All Activity

If you like to camp there’s a nice spot behind the cliff in the video. Mount Pisgah behind North st in Jim Thorpe is our go to spot for overlooks.

Awesome views from there. All around Lehigh gorge actually has some of the best overlooks in the area.

That was a good read. The Hobacks at Jackson hole was created due to a fire. I actually just paid fire insurance for work..

My father-in-law used to live across the river from that spot. I would stand on his front porch many days and look at all the potential ski lines. When the D&L trail went in I was pretty excited of the possibility of skinning up to that point. I hiked (crawled) it a couple times. There’s a 10’ high rock spine with pine trees on both sides that went up in flames last night. In February if 2014 there was finally enough snow. My niece wanted to go but the day before she cracked a vertebrae at Blue and canceled.A couple hours later she called me back and asked if I had a backpack, so I carried her stuff, She’s one bad ass girl! We started at Weissport at 10 am and skinned up 2.5 miles and after a rest at the observation platform attempted to skin up but kick turns were difficult so we figured out if we put our back against a tree it was possible. The snow was perfect but we waisted a fair amount of vertical before figuring out how to ski it. I didn’t know at the time that one of my friends had 20 acres on the north side so now it’s a half hour skin up. I’ve hiked it a couple times with my son One really cool place! I’m thinking arson off the D&L after looking at the two places early on . IMG_0543.mov

Phone only here

I guess the majority of people consume media on the their phones these days, but I still think vertical video sucks.

Sad. I've rode by it a bunch of times but never stopped to check it out. Was up that way yesterday and the smoke was thick and impossible to miss. Up to 600 acres as of last night and yesterday's wind wasn't helping it slow down.

I didn’t even know that was there. Damn

Found a picture of my FIL in front. Latest word it’s done.

The one on the D&L trail a mile south of Jim Thorpe. No rain in the forecast and moderate winds the next couple days.

Which observation deck? The one up on flagstaff or the 100 mile view? Either way this sucks. Lots of homes near there. You can smell it up this way.

Rt209 shutdown though Packerton . The observation deck on the East side of the river is in danger.

Jim Thorpe fire, A Bc ski line of mine. Lots of big rocks. Photo from Justin Selig storm chaser.

Good to hear I heard during the monsoons it was raining men and your sister Jaya Singhvi was in heaven…rumor has it around Gulmarg hill station and the Tobyhanna Dunkin’ Donuts that her goat curry and rice brings all the boys to the yard..

I know…crazy. My daughter said she might head up today. If it keeps snowing you never know, could be open when you go. I think may 5th or something is around there is officially the closing date, but that could change. Crazy that they’re pushing 200 inches when they were in a drought the first 4 months of the season.

Snowing again. I’ll be out in mid May but I doubt they’ll be open.

Hi I didn’t read the article…back when I was 25 I skied as fast as I could even 30…now I wanna make it to the next ski day..enjoy myself…between a hard head on collision I had with a 5th grader (both of our faults) and just being older more risk averse I’ve dialed it back and I have a blast everyday I ski and I’ll pussyfoot down blue mountain and Jackson hole black diamonds if unsure of conditions..survival skiing..I used to not give two shits about conditions just send it…and I can say all that but some days things just click and I have a lot of extra spring in my step and let em run more…I know this last Jackson hole trip cause I was down 15-20 pounds from prior year I had a lot more giddy-up for 2-3 hours till I ran out of steam. As long as he’s slowing down for the slow zones.

Well, if you read the article, he says he confined himself THIS YEAR to chair 4 and selected a route based on conditions, crowds, etc. I think it was a choice of 3 or 4 possibles but then the same all day. I did ride chair 2 with him once because 4 had a delayed start. I know otherwise the runs he probably used are the ones I generally avoid because of nuts like him. Fred Frost, much quoted in the article, and now 83, skis everywhere. In the past, when he was usually in the top 5, he even went off piste in trees. Hopefully this guy got it out of his system. They put up tons of signs this year about skiing too fast. I'm sure it was him. In the past, they didn't give a shit. They would say they did, but only occasionally pulled passes after collisions, no signage. Certainly no policing.

I’ll have to dig up my old stats but in high school I’d ski 7:30-5 at blue with a lunch break and usually be in the 50s or 60s. I beat 70k at Stowe before 7:30-4. Biggest day since I joined PASR was 61,000 at Jackson hole 1/25/07 and that was a 9-4 day with lunch break and I had spaghetti at the Casper lodge. A lot of runs that day off the gondola, 10 minutes up and under three minutes down 2800 vert mostly straight down Sundance gully and that’s not when I was afraid to haul ass.

And with a lot of vert/lift. It would take 14 hours to get 84k vert at Blue.

You can only pull that off at a place that’s uncrowded.

84k+ a day average 🤯

That is insane. I bet he doesn’t ride certain lifts or ski certain runs because he’ll lose vert. I’ve stopped caring and and half my ski days out west seem to be pow days and then it’s total quality over quantity and groomer days you rack up 20k in 3 hours.

more on the guy. https://flatheadbeacon.com/2025/04/17/vertical-feat-how-a-retired-school-teacher-smashed-big-mountains-boldest-skiing-record