C1erArt
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Widowmaker wasn’t too bad, a little disappointed with Main Street but it was ok. Hate to say it, but the best run of the day was first run of Paradise. Too afraid of the crowd on Lazy to try it, especially after they opened Challenge lift. Lines were building up before they opened it. Lower Paradise was packed later coming off of TCS, but OK if you stayed next to the right side trees. Crowds got too much for me about 11:45. Desperately need Switch and Side opened. Had some coffee in the lot under my back hatch.
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53 minutes ago, Johnny Law said:
I wondered if the new stuff was generally better protected, honestly I didn't believe them at first when they told me so much of it is outside and not even like in an enclosure.
I can't imagine an sulfuric acid plant in the winter, some of those places look straight out of Soviet Era Russia
The acid plant was built in 1970 (the latest is several that had been at the site), but some of the chemical production buildings were from the 1920s. 700 people worked there, everything razed now, a huge concrete slab. It is on the southern approach to EWR, so I see it once in a while.
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30 minutes ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
Were you an electrician? I remember you said you initially went to college for some sort of religious studies
Chemical engineer. MA in Theology was a layman’s degree - one reason I took it was because I wanted to get out of Jersey for a couple of years after getting a BS ChE from Ruptures, the state university.
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On 1/17/2024 at 11:01 AM, Johnny Law said:
Rf sends teams to plants all year to inspect and assist with winterizing the plant and I know they went to LMB specifically to help them get their shit together.
I worked in an outdoor sulfuric acid plant just south of the Bayway refinery in Elizabeth NJ for several years. Talk about miserable work in the winter. One time we had to put 240 volts on our 120 heat tracing to keep everything from freezing.
More recently worked at a turbine power plant just south of Butte, MT. New plant, well insulated.
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A day with the DW at Frost. Everything pretty much open on the west side with the exception of Exhibition, and they have a dozen guns and a fan on that. Maybe this weekend. Huge whales on one park (which was open), maybe will reset the features for the weekend. Snow is its usual great condition. Frost usually keeps the whales intact until they groom it all out. No death cookie factories here.
Quiet vibe today, some geezers, some newbies, some boarders.
Don’t know about east mountain, but the crossovers top and bottom are covered. No tubing so far this year.
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Second Jrwit’s assessment. Good day. About 10 degrees with no wind. Started with a run on Paradise to get the knee juice flowing, and then up to freefall, just as they were closing it - caught the rope across my throat as they raised it, but they let me through. Pretty slick, but nice - then it was closed for adult gate practice. Headed over to the Summit lift. Upper Main Street was closed because it was half groomed. Ran lazy Mile, which was nice but even then getting pretty crowded with people coming down from the challenge lift as well as the summit lift. Spent the rest of the morning doing Vista Midway and lower Main. They were all in great shape and surprisingly, about 10 lower was pretty empty. No lift lines. The adaptive coach jacket/lime jacket people were in the house and had a whisker run set up near the upper lodge.
Apparently the guns were shut down because of a power alert in the township. They started up again about 11, and were blowing on upper main, Curzi’s, Razors, as well as other high traffic areas. Ran the Falls a couple of times and tried to avoid the lower terrain park because it got pretty crowded. Didn’t really see anyone except the Beth Ford crew.
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4 hours ago, RidgeRacer said:
Got about 3 inches here so far. Schools closed
Remote learning day today. Another legacy from Covid.
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17 hours ago, indiggio said:
+++ VIBES ++++
To all those dealing with foot issues.I had (have) Morton’s neuroma that made xc skiing an agony. Plaster cast custom orthotics and metatarsal pads worked great. Had to cut down one set to fit in the ski boots, but they are great.
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I park there too. Say hi if you see me in my rocking chair.
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Starting to rain.
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5 minutes ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
Aleve and weed pills lol and jack daniels help forget the pain
One of those is my go-to. Not saying which one.
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35 minutes ago, Johnny Law said:
Yes and some of the ones in the high peaks, many moons ago there was a TR from Peggy O
Always had a great view of them from chair 6. That was as close as I would want to get.
Climbing Mt Marcy with a full pack on was one of the stupider things I’ve done.
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1 minute ago, momskeeztoo said:
Might not have been a skiing accident.
Too true.
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5 minutes ago, Johnny Law said:
Mbike once came to meet me at work to borrow some avy gear for WF ..
Whiteface? Was he going to run the slides? Have you run them? Think a beacon is my son’s next bday present.
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1 minute ago, Johnny Law said:
Oh fuck, I saw them bring in the ambulances and I didn't see BFG's crew at all but hope those dudes are good, they are good people.
Don’t think it was, didn’t recognize anyone standing around.
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1 minute ago, Johnny Law said:
Mbike once came to meet me at work to borrow some avy gear for WF and he walked right past me.
I tend to recognize people more by their ski technique and gear rather than their face.
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Just now, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
Dang and no disrespect meant using the term Boomer, most of y’all are pretty nice, Jimmy even gave me two cookies the other day.
Actually I prefer the term “geezer”, I’ve earned it. More descriptive of how everything hurts after a morning on the slopes.
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21 minutes ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
One day last season I was skiing paradise alone and some boomer….
Saw a boomer being loaded into the ambulance near the patrol shack when I quit today about 11. Bunch of concerned boomers looking on. Don’t know if it was one of the geezer regulars or a club.
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2 hours ago, indiggio said:
I think he's talking about BMR, not lessons.
I don't think anyone has an issue with lessons cutting lines, that simply makes sense with the outrageous amount of money lessons cost.
BMR, on the other hand, should not be allowed to cut lines.BMR parents pay a lot more than it costs to take a lesson. But hopefully the liftline issues have been resolved. Now they need to work on the packed slopes and not hold back the guns next week. Had to wait on top several times today until the crowd on the run thinned out a little.
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1 hour ago, JFskiDan said:
Cant teach an old dog, new tricks.
We built this city. We built this city on rock and roll. 😀 (just watched a video on the development of Unix. Talk about Stone Age).
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Freefall the run of the morning and became better as things softened up, although Lazy Mike was a close second. A lot of small bluecoat lesson groups on the hill.
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Not awful. Hero snow. Brown patch bottom of paradise back, razors is wiped out. Main Street and lazy mile look good. Extremely quiet, 9:15 I saw 15 people on the slopes.
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2 hours ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
I have no idea how either is pronounced. The last time I went white water rafting was on the Ocoee river in Tennessee. Pronounced O-Coy. Not to be confused with the Chattahoochee where it gets hotter than a hoochie coochie.
Ocoee bus a nice river. Atlanta Olympics for whitewater events was held there. They built a nice visitor center with a lot of Olympic memorabilia in it. Unfortunately, it burned down not too long ago.
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4 hours ago, mute1080 said:
"The name comes from Tripoli in Libya, in commemoration of the fighting in the Barbary Wars. The pronunciation of New Tripoli is with the stress on "PO", as many non-natives make the mistake of stressing the first syllable which will often be corrected by natives."
v busy at work today
Phillipi, West Virginia (takeout for the whitewater section of the Tygart River gorge) is pronounced like it is in the New Testament epistle not like it is in the Greek city that has the accent on the last syllable. The more you know......
Lodging?
in Blue Mountain
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There is a newish chain hotel at the Lehighton exit of 476. Maybe 15, 20 to Blue