rgrwilco
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55 minutes ago, JFskiDan said:
For me its the plain and simple fact i get to ski every weekend, its an easy commute from either direction, and the totally bizarre group i get to do it with.
Of course i cant find it now, but i just saw a pic of Whitetail resort, and it definetly will make you appreciate Blues snowmaking. Granted, the temps are probably a tic lower than blues, but yikes. look at thier webcams. if i was them i would point them at the scrapple shack.
Here's a live view of whitetail. I think their climate is significantly warmer than blue. Many times the temps are the same at whitetail as they are in south jersey. I only know this because of the one year whitetail was on the peak pass and I was waiting until the snow was decent to get there.
Blue is a fantastic option very close to philly. Its priced fairly too.
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Sounds like a clusterfuck. Hopefully when ownership changes this can be put behind them. It seems that having a place like the VOFS at the base should be a benefit. You would have to imagine that most people at VOFS bought in due to elk being there, and elk is leaving a ton of pass sales on the table. Looking at the maps it looks like there could even be a trail cut down to the village with a lift.
Elk management just looks like idiots.
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4 minutes ago, JFskiDan said:
Oh, really? Huntah?
aw c'mon man. Didn't you hear? you can have an EPICTM time at hunter, its like skiing on the cross bronx expressway, with a longer drive!
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https://www.firsttracksonline.com/2013/05/15/pennsylvania-ski-resort-loses-lawsuit-over-water/
I don't think they can ban someone from buying a season pass because of where they live. No further info could be found.
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Did you tell the lifty about your experience? They probably had no idea they were in the presence of greatness since most people that ski and ride left boulder after vail neutered it.
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That trail is super flat, but the real tragedy is what they did to timberline. It used to be a nice narrow winding trail, now its just a trail.
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Its a fundraiser for the ski for Colin charity.
https://www.elkskier.com/events/ski-for-colin/
Its a bit interesting how you get the tickets, but you call/text the number listed there (I texted and got a response, none when I called) and the dude on the line reserves a ticket for you, and you pick it up at their booth in the lodge.
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Ive always been intrigued by saddlebacks above treeline stuff. Not much photo/video of it out there. Saddleback looks incredible. Maybe next year I will finally get there. The year I had a trio actually planned, they closed.
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11 hours ago, abe said:
That's pretty interesting, I didn't know that. I've wondered driving by along 322 through all those mountains and hiking in the area why the ski area isn't on one of the larger hills. Now I know why. This seems like the general idea as I tried to picture it from those maps:
Another 900ft vert area in the state would be a nice thing to have. Add that to that list with the 1200ft thompsontown area along the juniata just past duncannon and the 1200ft area up by tunkhannock past scranton as places that I really wish had materialized.
Out of all the huge mountains in the middle area of the state... we get Tussey Mountain and Blue Knob as ski areas. Which is not to knock on them at all but you wonder what could have been
North mountain out by ricketts glen had plans for a 1400 foot drop, same with miller mountain in tunkhannock. PA could have been the alps of the mid Atlantic /s.
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Looks like a fun time.
Fun fact: Tussey was actually a much taller ski area on the other side of the gap, but was relocated to this location. The prior spot had 900 feet of vert.
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Big boulder opened today. They tied their opening day with a ski area in Alabama. Great job vail.
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Lift tickets are also only 40 bucks Monday though Wednesdays. Free rentals if you get there before 3pm. I did this a few years back. It was fun to switch to try skiing again for no extra cost for a handful of runs.
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Blue is certainly coming out swinging this year. I should have bought a pass. Next year it is happening for sure. The snowmaking cloud in the valley this morning is quite the sight.
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Its crazy that Boulder almost always opened first in PA, then vail comes in and now they aren't even a contender. Hell, blue fucking knob, the resort that runs off of redneck farts and fishing twine opened before boulder.
Hopefully the park crew/groomers that worked at boulder park will start making parks elsewhere. I don't ride much park anymore, but when I did, the geometry and design of their jumps were incredible compared to everywhere else.
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14 hours ago, Ski2Live Live2Ski said:
So with the new lift not yet up I guess the only way to really do Burma will be Tuts-Connector-Burma-Shuttle-Homestretch.
If Lazy Mile is really a mile, that's gotta be close to 2 miles.
And it's gonna be a traverse over to the top lot unless you ride Vista
extremely close to two miles.
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1 minute ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
I don’t think Jack Frost has a market for night skiing. Are they trying to open JFBB Friday?
I haven't been in a while, but when frost closed for the day, there was always a substantial line of cars heading to boulder. That was back when boulder did not open midweek until 3pm. Not sure what the hours and everything are now.
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Pretty cool video showing the changes at JFBB. They did more than just replacing a ton of lifts.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1311420689606791
(facebook account not needed to watch)
Hopefully vail will install lights at jack frost. Having to drive from one to another for night riding is stupid.
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15 hours ago, toast21602 said:
Nothing is as sketchy as the Long Haul lift at Montage with the John Deere and International engine parts in there scattered all over that run the thing occasionally.
I’ll take the long haul over the doubles at blue knob. I’m pretty sure they just let the local meth head run on a human hamster wheel for a free season pass to power those things. Not to mention I think the haul ropes needed to be shortened years back, so much slack and bounce even when not loaded.
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On 11/3/2022 at 12:41 PM, JFskiDan said:
of course i am intrigued by the big sno cone maker, but honestly it looks like a really expensive, possibly impractical toy. it will be interesting to follow along.
It seems strange that spring would buy something like that, especially when their lifts look like they are about to collapse. I wonder if it's just to fill patches between snowmaking weather?
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10 hours ago, mbike-ski said:
If its a Hall chair I'd be interested in the plastic seats if your chucking them
Its a borvig, but you can have it.
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33 minutes ago, liplipliplip said:
I grabbed one of the boulder chairs we had talked about last year. Stripped it down to bare metal, sealed it with a rust inhibiting primer, and then painted it with a few rattle cans. I "dumpster dove" for replacement fiberglass seats (not included with the bb chairs) at the abandoned Tamiment Resort which has a wrecked Hall lift from the same era.
Some advice:
- Those fuckers have a TON of paint on them, at least 20 layers. Citra-strip was as effective as throwing sand at the tide, would recommend mechanical means of removing the paint, either media blasting or grinding, a flap disk on a grinder worked for me but expect to go through a few.
- If you detach the chair body from the hanger arm, or the restraint bar from the chair body, reassemble everything before painting. Otherwise you'll scratch the shit out of everything.
- If you do plan on separating the chair and the hanger, cutting the bolts is probably the way to go. There's so much paint in the threads of the bolts that it's nearly impossible to unscrew the nut, even with a ton of paint stripping.
I plan on using a steel wire disk on an angle grinder. The hanger on my chair looks to also be welded to the chair as well as bolted, so that should be fun.
im not sure I want to remove the hanger or not. It will be easier to turn into a swing chair without it, but it will probably be more stable with it.
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Spring mountain made snow today.
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3 hours ago, mbike-ski said:
how did this work out?
I got the chair sitting in my backyard. Plan to strip the layers of paint, seal it from rust, replace the plastic seating pads with wood, and paint it over the next couple weekends if the weather holds.
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Big Boulder, once home to the longest season in PA, closing this weekend.
in Jack Frost & Big Boulder
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-Closing with the best conditions of the season.
-JF still open, we will see for how long.
-Aside from western PA, This will make Jack frost the only EPICtm resort open in eastern and southern PA.
-Blue is making snow at lower elevation and in a warmer climate while big boulder closes.