1/1/25….empty/Spring conditions.

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Hey All,

 

I’m finished with another morning at Blue mountain the true mountain.  I arrived at the lower lot before 720am and it was 43 degrees under overcast sky’s.  In the house were Atomic Jeff, Mixilplix, JFDan, Mute, KevinThomas, Bethlehem ford Crew, Slim, Indiggio, Schifdawg, Nancy, MBike Mike, Dirtwolf and a handful of others.  
 

First civilian OG six pack, I began on Challenge and it wasn’t great but better than yesterday..firm cord, sidewinder was nicer than yesterday and nightmare dreamweaver was good bad good bad and good depending on the section of the run.  Main Street sadly wasn’t that good, lazy was OK…later in the session things softened more and Coming soon was ok, Sidewinder got real good and I repeated it twice and upper razors was nice spring snow.  
 

All in all a fun session and now that my report is published, I can relax the rest of the day.  I’ll be back either Friday AM or Saturday.  Tomorrow gonna go right to work 😞. JADIP

[momskeeztoo]

Fun day so far. And not done yet

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Fun parking lot, JFDan brought charcuterie and MBike Mike did a little New Year’s Day grilling.  Coldest 40 degrees ever in the parking lot. 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

34 minutes ago, momskeeztoo said:

Fun day so far. And not done yet

Dang you must be at 30 runs already. 

[saltyant]

55 minutes ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

Fun parking lot, JFDan brought charcuterie and MBike Mike did a little New Year’s Day grilling.  Coldest 40 degrees ever in the parking lot. 

Im sad I missed JFDans charcuterie. I wonder if he imported it all the way from Malvern?

[indiggio]

Good day to start off the new year.  Soft, fast snow, bumps, cold pizza (thanks @mbike-ski), beer, falling temps, short work week...

[PSUFrankenstein]

Decent conditions today and totally empty.   JFDan charcuterie and Mike's pork and sauerkraut was a good lunch.   

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

1 hour ago, saltyant said:

Im sad I missed JFDans charcuterie. I wonder if he imported it all the way from Malvern?

@saltyant did you watch us on the webcams?  

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

TP4 also in the house today..

[AirheadD8]

3 hours ago, saltyant said:

Im sad I missed JFDans charcuterie. I wonder if he imported it all the way from Malvern?

Would have been a good day for this brew.

Good stuff!

[AirheadD8]

3 hours ago, indiggio said:

Good day to start off the new year.  Soft, fast snow, bumps, cold pizza (thanks @mbike-ski), beer, falling temps, short work week...

Did they seed any bumps? 

[momskeeztoo]

5 hours ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

Fun parking lot, JFDan brought charcuterie and MBike Mike did a little New Year’s Day grilling.  Coldest 40 degrees ever in the parking lot. 

Damn, wish I knew you guys had a grill. Brought some stuff to heat up, Rodney was MIA. I did notice some parking lot activity from the lift, wasn’t sure who it was, and I wasn’t willing to stop and find out. 

[momskeeztoo]

But definitely a fun day today. Soft snow, little bumps, lots of runs. Back tomorrow for more, then I won’t be back until Wednesday. Rented a cabin at Worlds End for a couple days. That should be good fun, as well. Going to take some winter hikes. 

[momskeeztoo]

Oh, and heard bald eagle chortling at the bottom of TCS, then saw him/ her flying around. Saw the immature bald eagle, too. Then checked the nest out before leaving- 2 white heads in the nest, so exciting. 

[AirheadD8]

5 minutes ago, momskeeztoo said:

Oh, and heard bald eagle chortling at the bottom of TCS, then saw him/ her flying around. Saw the immature bald eagle, too. Then checked the nest out before leaving- 2 white heads in the nest, so exciting. 

Where’s the nest? 

[momskeeztoo]

11 minutes ago, AirheadD8 said:

Where’s the nest? 

Across the road. 

[mbike-ski]

Fun morning ski and lunch, did a few more fun runs  with @tarponhead and the man with 2 first names and Marty, gals to celebrate with yal/ yins , makes me so ….

 

[DiMe]

Not as good as yesterday this afternoon.  More crowds and wetter than yesterday spring snow.  Rocks started getting kicked up and rolling around the burma turns but still very good spring conditions.  Looks like winters back tomorrow and some much needed additional snowmaking!

[indiggio]

9 hours ago, AirheadD8 said:

Did they seed any bumps? 

Nope, we had to.

They'll probably hold off on seeding Barney's for a bit yet, after the cold kicks in and they can blow some more snow on the area, after freshening up all the skid marks elsewhere.

 

[momskeeztoo]

13 minutes ago, indiggio said:

Nope, we had to.

They were fun. I suck at those seeded bumps. 

[saltyant]

22 hours ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

@saltyant did you watch us on the webcams?  

No I forgot, I'll have to remember to fire up the webcams on Saturday morning while I'm riding the Big Black Bear Bonanza Six chair lift at Camelback and enjoying First Trāx on Marjorie's Delight. That will be rad. Massive bonus points if I catch a glimpse of Matt Edge.

Edited Thursday at 07:43 PM by saltyant

[AirheadD8]

10 hours ago, momskeeztoo said:

They were fun. I suck at those seeded bumps. 

Not a big fan of seeded bumps but I do like bumps. The seeded bumps tend to get rutted and icy . Timing is everything. 

I would prefer natural bumps but they don’t seem to develop like they used to before snowboard s came out. 

[indiggio]

1 hour ago, AirheadD8 said:

Not a big fan of seeded bumps but I do like bumps. The seeded bumps tend to get rutted and icy . Timing is everything. 

I would prefer natural bumps but they don’t seem to develop like they used to before snowboard s came out. 

The problem is that the base is boiler/ice, there's no way around that until temps come up enough to soften it.
Seeded or natural are both gonna get rutted/icy, if it's freezing out, unless it either snows or they blow snow, and even then that's just gonna get skied out.
Gotta learn to ski where the soft snow is and avoid the icy ruts.  There's more than one way to ski bumps...

We're always talking that they should let Switchback go completely natural like they did after the one big snowstorm a few years back, but they'll never do it.
Hell, some people were even complaining the other day about the random bumps in Coming Soon ditch!

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

44 minutes ago, indiggio said:

The problem is that the base is boiler/ice, there's no way around that until temps come up enough to soften it.
Seeded or natural are both gonna get rutted/icy, if it's freezing out, unless it either snows or they blow snow, and even then that's just gonna get skied out.
Gotta learn to ski where the soft snow is and avoid the icy ruts.  There's more than one way to ski bumps...

We're always talking that they should let Switchback go completely natural like they did after the one big snowstorm a few years back, but they'll never do it.
Hell, some people were even complaining the other day about the random bumps in Coming Soon ditch!

What Indiggio said and I remember when switchback was left au natural, it was like Antelope at Mad River Glen..spicy

[AirheadD8]

4 minutes ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

What Indiggio said and I remember when switchback was left au natural, it was like Antelope at Mad River Glen..spicy

Elk lets Tunchannock  bump up and periodically turns the guns on. Kinda weird styrofoam feel afterwards.