SkiUtah
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No where near as crowded today as yesterday. Good coverage on trails that were open. No snow and no snow making on Hump, Rocket or Sphinx. Third day of 24 hr snow making and no new trails open. Big Pocono and Cliffhanger look like they are covered. Bactrian, Raceway and Lower Marc
Anthony may be awhile.
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They either dusted most of the trails last night or did some creative grooming. Saw no rocks today except for the park trail Lower Moore's Ramble.
They were blowing snow all day today from the mounted fan cannons on the trail that had the Mt Dew Challenge yesterday. The gravel at the Glen lift, lift line was gone.
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Going to be in SLC Feb 13 to Feb 20 anyone else going to be out there?
Going out the week of 2/28/10. Enjoy yourself!
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Is it a $50 discount per pass or $50 between the two?
It's $50 savings per pass for a total of $100. Before 10/31/09 It is $529 for a full pass or $479 per pass "with a buddy"
http://www.skicamelback.com/SkiCamelback/Tickets-and-Passes/Season-Passes.aspx
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Once again CBK is offering a $50 discount per pass if you buy two. I only need one. Anyone want to purchase passes together to get the $50 discount?
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Bolton Valley and Burke mountaitn in northern VT are good values. I think Pico Peak is the best value/family area. Lots of blues and usually not crowded. All the foreigners (non vermonters) have driven that far so they go to Killington.
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True story-- Big Al's father died while at SLC one year. I volunteered to skip skiing that day to take him to the airport for a flight home. I took the rest of the crew up to Solitude that morning, and agreed to pick them up after my trip to the airport. It was snowing all day and the road up the canyon was being plowed regularly. On my trip up the canyon to pick them up around 3:30 there was about 8" on the road and snow was still coming down hard. Three times I had to avoid head-on collisions by out of control idiots, twice by getting into the passing lane and once by hanging in the gutter. I just kept my foot on the gas, if I would have hit the brakes I'm sure I would have crashed. When I got to the Solitude parking lot, I was shaking--I also had to check my skivvies for brown spots. The rest of the crew were all smiles however, because of the 18" of powder they skiied in all day. On the trip back down the canyon I didn't leave the parking lot until I could follow a plow/sand truck the entire way.
rummy
The canyon roads usually only close for two reasons: avalanch control or avalanch across the road. They may close for ten or twenty minutes occasionally for snow plowing in real heavy snow. I've heard every once in a great while it's taken a day or two to open the road because of a gigantic avalanch slide across the road.
It's the primary reson there were no olympic venues at the LCC BCC ski resorts.
When it is snowing hard up the canyon a sheriff's officer may be stationed at the entrance to the canyons to make sure you have snow tires or chains and four wheel drive.
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Just some notes:
The cabriolet lift, the main lift, sucks. You have to take your skis/board off every ride and stand. That might be ok if you were at a mountain that takes ten or fifteen minutes to ski down, but not every ninty seconds.
The snow making/management is far inferior to anything in the Pocono's.
The parking is dangerous.
The facilities are nothing great.
And yes, the people seem to consistently have that rude city mentality.
Other than that, great place to go...
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Pick which ever one is closer...if they are equal distances and you can get out and ride midweek I'd pick CB, If you are a weekend warrior stick to sno.
This is the best advice.
I think their black runs are similar.
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The altitude hits everyone differently. Coming from the east living at less then 200 feet then going to SLC at 4200 feet and staying on the benches around 5500 feet takes me about a day to acclimate. I'm 55 and overweight.
I have a townhouse just outside LCC. Six miles from Snowbird. Search Google maps: "9009S 3605E 84093" or Canyon PlaceTownhouse
Its open 1/6/09 to 1/21/09 as of today.
Their license plates read: "Best Snow on Earth". Woud the government lie?
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Route 22 to 145 is the longest way. There's a bunch of ways to get up there. I'm from easton too.
1. newburg road to 191 to 946 all the way up to blue mountain drive- probably the quickest way
2. 248 up to cherryville/blue mountain drive
3. 248 to 946 to blue mountain drive.
4. route 22 to airport road to 329 to 248
There's so many ways to get there i could go on and on and on. Where exactly in easton are you coming from?
I'm coming from the Clinton, NJ area so I'd drive over the free bridge or the Rt 22 toll bridge depending on if I needed to stop for gas or not.
Thanks for all the suggestions.
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The seasonal lockers are outdoors and located at the top lodge....and The 248 way to Cherryville(not Danielsville) is the way alot of Easton and Dirty Jersyians go...there are a few other back roacks as well..and you're also on Blue mountain drive which is one of the greatest ski access roands in eastern PA..thanks to trailer park chic architecture and the famous Blue mountain drive inn..Are you thinking of ditching Camelback for a better place to ski??
Thanks for the locker info and the directions. Yea, not happy with the two hour cut, the price incease on the pass, and the constant partial mountain closings all last year.
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1. Does Blue have seasonal lockers available for rent?
