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oh, and at BB....the progression pipe, which i presume is a halfpipe?....is CLOSED unlike their site says. not even remotely close to being open....unless i'm super blind.

mod, please delete, duplicate post.

Post-script edit: This is a very lengthy post. Those interested only in conditions, that material is bolded. The in-detail info is italicized Woke up at 5:20, showered, headed up from the Del. Mem. Bridge at 6. Booted up at 8:15ish @ Jack Frost. Parking lot somewhat empty. Bought a snow pass and walked out into some VERY THICK, very granular crystallized snow. I dont know how you here explain the texture, but it's the kind of snow that looks like very very small diamonds. Real clear, real solid little dip'n'dots sized pellets. The weather was perfect. Mid-High 30's. I was sporting the Hot Chilly's chest and legs, then the jacket shell and my pants. Was perfect for the conditions. I went and bought a Burton R.E.D. helmet at the Ski Bum yesterday (for a whopping $90). And I had my goggles. So I take to the eastern part of the mountain, making a quick run down Frosty and then Easy Rider. Still quite a bit of corduroy on the slopes. From there I took a Smartstyle scan run through One Park. Kickers looked like they were in pretty good condition. Snow was very thick there as opposed to the slopes where it was a little bit more of the thin layers of the crystal stuffs. After a quick run down One park I headed back up to hit a couple of the obstacles I thought I was capable of. Hit that little intro jump, then the real wide flat rail, and scoped out the jump and last rail once more for my next run.... The near finisher: I've mentioned before I'm a beginner when it comes to terrain parks, that being...obstacles. So I hit the intro obstacle, hit the flat rail, hit the third jump (the shorter one) (cased it ) and then was about to head to the lift, when I saw the last two rails. One was a round rail and one was flat. Heading to the flat one I tried to slow down and get the right speed. I get up on the rail and I wasn't ready for the rail speed. It's the steel rail and I wasn't ready for it. Halfway through the rail something happened and I dont know what. The next thing I know is that i opened my eyes and my face was BURNING. MY goggles....shattered. They were fairly cheap Smiths, but shattered none the less. I am regular footed. I think my board slipped off to the left and I went down to the right, bellying the rail, except my face smacked the ground. It's a GOOD F*cking thing I had my brand new helmet cause if i wouldn't have that coulda been much worse. So I got up, shook it off. Made sure I could feel everything. Nothing felt broken, except my nose...but it's just cause it was numb. Literally I smacked face first into the ground without any cushioning....and i've already told you what this snow is like in these conditions. So I take my gloves off, check my nose fluids, some blood, not a lot. but my face was bleeding a little. I had about 20-30 hair-sized cuts from the snow on my nose/chin/cheeks. I also had a HUGE welp on my forarm right below my elbow. I guess that's where my arm landed on the rail. I was shook...bad. It destroyed most all confidence I had. I'm a strong believer in smartsytle and I thought I had the necessary precautions...how else are you supposed to learn steel rails other than going slow on flat rails? The chair ride up from that run was a very long one. I had to decide if I would continue riding or call it a day..afterall I was in pain..but it cleared up shortly thereafter. So I put the broken-lensed pair of goggles in my coat, and was reluctant the accident wasn't worse. After going to the lodge to make sure I was ok (and there seeing all my facial cuts), I decided that I would at least ride the rest of the mountain to get an idea of the JF scene. I headed over to the western side of the mountain to all the blacks. I rode T-bolt glades then challenge, then lightning->river shot. Still the granular crystal stuff, but a thin layer. All the blacks were well groomed, and the entire morning at JF I only hit one noticeable spot of ice (which was still managable) to my suprise. The top part of Floyd's Folly was all moguls so i stayed off it. Telstar should only be a blue run, but I guess since the only way down from the