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BB early season is a tradition at this point, just like roughly 2-3 weeks of upper lot at blue. it would be kind of depressing to not start and end the season at BB. plus, my 3-4 BB trips per year are really the only time i exerperience the poconos. blue is techinically in the poconons by like 100 yards, but culturally it is not the poconos

don't be the new doug

im going through this week with plans to snowboard in PA this weekend

I might. If there are a few PASR's going, i can ride the worlds slowest lift and ski the trail with the least vert in the world. i dont think an opening this weekend would be as stupid crowded as an opening on black friday. Plus, if they do actually make the friday opening, i would owe Toast his aggressive hand shake, or whatever it was we bet.

big boulder openings always get you so pissy

I think initial production is always going to be difficult because the ground still has a lot of residual heat that the new snow has to overcome. This is why I don't understand Blue's methodology, since they have the capacity to blow, why don't they at least try to get something down to help cool the ground and begin insulating that cold ground even if there's some rain in the forecast. Many of the guns are automated, so even if the temp/dew point is marginal, the system will take care of making the decision. All they need to do is fire up the pumps and compressors and the system will do the rest.

You have better self control than me. Hard for me to go more than an hour without checking PASR

I take a long weekend away from here and Boom, we actually start talking about snow. I'm getting pumped!

ill be at boulder on sunday

2-4” forecast for Allentown Thursday....bring it on..even though there aren’t any ski slopes open to enjoy it on.

You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant . . . Plus the Mayflower episode of Schoolhouse Rock

Hotel lyfe and Uber driver? You be rollin...

Judging by the eagles logo under theprogram4's screen name I doubt if he misses many eagles games.

There are currently 12 or so Christmas stations playing on Sirius XM now.

Yeah because he thinks he is too good for it, while the rest of us are out there enjoying ourselves. See you there, TP4!

I find I’m so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head.

HIGH FIVE.

that's what the lift rides are for

If the temps hold on Wednesday and Thursday, they could have two days with pretty close to around the clock snowmaking. I think they’ve got this...

DM sent.

Can 12 hrs of snowmaking get wiped out by an inch of rain? i dont know, but i would think they have to factor that in. i really curious as to what Freedom looks like on Tuesday after the rain. lets circle back to this tomorrow afternoon. Maybe its just me, or an optical illusion, but not super impressed with 2 nights production. I think they will need wednesdays temps to stay in the snow zone so they get a good 24 hrs or so on this.

I agree. The original lows were projected at 31, but it hit that at 8 last night and was 24 this morning when I woke up. Could have gotten another 12 hours in addition to what they will get later this week.

Maybe they didn’t think the temperature would get so cold overnight. They should have taken advantage of the cold night. When there’s frost on the pumpkins there’s should be snowmaking cannons firing

Just went out and harvested the sweet potatoes

They will announce Tuesday that they are opening Friday at 3.

Boulder might be blowing on more than just freedom. the webcams show snow on top of big boulder lodge. Thats a long way for snow to travel from freedom. Maybe RideDE? called them.

Patience young jedi, skiing is a marathon not a sprint

No need to stay a BB until 3:00 anyway.

Welcome back guitar! While I've only been here 1 year and 2 days I notice everyone comes out of the woodwork this time of year. Now all we need is EAF.

Keep the Big Boulder pictures out of here.