JFskiDan
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15 minutes ago, Johnny Law said:
What's crazy is PPL is one of the cheapest right now, pretty much anyone who isn't Kentucky is 20$ higher per mw
https://www.pjm.com/about-pjm/learning-center/price-ticker.aspx
As much as we complain about the price of electric, its pretty affordable in this area. if you look around like out west, it might be almost double what we pay. When i bought my house in the Poconos, i was amazed at how cheap PPL was. its caught up to Peco a little these days, but still cheaper.
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1 minute ago, toast21602 said:
FINALLY somebody paid for elite parking.
And the irony is.......it was someone that was going tubing. Go figure.
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in hopes that i can prevent anyone from jumping off of a bridge, the Blue Mountain Snowmaking machine has been fired back up.
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14 minutes ago, indiggio said:
Rumor mill saying that electricity too $$$ during day, sounds about right for Blue...
Need to get people into that paid parking so they can feed the snowmaking meter.
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19 minutes ago, Johnny Law said:
I just knew it would have creepy dolls, its a nice house and all that but I wonder midweek what the demand is.
and this is where the really weird shit goes on.
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30 minutes ago, RidgeRacer said:
Nancy’s treasured farmhouse
disregard. Could go down the wormhole on that one, but this is a family friendly site.
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1 minute ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
I don’t think it’s about people being warm. They’re blowing at bear creek and elk.
Blowing at JF and Montage as well, but just because they are, doesnt mean it isnt a PPL thing. it could be a Palmerton grid thing, or just a straight up Palmerton thing. If the grid around Blue is overloaded with Palmerainians charging up their Teslas, and electric heat, they will shut down or fav mountain. Who knows, maybe electricity has trouble getting over the mountain when its cold.
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2 hours ago, Benm said:
eight degrees and it looks like all the guns are off. i dont get it
when i looked sometime around 5:30am they were on. Im pretty sure they were on Rasins, definitely saw some blow over onto main from like a gun around where the weenie wagon is.
i was kinda surprised they were on based on temps/PPL/Blue Mt, etc.
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12 hours ago, EdBacon said:
so, yeah, how does either of those white cars leave?
Coming soon to a ski resort near you.......
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2 hours ago, toast21602 said:
That's what I have going on and it is painful AF in ski boots.
did you go see a doctor, or just hoping the problem will go away on its own?
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8 minutes ago, indiggio said:
Scored a delightful Peppermint Patty!
Everybody that skied today had cookies and some sugar, so why not stick with the theme.
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Got a good look at upper main from the lift, it helped that the lift stopped a few times in that area. It looked so bad i made a hard pass on it. Lazy and paradise good.
Saw what looked like open rooftop box debris on my way up the hill on my way out.
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1 minute ago, Johnny Law said:
They have dedicated season pass lines but they also upped their cattle chute game all around.
They had pleeb chutes setup at like 910 on the new sixer which is good for them.
i think ikoners are not passholders. i think they will need to work on that, but i'm on board with the changes at least from this side of the internet.
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2 hours ago, enjoralas said:
That's quite a corral outside the gates of the OG6
https://www.facebook.com/SkiBlueMt/videos/1088689262173060
New VIP lanes. So, at least they listen.
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48 minutes ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
My old delivery guy had paper map books for every county in eastern PA and NJ. It sure was fun when I played the navigator. He’d have ten miles to go and slow down and look at every cross street.
New guy is addicted to GPS…if it told him to drive off a pier he would. He’s super geographically illiterate. He’s always asking me if a certain place is near somewhere and dumb questions. He’ll be like is lambertville near coatesville. No…
Turn on gps, turn off brain. i have found people using a gps and they were in the wrong state. no lie. all of our trucks have trackers on them, so occasionally i will see one, and be like what the fuck is that guy doing there?
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9 hours ago, RidgeRacer said:
Amazing tech yet the size of the cookies this year are record breaking.
The only tech i see is a radar to tell them how deep the base is, as far as i could tell, from what i watched. As cool as it is, its only as good as the people that use it, and how they use it.
Every piece of equipment has a huge computer screen on it these days. Its a problem for the older generation. you know, the guys that wont use an iphone, and struggle with a flip phone....those types.
I have guys at work that struggle with sending emails from an iphone. And just blatantly wont do it because its "new" and it will take them 20 minutes to learn how.