2. What's the best way to get to Blue from the Easton area; Rt 22 to 145 to Danielsville, Rt 22 to Rt 33 to Rt 248 to Danielsville or another way?
Thanks for the help.
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New operating hours as well:
Closing at 9 pm on Sundays through Thursdays; 10 pm on Fridays and Saturdays.
That means the Stevenson will be closing around 8PM Monday through Thursday!
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Yuck, I've been a season pass holder at Mountain Creek for the 5 years UNTIL this year. The UNTIL part is because I finally got fed up with their crap and took my money to PA, even if it is twice as far for me.
Seeing how poorly Mountain Creek was run, this can only be a step down. There has never been 1 thing Mountain Creek did that made me say "hmm thats a good decision". From how badly they make snow, how bad their lodge is cleaned, how they groom, how they decide to roll out terrain, how they decide to open and close lifts, to how they keep giant corralls up when there is NO ONE there, everything Mountain Creek ever did screamed "don't care about the customer" to me. That sucks for Camelback, hopefully things won't change too much.
I agree with method. I too vowed three years ago never to go back to MC because it was so poorly run.
We're so screwed!
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I went skiing thursday night. CB had two novice and two intermediate top to bottom trails open. No expert trails. That's almost the same as being closed. I rode the chair with some guy that bought a night ticket -- full price. Was he pissed. The only trail they were making snow on was cliffhanger.
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True true true. I can't believe they can sell their real estate though when the mountain blows so hard. How would you feel about buying a ski in ski out on Granite if you knew that eventually they would not even start making snow near your house until January each year. I guess its all about the Applachian now. Great view of the bunny hill and a circus tent from your window! That will be $600k please.
I believe it
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Completely open today, good snow coverage. Not as crowded as usual.
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I had the opportunity to work for Jack Kurlander in the group sales/marketing department. It was the 74-75 ski season and the first year VV/GG operated together. It was the most interesting job I
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There were reports from all over Vermont saying that it was the best snow that people ever experienced in Vermont. Sure enough it was. After 20" from Fri-Sat, there was another 6" over night and it kept dumping all day for another 6" Sunday. It was truely EPIC, it was the lightest snow I ever skied in this side of Utah. It was the kinda day that made a season.
Where did you get to ski?
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8ish to 11ish every Sunday morning.
So much snow there today some of the features in the Laurel Glade park were even with the surface...
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Truth be told. I was helping the lift department today by working the Stevenson from 7:30-4:30. At around 9:30am the Stevenson was having a tower fault running at its regular speed for every chair that past tower one. We found the lifts sweet spot which was about half its regular speed where it wouldn't fault and they let it run for a couple more hours until the mechanics were set to get it repaired and we shut it down and opened up the Raceway.
The Raceway closed down at 4 because by the end of the day shift we had only 2 night lift operators show for work when I was leaving. Some day shift stayed later in the day to help out until some extra help was called in for the night shift. You can't run lifts without operators.
As for why the Sullivan was shut down in exchange for the Bailey was a direct order from the big man himself. I'm not sure why this call was made, possibly due to old technology but I don't think that was it. Bad decision in my opinion but I am uneducated in the reasoning behind it. The rest of the lift issues today could not be helped.
If this isn't understandable to the Camelback haters, I don't know what to tell ya lifts don't get shut down just to piss people off.
Were you in the Stevenson base booth friday with the T shirt that read "All Black"?
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The Bird is an aggressive mountain. Canyons has more variety of terrain. Both will be crowded on the weekends. Usually that's only a parking problem. Both areas are big enough that you should still see only minimal lift lines.
If you go to Snowbird, take the first entry and park at the new Creekside Lodge. Snowbird sells a chair only ticket and a ticket that includes the tram for about $7 more. Do the tram if the weather is bad or you've never done it before; otherwise the chair only ticket is just fine.
Discount tickets are available in the Salt Lake City area ski shops.
Go here for an example of ticket prices: http://www.canyonsports.com/tickets.html
PS is right about the view from Strawberry Ridge at Snowbasin. It over looks the city of Ogden and Hiil Airforce Base with the Great Salt Lake in the background. I think even more impressive is standing on top of Hidden Peak, next to the Snowbird Tram at the end of the day. You're in sunlight looking down the canyon into the Salt Lake Valley which is all lit up. Because of the altitude difference it's dark down there.
Have a great trip.
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Anyone going to the passholder party tomorrow afternoon that could bring this up with the management people who usually attend?
CBK TR 1/3/15
in Camelback
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Not very crowded at times. Started snowing at about 10:15 AM. Pocono Raceway, Lower Marc
Anthony, Cliffhanger, Big Pocono and Uncle Bill's now open. They were blowing snow on Pharaoh, Bactrian and Rocket but stopped around 11:00 AM. Grooming on most trails a little better than usual except on Uncle Bill's. It is treacherous. Asp, Margie's and Cliffhanger in great shape with small patches of ice. Nile Mile has brown streches with gravel surfacing. Asp is favorite trail of the day.
Left around 12:30 PM snowing hard with lift lines moving quickly but lines still at the ticket windows.