12/23...bitter cold chalky good snow...coming soon!

[indiggio]

I'm back from another fun morning at Blue the True.  I arrived at the lower lot at 8:15am and it was 2 degrees with no wind and bluebird skies and nary a gun blowing.
In the house was Harold, Gary, and later Atomic.

Rolling the dice that they would have Coming Soon open, Gary and I headed to the quad and lined up at the VIP lines, only to have them CF them up at the open, with the attendee holding the iPad but saying he didn't have the iPad.  WTF??
At the top of the quad, we saw a couple helmets heading towards CS, but then turned around and went right?
There was only the Experts Only sign and we continued to find an edge to edge field of baseball sized cookies. 
We continued on and at the slight right turn, the snow turned to groomed, chalky goodness.
Ended up having the first civilian run down Coming Soon for the year and it was spectacular!

Back up and down Razors which also had fine snow with some breakup in the middle section.

Main Street still had wonderful snow and was virtually empty, probably because everyone was on CS and Razors.
Ran into Atomic and rode up with him a couple of times.  I think he went off to check out CS.

Did the tour and they seemed to have dusted all the trails, but there's still a glacier at the bottom, middle of Chute, beware!

The didn't blow any more on lower Switch; disappointing.
However, there are gigantic whales on Nightmare/Dreamweaver.  The groomers have their work cut out for them!

Challenge has gaps, but there may be enough for a WROD on the left side for the holiday week.

No guns were going at 11am when I left, but I see they have them back on on NM/DW and what looks like Sidewinder now.

JADIP

[AtomicSkier]

Today was awesome.  

[momskeeztoo]

Today was great until about noon, then the crowds arrived. I was hoping the cold would keep them away.. no such luck. After I saw someone going down laying on their stomach on their snowboard, I knew it was time to go. I got out on the snow around 915, so got plenty of runs in. I thought ROTD was Main Street. 

[Benm]

Could be a very good day if they've already got most of the mtn groomed. 

[AirheadD8]

1 hour ago, Benm said:

Could be a very good day if they've already got most of the mtn groomed. 

I call mornings like this Air Hockey days. Groomed with an inch or two on top . 5 th Gear! Going to be sweet! 

[JFskiDan]

NMDW is supposed to open today at 10 am. With no features. Best news ever. 

[indiggio]

17 hours ago, JFskiDan said:

NMDW is supposed to open today at 10 am. With no features. Best news ever. 

It was actually surprisingly fair.   Got on it shortly after it opened, hearing reports it was frozen cord, but when we got on it it was broken up cord, not totally marbles yet, and the broken stuff was chalky enough to set an edge.
We had been eyeing it up all morning, since they finished grooming it shortly after the open.

[indiggio]

See this one?

[mute1080]

1 hour ago, indiggio said:

See this one?

50+ mph hard carving apparently

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

2 hours ago, indiggio said:

See this one?

OZ needs to dial it back a little and his Caps lock button is broke.  

[JFskiDan]

so he's posted this twice now?  someone needs some attention, huh?

[momskeeztoo]

I spoke with him the afternoon it happened. He seemed ok, but who knows, things can change. 

[C1erArt]

10 hours ago, JFskiDan said:

so he's posted this twice now?  someone needs some attention, huh?

Concussion can mess with your short term memory. 🤒

[indiggio]

10 hours ago, momskeeztoo said:

I spoke with him the afternoon it happened. He seemed ok, but who knows, things can change. 

Anyone that goes unconscious really should get their head checked, regardless of wearing a helmet or not.

Undiagnosed brain bleeds can kill even after a few days of feeling ok.