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You can get root beer most anywhere But you have to search hard in the Midwest for birch or buttermilk

Finished off the season @ Crystal Mtn in Thompsonvile Mi for my ninth use of my spring Indy pass therefore $21 per visit. Snow report said three inches and was no joke, a nice butter on top of the moist cake after two inches of rain Wednesday. My favorite run of the day was Shirk’s slalom under...

Debated to post a report on Pro Snocross but since it was where I skied a month ago with my daughter and grandson what the hay. Took the three oldest grandsons to my first live in person professional Amsoil snocross @ Cannonsburg Mi Friday night 3/25/22. Have watched them on cbssports before but...

Finished up my spring Midwest Indy plus other areas nine day, 1800 mile tour by meeting fellow comrad Ted ( Mi skier) and buddy Jimmy D and wife Michelle at our “home base “ of Caberfae. Spring rains held off the spring carnival hordes, only the diehards out at opening bell. Last day to ride the...

Well we’re over to ski by the big big Lake and we are at Porcupine and conditions are fast and firm and the views are stupendous. I figured I’d have a quick lunch and hopefully the rope toe will open soon because I have a 350 mile drive back to the Mackinac bridge tonight seven hours or so

Probably the best overall conditions out of three ski areas,big Powderhorn,whitecap and now Indianhead and Blackjack. It is somewhat retro old-school but yet the grooming is right on par with Powderhorn and Powderhorn hits people at 85 bucks a day here which is strong in my opinion whereas I got...

http://www.snowjournal.com/discussion/3598/whitecap-mountains-wisconsin-3-16-22

http://www.snowjournal.com/discussion/3595/big-powderhorn-3-15-22

From Snowjournal http://www.snowjournal.com/discussion/3592/lutsen-minnesota-3-13-22-3-14-22

Well I finally had my first ski day in the state of Minnesota! Spirit Mountain in Duluth was a nice 700 foot vertical hill with nice grooming one high speed six pack and beautiful views of the lower left end of Lake superior. Of course it was included on the Indy pass They had a good percentage...

Started the Upper Peninsula, Wi, Minn road trip in Iron Mtn at Pine mtn which was started by Fred Pabst in the thirties.I had to wait until 10 AM until the ski lifts started spinning. I chatted with the ski patroller for a while and then it was off to ride a center pole double the first one I...

Conrad had made it around Lk Mich doing the Indy tour of the UP, Lutsen, Granite and some other even smaller Minn and Wisconsin hills. For some reason he went around Chitown took a left north and invited me to meet him at Bittersweet ( non Indy) for some spring skiing. Being it was supposed to...

Finally got into the pass wars with a spring Indy. Got my RFID, neat when tech works. It has been 4 years since skiing Crystal so I got my Indy pass and off I went. Again a rare bluebird and light wind , mid twenties was about perfect. Even $4 a gallon gas wouldn’t deter this midweek 200 mile...

Had a nice dry 3” and the sun came out( rare thing here in Mi) and wife was going shopping and she said get out and go skiing. Before I invited myself to crash my daughter’s and grandson’s party at C burg Monday I had thought of going south to 60 year old Timber Ridge just northwest of...

Daughter invited me to join her and my grandson to our little 250’vert bump. Took her to Big Boulder back in ‘89 when she was a 6 year old tyke and after 4 children later hops on rental sticks and still loves it. This was a mother’s and sons ski day but gramps snuck in. Fun reminiscing with her...

I knew this little gem had a Poma/ Telecar center pole double an original 1958 Nubs Nob install. But my lift fanatic Conrad from New England wanted to ride the last remaining St Lawrence CPdouble originally from Carousel mtn in Holland Mi. This area caters to Traverse City youth( in addition to...

My snowjournal buddy Conrad came back out to the flatlands of Michigan to take pictures of some more chair lifts for remontees So we started at Caberfae a day after all the rain for some really firm conditions. They are putting in a new Dopp triple this summer. Only good thing about getting old...

Never snowshoed in my 63 years so I said to the wife, ”let’s give it a try” and she was a trooper gramma. MWSP has one of the few public luge runs and Olympian Mark Grimmette lived in Muskegon and was involved with its construction. In addition there are 3-4 different length and challenge...