Schif

I felt like a rockstar cruising on Easy Out and Vista. Almost like I actually had a clue as to what I was doing. Wound up doing some quick back thinking in my head and realized it was only the 3rd time I had ever put skis on. Did that for 4 quick runs and got bored so I made the tremendous mistake of heading down Midway to Lower Main Street. Midway wasn't terrible, but also wasn't great. I tended to get freaked out when I picked up too much speed so I made exceptionally slow and deliberate turns using the whole trail. When I got down to Main Street and the snow turned into the equivalent of white caps I just had to hold on for the ride, which was again exceptionally slow. I took a lot of breaks, tipped over twice, realized I don't really know how to stand up on a pitch wearing skis, and worked up a sweat just trying to keep myself from shooting off the side of the trail. Long story short, if I'm going relatively slowly on flat snow, I can almost kind of seem like I know what I'm doing. When it gets choppy/sloppy it all falls apart. I had to actively tell myself (I think out loud twice) to get out of the back seat and my ability to use more than one ski at a time for turning is almost non existent.

1.6 Kilometers of sweet sweet blue square for me to try on skis this Sunday.

Did they get it inspected this year?

That's a shame. Some good times to be had up there.

Long Haul is great because it gives you time to enjoy a quality beer, and sometimes a snack. Also it's about as far from anything else as possible so it's extremely peaceful. Though at night when there aren't many people there in general and you don't see anyone on the trails near you, and no one is on a chair in front of or behind you it gets fairly eerie.

If I still lived up there this would be a no brainer.

Snowboards are Rad. You should totally get one or two.

I had a good experience at the Tent sale. Dealt with a really great guy at the KOP location. But yeah, prices otherwise are through the roof and I doubt I'll ever shop there other than the tent sale.

We definitely need to know more about the Canoe Cowboy....

I'm equal parts excited and scared. I've never parked in the top lot.

I cannot imagine having the time in any given day to dig deep back in year old powder threads just to post inane things.

I'm waxing up the old shred sticks and chilling the beer. See you guys Saturday.

They were probably taking their union mandated day off.

I'm pretty sure skiing is 80% philosophy.

Anyone with a modicum of common sense and at least $100 in a checking account lives outside of Wilkes-Barre's city limits. Scranton isn't bad, there are some nice sections but the taxes are crushing if you live/work there to pay for pensions. Both cities shut down relatively early, of course there are some bars downtown in both and near the colleges you'll find stuff that's open late but it's not a lot and it's usually just weekends.

Based on how often it was robbed my friends used to call that place the Stab n Grab

Kings or Wilkes?

Wilkes-Barre township is more commercial than the city of Wilkes-Barre. The township encompasses multiple shopping centers, the mall, and the arena. The city is mostly residential with the exception of the downtown area that has public square and the two colleges.

Giant's Despair is cool. They do a hill climb every year there. Back in the day apparently it was pretty big with old school race car drivers.

Rofo is expensive but worth it. right now though they are running a special where you get 8 pieces for $8.

I had Royal Farms chicken as my birthday dinner last night.....

Unless it's presented to me in an infographic, or tweet length paragraph I have no ability to learn things so let's keep all this "science" to a minimum around here.

Brilliant.

Fiestas blow my mind. It's as if someone said, "Boy this Focus is just too damn big and roomy, are we making cars for giants now? Let's take it down a notch."

I got some things. Not sure why there are two of them, guess one is a spare.