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        End of the lift-served season at the ski area, and Mother Nature played a naughty April Fool trick on us, hiding the mountain in a strange snowstorm!
         
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        The base area is quite bare and muddy.
         
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        On the High Lift you could only see two t-bars ahead. The snow up top was decidedly thin.
          
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        We caught up with His Highness, King Ted, at the celebration on Flauschink Hill just above the Ice Bar.
          
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        The Flauschink crew does not mince words.
         
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        As we heard from several Flauschink Has-Beens, "Anyone can party when it's sunny!"
         
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        The referee arrived just in time to control the rowdy crowdy.
         
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        Toilet seat horseshoes. Queen Glo later threw a ringer.
         
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        Queen Glo and King Ted jest about their loyal subjects, "Let them drink beer!"
         
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