EdBacon
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2 hours ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
They should be reported to the better business bureau. Windham lies about their vert as well. They have 250 or so vert less.
They sold the whole place for $412k back in 2015ish.
PASR could float that. We can all pitch in for the down payment. The owners were bikers who wanted to turn the place into a biker hangout but it never happened. Maybe they're looking to sell.
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2 hours ago, JFskiDan said:
Directly from RT website.
And from DC Ski
You can reference a topo map if you want. The bottom by the creek is ~700ft. The "summit" is around 1040ft.
I've been there, albeit I didn't see every trail, but it all seemed pretty much the same fall line and didn't really get that steep anywhere. Somebody said like JF but with less vertical and no east mountain. That's about accurate.
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40 minutes ago, JFskiDan said:
so pretty much Roundtop East?
Alpine was flat as all get out. Maybe 300 feet of vert and nothing was steeper than an easy blue even by PA standards. It was in the middle of (although not originally) a housing development too so you'd get to the top and there were just suburban houses to look at across a street.
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Not since Vail took over.
For what its worth, they have the guns on at JF tonight...
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BB is done next weekend.
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Those are private ski areas. Pocono Ranchlands, The Hideout and Saw Creek both operate 1970s era double chairs on like 100ft of vertical. They're in the middle of vacation home communities. You have to own property there to use the ski area. Not even sure if these still operate currently. I haven't checked their social media in a couple years. I know Hideout and Saw Creek did some upgrades on their chairlifts a few years ago though, so those are probably still active.
Sky Top runs a Poma on a couple of beginner runs with like 100ft of vert for hotel guests. They used to have a second poma or t-bar that served more terrain but it no longer operates.
Eagle Rock is somehow still operating. They lost their beginner lifts and since their mountain is upside down in arrangement, they have to shuttle skiers back uphill via some weird oversized snowmobile thing as the top to bottom runs all require you to go through their advanced terrain. Given that scenario I'm surprised they're still operating at all but they apparently were open this year.
Big Bear at Masthope was also formerly a private ski area, but larger than the aforementioned. It was designed by the same person who designed Pocono Ranchlands and Shawnee. It's public now and a good option if you want some place quiet and not crowded. It's a long drive from anything though. I believe people who own property in the adjacent vacation community still get some kind of perks there like discounted passes, or maybe you get a pass if you own there for a fee or something. Last time I was there lots of the folks had houses there and were from NYC.
There were more private ski areas like that. Ski Cove in Hazelton next to Eagle Rock and Winona Lakes outside Stroudsburg were some examples.
Tanglewood was never private and actually predates the vacation community around it. It opened as Paper Birch back in the 60s.
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10 hours ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
The quad is 30 years old, just like the quad at Blue.
It shares towers with what was an older Hall double. It's sort of a franken-lift thing. Parts of it are 60 years old.
The rest of their lifts are Halls or Borvigs from the 60s and 70s.
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On 2/27/2024 at 11:49 AM, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
I thought a big part of Elks appeal was the old slow lifts.
Only for me and I think three or four other people.
I mean for real, I love the character of the old fixed grips, but they need either replacement or a complete overhaul. You can run a place with old lifts for the character (see Smuggs) but it's like owning a classic car. You're going to have to rebuild it eventually and need to take maintenance seriously.
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3 hours ago, RidgeRacer said:
99.9% headed to Elk today. I’ll see if I can get the low down on the sale from the ticket window peeps
If its still for sale ask how much.
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Just now, EdBacon said:
How did people ski before hi speed lifts? Was it like how people drove cars without GPS on their phones?
That was my 420th post. You're welcome.
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How did people ski before hi speed lifts? Was it like how people drove cars without GPS on their phones?
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On 2/22/2024 at 8:01 PM, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
Apparently in the podcast which I haven’t listened to, it is said that Ikon passholders at camelback account for 17,000 skier visits so far this season. That’s significant. My guess is the ikon people aren’t renting gear, aren’t taking lessons or tubing or using the water park. They’re just there to shred the famous front four and the Stevenson and Sullivan and black bear and Nastar Glen lift. I heard direct buses from Ellis island to Camelback..
Don't take that bus they changed my last name because it sounded too ethnic.
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Lift ride rumors that this happened. Grain of salt and all that. Word was the price tag was $30 million.
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Maybe they'll run the waterslides to the top.
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They pulled all the moveable snowguns off the mountain. Weren't making snow last night. Looks like they are done making snow for the year.
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1 hour ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
I’m a bad example cause outside of the parking lot at blue I really don’t drink much beer. Mostly jack and coke. But let’s figure if I only drank beer a case a week so that’s like 52 cases or about 1300 beers. $2 each that’s some serious value to win.
Yeah. It woulda been sweet.
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3 hours ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
What were they charging for holiday lift tickets?
$54
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3 hours ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
How much beer is a years supply?
How much do you drink in a year? We can use you as a unit of measurement.
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I was already coming up with a contest idea where you had to collect beer cans across the mountain and the first person down the mountain with all the beer cans got a free year supply of beer.
Guess that's not happening now. Shame.
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22 minutes ago, theprogram4 said:
Hell yea, 3 spring tr’s this year. I need to get back there. Love the old school diesel lifts
Those are electric. The diesel is just there to drive a generator if they lose power. Those old 60s Halls are just really loud.
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This is a half hour from my house so I thought, why not? Never been. Super old-fashioned little family ski hill. Lodge is from the 60s. Love the lodge. Smells like feet.
Muddy gravel parking lot. Plus points. Their lifts are old. A fleet of 1960s Hall double chairs. It was a ten minute ride on the slower double chair to go whatever, like 300ish vertical feet. The other side of the hill has a double chair geared a little faster. More like a 3 minute ride. They don't clear the lift line properly and the trees on either side have pretty much grown over the lift which makes for a cool tunnel-like effect as you ride up. Not gonna be great when one of those weak-ass poplars splits and brings the lift down.
Snow was great. Packed powder. Super grippy and fun. I grabbed a fat Japan air on the sweet jump they built.
Fun day. Ski patrol man yelled at me to put the safety bar down.
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2 hours ago, Shadows said:
Imma be that old dude that takes trips to Canada in a bus from the old folks home for cheap drugs. And get off at Jay.
I tried using my phone at Jay and it said I couldn't because I was in Canada.
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Shoot. The real conversation should be who here wants to get together to buy Elk?
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56 minutes ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
He’s a season passholder.
Do they call their season passes "Camelpass" because they should if they don't.
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Anyone ever hear of these Pa. ski areas?
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Lifts are still there but would need to be replaced. Lodge was renovated the year before they closed but I heard there were some issues. Electrical or plumbing not done right so they couldn't open the bar that they had installed or something. Not sure what shape the lodge is in now though. Nobody has been there in almost ten years. It was all boarded up a couple of years ago. I imagine people have gotten inside by now.