rgrwilco
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Only the old heads will know this place. I wonder if anyone here has actually skied it when it was open. Clue: the lodge is still open.
Cove village?
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No idea why would you buy a condo next to the crappiest ski area in the pocono is beyond me...Blue needs to get into the condo game. We were talking about the PASR condo at Blue the other day in the lot.
Wasn’t blue going to build condos, a hotel, a water park, and a new trail?
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How much longer until they shut down BB and just keep JF?
Man that would piss a lot of people off who own condos and homes around Boulder.
But then again vails business model is pissing people off and somehow still getting their money.
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Woah. Good stuff! I need a split next season,especially after seeing this report.
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Frost, when good, is good. It seemed like every year up until 2016 I as riding trees there.
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I would put whiteface and gore in the big leagues. 3k of actual vert vs killingtons 3k of cross country.
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Stolen from Reddit.
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I lost weight and this thing is a bit big for me. In really good condition. Looking for 200.
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Any local areas on the Indy pass?? I know Greek peak is on it.
Greek, catamount, blue knob, Shawnee, magic,
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My experiences last year were enough to turn me anti vail. This just solidifies it. Glad I went with the Indy pass.
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Tanglewood?
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I’m split on my feelings. While I liked Boulder park, I just feel that an entire mountain dedicated to park, with Boulder being the only night skiing option between the two, didn’t make much sense. It was always a stupid decision to have to leave frost and head to Boulder to keep riding after dark. It adds traffic congestion, more emissions, not to mention just having to drive in ski boots.
I wonder if lights will be added to frost, and frosts park upgraded. I think the Boulder park trail is still the best option between the two for a large jump line but that’s really about it. The two hills should have been operated separately from each other as independent places. Sure, under the same ownership is fine, but pretending Boulder was just other trails on frosts backside is stupid. They aren’t that close.
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Everyone says that, but I'm still skeptical. Aside from a sandwich with fries on it, and an inclined railway that is supposedly cool, what is there to really do there? Just seems like a nicer Scranton. There is stuff there, but nothing particularly noteworthy and it's awkwardly far (too close to fly too long to want to drive).
Kennywood
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Technically you can ride trees at Blue but let's be honest...does a few turns on Blue Baumer before ducking out count as riding trees?
Let me rephrase then...
I can go to many hills in PA that get dog shit for snow, that have some sort of marked glades.
Elk generally gets snow needed for a hill in pa to have some marked glades, and it sure as hell has the terrain for it, yet it’s not allowed.
Kind of like snorkeling being illegal in Florida where the water is clear, but jersey beaches allowing it.
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My grandparents used to live out by tunkhannock and there was always a few inches of base throughout winter. There were even a few old ski areas that we would hike. Maybe a few hundred feet of vert, but it was still awesome. Miller Mountain now has a giant well mowed gas pipeline cut going up, across, and down it. I’ve been eying it up since they cut it a few years back. It’s 1500 vertical feet, not steep but it appears to have the same grade as some blue or green trails with some steeper headwalls.
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I feel like the area that size in south jersey could make it nowadays. Tons of small Midwest hills still in business. A couple cold nights with fan guns could bury a hill that size for the season. The location for holly is too far out, but you used to be able to see ski mountain from the Walt Whitman bridge. Especially with terrain parks being popular.
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The wissahickon club got hit by a tornado a couple years ago and some trees fell onto the lift. I don’t think they did any repairs.
As for holly mountain, its just a few miles from Salem. I checked the place out a few years ago, but you can barely tell anything was there. Even flew a drone over the place and the trails are barely visible. The top terminal for the lift is still there.
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With the crowds they get you don’t need to rent it out.
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Saw ticket on Liftopia for 30 bucks, so I bought it. My usual day trips have been to hunter, so i figured whats an extra 20 minutes. It was completely worth it, and If I’m riding the Catskills in the future, I’m going here.
The Catskills always seemed to have winter, even when the poconos did not. There wasn’t any snow on the ride up, except for higher elevations in the Catskills. I’m always wowed by the view of the Catskills when they first come into sight on the thruway.
There only a coating of snow on the ground as i got near Belleayre, but cover looked good up high. After Belleayre, its super rural and i barely saw any cars on the road. As i got closer to Plattekill, there was more and more snow on the ground.
When you get to the mountain, you realize its pretty much the perfect place to have a ski area, geographically speaking. In terms of getting customers there, thats a challenge. But it’s sheltered front he wind, and holds snow super well.
It looked a bit smaller than the 1000ft vert, but the ski tracks app supports the 1k, and the lack of runout is amazing. to me it felt the perfect size.
Conditions were great. The main face trails were half groomed with fresh snow on the sides. There was plenty of untracked pow on the intermediate trails as I don’t think the locals give them much traffic.
Blockbuster was my favorite trail of the day. The expert trails from afar may look boring and straight, but the terrain is very interesting. I could easily spend an entire day here and not get bored. The lifts don’t even feel that slow as the ride time isn’t too long since its steeper. If anyone is going to the Catskills, I recommend passing all the other hills and check this place out.
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Greek peak is great and western ny can get some good snow when it’s bare at other spots
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Good point. Campgaw has not much more vertical (240 vs 160), has more expensive tix (good for a longer time, but how long do people spend somewhere this size), is further from NYC and is generally gonna have worse weather and conditions.
The main thing Campgaw would seem to have going for it as a differentiator is snow tubing (kind of surprised they did not include tubing at Big Snow).
Campgaw also has some longer windier trails off the side and from the YouTube videos I looked up a pretty good park. I might have to stop on the way home from hunter one day for a few turns just in case.
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I wonder how much longer campgaw will stay open. Their demographic is people in the city and urban nj areas looking for an easy place to learn, and big snow seems poised to capture those people.
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Catamount still has some available. Not sure if they are getting snow though.
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