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in 24 hours @GrilledSteezeSandwich will be sweating in the united club

It sure was nice seeing everything coated in white. Magic today, natural trails were pretty ski’d off but fun, migrated back to the groomed with fun little bump line forming along the edge of the race training slope

The interesting thing about the uranium and radon thing in PA is its a totally different rock than the rest of PA. Its named after my hood and is a crystalline structure most similar to New England called the Reading Prong. It's PreCambrian like 500 million years ago where the escarpment is Allegheny orogeny which is like 250 million years ago. What we call South Mtn is part of the Reading Prong which is totally different than Blue or the Poconos all within a relatively small space. PA got folded up like a NY door mat pizza as Africa and NA collided so in that sense we have alot of cool shit going on near the surface. All the coal areas get their bang from the Carboniferous period where for like 50 million years nothing could decompose trees so they just piled up. PA at least geologically is a cool state.

Staying slopeside at Saddleback Wednesday night and Thursday night. If anyone is interested, let me know. Thinking Berkshire east tomorrow, maybe Burke Wednesday, and saddleback Thursday and Friday

i have been kicking around a long weekend like this. drive to Magic Fri AM, ski, drive to Jay, 2 days a Jay, or 1 Jay, 1 Cannon. Something like that. Either way its 3-4 mountains i have never skied. I really hope VT starts to get going. Jay is getting there....66/81 trails.

Used my Indy Pass at Montage on Saturday. Conditions were firm but carveable. No lift lines at all and crew picking up trash under the lifts. Looking at Greek Peak next weekend. It looks like they got all snow out of this precipitation today. I'll be in Maine the following week. Hope to hit Saddleback, Abram, Black of Maine and possibly Black of NH if conditions are good.

Up there again tonight..Conditions were of the snow cone variety....Fast and pretty smooth....Some minor bumps on Sassy and it's still full width...The trail going around the back is really thin...Riding across semi clear ice/slush....The bottom of Timberline is starting to get thin also..Windy and a bit chilly....Snowed a little too......Place was ghosted ....and the snow was fine....Nice way to spend two hours after work....

Just try to read that and not hear Johnny Law's voice in your head. It's basically impossible

TFTI. As temps start trending colder here I'm hoping to actually put this pass to use. I need to at least get some uphill days at Shawnee soon. Hoping @JFskiDan can join for one midweek.

Finally some snow just north east of Blue.

You would be the coolest college professor.

I know the area's geography pretty well so I usually fly by pilotage, or looking at landmarks. However, it can be confusing from seeing things from a different perspective. I've been to Pottsville (on the ground) numerous times but when flying, I'm still not certain if I'm seeing Pottsville, Schuylkill Haven, Frackville, or some other coal mining town. There are multiple ways to navigate. First is carrying the New York sectional chart. The plane has a GPS and autopilot, and I can enter any airport and the plane will fly there on its own. Finally I have my phone and a flying app which basically provides the same functionality as a GPS. It overlays the plane on the sectional chart and I can also punch in any destination and it'll draw a magenta line. So unless there's a massive satellite outage, electronic navigation is virtually guaranteed. It's still good to be aware of location at all times just in case. One of these weekend I'll take you up to Wilkes Barre if you're interested, or anywhere else you'd like to fly (within eastern PA or Jersey).

Have fun skiing Corbets!

Crazy that Nazareth is farther north than blue.

After circling Blue da True I literally just followed the escarpment mountain range to Shawnee.

Triple alarm set. I’ve only missed one flight.

Near Butte MT, they put spas in old uranium mines for the health giving properties of radon😅. And here I am blowing it out of my basement.

Maybe I'll fly the toy plane into Nork to see you guys off and delay your flight by doing touch and gos

ya those are rookie numbers ... gotta order a more expensive bottle of wine this year.

It's a highway for glider pilots https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?ll=40.701520774466275%2C-75.53044918691228&z=8&mid=1LHFN5CNHKPlPYfwpVFSCiwyZbvU

Okay, you are off the hook this time.

They were in the $150 range each day when I was there. I paid $180 for the midweek pass back in the spring so it worked out. I can't see doing window prices again anywhere. It's getting silly.

I'd love to see a live cam, with sound of course, of Matt Edge's classroom for one day

Am I the only one that reads people's posts the way they talk if I know them?

I actually hear your voice when I read this correct

Thursday night forecast was calling for 6-10 at Gore, drove through rain until it turned to snow just south of Lake George. Drove through some Star Wars snow on the way to the hill Friday morning, only about 3” fell but first few freshly coated groomers were sublime, Lies opened up mid morning and was mad technical navigating wales , rocks and bumps. Mild temps, falling snow, low crowds and watching kids from all over the world huck their meat in the World University games made for a great day! Pico ski’d awesome today, 7or so inches groomed in for some early morning western groometish screamers before lapping summit glades au natural until legs and snow got beat up. Heard crowds at K were krazy, we had another day of country club skiing. Christened the new skis with a nice gash but as @indiggio says, outta the box and into the rocks ! Magic tomorrow on Indy Pass

Of course you know this. Of course.

But that one will forever be remembered!

And out to Harrisburg. Was always interesting to take an early morning Detroit flight and follow it over coal county past Sunbury.

If he remembers to set his alarm...

And also the old uranium mines along 209 heading down into Jim Thorpe (FKA Mauch Chunk)... Used to dream about venturing down into them as a kid riding past on the way to grandmother's house up in Nesquehoning before they closed them permanently. https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-1985-03-03-2455714-story.html

Super cool pictures, the escarpment Blue sits on goes for 150 miles or so and becomes the Kittatiny Mtns in NJ and the Gunks in NY. It may seem pedestrian but it's actually pretty interesting geologically and we learned metric fuck tons in general from the whole coal dealio and where PA got folded.

This sounds quite nice... Might be the return of night skiing for me.

No contest Snowbowl Mt Lemmon has a crazy ecosystem. Saguaros at the base of the mountain 2600’ Pines up top. The drive is fairly long almost an hour eventually pines up top and 180” average snowfall. Not much vertical but descent pitch in places. More a novelty to ski . There were some patches of snow around last April. Tucson was 95° and the top of the ski valley was 50° I liked hiking the granite moguls.

That was radical

Sick! The 3 minute mark is like when I ski Uncle Bill's Way at Camelback.

Highlight is definitely the parking lot photo. Brilliant park job.

Apparently the students all want to be in Matt edge class and the teachers find him annoying at least according to edge.

looks like its snowing pretty good at Blue. Cant imagine its real dry snow, but maybe it will help bind some shit together. Looks like it will snow for a while today.

Wednesday morning might be interesting. But then again, it just might suck.

First run down TCS was good...and the right side of Lower Paradise provided some nice surfy turns...Upper Main wasn't too bad..and an early trip down Lazy had some nice turns...NM/DW was meh...Tough to get any kinda flow...

my same thoughts.

You're a snowflake

$65 room lol. Holy shit if those walls could talk

That I can get on board with…

I picked up a $28 ticket from Buckmans today for 2/8...hopefully see some PASRs there

Airheads a snowbowl fanboi like me now. Gonna try for March. Maybe after blue closes. Not 100% yet

5th chair on the az gondi...hike to terrain on upper bowl was open. I said fuck it and hiked the 500 vert to 12k. Lord Jesus was it worth every fucking step. Surreal. Shin deep, float city and a run that I won't soon forget. At the base taking a breather now but I could be done now and be a happy man.