Robert2

Likely not gonna meet at Blue. Friday was looking like a great day to get out there with the new leehophuq board, make the binding adjustments on the ski school short hill then head out to the real hills and snag a few long runs before my wife arrived for her lesson. Because of the locker total fuck up I got robbed of the end time...the free ride time and only got to do the binding adjustment play time on the short ski school hill. Then my wife decided it was too cold for her to play so the day was a total ripoff for me. I could have gone to Jack Frost... worked on the new board... without any of the locker snaffoo stealing my time away. You can find me at Jack Frost any week day except Monday and I'll be riding after noon. I'm done dicking with Blue on Fridays.

Yea.... but that might not be a real great idea because .... first I'd be pulling somebody's stuff out of a locker...throwing it on the floor... put my stuff in the locker,.. and lose 3 quarters and get no key.. THEN what... do that 10 times until I found a locker that the key actually came out ? I'd probably get stabbed if I was seen ransacking 10 lockers... before finding one that a key worked in. No. the solution here is BLUE fix the bag and lunch cooler storage problem with bag checks and cubbies like Jack Frost has..... then no more inconsiderate jitbags will use pay lockers for free storage.

Sure..if its 4 inches and flat. My backpack filled with street clothes doesn't fit in the ski locker. Its that simple. This isn't about fanny packs or bringing worthless old sneakers to leave unattended. This isn't about how a 12 year old kid works with a system that sucks. This is about a ski resort doing the right thing to take care of this situation that every ski resort deals with... or lose customers. I will definitely NOT buy a season pass for Blue next year.

nope... never used any kind of instant messenger. I can't read stuff that small on a phone. I'm just used to pressing enter at the end of a line of computer programming code I guess. NO WHITE X on the red jacket yesterday. It was too cold to wear the 13 year old PASR jacket. Its real beat up and leaks air big time so I wore the new red jacket and said to look for my Chinese board.

Ahh yes...the impossible enter key issue. Sorry bout that. I'll work on it. sooooo..anyway....I'm not real pissed or anything I'm just chalking it off as more stuff Blue needs to do to be able to get me back there again for teaching. It seems the location is good and the snow has some good days but the stuff you put up with to make it happen is just not my cup of tea. You all spent your life time of skiing at Blue figuring out that you dress in the parking lot and bring your own booze and bug out before the snow sucks or the crowds suck and go eat at B M Diner.I don't have any of your luxuries there. I ride a bus for a half hour that they heat up to 85 degrees so the old people on the bus don't die of frostbite ...so there is no way I can dress for snow before I arrive. I'd be totally drenched in sweat before I got off the bus. I don't ski in wet clothes...I always start out dry. So I have to have a place to leave my stuff.

The Blue seasonal locker will hold skis or a board..badly... and is useless other than leaving the board there all week. Its too narrow to even leave a helmet in it and forget about stuffing in a backpack. The season lockers are outside the Summit Lodge and I've been meeting my wife at the valley lodge right outside the valley ski school area.... so I snag a locker near benches next to the lady's room. You would think something this simple could be done without being screwed by the fact that Blue hasn't figured out how to actually make quarter lockers work for paying customers. Jack Frost figured out a better way to deal with these issues. They mounted cubbies on the walls to leave your stuff without paying for a locker and they made a huge bag drop off area like the ski storage outside where you get a rubber wristband and tag for your stuff and don't have to worry about your stuff being screwed with. Seems Blue spent a shitload of money "improving" the whole place this year but neglected making any changes to the real basic problem causing areas like bag storage and lockers that lock. There's signs everywhere that say don't leave your coolers and bags reserving tables so now what... stuff them in lockers and don't pay for a key? And yes I finally got out on the snow on the new www.leehophuqsnowboards.com board and bindings and got a few totally uncontrollable runs in but had to make adjustments.. binding angles were way off so I spent more time with screw drivers than on the snow yesterday. http://ww5.komen.org/Donate/Donate.html

