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Their whole season was light years better than last year, although I didn’t start skiing it until Blue started closing.

Summer would be the same as it is now.

Not really a mountain, but three days there brought me up to 100 days (after Camelback didn’t open that last weekend). My Carv summary this year put me in the top two percent for number of turns. I may not make pretty turns, but I sure do make a lot of them. 😜

And if you bring your bike to Glen Onoko, you can bike down to Jim Thorpe and back.

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Apparently parking at Big Snow will be in the hundreds of dollars on World Cup days.

That was nice, and staying open during the week when Blue was weekends only.

The township BM is in is considering an amusement tax. I know Whitewater Challengers pays a 10% amusement tax on their Lehigh River rafting operations. Pocono Raceway pays a tax too.

Agree that CB did a great job. Their grooming is several levels above Blue. The downside of skiing in May was that Cliffhanger was closed because of blowing or ungroomed icy conditions much of the year. Don’t know if Blue has a trail they can do that to. Maybe Challenge, certainly not Razors. And then you have all that run out from the bottom of Challenge.

CB ski season officially closed. 😒Looks like I’ll need 3 days at Big Snow.

No, we wait for warm weather to boat. Might do it this Saturday-there is a release on the Lehigh.

Thought I saw a post by redcoats, but can’t find it now. I did see someone get sledded down Sunday, but he limped off at the bottom.

I think they could if they wanted to, but they may think it’s not worth the effort. I think the ski patrol is being kept pretty busy sledding people down, and I think it will get worse as the slope narrows. Although, except for the very top and bottom, there is still a lot of snow. Need 3 more days to get my century, so I hope they do open next weekend.

When they just groomed the left side on Sunday it seemed the steep choke point bumped up almost immediately. Today the very top which was a little narrow bumped up very fast, but the rest of the slope didn’t develop any real bumps the hour I was skiing.

Bumps on the right midway down were a little frozen at opening.

CB officially open Cinco de Mayo. 40% chance next weekend.

Nice few runs today. Started us at 8:45 after a brief pep talk from Jason. They cut the moguls out, and by my last run at 10 they were starting to build again. Slope a little narrower, especially at the bottom. Gates weren’t working, so the moved them out. Snow got pretty soft, gave my legs a workout. 7 runs, 434 turns. Rumor they might be open Monday.

Second chair, first run (first chair stopped to talk to the redcoats - you snooze, you lose😎). Surprisingly light crowd at 8:50 when they let us up. People streaming in when I left at 10. IMG_4132.mov Got my first Carv Ski IQ evaluation on the baby bumps formed yesterday below the steep section, just above the video location.

I took the easy side. Atomic took the hero route.

Is that Airhead in Blue? The guy in green on far left looks like a real dork. 😎

Shot today just before barrier slide. Someone’s shot from yesterday. Patiently waiting for all the gapers to clear the slope. 😜

Light rain at barrier slide over at 8:55. After the first rush the slope was almost deserted. Much prefer to ski in the rain on a quiet slope than sunshine on a packed slope. About 20 cars in D Lot. Rain became pretty heavy around 10.

Hopefully a yearly thing.

Rode the early shift with Atomic. After a few runs the groomer path started getting cut up and I was just slowing people down. It wasn’t that my legs were starting to feel like rubber noodles.