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Get off the cross, we need the wood for @Benm’s new skis

The main problem with siting the trails on the east side of the mountain is that the bottom is mostly floodplain. The original ski area had issues where the ground at the base of the tows wouldn't freeze and you'd be stuck walking through a swamp. It's a big reason why they moved the operations further west down the mountain. Also, on the occasion there's adequate snowfall: skiers right of Nile Mile, right around the first left switchback turn if you duck into the woods you'll come out onto a woods trail that proceeds steeply down towards the old railroad grade. This wasn't a Big Pocono ski trail but it does cross into the old ski area. From there you have to skin or hike back to Nile Mile. No water slide, but imo something better. Check this out:

I’m going to have a plaque made for you…wow you’re the most accomplished skier in the history of PASR…sorry TP4, we’ve got a new guy in town dedicated to the sport.

When some unlucky employee was about to deposit the weekend's cash into a local bank. Video story here: This all happened back in 1976. Rough estimate is that 50K is about $250,000 adjusted for inflation. The famous (for back then) Newswatch 16 trumpet jingle theme music is in there, too. I'll say it before anyone else does, Vermont was not all rainbows and sunshine ... back in 1976.

I think he is throwing shade on all PA resorts. but this is also from the guy that bought his daughters a used cop car at an auction, and rental skis from camelback.

I could see someone who spent more than just last December in Colorado at Chris-a-mas time throwing that kinda shade but newsflash…you’re in jersey. Fa la la

Cool. I'm sure conditions will be stellar

You’re such an insufferable piece of shit. Have a great day!!!

So blue takes advantage of early cold and gets open in November, weeks before others, and it doesn’t count as passholder commitment because they closed 2 operating days before montage is likely closing. It’s like saying taking home the fat chick from the bar at 3am with the lights on is better than the 10 that wanted to leave with you an hour earlier because the fat chick gave you more of a commitment. @GrilledSteezeSandwich bar talk.

Thanks. The wallets did 1/2 day in the chopper and left. And yes, been partaking in the apres the last 2 days. Yesterday was a celery and potato soup, today is smoked salmon with cheeses, fruit and crackers. 3 young girls here do all the cooking. They seem like very bad ass skiers. All have extreme goggle tans.

Nothing against montage since I actually like the place...but I'm wondering if they have some sort of 100 day guarantee for season passholders as some places do? Which could be why they want to get the last 2 days in. I don't recall anything when I was a passholder but admittedly I didn't read the fine print

The brown butter mushroom burger sounds nice…I’m sure you’d prefer a cockmeat sandwich.

I go away for a couple hours and all heck breaks loose. I’m out of here.

Only 5 days behind Blue! That’s season pass holder commitment!

You should write a song about it

(This just in from a PA ski area that doesn't suck)

and he still keeps coming back for more 😂

Dont forget about his Double Black Diamond Daughters. And thier new well used car. And thier Camelback rental skis.

I thought the next thing after this was going to be a pic of @AtomicSkier

They are being helicoptered to their touring locations. Lol. No grunt work for them. The wallet’s backpack was micro tiny. I assume man bun is his Sherpa.

Had some beautiful people helicoptered in from Telluride last night. I mean really?! Let me paint the scene for you; Main guy ($)- blonde curly hair cascading over his shoulders mid 50’s his woman- 30 if that, walks in w full length fur coat with a second fur coat draped over her arm. guy #3- man bun- enough said guy # 4- pilot finally some sun this morning. This place is the bomb. Would recommend to anyone.

I fully admit I am not good at doing full days. We did a 1/2 day. Forecast was a high of 10 degrees with snow and blustery winds. It was accurate. Visibility was very very bad. Our guide took us to a mellow ish spot about 30 degree descent. For some reason a 30 degree slope feels a lot more intense in the backcountry. We followed the skin track about 1/4 mile from the lodge, then our wonderful guide broke trail for the rest of it. We had about 6” of snow overnight and it was fluffy and light. our guide my friend Ilise is by a tree but is blending in. We were in the Red Mountain 3 zone and saw what that face looked like and it was def above my ability. We cut thru the trees to a run called “Hollywood”. I forgot how much it sucked to transition in true backcountry conditions. Wind, snow, freezing temps and deep powder. Nobody had been on our run today, it was all virgin snow. I am still intimidated by powder mostly because of all my stupid injuries. The guide and Ilise zoomed down and Jesus I was slow. At one point I stopped because I felt like I had vertigo from the white out conditions. Who am I kidding, I stopped several times 😂. My form was awful. The guide is going to send some pics but I almost don’t even want to see them. then we transitioned back to skins and went back thru the trees to “Bollywood”. We started to ascend but surprisingly we’re already pretty beat up. So we opted to ski down from where we were on the lower half of Bollywood. I felt a bit better in that run. To add insult to injury we had to transition yet again to skins as it was uphill back to the lodge. And 5 min before we got there the skies cleared up and it was beautiful If you zoom in to the center part in the trees you can see our skin tracks up and descent tracks from lower Bollywood. Hollywood is further up then cutting thru the trees going left (uphill). You can actually see our uphill skin track on other side of trees in Hollywood. And some descent tracks as well