You guys know me by now. I take a bus.... get a locker for 75 cents... and go ride. So today being the Blue day... I take the bus... go look for a locker next to benches... and I find that every locker I reach to open has a key in it BUT IS FULL of gym bags , coolers, and lunches. So my first thought is that some inconsiderate pussworts are using the lockers without paying and taking the keys. But every single one of them in a block of 30 lockers? So I find one that is empty and dress for 20 degree weather.... you know.... like an astronaut ..... and the very last thing I will do before stepping out to the lauch pad.... is drop 3 quarters into the locker and walk off with a key. BUT noooooooooooooooooooooooo.... 3 quarters went in.... and the key did not come out. Well now what the phuq. So I drop in 3 more quarters thinking maybe I did something wrong when trying to jiggle the key out. 3 more quarters went in and STILL no key comes out. OK.... about to burst into flames now... because I'm totally dressed for snow... helmet goggles...everything on.... soooooooo I strip off some head layers.... then locate another empty locker.... pull out all my stuff and relocate to the other locker.... drop 3 quarters in and drumroll please...... tadaaaaaa... NO key comes out. OK... so now what? There's no way I leave my stuff unlocked. So now I have to find Blue staff to fix whatever is screwing up all these lockers. So apparently perhaps I was too quick to think that people were using the lockers without taking keys because they were jitbags. Perhaps they couldn't get the damn key out of the lockers and they were not really such inconsiderate phuqs who actually drove to Blue and have a car they can lock up their stuff in and where snarfing up the only lockup space available to people who take the bus. Since I have filled the locker with stuff and don't really want to carry all this stuff I carefully walk away without ever leaving sight of the locker except for the 5 seconds that I pop into the group sales office window and tell them there is a problem with the lockers and demand they get someone there and quick. I just walk away and camped out at the locker until staff showed up. That nice lady from the office is pretty darn sure its operator error (me being unqualified to operate 3 quarters and a key) so I slam 3 more quarters in and have her turn the key..which..does not come out. Thats $6.00 gone now into two lockers. She then tells me there must be something wrong with THAT locker. Yea. OK. So what about the first one I lost 3 dollars in? She says...thats OK... there's plenty of lockers here... and you can see at least 20 orange keys.... which I reply sure.... and open all the doors to show her that every damned locker is full and NOBODY walked away with a key. SOOOOOOOOO NO... you have problem and I want a locking locker, not a cubby hole so get whoever fixes these now. She then tells me the rental shop takes care of the lockers and SHE can't give me my lost money back. I said I don't care about the $6.00. I care about the fact that I CAN'T GO OUT TO SKI IF I CAN'T LOCK up my stuff so get whoever fixes them .. now. Two guys from rentals show up...one sticks around, the other bolts. So then here we go again... same routine... I must be incapable of operating a 3 quarter locker..... 3 more quarters.... no more keys... OH STUNNING! Mr fixit from rentals never seen this happen before today. But he does have master keys... pulls open the money box.... refunds my money and says the same thing the nice lady said.... just use another locker. So I then told him .. YOU PICK THE LOCKER I SHOULD USE and then YOU watch me put 3 quarters in and GET A KEY. He says that would be a waste of 3 quarters. WHAT ARE THESE PEOPLE SMOKING!!!!!!!!!!!! He has the master key and can refund any and all of this 3 quarter get me a key test. So he gets it. And opens up a locker...which is full... and another .. and another... so I asked him what is Blue's policy for using lockers without paying for them? How about we pull a lunch cooler out of a locker that the key DOES work in and put the lunch in cooler in the screwy locker. No harm in that. eah? Think about that the next time YOU use a locker without paying. He says no.... there's got to be an empty locker here and YES we found one ...dropped 3 quarters in.. got a key... and got back my 3 quarters. So by now I'm totally drenched in sweat and I have to swap out my first base layer for a dry one and start all over again. So as I'm getting redressed for snow this group of people come in..and get their lunch, and yes... they turned out to be jitbags with cars that never paid for lockers. so my next thought was simply that perhaps the right thing to do is pay $6 into four of their lockers ...take the keys... throw them away.... and when they complained to Blue that their stuff was locked up then Blue would charge them $10 for each lost key. But no... I didn't do it ...mostly because this all started with the problem that no keys would come out of that block of lockers. I was just amazed that such a simple thing as securing belongings could be such a waste of time today and almost meant not getting out at all. I just can't imagine how furious a customer would be if they paid like hundred bucks for a lift ticket, rentals , a lesson, lunch..etc.... then had to dick around for an hour trying to figure out how to secure their stuff.. perhaps miss their lesson. Blue should be on top of stuff as simple as faulting keys in lockers. Blue should put up signs that say lockers used without paying will be emptied into the LOST AND FOUND. PAY for a key or leave the lockers empty for paying customers...you jitbags.