end of it is a black it has to be a black. The diamonds were all very fun. I liked the down flat down flat down style that Lightning->rivershot had, thus it was my favorite run, but challenge was a close second. After that I decided to hit One Park once more and just stick to the flat box rail and jump. Having a little bit of confidence back I was happy I hadn't called it a day, no matter how big the welp on my arm. It was around 11:45am, so I decided one or two runs down a blue i hadn't done would be good enough to call it a morning. Lift lines were non-existant..the..entire...morning. It was nice. There were also no brown spots with the orange poles in random spots on sides of trails.. Very nice snow coverage. My only complaint of Jack Frost was that the top part of the mountain is flat, not allowing boarders to cut across . Also, I noticed on the trail map the ticket booth gave me had a small terrain park (i guess for beginners) which is now Jane's Lane...why'd they do away with that? (because they have parks at BB?) Noon-time, head to Arby's for the Pick 5. NO PICK 5?!?!?! Aww I immediately regret this decision, shoulda done mickey D's. But there was a cute girl at arby's so i stayed and was tired anyways. Ate and took off Coming around the lake being able to see all of BB was super-fantastic. I also caught a guy do a 5 off one of the BB gap kickers when I turned my head to admire. It was the most scenic welcome of Bear/blue/jf/bb thus far (those are the only 3 i've been at since i got here 1 week ago) Booted up at BB at approximately at 1pm. The mud lot was about half-full. Sun was out, snow was a lot softer than when I had a face full of it, and BB was noticeably more crowded than JF per skiable area. Still, lift lines were non-existant except for Tannerbaum and Little-Boulder, which has very long lines. Temperature warmed up to high 30's low 40s. I caught the 2nd half of freedom park.. I really like their layout there. It's the nicest beginner park i've seen of BC/Blue/JF/BB. I did the smartsytle scan run and headed up the lift for a quick run. hit the first box flat rail and the first jump on the left, then the second jump on the left. By then, the snow had become much more slow, and the jumps you had to get a lot of speed for to clear the top. Still being slightly shaken from the fall earlier, I stayed off other obstacles and just stuck to the flat box rails. I then headed over and rode Tannenbaum. Snow was a little thicker here than over at the JF blacks, but like i said that's probably due to the weather warming up. Headed over to the blacks and rode Draufganger then Bunny's elbow, a few times each. Then back to the beginner terrain park. I stuck to working on jumps, and started doing some grabs, and even came real close to landing a 3 (I tried 3 times). Around 3 I called it a day. When I left, ticketing lines were long, but aside from Tannerbaum and Little-boulder, lift lines weren't a problem[/b] Big Boulder seemed to have a lot more people just started out on the slopes than Jack Frost, which suprised me, but they never really got in my way. What really grinds my gears: Why do people who have no business going over jumps go over them. Like people who RIDE over the top of them, then sit in the 'gully' where people can barely see them if they're a little kid. People also stop at the top of jumps all the time. ugh. I dont intend on hitting those jumps you dont see me diring over them like speed bumps or stnading at the top of them. I wish there was just a kind way to tell them not to do that without sounding like a jerk. Like I said some of the jumps they do that on I have no intention of hitting but I see this happen to other people all the time also. But if I'm only capable of hitting one or two jumps on an entire run full of obstacles, bet your tea kettle i'm going to get upset at the snowboarder who plows at the last second, not giving him enough speed, and using the kicker as a quarter pipe to come back INTO me. Other than that and the spill in One Park, It was a fantastic day at JFBB. I'll admit i'm not a big fan of driving over to the adjacent park. I'm not against split parks they're obviously much different, but how about a shuttle so I dont have to unboot/reboot. Plus JF/BB would make more money doing that because people couldn't go to mickey d's or arby's for lunch

