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You guys are killing it!

Saturday

This is hands down the best trip report of the year so far. Keep on killing it! Major jealousy right now.

Part of me would love a little cabin near Blue. The rest of me doesn't want to buy anything in a bombed out zinc valley. Even if Blue blows up in the next 15 years I find it hard to believe local property values would go up because of it.

The dancing will only slow down and stop when there's some pressure against it. The insanity that is ski ticket prices and the Taylor Swift thing just shows that there's such a gigantic middle/upper middle class in this country with disposable income and all of those people are more interested in being entertained than they are putting that money in the bank. If people weren't paying these prices then they would drop back down, but they are so they won't.

I would love Professor Law to give a talk in the lot one day. Preferably with a PowerPoint. No rules. Just get up there, show what you want and talk about whatever.

When you're up there it looks like you're flying by following things on the ground that you can identify. Is that right? Also when it's time to go home to the airport do you follow landmarks or do you use instruments or a compass?

Glad it's snowing up at Blue. Been pouring rain in Philly for 24 hours now. I hope they get some good temps to turn the guns on too.

A few hours later and you would have been airborne if you skied that line the same way. Most of the place was floaty potatoes with a few deep sugar spots. Ultra rowdy on NMDW. The kind of snow where you need super soft knees and just surf it out. In the snow from 6-8. Cosmic snow tubing looks pretty cool.

I know it's a long shot, but is anyone going up tonight? I'll probably stop for a few runs when I'm leaving NEPA and headed back to Philly

Saturday for sure, Sunday is looking unlikely with an 8:15 start time for the Eagles game.

4 hours for the low economical price of $60 to ski in the rain

Opening remarks? I really hope they hire @Johnny Law as the speech writer for this.

Easy like Sunday morning

Have the armed guard stand under the lift line and yell at people to not drop their cans

Blue is stuck between a rock and a hard place with the trash. You're right, people don't care about the trash can and still drop cans everywhere but it's almost impossible to enforce a rule about people dropping cans and it's also pretty impractical to send someone, or a few people, out to clean that up multiple times per week.

Elk is closing Wednesday. WVIA ski day is being postponed. Blue definitely has some thin spots on some trails but they are likely in better shape than some of the other resorts in PA. I wonder how they are going to hold up.

Good day at Blue and a good day back home on the bike.

What time are they opening midweek this week? The website doesn't make it really clear.

The power outage after dark was really weird. I noticed that the lights in the parking lot were out and then all of a sudden everything but the little pod around the upper lodge and Coming Soon were completely dark. I think the weirdest thing was that while the power was out people weren't turning around to leave. They all just hung out in the corrals and waited to start loading chairs. There's no way I would get on a lift after a power outage, but then again I'm not someone on Christmas Vacation who spent $124 and needs to get every penny's worth out of that ticket.

There's a very good reason the official PASR start time is 8am. The snow was garbage. Interesting to see the place lose power. Very cool sight when I was staring up at the mountain in the dark and all the lights popped on at once. Definitely not something you get to see often.

How do you do 6.5 layers? Good morning out there. Midway to lower main was fun. Snow was fast and grippy. It was cold but honestly not the worst thing in the world.

It's turtleneck time! I'll be there for Saturday and Monday. I'm hoping Santa brings a fire pit or propane heater this Christmas to keep the lot warm. Or, gasp, perhaps a retreat into the bar will be on tap.

Unfortunately the immutable laws of physics contradict the whole premise of your account. Back, and to the left

Serious question about Elk. How's the wifi in the lodge? Are there any spots where I could realistically bring a laptop and take a work call or two? I have a free ticket for Wednesday January 4th but don't want to use a vacation day on Elk when I'll need them for Colorado.