Popular Post GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted February 6 Popular Post Report Posted February 6 Hey All, I’m back from a fun morning at Blue mountain. It was in the upper 20s when I arrived at 8:35am. In the house were Atomic Jeff, Johnny Law, Rodney, C1er, Gary and Oz. First super summit safari six pack ride stopped twice, always happens. First run on Main Street was variable, velvety groomed and manmade, then some crispy snow lower. Over to the quad and first nightmare dreamweaver of the season which had pretty nice grooming and some skiffs of new manmade. challenge was so nice, one of the first runs this season at Blue I said this is really good. Repeated challenge about five times. Each run stayed good, mostly empty and it was one of the few runs they didn’t blow on so super consistent. Homestretch and Barbs way had mini cookies. Ended the session with a Raceway to Chute to lower main which was good until lower main which was a little scrappy and then Widowmaker to midway to lower main and midway kind of slick wet manmade. I left at 1030 and the temperature was up in the mid 30s and still blowing on Switchback. I’ll be back on Thursday AM, time to sell a tombstone. 11 Quote
Popular Post Johnny Law Posted February 6 Popular Post Report Posted February 6 Today was le tits part deux, Challenge was even better than yesterday with a little more stiffness it could hold against the ski. When Challenge is good two days in a row its like I must be having a stroke and all of this is in my mind. It's so much fun to truck down that mother getting airs and ripping big arcs. I didn't mind the herky jerkey stuff probably becuase they are already slow with no wax so I was really enjoying upper main and especially NWDW. There is enough room even if you dont want to get booter Crunk but it's soooo nice to formation fly and get a bit blue angels. Le chute continues to be prime and I got one decent launch today. Weather was perfect, great crew and good snow........ shit was a dream on Monday but two days in a row I must be on peyote. 8 1 1 Quote
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted February 6 Author Report Posted February 6 Root was also in the house. Quote
theprogram4 Posted February 6 Report Posted February 6 Rode from 11:45-3:45, surprised how empty the place was. Great conditions, did at least half my runs on razors. Kicking myself for not doing challenge after reading y’all reports, but figured I rode it so much on the weekend I’d get my razors runs in. Nightweaver was my ROTD. Gotta reiterate that man the place was empty 7 Quote
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted February 6 Author Report Posted February 6 45 minutes ago, theprogram4 said: Rode from 11:45-3:45, surprised how empty the place was. Great conditions, did at least half my runs on razors. Kicking myself for not doing challenge after reading y’all reports, but figured I rode it so much on the weekend I’d get my razors runs in. Nightweaver was my ROTD. Gotta reiterate that man the place was empty Yup was thinking about the emptiness..challenge didn’t look that good from the lift and seemed like everybody was going to nightmare dreamweaver and paradise. There was a mens ski group really milking challenge like they were navigating a Root at Le Grave…first run we saw them gazing at the precipitous drop of the challenge headwall and in my head was,”don’t start don’t start”..and for once they didn’t start..so Atomic Jeff and Johnny Law were really able to slut it up..then next run that group was middle of second headwall but we’ll off to the side and next run when JLaw and AJeff hit up NMSW and I did Challenge again, the group was at the bottom of the Falls… Quote
Johnny Law Posted February 6 Report Posted February 6 1 hour ago, theprogram4 said: Gotta reiterate that man the place was empty Blue has to hate it but man is it nice when it's like the days of old. No 84737293 people lined up 30ft in front of the gates so no one can get through and then using two lanes. Most importantly no fuck heads endlessly dicking around in shitter stance with absolutely zero awareness. I think that group was psia, makes sense but most of those dudes are single trick ponies, hence their love of perfecting stupid little c turns and stopping every 20ft to have a confab on edge purchase. 3 1 2 Quote
Mixilplix Posted February 7 Report Posted February 7 2 hours ago, Johnny Law said: I think that group was psia, makes sense but most of those dudes are single trick ponies, hence their love of perfecting stupid little c turns and stopping every 20ft to have a confab on edge purchase. When I did snowboard psia I saw this all the time..... 1 Quote
mute1080 Posted February 7 Report Posted February 7 (edited) Went up tonight 6-8 and had a kids night. Our trail list was Pdis, Lazy, and Burma on repeat and all the side hits they offer. Definitely a firm base with sugar but still had a great time. Crowds were mild and around 7 they disappeared almost completely. Nice to have it empty. Guns turned on for Switch at 7 and looked to be the only trail getting touched for now. Is there a gofundme for Blue so they can buy light bulbs? Keeps getting worse and every trail we were on have sections out. Edited February 7 by mute1080 4 1 3 Quote
Johnny Law Posted February 7 Report Posted February 7 Just now, Mixilplix said: When I did snowboard psia I saw this all the time..... I'm not even really knocking them for all the drills and what not it's just like if your goal was to remove all joy you couldn't be more successful. Plus they don't get it like really at all, everything is from the person's perspective which is at the end of the day almost irrelevant. Cog outside com everyone falls, it doesn't matter how good you are or not so why does everyone visualize and conceptualize it from that point of view. Quote
saltyant Posted February 7 Report Posted February 7 10 minutes ago, mute1080 said: Is there a gofundme for Blue so they can buy light bulbs? Keeps getting worse and every trail we were on have sections out. A grate reason to ski only in the daylight times. 1 3 Quote
momskeeztoo Posted February 7 Report Posted February 7 9 hours ago, saltyant said: A grate reason to ski only in the daylight times. If I worked Monday through Friday,I’d definitely ski nights. Otherwise, you wouldn’t go until the weekend. And sometimes when you have kids, that’s your only option. 2 1 Quote
RidgeRacer Posted February 7 Report Posted February 7 21 minutes ago, momskeeztoo said: If I worked Monday through Friday,I’d definitely ski nights. Otherwise, you wouldn’t go until the weekend. And sometimes when you have kids, that’s your only option. Just ignore him. 2 4 1 1 Quote
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted February 7 Author Report Posted February 7 24 minutes ago, RidgeRacer said: Just ignore him. Nah we should motivate Salty to ski more. I agree with Momskeeze 1 Quote
saltyant Posted February 7 Report Posted February 7 (edited) 4 hours ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said: Nah we should motivate Salty to ski more. I agree with Momskeeze When I started skiing it was almost exclusively night skiing because it was cheape, like $20. I didn't have any season passes. Now that I've seen the light at how much better early morning skiing is on fresh courdoroy, the icy and sugary slopes of night skiing are far less appealing. Edited February 7 by saltyant 1 1 Quote
C1erArt Posted February 7 Report Posted February 7 Nice conditions today, almost as good as yesterday. Freefall was a little marbley, Paradise very good first thing - the bottom got marbley later, NMDW was excellent all morning, apparently they are spraying urea on Razors to harden it up (not many people on it), Challenge was excellent, Lazy good, Main St was soft on top and marbles below Midway but very skiable. The limejacket group had Curzi’s Cabin closed. Making a lot of progress on Switchback, just getting started on upper Sidewinder. A lot of lesson groups and, I think, PSIA certification going on. A really good day. 6 Quote
mbike-ski Posted February 7 Report Posted February 7 yesterday afternoon's flat light and variable surface had me skiing very spazzy, got better as the light came on and sun went down. 2 1 Quote
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