Post-script edit: This is a very lengthy post. Those interested only in conditions, that material is bolded. The in-detail info is italicized Woke up at 5:20, showered, headed up from the Del. Mem. Bridge at 6. Booted up at 8:15ish @ Jack Frost. Parking lot somewhat empty. Bought a snow pass and walked out into some VERY THICK, very granular crystallized snow. I dont know how you here explain the texture, but it's the kind of snow that looks like very very small diamonds. Real clear, real solid little dip'n'dots sized pellets. The weather was perfect. Mid-High 30's. I was sporting the Hot Chilly's chest and legs, then the jacket shell and my pants. Was perfect for the conditions. I went and bought a Burton R.E.D. helmet at the Ski Bum yesterday (for a whopping $90). And I had my goggles. So I take to the eastern part of the mountain, making a quick run down Frosty and then Easy Rider. Still quite a bit of corduroy on the slopes. From there I took a Smartstyle scan run through One Park. Kickers looked like they were in pretty good condition. Snow was very thick there as opposed to the slopes where it was a little bit more of the thin layers of the crystal stuffs. After a quick run down One park I headed back up to hit a couple of the obstacles I thought I was capable of. Hit that little intro jump, then the real wide flat rail, and scoped out the jump and last rail once more for my next run.... The near finisher: I've mentioned before I'm a beginner when it comes to terrain parks, that being...obstacles. So I hit the intro obstacle, hit the flat rail, hit the third jump (the shorter one) (cased it ) and then was about to head to the lift, when I saw the last two rails. One was a round rail and one was flat. Heading to the flat one I tried to slow down and get the right speed. I get up on the rail and TAKE OFF. It's the steel rail and I wasn't ready for it. Halfway through the rail something happened and I dont know what. The next thing I know is that i opened my eyes and my face was BURNING. MY goggles....shattered. They were fairly cheap Smiths, but shattered none the less. I am regular footed. I think my board slipped off to the left and I went down to the right, bellying the rail, except my face smacked the ground. It's a GOOD F*cking thing I had my brand new helmet cause if i wouldn't have that coulda been much worse. So I got up, shook it off. Made sure I could feel everything. Nothing felt broken, except my nose...but it's just cause it was numb. Literally I smacked face first into the ground without any cushioning....and i've already told you what this snow is like in these conditions. So I take my gloves off, check my nose fluids, some blood, not a lot. but my face was bleeding a little. I had about 20-30 hair-sized cuts from the snow on my nose/chin/cheeks. I also had a HUGE welp on my forarm right below my elbow. I guess that's where my arm landed on the rail. I was shook...bad. It destroyed most all confidence I had. I'm a strong believer in smartsytle and I thought I had the necessary precautions...how else are you supposed to learn steel rails other than going slow on flat rails? The chair ride up from that run was a very long one. I had to decide if I would continue riding or call it a day..afterall I was in pain..but it cleared up shortly thereafter. So I put the broken-lensed pair of goggles in my coat, and was reluctant the accident wasn't worse. After going to the lodge to make sure I was ok (and there seeing all my facial cuts), I decided that I would at least ride the rest of the mountain to get an idea of the JF scene. I headed over to the western side of the mountain to all the blacks. I rode T-bolt glades then challenge, then lightning->river shot. Still the granular crystal stuff, but a thin layer. All the blacks were well groomed, and the entire morning at JF I only hit one noticeable spot of ice (which was still managable) to my suprise. The top part of Floyd's Folly was all moguls so i stayed off it. Telstar should only be a blue run, but I guess since the only way down from the end of it is a black it has to be a black. The diamonds were all very fun. I liked the down flat down flat down style that Lightning->rivershot had, thus it was my favorite run, but challenge was a close second. After that I decided to hit One Park once more and just stick to the flat box rail and jump. Having a little bit of confidence back I was happy I hadn't called it a day, no matter how big the welp on my arm. It was around 11:45am, so I decided one or two runs down a blue i hadn't done would be good enough to call it a morning. Lift lines were non-existant..the..entire...morning. It was nice. There were also no brown spots with the orange poles in random spots on sides of trails.. Very nice snow coverage. My only complaint of Jack Frost was that the top part of the mountain is flat, not allowing boarders to cut across . Also, I noticed on the trail map the ticket booth gave me had a small terrain park (i guess for beginners) which is now Jane's Lane...why'd they do away with that? (because they have parks at BB?) Noon-time, head to Arby's for the Pick 5. NO PICK 5?!?!?! Aww I immediately regret this decision, shoulda done mickey D's. But there was a cute girl at arby's so i stayed and was tired anyways. Ate and took off Coming around the lake being able to see all of BB was super-fantastic. I also caught a guy do a 5 off one of the BB gap kickers when I turned my head to admire. It was the 'warmest' welcome of Bear/blue/jf/bb thus far (those are the only 3 i've been at since i got here 1 week ago) Booted up at BB at approximately at 1pm. The mud lot was about half-full. Sun was out, snow was a lot softer than when I had a face full of it, and BB was noticeably more crowded than JF per skiable area. Still, lift lines were non-existant except for Tannerbaum and Little-Boulder, which has very long lines. Temperature warmed up to high 30's low 40s. I caught the 2nd half of freedom park.. I really like their layout there. It's the nicest beginner park i've seen of BC/Blue/JF/BB. I did the smartsytle scan run and headed up the lift for a quick run. hit the first box flat rail and the first jump on the left, then the second jump on the left. By then, the snow had become much more slow, and the jumps you had to get a lot of speed for to clear the top. Still being slightly shaken from the fall earlier, I stayed off other obstacles and just stuck to the flat box rails. I then headed over and rode Tannenbaum. Snow was a little thicker here than over at the JF blacks, but like i said that's probably due to the weather warming up. Headed over to the blacks and rode Draufganger then Bunny's elbow, a few times each. Then back to the beginner terrain park. I stuck to working on jumps, and started doing some grabs, and even came real close to landing a 3 (I tried 3 times). Around 3 I called it a day. When I left, ticketing lines were long, but aside from Tannerbaum and Little-boulder, lift lines weren't a problem[/b] Big Boulder seemed to have a lot more people just started out on the slopes than Jack Frost, which suprised me, but they never really got in my way. What really grinds my gears: Why do people who have no business going over jumps go over them. Like people who RIDE over the top of them, then sit in the 'gully' where people can barely see them if they're a little kid. People also stop at the top of jumps all the time. ugh. I dont intend on hitting those jumps you dont see me diring over them like speed bumps or stnading at the top of them. I wish there was just a kind way to tell them not to do that without sounding like a jerk. Like I said some of the jumps they do that on I have no intention of hitting but I see this happen to other people all the time also. But if I'm only capable of hitting one or two jumps on an entire run full of obstacles, bet your tea kettle i'm going to get upset at the snowboarder who plows at the last second, not giving him enough speed, and using the kicker as a quarter pipe to come back INTO me. Other than that and the spill in One Park, It was a fantastic day at JFBB. I'll admit i'm not a big fan of driving over to the adjacent park. I'm not against split parks they're obviously much different, but how about a shuttle so I dont have to unboot/reboot. Plus JF/BB would make more money doing that because people couldn't go to mickey d's or arby's for lunch

