immediately after hitting the Mt Pocono line getting onto 380.  The ride was smooth but sketch once off 81 and headed up to Elk. 

I ended up every so gently sliding my truck onto the shoulder less than 0.5 miles from the parking lot in an awefully precarious way.  I came to a stop in the worst possible spot roughly 2 feet from a corrugated pipe culvert that if I had fallen into, would have ended my day.  Fortunately a suby with two burly skiers stopped and was eager to attempt to give me a push away from the ditch. 

Their efforts worked. I thanked them profusely and within less than 5 minutes from dead stuck without help to back on course!

I arrived in the upper lot, because I had no idea where to park or claim my tickets at 9:00am.  Now that I am reacquainted with Elks layout, in the future I'd opt to park at the Quad lot.  

I found my way to the robot that spit out my 4 hour admission for the day.  It's kind of strange having no interaction to get on the slopes these days when visiting new resorts but I kind of like it.  I made my way up the B lift and without a clue where to turn at the top with low visibility I followed the sounds of fellow steezers shouting "OMG, This is amazing!"  "Leave the edges home today!" Which led me onto Delaware cutting fresh tracks but craving more pitch!

At first sight of a black diamond trail sign I found myself making my way down Tuscarora floating down with a shit eating grin, knowing for certain now that I had made the best possible decision today.  The following few runs I hit the rest of the blacks on the double chair side before making my way over to the quad where the real goods were to be found.

ROTD was unquestionably Chippewa as one of the few black diamons Elk seemingly leaves completely ungroomed through the season to bump up.  The falling snow and the wind had this run set up perfectly with the VW sized bumps filled in with fresh and frequent near knee deep drops surfing the tops of each powder bump.  Nose up and pointed downhill and those giant hard VWs under the fresh were of no concern to tripping up an advanced steezer.

My only regret today was being cheap saving $13 buying a $67 4 hour ticket instead of the full $80 ticket for the extra fee hours.  Today was paradise....  If you blindfolded me and took me to Elk today I would swear on my life I was at a small New Engla d or Upstate New York resort.  INCREDIBLE.

Still dumping when I left, prob a rate of 0.25-0.6"/hr the entire time.  The grass picture was the Tannersville exit for Camelback on the way home.  Elevation was everything for this storm.

 

 

Edited March 14, 2023 by DiMe

[saltyant]

Thanks for the detailed report. It was grate living vicariously through your radical perder pictures as mere mortals like most of PASR are stuck starting at computer screens and have to do the work of shoveling instead of trailblazing fresh perder lines. Elk is a magical wonderland, basically the same as skiing Vermont. It's crazy you no longer need human interaction to buy a pass. They've sure come a long way from the days of their 1990s style website. These are the best days, you will always remember this day at Elk and when you saw a Jerry being disappeared into the deep pow pow. 

[DiMe]

4 minutes ago, saltyant said:

Thanks for the detailed report. It was grate living vicariously through your radical perder pictures as mere mortals like most of PASR are stuck starting at computer screens and have to do the work of shoveling instead of trailblazing fresh perder lines. Elk is a magical wonderland, basically the same as skiing Vermont. It's crazy you no longer need human interaction to buy a pass. They've sure come a long way from the days of their 1990s style website. These are the best days, you will always remember this day at Elk and when you saw a Jerry being disappeared into the deep pow pow. 

DiMe is back to stay!  These are my style of reports from many moons ago.  PASR powder hound I am, rider of the storm. 

https://youtu.be/iv8GW1GaoIc

Edited March 14, 2023 by DiMe

[rummy]

Another Elkaholic is created... Great Reports all  day!  Thanks..

[Benm]

great report, glad someone got after it.

that pic at 715/80 is almost laughable compared to what it was like in the elk pics.

[RidgeRacer]

13 hours ago, saltyant said:

Thanks for the detailed report. It was grate living vicariously through your radical perder pictures as mere mortals like most of PASR are stuck starting at computer screens and have to do the work of shoveling instead of trailblazing fresh perder lines. Elk is a magical wonderland, basically the same as skiing Vermont. It's crazy you no longer need human interaction to buy a pass. They've sure come a long way from the days of their 1990s style website. These are the best days, you will always remember this day at Elk and when you saw a Jerry being disappeared into the deep pow pow. 

Please stop.