It was snowing real heavy wet snow at noon today. The surface was very soft with 4 inches of puff. Certainly what many skiers dream of. It was too slow for me. Perfect for brand new skiers. I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand walking through the streets of Soho in the rain. He was looking for the place called Lee Ho Fooks, gonna get a big dish of beef chow mein. http://ww5.komen.org...ate/Donate.html

Ho Phat sold me this board for my wife. So it should be real easy to spot this board on the hill. Not many Chinese boards out there. DOIT NOW http://ww5.komen.org/Donate/Donate.html

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It was snowing at noon and there was deep sugar everywhere. They did blow more snow last night and as always the grooming was F'n perfect. JADIP I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand walking through the streets of Soho in the rain. He was looking for the place called Lee Ho Fooks, gonna get a big dish of beef chow mein. http://ww5.komen.org/Donate/Donate.html

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I'll support the local economy and invest in Yuengling. HOW MANY snowmakers and groomers work at JF ?

So Guido.... what kind of beer does the snowmaking crew like?

I would not be surprised at all if the glades get blown and turn out great. All I was saying was they do a tremendous job of making all the groomable areas really nice and ridable after such bad rain. The warm spells are what really screw up the surface so if they can get equipment onto a hill to make it ride great then I'm happy. I don't need to find something by chance between trees when I know the groomed areas are so ridable.

shutup you. You're gonna get another cup.

Note that THEY DO NOT GROOM in the epic tree runs. So I don't know what you are expecting. There are glades on the west side... next to Powder Puff, Janes Lane , around Lehigh.... and they all looked way rained on and contoured by running water. sort of looked like what happens when you microwave an ice cube...... gnarly bumps and shapes. So I wouldn't want to trip on that crap. I don't know about you. When the fresh snowfall from the sky fills in the glades it will be worth playing there but I wouldn't recommend it just yet. And yes...Friday I'll be at Blue at noon.

History of closings is very slim. It takes a monsoon like yesterday to actually shut down JF. Sure we get an occasional heavy rain storm in the winter months of Jan, Feb , March but I don't remember 4 times in the last 4 years that we had JF close because of rain.... and I was there Mon-Fri for the entire winter so I'd know. I had a standing appointment for a driver to take me to JF on all weekdays and I never got to JF and was told they were closed because of rain. Thats a pretty good track record. Also note that JF does absolutely phenomenal recovery grooming after warm spells and rain storms. This is twice I showed up on Tuesday after having 50 degrees or rain on Monday and found that the night time cold snap and predawn grooming made nice riding for me. Don't ever NOT go because it rained or they were closed. The next day or weekend could be the nicest ride you ever had.

I'm beginning to think the grooming staff at JF has hired some witches or fairies with super magical powers to freeze water into snow and make powder. I was outside all day Monday in Bethlehem wearing rain pants and rain slickers and I even wore a ski mask so I could walk down the street without the horizontal driving sheets of rain stinking my eyeballs. The next day... today... I find Jack Frost has immaculate grooming and sugar 2 inches deep on the headwall on Lehigh and great grooming everywhere I went today. The quick freeze made boiler plate ice but they groomed it into sugar where you'd need it and corduroy everywhere else. The riding was really nice today. JADIP

A pack of cigarettes now costs $5.50. With all that time on their hands at the lift they probably can suck down a pack a day. If they work 8 hours then that means they smoke 1/8th of their paycheck? After working 5 days and get paid $220... take home pay is what...? $150 after taxes...and spend 27.50 a week on smokes.... that leaves 122.50. ...but wait..I forgot the iced tea.... whats that another $10 a week.... so Blue lifties live on $110 a week?

Can you point to a web page that shows which warm weather wax you like to buy?

Winter has returned for sure now. No slush today. The surface was groomed cord with very dry and deep sweetNlow powder. Really nice fast riding with lots of rooster tails kicking up. JADIP