damn....yellowcard?!

Hey...went to BC on Tuesday night. Conditions on the trails were really slushy, as expected. It was my first time to BC so forgive me for not knowing trail names. When we'd go up the quad and try to cut over to the right part of the mountain, found ourselves barely making it over some of the flats, and we had to hop quite a bit. Lot of the flatter trails are real narrow, like 7-8 feet. Just make sure if you're cutting across to the right side from the quad you dont slow down at all. Also if you're heading back to the quad from timberline you're going to need a boatload of speed to make it up the slight uphill, because again there's a 7-8 ft narrow slush spot that you gotta book through. As far as the downhills, I was quite suprised that they held up as much as they did. Still quite a bit fun, and not a lot of ice (obviously). Aside from the park though there wasn't too much diversity to look forward too, but I guess that's bear, but hey I'm not complaining!

back on topic...what are bear's current conditions like...anyone bother going today. summit temp is 50 O_o thinking of going but want to know the goods....thanks, and sorry

Kudos on your name. For some reason I associate that with getting fired from CB for smoking pot and drinking beer afterhours while riding down the slopes nude with flares taped to the end of your ski poles screaming "WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT, NO WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT", only to have your manager see you doing it. To give more detail on the lift lines I only had to wait an average of 3 buckets per ride, except for the 3 minute one (or the two-seater). But I also left at 1pm. On my last ride up I talked to a ski instructor and she said that the traffic wasn't bad at all for the day that "I picked the right day to come". I dont know how it compares to other days but I've decided I'm going to always try to catch the...how do you guys say it...courdoroy? Hope that little bit of info helps, maybe a passholder can tell you how it is with respect to the other heavy weekends.

Wow what a crazy weekend. I'll post the full details in the Lounge Forum under the weekend thread. I decided I'd take advantage of my no-sunday plans+blowing snow all week at the mountains and head to Blue. I left Coatesville, PA at 5:00AM on the knicker. Estimated time of Arrival on my GPS was 7:15AM. gooood, goooood. I started driving in semi-dry conditions from the night before. I also went to bed at 2:30AM with a 4:45AM alarm clock set. Making my way to Blue only on adrenaline, I filled up the tank about 20minutes before getting to the mountain and ripped it up on some of those PA foothills roads. I think I had more fun driving TO the mountain than I did ON the mountain. AWD Turbo FTW! So I got a pristine parking spot up near the front, slapped on the boots and touristly made my way to the ticket counter. (Side note: I also bought the last pair of skullcandy buds at a best buy with a gift card in Maryland on the way up on Saturday, which are very comfy! Version 1.0 iPod buds FTL :thumbsdown) Being the Ironman I thought I was, I purchased a full-day ticket for $49. Quick trip to the little boys room and I strapped up, got scanned at 7:32, and I asked the guy

gonna give this a bump as it has some good info that we all should be reminded of

ahh, thanks.