We have a really expensive brand new paver that we struggle with, because its less levers and cables, and all done by wires, and, you guessed it, has a huge computer screen on it, and does fancy shit like self adjust based on points you put in it, or reads off of a curb. Lots of tech for a bunch of low tech guys.
Cant teach an old dog, new tricks.
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5 minutes ago, Benm said:
i don't expect perfection but i expect the simple things to be handled.
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11 minutes ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
Aren’t they officially on Ikon now? I don’t think it’s gonna be where Blue season passholders are automatically Ikon passholders. Only like that for the flagship alterra resorts.
Yeah i dont think Blue will be unlimited on the Ikon, even with an upgrade. I think since it was announced kinda late in the year, next year they will be "officially" Ikon. Like skiitooloves and his double black diamond skier twins, he has already given us warning he is going Ikon. And from this past event, i dont think the Ikon thing is going to bode well for us.
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Corresponds with the bouy pop.
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10 hours ago, NMSKI said:
Has anyone seen what the selection of bindings looks like at the Blue mountain shop? Want to use my pass discount to get some pivot 15’s and wondering what assortment of colors they might have.
i know they have pivots, for what ever reason, they dont carry spx's for whatever reason.
But your main question, i dont know what colors they have or which flair package is on them.
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2 minutes ago, indiggio said:
It's just like they don't think about winter operations at all and think everything's gonna work just fine, when it's really gonna take time to get them running on a snow day.
Its like Groundhog day everyday at Blue. They start the lift 45 mins before opening, and just cross their fingers.
Hopefully they will learn from this. Run them all night if they have to. Pay someone handsomely to stay there at night. what ever up charge that is in electric, or wage, i am sure is way better than the tongue lashing they are getting now.
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55 minutes ago, antman12 said:
My hopes aren't high going forward but im willing to give the benefit of the doubt for this past weekend. EVERYWHERE was a sh*t show this past weekend. Elk, Bear, Blue, Camel and JF
No doubt. I dont think there was one resort that wasnt basically over crowded. But Blue pretty much took the cake for as far as i am concerned, with their lift ops, and that ridiculous move to close free fall. I totally get that it was crowded. overcrowded would be an understatement.
They certainly found their weakness, and its their lift ops, and ultimately, management. The OG 6 should have been plan B, ready to go at any time for a while now, and they showed it was barely on their radar. I dont know what ancient indian burial ground the lifts at Blue are built on, but we all know they are cursed. they have lift issues all the time, and i get that shit breaks, but they were not prepared, and it happened at the worst time, although the quad was probably preventable if they had someone there before like 7:30 am to turn it on.
@benm aint making shit up.......they were more concerned about the paid parking than the lift situation.
Its like showing up to Dunkin Donuts on Valentines day for the heart shaped donuts, only to find out they didnt make them. "you had one job to do."
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13 minutes ago, toast21602 said:
Holy shit.
If you zoom in and look closer you can see it pop to 67 n-m/sq in @11.25 W.C.
Big, if true.
i didnt break down the ensembles. good catch.
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9 minutes ago, toast21602 said:
Haven't seen a full pop yet but definitely a bounce going on. Might have missed it on my camera so I'll tune in again later.
go back and look at about 11:34 am. it was like 63 n-m/sq in @ 10" W.C.
Big.
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Zee Lights
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We had someone show up at work before Christmas saying we needed to switch off of PECO, and i never really got who they were with. the first time they showed up they talked to the receptionist, who is just the nicest person in the world, but if someone walks in here and tells her "they can save us all sorts of money" she will run over a bus load of nuns to help them get to the right person so that we can save $2. Shes not the only one, though, some other people here fall for the "im gonna save you so much money" thing i usually am the one wasting my time with them only to find out we wont save anything going with what ever snake oil they are selling. Tire salesman are the worst. i have guys in here trying to sell me tires all the time. Problem is, we dont look at just prices, its a package thing.....service/scrap/availability/ etc.
Oh, and most homeowners are stupid, so they fall into the category where they dont understand there are 2 pieces to the price of their electric puzzle, but when they are being sold a new supplier, they are only told the one price, so it makes them feel like its almost half of what they are paying now. Then they jump on FB and show the world exactly how stupid they are by saying they saved $.07 kwh by switching to Bobs Electric Wind Power as a supplier.