Blue Mountain PA Conditions

[gorgonzola]

Based on the Platty grooming comments I figured I'd give an update... this season (actually last with natural snow!) Blue opened a new trail FreeFall, or more affectionately know as Trail Coming Soon. It's really only a partial trail as it has a nicely pitched Pocono Black headwall that dumps right onto a bend in a Green cruiser , Paradise. Ultimately I believe it will extend to the base whenever the expansion to the East occurs, but in the meantime this intersection is a potential shit show.
Blue is conducting a grand experiment of leaving the bottom headwall ungroomed to slow folks down coming into Paradise. As of Sunday it's working great, with soft gun pow bumps with a fun half-pipish ditch skiers left through the guns. Sorry no pics, too fun to stop Saturday and light too flat on Tele Sunday.
Time will tell what happens after a few freeze/thaw cycles, all uncharted territory for Blue

 

[Sbob]

Super fun night at Blue. The wind was refreshing the bumps on the new trail Freefall on every run. The moon shining low on the horizon had a cool effect that my phone camera didn’t do justice. Freefall is turning out to be a great addition .
They dealt with the shit show by overlapping two fences so exiting requires slowing down and navigating through a 5’ wide 15’ cattle chute . Looks to be working.

Overall a bit crowded when one lift was shut down but eventually improved. I counted 8 busses when I left.

 

[abe]

My high school ski club used to go up there friday nights, we were 3 buses and I know we were definitely not the only school up there nights. They still go up fridays in jan and feb, they even kept doing it last year.

I need to stop by and check out coming soon would have been our group's first choice today due to shorter drive but tickets were $125! I'll maybe stop in for a spring meltdown night session when it gets reasonably priced again

 

[gorgonzola]

corn/slush bumps on barney's were a hoot last night. feeling a bit beat up today but headed up after work for round 2!

 

[Jersey Skier]

corn/slush bumps on barney's were a hoot last night. feeling a bit beat up today but headed up after work for round 2!

Today.

 

[gorgonzola]

Today.

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good news, they announced that they are open til 3/27!

 

[Warp daddy]

Gorgo : u ever run into the Steezy One there ?
Dude was a laff riot .

 

[Sbob]

Today.

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Last night was awesome as well.
27th seems ambitious but I think they might have to push some snow around to make it.

 

[MarzNC]

good news, they announced that they are open til 3/27!

Where was the announcement?

Not quite 7-day operations though.

CLOSED THURSDAY, 3/17​

We will be CLOSED Thursday, 3/17, for skiing and riding. Slopeside Pub & Grill will be open 11am to 5pm. We will reopen for skiing and riding on Friday, 3/18, at 9am.

 

[Sbob]

It’s 48° raining pretty good and it’s St. Patrick’s Day. Probably a good decision to close.