sorry to hear that about your board man =( for this 'ski check' area is it like you drop off your board in a safe spot where someone is watching or something?

their website says cascade is open

I suppose I'll post my findings here... and this may not be news to anyone but oh well, every little bit helps IMO I talked to someone at BC's phone number about the 'Sasquatch Card'. Turns out if you buy the card for $50 ($2 cheaper than a weekend all-day lift ticket), you DO get a free anytime lift ticket, there was no mistake there. So anyone not interested enough to buy a season pass, but still interested enough to go a few times should definately look into it, considering you save 10% on all lift ticket purchases too... link here

Right on. Yeah I knew the NJ Bridge tolls were all $3, but when I google map'd it from Pennsville to BC there were 2 or 3 other tolls along the way, and haven't been up that far. I take it you on the north side of the DMB on NJ side since you said it was shorter for you? And just to clarify, it's not this Saturday but next Saturday, the 12th, although it sounds like you probably live at that mtn. haha. I've PM'd you my contact info so we can coordinate this. I dont mind driving but I have an Evo and the only way i've gotten my board in it before is lounging the front passenger seat , so I dont mind driving if you dont mind riding taxi, ha. Otherwise I have no problem at all compensating for gas/tolls/etc. Look forward to it~

I'll be staying in a little town called Pennsville. It's the last town before you get to the DMB. Thanks for the offer, I'll have to catch your info. About how far from the DMB is BC? Considering that I work during the week and would get off around 4pm (at least until feb.) that might not be a bad idea. Also what's the total toll rate (not hugely important but good to know). We don't have a whole lotta tolls down in the southeast, so I'm always unprepared when I get up there. Are you interested in heading up next saturday? Well I'm not anywhere near pro so something to that magnitude would probably be perfect for a beginner freestyler, right? I mean I can board quite well, but freestyle is a bit of a different tune. Like I said I want to expand into freestyling. Are you talking about having an outisder new to all parks post my opinion for others like myself, or correcting the fact that I am posting before I do anything? Sorry, if it is the latter. Thanks for the info and warm welcome to the boards! Thanks for the suggestions on other places to visit. I hope to try out all three mentioned in this thread (Camelback, Blue, Bear Creek) when I have time on the longer weekend. I may give Spring Creek a shot. Thanks again

I bought a pair of DAKINE Charger gloves (see pic below) because they weren't very bulky, and the neoprene is waterproof. I put these gloves to the test last weekend boarding 2 days in a row 8-9 hours EACH day. The cold never got to me too bad until late into the night when hey had become wet due to snow getting inside. That being said they're pretty good gloves. Not bulky at all. Cost: $39.99

Topic says it all. I'm moving to NJ this weekend for work until mid-may. Until mid-march I will have weekends free and have been scouting out the local boarding spots within 2-2.5 hr driving distance. Bear Creek seems to have quite a nice bit of terrain for its size, and is only about an hour and a half from where I'll be living (NJ side of Del Mem Bridge). Planned on heading out to Bear Creek on either Fri (1/11) or sat (1/12) for some boarding, wondering who the locals might be, see if anyone wanted to ride and/or show me around. Probably rent a cheap hotel and perhaps pull a two-day gig...just depends really. Also, I noticed on their website the 'Sasquatch' card ??? It says the card is $50, and basically gives around a 10% discount on lift tickets. Seems reasonable, but what caught me was that it says with it you also get one free anytime lift ticket. So for $2 cheaper than a normal lift ticket you get a lift ticket AND discounts on all future lift tickets? I just wanted to get that straight, just thought I might ask here before calling BC themselves. I figured that would be better over a season pass just because I dont know how often I'll be able to make it up there. Thanks for the patience Cheers, billy P.S. - and i'm 22 incase it matters. intermediate boarder looking to expand into freestyle.