indiggio

The way these years have been, it's gonna be all rain...

Alpine Replay

Now's the time to uproot and go! I'm beating myself for not doing it when mine was that age... Get the little one on skis out there early and he'll be a master by the time he's a teenager.

Give the Mad Elf a whirl, 11%!

Tyler, your signature about panda's made me think of this for some reason. Herd of elephants go on drunken rampage after mammoth booze up http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/917124-herd-of-elephants-go-on-drunken-rampage-after-booze-session

Good luck Ride! Hope you've got some Dogfish Head to party with!

Getting a bad deja vu feeling.... Early October cold, snows up north... Mother Nature teasing us bad I think. Totally expecting mid-winter summer now.

Body odor makes the ambiance.

Pikes Peak got snow.

It's a bit nipply out there this morning!

Leaves were falling all over the place in the Lehigh Valley yesterday...

AccuWeather's Winter Outlook... http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/snow-for-i-95-corridor-northeast-winter/69820

Yeah, everyone knows these long range forecasts are for the birds. Just fun stoking the stoke meter!

Supposedly this year's Farmer's Almanac forecast....

Just hoping for cold weather. No snow keeps the crowds down!

I remember those prices!

Thought the same thing!

Like we didn't already know. http://blogs.denverpost.com/thebalancesheet/2012/05/07/official-201112-ski-season-worst-20-years-51-million-visits/4629/

Lower Saucon are the worst. They once pulled the wife over on suspicion for having tires on the yellow line on a curve...

They like to sit along 378 South on the back side downgrade of South Mountain. That's where a buddy got nabbed a while back.

Ditto! Need to find a good place to which to retire with good local skiing and consistent snow!

Oh no, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that the "pros" are anyone posting on this forum. I know people posting here are much too civilized, intelligent, etc. to be out of control on beginner slopes. The "pros" to which I'm referring are those that come out once or twice a year just after watching a weekend's worth of X-Games or something similar, and think they're the next gold medalist by screaming down beginner slopes. They have no consideration for anyone else on the slopes besides themselves. Must have been hit/miss on Paradise. Early in the season I was going down the side, well away from anyone and a SP told me to slow down. Was pretty much the last time I went down it the rest of the year.

My biggest and pretty much only peeve is about the "professionals" skiing/boarding on beginner slopes at full speed (and typically out of control) where people are still trying to learn to ski/board. If they think they're so good, they shouldn't be on the beginner slopes, but on runs that don't invoke fear and panic in those just trying to learn to like the sport. Beginners have enough problems without the added stress of crazies coming down behind them making them think they're gonna be run into. Have to say Blue seemed to have stepped up the patrols on Burma and Paradise this season. The few trips I made down them, showed a lot more SPs out whistling speed violators.

And be willing to give it away!!! http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/actor-bruce-willis-says-hes-willing-to-give-away-idaho-ski-area-to-a-nonprofit/2012/04/04/gIQAdZRhvS_story.html