RidgeRacer

My son is getting his second covid shot Saturday morning so in all likelihood I'm out Saturday. All in for Monday however. Could be good.

RAW tonight. Need to ski coming soon already.

Drove past Blue on the way home from ABE...looked like the Blue mountain I know. Made a ton of snow since I was there last week! Miss AZ but happy to be home after a loooonnnnnggggg ass commute. Great time regardless

Yeah...a win there. I'm so done with layovers. I love ABE but lesson learned here for sure. Everything was smooth in Phoenix. Had I hopped on a plane to Philly I'd be at home making a nespresso right now. It is what it is. Shit happens. My kid is all set at school, had a blast skiing on a new mountain, saw the sunrise and sunset at the grand canyon...all worth it x 100000000000.

Coffee situation in the room is excellent. They have a machine that allows you to make up to 2 cups at once. They give you 2 packets of regular and real half and half (as opposed to the powder).

Ended up getting a room at the Hilton connected to ORD. Was either that or sleep in a gate somewhere which wasn't happening, American said it was weather related so they weren't covering shit basically but I was "welcome to stay here" (meaning sleep at the gate) if I like. I told him I don't sleep on floors and asked where the hotel was. Supposed to fly out of here at 10:30. We'll see if that actually happens. No luggage so I guess I'm flipping my draws inside out lol. At least I can shower and slept great.

Was just cancelled. Was a perfect trip till this point. Honestly as much as I like abe fuck layovers

Done. Pecan caramel and it's the fuckin bomb

Pushed out another hour and a half @Benmis this the place you were talking about

Damn no exhibition? That used to be one of the trails they opened first.

Flight to Allentown delayed 2 hours. I was actually supposed to leave Phoenix at 6am and be home by 230 or whatever but that was moved to 10am with this 3 hour layover weeks ago. Now.... it's another 2 hours on top of the 3 hour layover. @saltyant Can you teach me the art of complaining? What can I get for free for my troubles.

Nice try Salty but no. There's a time and a place to complain. A hotel messing around with coffee in the morning is one of them. Complaining about the course of natural events however like, for example, the weather, isn't

Wait this may be good news though right. You can't have a skier cross and terrain park on the same trail can you?

Get well rumster

Yes stayed in flag. There is a motel at the bottom of the access road called base camp. I stayed there before in the summer when it was called ski lift lodge but snowbowl purchased it and renovated it. Probably worth staying in Flagstaff though as there's so much to do and a million different places to eat. Edit...night at the grand canyon was at the masiwik Lodge on the rim

And yes Doug .. coffee downstairs in the restaurant...had to purchase.

Place called the graduate. I'm laying over in Chicago then Chicago to a town. No bus today

No I'm flying home sir

I'll finish up the thread on a positive note...despite the fact that I need to walk a few blocks to DD for coffee now. Anyway... Great time out here. I'd highly recommend Flagstaff for any PASR interested in skiing Arizona Snowbowl and seeing that giant canyon thing right up the road as well (everyone should see it once right? Or 50000x...it never gets old). Speaking of, you can see the GC from the top of Snowbowl which I thought was a wives tale. As for the skiing, snowbowl is great. It's not as big as the big dawgs further north but damn...what's there is really fun. I really want to ski the stuff up in the bowl when it's open...but even without it, it's great. Nice steeps, a ton of gladed terrain, cruisers, great snow (western groomers etc)...you name it. It's also a straight vert type of mountain. Grab your 2500 or whatever with every run as opposed to pod skiing bullshit which I'm not a fan of...which means, yes, I prefer Arizona Snowbowl to Steamboat (F you Ski magazine). Like the terminator....I'll be back, probably next year and I can't wait! Probably skip the GC and do 3 ski days next time. Either way your in heaven so all good.

Will do.

Place I'm at is kinda lame. $12 to park...a couple bucks for a shitty throw away toothbrush...fine. I'm not gonna get mad. But the coffee situation is complete trash and the reason I won't stay here again. They give you an in room Kuereg which is great but stashed in between 2 $5 bottles of water that they force you to open in order to make the coffee. But what set me over the edge is that they give you three k cups...1 is regular and 2 are decaf. They now full well that no one's drinking fucking decaf so you're forced to purchase more regular. WJW. 1 star review incoming. OTH Shout out to the Comfort Inn in Flagstaff which is awesome.... unlimited coffee, full breakfast, fireplace, ski lodge feel, clean rooms, comfortable beds and friendly peeps.

Haven't been to Blue in a hot minute. Sounds like it's gonna look a lot different than last time I was there...stoked for that, probably Wednesday RAW. Looking forward to skiing Tom Petty.

When you're right, you're right Salty

Yes sir.

It's was cold here this morning...mid 20s. High in the 40s. We'll be in Phoenix later today.