indiggio

Thanks for the report. Some day, some way...

Many of his posts come out of left-field and crack me up.

He's probably going through DTs right about now... (starving for attention).

Just playing the devil's advocate (not arguing, just discussing).... I'm not sure you can go by lessons either. I agree, read and know from instructors that snowboard lessons are far lower than ski lessons, but who really knows why? I tend to believe that the mindset is: I skateboarded as a kid, I can snowboard or My friend is taking me snowboarding, so they'll teach me or Lessons are too expensive, how hard can it be? Just look around on any given weekend day and you'll see tons of boarders out there trying to learn on their own, most failing miserably. A question for you, did you take a ski or snowboard lesson when you started? The first time I went skiing was with a bunch of college kids: "It's easy! We'll teach you to ski. All you have to do is snow-plow". It wasn't until I was proficient, did I take a lesson to see if they could help me improve. All I'm saying is that I don't think lessons are that much better/worse indicator than snowboard sales as to whether snowboarding is on the decline or not. Probably market research would be the only real way to determine whether it's on the decline or not. Lift ticket sales would be complicated due to repeat customer, season passes, etc.

The other weekend I rode up the 6-pack with a triplet of middle-aged women. They broke out some lagers and proceeded to pound them. Then they whipped out a bunch of undergarments and proceeded to increase the decoration of the new bra tree on Lower Sidewinder. Cracked me up!

I have to believe they did some market research at some point, at least I would hope they did to gamble that much money...

They need something that nobody has around the area, like this...

Found this too that shows location and orientation... http://www.poconorecord.com/assets/pdf/PR1349126.PDF

Most of the time I am...

Surely the lift lines would be short!

So long as they keep offering the discounted season passes.

Mad one yesterday. Nice and warm up top, cracked, frozen face by the time you got down to the lifts. Afternoon snow and temps were spectacular.

I'm simply a beer drinking, donut eating, motorcycle and roller-coaster riding, snow dancing, dope of a skier, in search of another day in paradise... Sincerely, indiggio

Yup, that one works well too! Ski The East tweet: **THE NATIONAL HYPE SERVICE HAS ISSUED A WTF EVERYONE IS FREAKING OUT ADVISORY FOR THE NORTHEAST**

Always a good way to screw with someone's shot, tell them to hit the ball as hard as they can...

Seems to be a bell curve with me. Once the right number of beers have been consumed, the scoring ability begins to taper off.

The only way to golf, with a cooler of beer in the back of the cart!

In the loosest possible sense of the term, but on the + side, she does like winter/snow.

Snow dance commencing...

That would work too! Anywhere there's cold, snow and big mountains...

Don't get me wrong, I'd love a dumping. I've just lived here too long to get my hopes up (Don't believe the hype!). Being a realist, my money is on the 'r' word...

Need to try to get wife to agree to retire to there...

Wake him up, he's dreaming!

On the up side, a little melting and precipitation may be a good thing. With all the brutal cold weather and massive snow blowing, I noticed the retention pond was looking a bit low. It could use a bit of filling before the cold air returns at the end of the week, just in time for the guns to get going again!

That cracked me up.