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word Bear has it tough. Another thing is Bear is about 500ft lower than Blue, and it faces Northeast. Blue faces almost due north so it gets the coldest winds and the least direct sun. The main reason Bear has been so succesful the past few years is because we've had a string of (for the most part) good winters. If it would have been like this three or four years ago I personally dont think Bear would be as big as it is today. Alot of speculators would have realized how dodgy their position is for snowmaking.

hopefully the bad weather will weed out some of the more clueless bad seasons have a way of disillusioning some of the more faint of heart I remember my dad saying that before they had large usage of snowmaking they'd only be open for a few weeks out of the year. When they finally got a few portable guns they'd have skiing on one trail at a time, maybe they'd get most of the mountain open if the weather coperated. We've come a long way but kids always want more I guess.

Its this thing called "weather forcasters do not have magic powers". I realize they were endowed with the gifts of reading the read-outs from weather predicting supercomputers but nothing in this universe is perfect. They make mistakes. The trends the computers put out are only right a certain percentage of the time.

Ok, heres "the deal" people so listen up. I've been browsing over the various topics and I must say some of you people flat out disgust me. Why in the name of god you think Bear is out to make your life miserable is beyond me. Let me just say that if Bear could be open now, they would be, so sit down a minute and think. The temperature has been well above average for the past few months. Blame El Nino on that one, and blame global warming for El Nino in the first place. Now as human beings we can do things to slow global warming by recylcling, alternative fuel, blah blah blah, you dont want to hear me go into one of my enviromental rants. Now yes Bear has missed some days blowing snow. Their excuse was that the water temperature was too warm. Wouldn't you know they were telling the truth! Imagine that... a ski resort that realizes lying to its customers is a bad way to actually get people to ride at their resort. Yes they were only open for four days, and yes we may only get a month and a half long season, but until Bear has plans on building one of those new weather changing machines you're just going to have to deal with the fact that we have all chosen a very risky hobby here. It depends on the weather which is incredibly fickle, and you picked one of the best areas to practice said hobby in; the mid atlantic. By now you kids should realize we very rarely get good winters. Hell, it actually being cold here is almost the exception, not the rule in winter. I had a look at accuweather recently. It looks bad, really really really bad. I hate to be a downer here but it looks like the next time they can blow snow will be next wednesday. Im sure that gets pushed back though. After all, first it was going to get cold saturday, then monday, then tuesday. After that we get maybe five nights were they can blow snow. Then it gets warm again. If they open by the end of January it'll be early. Yes it sucks. Yes its lame. Yes it makes you so angry you want to stab someone in the eye with a barbacue fork, but we all have to live with the fact that we live in fucking southeastern PA, in a global enviroment that is known to be in a warming trend. So dont blame the snowmakers, the managment, the resort itself, el-nino, the government, Bush, communists, or even yourself for exhaling and thus adding more CO2 into our atmosphere. Dont blame anyone really because its nobody's fault right now. Except maybe your own immature pysche for posting some nonsense and swear words somewhere on this forum. Now sit down and be quite, winter will be with you momentarily.