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Been waiting for this opportunity.

50 years ago my dad photographed the Freedom Train for the bicentennial when it came through Bethlehem. I'm sure if he would have been even more excited to see UP Big Boy if he was still around Sadly, none of these rails are active and have been torn up and passenger service left the valley a few years later.

Our rescue team had helicopter training/certification today. It’s always so cool seeing them take off and land.

Durham Bulls game last night...caught a t shirt and a ball

View of Sedona and the San Francisco peaks (way out in the distance) from Jerome AZ

Cape may to lewes ferry

Black rocks...and black rocks beer

3rd big boy sighting at a co workers house. Hot af, nobody died, and its very unlikely to see this thing moving ever again.

What a horrible spot to put a comma

Train spotting expedition. Saturday afternoon, hiked (more like a walk in the woods) sand spring trail at Hickory run. i was focused on looking at the train, and just randomly taking pics without looking, so this is what you end up with doing that. but there is so much going on with this thing, now i need to go see the one that is sitting up at Steamtown to really have a close up, rather than a train moving past me at 15-20 mph. Both trains heading south on Sat, so they are really just coasting past us going down hill. No beer allowed in state parks, so that was kind of a bummer. but in reality, i think you are not on state park land, once you are there. Sunday i went to Drakes Creek Boat Ramp. This was a good spot for the plain and simple reason you could bring beer. at least i think so, and others did also. And a way more popular spot. And i knew when the trains were leaving Jim Thorpe, so i had much better timing. My legs still hurt from this walk though. about 1.3 miles down, and what felt like 10 miles up to leave. its pretty much mostly uphill on the way out. I thought about bringing my bike, it would have been great for the way down, although when i did get the bike out i this weekend i did learn the front brakes are very poor, and my rears are so-so. im not sure i could have pedaled my bike all the way out with how much uphill is involved. Trains were going north, so uphill, they were chooching quite a bit more. Good time, as its super unlikely to ever see 4014 again, let alone under power. 4014 should be coming back down the same line like July 1st or 2nd.

I heard people here like trains. PXL_20260706_152656165.LS.mp4

well i mean the solstice was last week or something, and you can tell we have lost a good 4-5 minutes of daylight, so yeah, its almost ski season.

Just scored an amazing summer deal - New sticks with bindings for $386 ! Directed to Ski Monster site from the Shop app.

Took a walk with the fly rod this morning. Air quality was OK under the trees but really bad out in the open

Summer would be the same as it is now.

Super hot in Michigan the last 2 days so a lot of beach time

I guess when you make 11.2 Billion dollars you have enough to spend on a fun toy train.

its not even gonna be any cooler in the poconos.

Got a nice little $50 gift card in the email today from Blue that got the stoke levels up a bit. 👍

I was in and out all day, don’t feel too bad except for my eyes are itching.

First time at indian river today and probably my new favorite in DE. Assateague still #1 overall for me however

My 3pm appointment customers when it was real bad had masks..the smoke didn’t affect the credit card machine lol but I feel for the people out all day in this like construction workers and golfers. Not healthy to breathe.

Wasn’t sure where to leave this. A friend recently introduced me to someone who has an off grid cabin locally. It is accessed by a 2.5ish mile drive in on the Lead King Loop jeep road, then another mile or so on sheep mountain rd (which is insanely rough). Then a 1 mile hike in from the road. He invited me up there last week to check it out. It is an amazing property and even more amazing that he built it himself and had to hike in all the materials on his back! Nicest guy you could ever meet. He recently sent me a link to his YouTube channel and I watched a few videos already. At the end of this video they ride snowmobiles up to the top of Sheep Mountain. My friend John drove me up there on his snowmobile a few winters ago. The views are amazing. We did plan on skiing down, but whereas I wanted a mellow descent, John had taken me to something way over my head. We ended up skinning back up because between the tight trees and the steepness I was just not going to make it. Enjoy the video. Makes me want to get a snowmobile myself

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Thanks Barb…I’ll check it out. I’m struggling TBH. All of the jackets now a days are boring. 2 tone colors, no design etc.

https://trewgear.com/collections/25-26-winter-collection 50% off last year’s gear. I have a Stella jacket that I really like (also bought on sale)

it is costing a shit ton of money to put this show on, i know they have 2 tanker trucks running around after it delivering oil to it at 6,000 gallons a pop, among so many other logistical things. But they do have a "heritage steam" division or whatever they call it, so they are pretty into it. I do believe the excursions, like what they did from Pittston to Jim thorpe and back were pretty expensive passenger tickets. But regardless, Big Boy traveling across the country is a bigger deal than anything our government could put together. Kudos to UP. its cool to see crowds showing up in droves to see an old steam engine run. im surprised that frump hasnt tried to slap his name on it in any way, shape, or form.

RBMN makes a lot less money and they have a bunch of toy trains.

Just got done weedwackin and can confirm.

They’re running the 99 for six visit deal - ends on the 4th of July https://www.bigsnowamericandream.com/slope-access/

They are 168's 85cm underfoot - 14.5m radius - Replacing my GT 86's which had unrepairable rock hits to the bases. I'm happy that I found them for $386 during a random search.

And my new sticks came - Looking forward to trying them

This week will indeed be hell.

Reminds me that I prob have 4-5 of them they knew once they made it an egiftcard boomers like me wouldn’t go to the trouble to redeem. second quarter is complete at work and it was a big big one…I guess I subconsciously locked in extra because I still have to buy binders for my Kastles lol

I’m wondering if they played the Centerfield song. Put me in Coach. As a stoner centerfield is where I’d be spacing out maybe catch a pop fly

Park at Weissport and ride your bike north, about 3-4 miles.

New skis just arrived. I need to get some binders.

AQI peaked at 1008 yesterday in Marquette...still pretty bad today

Blue can just open at 9am on the weekends, give the late birds some more time. I’m nervous Matt edge might send a dick picture and I’m not talking about Dick Clark, Andy Dick, or Dick Tracey.

If this daylight savings time passes I guess we'll be doing some night skiing at 8 am. @GrilledSteezeSandwich make sure you text Matt Edge to bring his head lamp

Pretty crazy out there.