RidgeRacer

These lifts are so slow and I'm skiing solo so I feel like I'll be posting a lot today. Just warning you all now. Trade off is literally no one here coupled with spectacular snow conditions. @rummy are you around??

Beautiful bluebird day here at elk. Spectacular semi soft spring like snow. Sunshine and not a cloud in the sky. Cool to see that they have a modern ticketing system now although the kiosk would scan my barcode so had to go to guest service. Unfortunately the quad above tunk is down so they're running that slow ass double. Either way I'm in no rush today. Always like coming up here. Especially on days like this

Hell yeah man. Great stuff!

Not gonna lie. They look amazing.

99.9% headed to Elk today. I’ll see if I can get the low down on the sale from the ticket window peeps

Could be it for a bit.

Looks like they're getting ready to fire up the snow cannons

Side note .. The dark Forest section of switchback at night is back once again for the 23-24 season. Always a hoot skiing through that

Clear sky, stars and a giant moon shining bright in the Pocono sky this evening and quite pleasant out here temp wise. It's fairly quiet too. Solo lift rides and all that. I don't think I've been it in a Sunday night in a while and it's way nicer than a weeknight. The downside to sleeping in however... It's slick. Another side of the trails kinda night to adequately edge. Overall nice evening and the smell of the waffle Haus is always quite special in the evening

I was. There was a documentary on about an excavation in England...on the battle field where the Romans invaded the British back in ancient times. They found a Chariot and a sword. How cool

Slept in. woke up at 4 actually, then crashed around 5:30 and woke up gain around 8. By that time it was too late. I’ll be there later, after the crowds leave.

Today was fun. Firmer snow that I thought but it was nice to ski side and switch for the first time this season. Good day!

All of this is making me want to go to elk. Maybe this week.

Hahaha. They could care less as long as they're making $$

Both days

The locals pass is nice. Good on them for that. I wish blue did that for carbon peeps

Btw American dream made the wnep ski card. As did the lake placid Olympic ski jumping complex https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/contests/wnep-ski-card-2023-2024/523-ae331894-f869-4002-908c-a32bb8c17744

Hoping the rain holds was planning on skiing later

Cracks me up…meanwhile there’s more alcohol consumed on the lifts at blue mountain daily than there is at a St. Patrick’s day parade in Boston and they don’t enforce that. They just put giant trash cans out to accommodate it. At least be consistent.

Skiing is secondary there. Shame.

We’re already there…at least in Vegas.

You know the feeling is mutual. And if I came off defensive in my replies above I apologize. This crew, who I consider friends, obviously enjoy being around and have a ton of respect for, is one major reason (if not the biggest) that one doesn't just walk away from blue; and when things are good at blue they're really good. So Blue will never not be part of the equation..at least if and until I am physically no longer here. But the consumer side of the brain says...do you continue to fork over the pass $$, no matter the cost, given the number of gripes I / we've had (that have seemingly been higher this year). whether it be lifts, bad grooming, snow, sugar, questionable decisions, poor lighting, school groups, litter, crowds, lack of line management etc? But on the flip side, CB is never going to be an option, I like montage and JF but they aren't either at this point. so my brain goes back to...is there a way to get the good that comes with Blue without having to reward them for poor decisions by purchasing a pass yet again in Feb or March. It's quite the conundrum to be honest. Or maybe I'm just overthinking it.

I'm not going back to JFBB Not sure why I'm getting blasted for actually saying that I wanted to think about something before actually dropping nearly a grand. Damn

No

I never said I was going elsewhere. Just that, for $699, I think I'm gonna wait it out and see what the options were. What if Icon has more blue days? Or maybe I'll mix it up a bit more next year. Besides how the hell would I survive without you telling me which lift to ski to, or how I should hold my my fucking skis over my shoulder.