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  1. Current / Future Conditions

    in Elk

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    I just looked at Elk's website and I see their spring celebration is scheduled for Sat, March 15th. Which is also the day of the Scranton St. Paddies Parade. The end of the season is drawing near for Elk, going from past years night skiing will end soon.

     

    Given all that, get up there when you can, sooner rather than later.

  3. What's new at Elk for 2013/14?

    in Elk

    Posted

    I should title this "Is anything new at Elk for 2013/2014?" Past practice has been they get four new tires for a snow plow truck and it's considered an "imporvement." The skiing is still top notch, though.

     

    Any pass holders here care to chime in?

  6. Scranton newspaper says 'Sno Mountain set for sheriff's sale in July'

    in Montage Mountain

    Posted

    This is the statekent in the scranton times article:

     

    National Penn Bank of Boyertown claims it is owed $6,654,473.03 in principal on a $7.5 million mortgage signed, according to Lackawanna County records, in April 2009 and renegotiated in November 2010.

     

    Efforts to reach lawyers for the bank to confirm that a refinancing is imminent were unsuccessful.

     

    Either someone cames up with a cool $6.65 million by the time of the sale, or it goes up for sale.

  8. Elk's 100 day guarantee for season pass holders

    in Elk

    Posted

    ^ Not so sure about that. The pasholders I know were grumbling about this being the warmest winter in 20 or 30 years yet Elk still manages to skate by with marginal or unskiable conditions to meet the 100 day thing, so the guarantee is really a worthless point. And if it doesn't come into play this year, what year will it ever apply. There are from some guys who if they weren't complaining about this, they'd find something else to grumble about, like the dollar-a-hole they usually have to fork over when we play golf.

  11. Elk Mtn Law Suit??

    in Elk

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    it's basically two old rich guys swinging their expensive dicks at each other. Elk wants to build condos but needs right of way through village of four seasons property. VOFS wont grant it because they are trying to protect the property owners home values. Elk locks up the gate that is used by VOFS to access Elks slopes (so they dont have to ride the dumb cattle cars) and now VOFS is suing Elk because they are drawing snow making water from VOFS spring fed lake. For crying out loud.

     

    An update from the Scranton Times: http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/resort-community-says-it-won-t-block-elk-s-snowmaking-1.1257584

     

    Winter, can you elaborate on your statement 'two rich guys...'. I thought that village was run by a condo owner association, at least that's what I heard many years ago.

  12. Elk Trip Reports???

    in Elk

    Posted

    A friend was there Wed (opening day?). What I remember he said: Seemed like spring conditions, good grooming, mostly good coverage, some brown was showing through in a few spots, the usual two trails open top-to-bottom, Tioga and Susquehanna.

  18. Nice write up about Sno

    in Montage Mountain

    Posted

    Relax..and before this turns into a feeding frenzy let me kill it early. Just spoke to my boss up there.....Sno Mtn isn't going anywhere..seems to me like the paper had a slow news day and because of one or two days of inactivity, probably during the monsoons we all have been going thru, someone decided to do another "Sno is Doomed!" article.

     

    Meh, every year it happens..and...every year the place does better.

     

    As far as the rest of it...I'm not going to speculate, but obviously the lights are on and stuff is getting done..although..not today as it's raining..again.

    I'd like to believe what you're saying here, but the part about the power being shut off since Sep 29th says otherwise.

  19. bit of an update

    in Elk

    Posted

    Locals said Elk spent a fair amount of $$$ updating the "halfway house" (picnic hut),

    Do you know what they did to the halfway house? The last time I stopped in there, several years ago, it looked like it did about 20 years ago, including all the grease stains around the fire pit.

  20. bit of an update

    in Elk

    Posted

    I spent a week at TLCITW (the little cabin in the woods) last week, doing a little maintenance, playing some golf, drinking beer, listening to some rythm and blues on the Stonebridge deck and talking to some locals.

    That sounds very pleasant, especially the part about relaxing on the deck, gabbing with the locals and listening to some music. I'm gonna have to check that out some time.

  23. Last weekend

    in Elk

    Posted

    I was up as well on Sunday... I will have a detailed TR up tonight with some pictures... I think I saw Old Geezer in the lodge... At least from his profile pic it could have been him... I will also be up Saturday if they open...

    I was there on Saturday. But I saw several old timers with there greying hair like mine.

  24. tips for a day at elk

    in Elk

    Posted

    The most under appreciated point of Elk is the almost 360 degree view from the summit. If you hike up to the true summit where the radio towers are, you get a full 360 view of the surrounding area. On a clear day, you can see weather and storm fronts rolling in, cloud layers, and snow squalls. There are very few places in the state where you can see these things so clearly.

     

    The view is so panoramic that its hard to capture on one photo.

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