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I got the email as well, but Gmail put it in my Promotions folder

If he's got connections, I dunno what I've got. They texted me three times.

The big question from anyone who was up today, did they seem to run any of the newer guns (or even the few fans) on Coming Soon or Paradise? Both could have used it, and both have guns that are supposed to be able to operate in the more marginal temps. If they made snow there, I would say that it's a legit attempt to piece together one more weekend maybe. If they didn't then I agree it's a PR show, because with the state of those runs, no reason not to

Fan guns

Had a quick squall over in Northampton about 40 min ago. Was a cool watch out the kitchen window for a few minutes

Gonna be a toned down Gaper Day for sure. Not planning to have the salt blocks or raclette or anything crazy there this year. Suckling pig will have to wait for another time,

Today after work, tomorrow and Sunday morning. Hoping the forecast of rain holding off til noon on Saturday is right

This doesn't seem different to me than any other year since I started skiing at Blue. They've always seemed to shut down midweek skiing right around when there was barely enough snow to make two more weekends. And that's where they're at right now. It doesn't seem like a different strategy, it's just happening earlier. Of course, Side and Switch would have still been open if they didn't waste days of single digits and teens not blowing any snow on them earlier.

Windham still on there

As 3 trains (presumably) with 2 man crews collide . . .

I wonder how many tickets they have sold already for Thursday. If not many I wouldn't be surprised if they just stay closed until Friday if the heavy rain they are calling for tomorrow hammers things too hard.

Should be interesting to see what the hill looks like when they re-open Thursday:

Not sure if he still does, but he used to work in IT for Amazon. Kept me waiting 30-45 minutes for a circuit install in Quakertown a few years ago, no one else could let me in their IT cage, he had the only key, lol

69 news this morning said they expect the rain to be mostly sporadic showers and drizzle, so unless it's raining pretty hard when I wake up, I'll be there both days. Gotta get them in, not many left

Sunday only, kids have an Odyssey of the Mind competition on Saturday. Unlikely to to be a Sausage Sunday with having to be out all day Saturday, we'll see

My excitement over this is tempered by the fact that I'm sure the Camelback child pass is only good at Camelback, even though it says Peak to Peak child pass in the description. I'm sure that just means that's the type of pass it's adding on to. That means I still have to buy Walter a full Blue pass to put him in Adventure Camp, since their child pass is only good for 9 and under, so even if I got him the one from Camelback I'm sure that Blue won't activate their access for him on it. Have to do some figuring to see if it makes any sense after all. Doesn't seem like it

That means I have to give up my consecutive streak of being a Blue passholder, and buy my pass from Camel to add on the two for the boys. But will save $720

Okay, now THIS changes things:

It is tempting to bump up to it for Walter and I. Would have to see what the child option is at Camel, the site only mentions contacting them for adding on child access, and their pass page isn't active yet. Even without adding any access for Grayson, 10 buddy passes between us would easily cover the days I would ski with them there. And then the summer tickets are likely shareable. I could take them up to the Camel waterpark a couple times in the summer and only have to buy one ticket. But on the other hand, we all had Dorney passes this past year, and I only went with them twice and their mother took them a couple more times, and that's far closer, lol. So it's a tough sell to myself to claim that we would actually motivate to make it up there in the summer. The Blue summer stuff would be easier, though

Detailed list of inclusions posted. First tracks is listed for Camelback. Full pass for outdoor waterpark, discounts only for indoor. 5 buddy passes is nice. Nice that at Blue it seems to include 2 summer tickets for adventure park, bike park, laser tag and lift ride, each, instead of choose 2 tickets for any of these activities. https://www.skibluemt.com/poconos-pass/

I know they do dynamic pricing like ski tickets now, so you have to choose a date to see prices. But it looks like a day ticket to the indoor park starts at $89. A season pass for the outdoor park can be had right now for $129. Given that, I can only imagine it's probably one visit each (or even one visit to both on the same day) and not any sort of unlimited access. And it still doesn't make sense for me, it would be a $200 upgrade for me and Walter, but an $820 upgrade for Grayson. Maybe if they keep it around and I'm paying full price for both of them in future years . . .

Now this is interesting. $200 to add on skiing at Camelback, no thanks. But add in the waterpark access, particularly the indoor waterpark, that's interesting. Wording is a little vague about if you get the perks of both mountains though, or only the one you buy from.

I feel you. I'll be doing some more hard looking next year when neither one of my kids qualifies for the Child pass. Right now I can average their cost. Once they're both having to pay full freight, it'll probably be youth passes for them and no more Adventure Camp, or maybe some sort of every other year leapfrog, I dunno.

Got a text message about it about an hour ago