C1erArt Posted December 6, 2025 Report Posted December 6, 2025 Headed up to JF this morning for an hour of skiing before the trail got too crowded. Good snow conditions on One Park. A few small features on the top third, but you could open up your turns after that. Skied from opening at 8:30, started getting a little crowded about 9:15, and left a little after than when a lift line started. Had my Carv batteries charged today, unlike yesterday. Carv app totally changed for this year. Looks like good improvements. 1
C1erArt Posted December 29, 2025 Author Report Posted December 29, 2025 (edited) Skied with the grandkids and family. Conditions were pretty good, although a few trails on the east side were still not open. Fairly crowded, everyone having a good time. Would have been nice if both lifts on the beginner side were staffed instead of just one at a time - 10 minute lift lines. Edited December 29, 2025 by C1erArt 3 1
C1erArt Posted December 30, 2025 Author Report Posted December 30, 2025 We were at Big Boulder for the previous post. Staff very friendly, and there were a ton of instructors on the west side, and the race team had whiskers on half of the Big Boulder trail. 2
JFskiDan Posted December 30, 2025 Report Posted December 30, 2025 2 hours ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said: Is Floyd’s open yet?
Ski2Live Live2Ski Posted December 30, 2025 Report Posted December 30, 2025 Prefer Rivershot also not open yet
Ski2Live Live2Ski Posted December 30, 2025 Report Posted December 30, 2025 But they did post photos of snowmaking on RS 🙂
C1erArt Posted December 31, 2025 Author Report Posted December 31, 2025 Exhibition and Thunderbolt also not open. Apparently they are in no great rush to open slopes.
trackbiker Posted December 31, 2025 Report Posted December 31, 2025 44 minutes ago, C1erArt said: Exhibition and Thunderbolt also not open. Apparently they are in no great rush to open slopes. That seems to be the case at all of the Fail resorts. Way behind the competition in a year with great early snowmaking weather. But then they already have your money. 1
JFskiDan Posted December 31, 2025 Report Posted December 31, 2025 2 hours ago, C1erArt said: Exhibition and Thunderbolt also not open. Apparently they are in no great rush to open slopes. They did it last year too, and probably the year before. they have one speed for snowmaking (slow) after they open onepark, frosty, and what ever other little green trails they open with. Even when Peak would open BB first, more often then not JF was 100% for this week. Frost isnt that big. i doubt they have any constraints with water since they pull from the crick. December has been great for snowmaking. they could be 100% if they wanted to. 2 1
EdBacon Posted December 31, 2025 Report Posted December 31, 2025 People have given a bunch of explanations (excuses) like they can only pull so much water from the Lehigh River (or Tobyhanna Creek, not sure where the intake is exactly) but none of those things ever seemed to be an issue pre-Vail. I did hear that Vail got rid of a lot of their snowmaking equipment because it was old and they just didn't want to use it. More likely Vail will not staff up to run lots of old snowguns, but they also won't install a new automated system that could save on manpower so who knows. Anyways, proof is in the pudding. 1 1
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted January 1 Report Posted January 1 We are in a drought here people cut them some slack. Also anybody hear from @Robert2 he was discussed earlier on the lift. @C1erArt might know.
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted January 1 Report Posted January 1 We are in a drought here people cut them some slack. Also anybody hear from @Robert2 he was discussed earlier on the lift. @C1erArt might know. he hasn’t post in 11 years 1
C1erArt Posted January 1 Author Report Posted January 1 20 hours ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said: We are in a drought here people cut them some slack. Also anybody hear from @Robert2 he was discussed earlier on the lift. @C1erArt might know. he hasn’t post in 11 years Very sad news I’m afraid. Looks like he lived his best life, which is what we can all hope for. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/tnonline/name/robert-roomberg-obituary?id=53305992 1 1 3
Johnny Law Posted January 2 Report Posted January 2 RIP...... damn 63 if you had asked based on his posts I'd have said 163
toast21602 Posted January 3 Report Posted January 3 Damn. I think we all figured this was the case. Dude was super unique and seems like a pretty legit guy overall. RIP.
Icecoast Posted January 3 Report Posted January 3 On 12/31/2025 at 5:40 PM, EdBacon said: People have given a bunch of explanations (excuses) like they can only pull so much water from the Lehigh River (or Tobyhanna Creek, not sure where the intake is exactly) but none of those things ever seemed to be an issue pre-Vail. I did hear that Vail got rid of a lot of their snowmaking equipment because it was old and they just didn't want to use it. More likely Vail will not staff up to run lots of old snowguns, but they also won't install a new automated system that could save on manpower so who knows. Anyways, proof is in the pudding. I saw a video on youtube of the park at JF this season. It made me want to cry. It was like 3 ride on features at the top, and the rest of the trail had no features. Vail is garbage and ruined JFBB. It's clear they don't care about anything in the east other than mount snow and hunter. But the situation at JFBB still isnt as bad as whats going on at whitetail. what a shit show. 2 1
Ski2Live Live2Ski Posted January 7 Report Posted January 7 (edited) They are also doing a good job at Roundtop, Okemo, Stowe Edited January 7 by Ski2Live Live2Ski 1 1
C1erArt Posted January 9 Author Report Posted January 9 (edited) Decided to treat myself to an end of week cool down at Frost. Good conditions, very light crowd up until 11:30 or so, a little fluff on top, but even the hard base layer held an edge. Glad to see Tbolt was open even though the website said it wasn’t. Challenge and river shot were nice, although the east side of East Mountain is completely untouched (most guns over there don’t even have hoses run to them) and I wouldn’t be surprised if Vail management doesn’t open it this season. The challenge lift wasn’t running as per usual for weekdays, so you had to make the trek over to East Mountain to ski Challenge or T bolt. Overall, a nice mellow morning. Bumped up my Carv season high by one whole point. Repeated post-run Carv advice today to ski steeper slopes 😁 Edited January 9 by C1erArt 3
Ski2Live Live2Ski Posted January 9 Report Posted January 9 (edited) Gonna try to hit JF tomorrow morning before it rains a bunch in the PM and likely freezes up Sat Nt Will be my first time there this Skison. Finally worth the trip with the beautiful view Rivershot trail open. Edited January 9 by Ski2Live Live2Ski 1
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted January 9 Report Posted January 9 5 minutes ago, C1erArt said: The grass on it was pretty brown. This rain and a little sunshine and tru green chem lawn will have that grass fluorescent 1
Kyle Posted January 10 Report Posted January 10 5 hours ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said: This rain and a little sunshine and tru green chem lawn will have that grass fluorescent TruGreen does my lawn, and it’s fluorescent green in January BUT I have not see a rabbit or squirrel in my yard in months….so solid trade off 😂 2
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