GrilledSteezeSandwich
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Hey All,
I'm back from another fun session at Blue mountain. Is was sleet and freezing rain on the drive up and the typical 25 minute drive took 45 minutes. I parked at the top lot and booted up uber fast and ended up being the 4th person scanned in right at 8AM. The surface was smooth cordoroy with about an inch of mixed precip on top which skied really well. I skied over to the 6-pack and began my day with several runs on Challenge. Gah-Skier George, Toast, and Shadows were in the house and I skied Lazy Mile and Main Street with them..wow Lazy mile was nice...the best it's been all season. The packed powder was similar to what I've skied out west. The snow from Friday dried out well and todays snow/sleet was icing on the cake. The first hour the sky switched between snow and sleet.
Toast left pretty early and then I joined up with the Jibhonks for a few runs..Shadows, Justo, KevinThomas and a few others. I did three laps with them hitting Tuts Lane to connecter to Come Around to Midway to Lower Main Street to Shuttle to the lower park. Each run I got air at least 4 times. KevinThomas did a misty flip which was MSY..Mad Steezy Yo!!!!. I then skied a few runs by myself on Lazy Mile and the snow was still smooth and the run relatively uncrowded for a weekend. I'd say crowds were half that of a normal weekend day. I saw T.Maki a little later on grilling up some Steeze and he's on some new skis. I hit Burma which had some Freshies on the side and at the bottom I saw bumpskier Chris and we rode up the Main Street chair and hit up Barneys bumps..there was still alot of ice in the troughs but lots of untouched snow on the side which I had fun in. I skied on my Elan S12s for the first time this season and it was nice being on stiffer skis with more turn radius..but wide twin tips rule for the typical blue conditions of piles of sugar snow and death cookies. If Blue received natural snow on a regular basis I wonder if it would always be as good as today.
The past three days were some of the best conditions I've skied at Blue..The snowmaking assault continues with the guns cranking on paradise, Sidewinder and in Tubing. I ended up skiing 20 runs including 18 on the 6-pack and 2 on the main street chair for a total of 20,500 vertical feet. Now it's chinese food/beer thirty and the sun is out!!!!!
Blue is setting up for a great Holiday week..take advantage of a few more uncrowded days before all the TDH's Tom Dick and Harrys arrive December 26th..
I'm back from another fun session at Blue mountain. Is was sleet and freezing rain on the drive up and the typical 25 minute drive took 45 minutes. I parked at the top lot and booted up uber fast and ended up being the 4th person scanned in right at 8AM. The surface was smooth cordoroy with about an inch of mixed precip on top which skied really well. I skied over to the 6-pack and began my day with several runs on Challenge. Gah-Skier George, Toast, and Shadows were in the house and I skied Lazy Mile and Main Street with them..wow Lazy mile was nice...the best it's been all season. The packed powder was similar to what I've skied out west. The snow from Friday dried out well and todays snow/sleet was icing on the cake. The first hour the sky switched between snow and sleet.
Toast left pretty early and then I joined up with the Jibhonks for a few runs..Shadows, Justo, KevinThomas and a few others. I did three laps with them hitting Tuts Lane to connecter to Come Around to Midway to Lower Main Street to Shuttle to the lower park. Each run I got air at least 4 times. KevinThomas did a misty flip which was MSY..Mad Steezy Yo!!!!. I then skied a few runs by myself on Lazy Mile and the snow was still smooth and the run relatively uncrowded for a weekend. I'd say crowds were half that of a normal weekend day. I saw T.Maki a little later on grilling up some Steeze and he's on some new skis. I hit Burma which had some Freshies on the side and at the bottom I saw bumpskier Chris and we rode up the Main Street chair and hit up Barneys bumps..there was still alot of ice in the troughs but lots of untouched snow on the side which I had fun in. I skied on my Elan S12s for the first time this season and it was nice being on stiffer skis with more turn radius..but wide twin tips rule for the typical blue conditions of piles of sugar snow and death cookies. If Blue received natural snow on a regular basis I wonder if it would always be as good as today.
The past three days were some of the best conditions I've skied at Blue..The snowmaking assault continues with the guns cranking on paradise, Sidewinder and in Tubing. I ended up skiing 20 runs including 18 on the 6-pack and 2 on the main street chair for a total of 20,500 vertical feet. Now it's chinese food/beer thirty and the sun is out!!!!!
Blue is setting up for a great Holiday week..take advantage of a few more uncrowded days before all the TDH's Tom Dick and Harrys arrive December 26th..
