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The best food I've had at blue were Roots ribs in the parking lot. GSSucks breakfast sangs and the various sausages people have brought have been all top notch as well. A new delicacy I discovered is bacon wrapped chicken liver which they have at the farmers market. I imagine they'd go good with beer. Chicken liver is alot different than beef liver, more mild. I'll have to bring a whole bunch of them up to Blue sometime. They only cost about 40 cents each

Did you hike for mainline? A shame Boomer is death cookies that's a nice run. Anyway thanks for posting a report. Haven't seen one from you in years!!

What was the temperature like at Jack Frost today??? I'm thinking cold enough to blow snow perhaps

Windham was where I went on my first ski trip with my dad in 8th grade. Left Friday afterschool and returned Sunday after skiing. Stayed at the Windham Arms hotel...that was my first big mountain skiing!!!

Nice root...windham really isn't that far from you.

Really I saw no guns on the webcam this AM. Justo are u up there today? Nothing on blues website about that.

Yeah I think we were a little optimistic as the forecast a week ago showed alot of snowmaking chances. I doubt razors will be open until early to mid January. Hopefully they can get razors open in time for all the junior and collegiate races. I don't know if you know but Razors is the premier racing run in the mid Atlantic.

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119 days that season. I've been slacking on the reports. Lately I've been writing them on my drive home from blue at all the red lights on 145.

You should hit Blue in the spring. Maybe it will be free again for passholders from other areas. Haven't seen you at Blue since 2006. I remember you saying you like my reports...that's what I like to hear...I love having my already giant ego inflated!!!

TNT not that horrible...50 and rain for the Lehigh valley on XMAS eve but blue is always closed on XMAS anyway...I think they'll survive with the current terrain open if they can blow several hours the next two nights. If you think back to two years ago they were only open one weekend on vista chair only and didnt reopen till after XMAS again vista chair only. If it was in the 60s with rain for multiple days it would be the true death blow...finish him...that I was talking about yesterday. Wow just wow and last weekend with the snowmaking cannons blasting on razors we were talking about the possibility of it opening for this weekend. Forecasts change!!!! Last year I recall Blue being near 100% open at XMAS. They blew so much the first half of December that any rain and warmth hardly put a dent in the base. I've skied icy conditions in Vermont way more than in PA...Vermont is notorious for rain storms followed by flash freezes. When we get rain it's usually still above freezing for awhile after.

Mid December weather has nothing to do with how late local ski areas stay open...if they can blow alot in January and February and march isn't crazy warm they'll be fine. If not we'll all be playing golf by St. Patrick's day. I don't remember you being big on spring skiing. Wow just wow poconoOceanCity you haven't skied later than February in PA since 2009...you are an early season warrior though lol I love top ten stats.

Looks like they'll be able to blow tonight and tomorrow night!!!! The snow could be silky!!!

The trend continues. It was supposed to go down to the high 20s but is in the mid 30s...no snowmaking. Lets try again tonight.

Hey all, After four fall weeks of skiing its finally winter on Sunday. I plan to end fall and begin winter skiing the best mountain within 15 minutes of Sheetz. Anybody else gonna be at Blue mountain the true mountain? Will likely be fairly light crowds as alot of people are in holiday mode. The temperature will drop nicely by Saturday morning and I'm expecting a full on assault from the snowmaking cannons. Low 20s Saturday morning has me SMHerman!! Partly sunny sky's both Saturday and sunday with calm winds is nice!!! Ski u later!!!!

I think lower main would be better starting from a dead stop. I hit it with a little too much speed and got bucked a little till I got left which was smoother.

I don't even know what carboys of beer are lol. Darn kids with their jazzy new age slang...gosh

Nice you hitting Blue at all between now and then??

Time to book jackson hole now!!! Anyway you're rich you can't take that $$$$ with you so spend it.

Nice...I need me some Razors, nightmare to Dreamweaver and Switchback!!!! Sort of blows for the ski areas who are gonna lose millions XMAS week.

moe ghoul you going back up north after the holidays??

The only reason I skied lazy more than once was for the falls!!!! If you like skiing double black diamonds..it's 2.8 seconds of heart pumping thrills!!!

As long as it continues to stay overcast the temperatures aren't gonna drop much overnight...the forecast for today went from mostly sunny to partly sunny and its like 100% cloudy right now. Tonight is supposed to be mostly cloudy and low of 27 for the Lehigh valley..this morning it was supposed to go down to 29 and went down to 35ish. A disturbing trend. Moderate winds aren't helping drop the temperatures overnight either. We need clear sky's and calm winds for maximum radiational cooling. I don't ever remember such a cloudy period. I think I've worn my sunglasses once out of my ten days skiing this season in the parking lot or driving up.

Blue also blew on razors but it will all melt this afternoon and top 2/3 of paradise. Blue is way more agressive with snowmaking than Jack Frost and I'm sure a much larger budget.

Hey all, I'm back from a quick session at Blue mountain the true mountain. It was 37 degrees at 1130am when I pulled into the lower lot and there were only a few dozen cars but the lower lot is still season passholders only. Alot of people pulling into the lower lot and then turning around and going up to the summit lodge. A small amount of snow was blown on Razors, Paradise and Lazy Mile in the early morning hours. First run I skied Paradise and it was pretty smooth and winter like on the top 2/3 and only a few people. Bottom third was choppy semi springlike and lots of people. Homestretch definitely didnt set up and was slushy. Lower paradise and parts of homestretch are getting thin. Lazy mile wasnt that good..pretty choppy and boarders all over the place. Usually weekdays are mostly mellow old people wearing fartbags and skiing on 15 year old Rossi bandits and Salomen x-screams and while they were out there were alot of young boarders out probably cause most colleges are on winter break. Everybody I talked to was out for their first day. A shame as conditions were NPG not particularly good. Rodney and his MILFs were out hanging out at the perch, making bird noises and parking lot pimping. Main Street was chop city probably the worst kind of spring snow. Not corn or slush just stuff sludge..with boilerplate on the lower left. I didn't ski the bumps. I ended up skiing paradise the most as it was most pleasent. When I left at 1ish it was still 37 degrees and the predicted sunshine never materialized. Lets all hope it gets real cold tonight and especially tomorrow night so blew can blow a d the sludge can set up. I'll take icy death and sticky new manmade over thick sludge.