millerm277
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Date(s) Skied: 1/8/10
Resort or Ski Area: Blue Mountain, PA
Conditions: Soft with an inch or two of fluff on top from the weather, getting more hardpacked around 3PM.
Trip Report: Skied 9:30 - 4PM, excellent conditions by Blue Mtn standards (which would be "eh...not bad, not great", everywhere else).
ROTD was definitely Switchback, spent a long time flying down that. Dreamweaver wasn't bad, the bumps on Challenge were fairly interesting early on. Everywhere except the turn on Nightmare had at least decent conditions all day. Watched lots of people fall in the most entertaining ways, I even saw someone ski into the snow boulder field past the edge of the groomer track on Paradise.
A couple of minor annoyances though:
1. The D chair was spinning all day, but because the lift attendant was too lazy to stand out in the cold, every time the line disappeared, he'd put the closed sign up and sit in his shack, meaning that there was always a line for the C when there shouldn't have been. I completely understand not running the lift, but if you're going to keep the lift turned on, and have the staff members paid to run it, open the freaking lift.
2. They roped off Connector halfway across, leaving the beginners to find that their trail suddenly ends and to make the decision to either duck the rope (which most didn't), or proceed dangerously through a crowded terrain park. I don't quite get how that's acceptable.
Resort or Ski Area: Blue Mountain, PA
Conditions: Soft with an inch or two of fluff on top from the weather, getting more hardpacked around 3PM.
Trip Report: Skied 9:30 - 4PM, excellent conditions by Blue Mtn standards (which would be "eh...not bad, not great", everywhere else).
ROTD was definitely Switchback, spent a long time flying down that. Dreamweaver wasn't bad, the bumps on Challenge were fairly interesting early on. Everywhere except the turn on Nightmare had at least decent conditions all day. Watched lots of people fall in the most entertaining ways, I even saw someone ski into the snow boulder field past the edge of the groomer track on Paradise.
A couple of minor annoyances though:
1. The D chair was spinning all day, but because the lift attendant was too lazy to stand out in the cold, every time the line disappeared, he'd put the closed sign up and sit in his shack, meaning that there was always a line for the C when there shouldn't have been. I completely understand not running the lift, but if you're going to keep the lift turned on, and have the staff members paid to run it, open the freaking lift.
2. They roped off Connector halfway across, leaving the beginners to find that their trail suddenly ends and to make the decision to either duck the rope (which most didn't), or proceed dangerously through a crowded terrain park. I don't quite get how that's acceptable.
