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12/31: Nice New Years Eve day at Belle with Mrs SnowBunSki, hero snow maybe 10’ish runs open. Nice to ski something steepish Yup it Is the CATsklills after all Happy New Year !

You never bring snacks on the hill?

March is when the Texans hit CO hard too I think. Edit...first PASR post in 2022! Happy new year!

Yes. See you there.

Hopefully heading out 1/19 for an extended stay. They got about 8 feet in 10 days.

I just read that Crested Butte put a sign up saying they are trying to hire liftees, but in the meantime, the extreme terrain is now open if you hike to it.

Is that a fucking cat in the bag?

The instagram account epicliftlines posts daily updates from around vails properties as well as employee complaints, etc. Apparently vail forgot to sign off on employees pay slips, so their checks are late, but they are being hounded to pay their employee housing rent. So the person who so demanding money, forgot to pay them money. The sad thing is this isn’t even the worst lift line they have posted. Not even close. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This is why the Vail buy up of all these resorts is such a bad thing for skiers. The amount of Vail apology letters for NE resorts i have seen online is Epic. And its the same letter, just like a mad lib where it says " (Enter Mountain Name Here) " Funny thing is JFBB seems to be chugging along through all of this ok, but lets face it, locally, there arent many great jobs in the area. It might be a different scene at JFBB once they get more terrain open and need to man more lifts. we will see. I still dont think they are opening tubing at JFBB. Why? who the fuck knows. its a license to print money. If they just opened BB for tubing only, they would still make bank. This kinda seems to be the norm at most of their resorts.....not enough employees, running too few lifts....etc. https://www.change.org/p/vail-resorts-hold-vail-resorts-accountable Its really ashame what Vail is doing. it will be interesting to see how Epic pass sales react to this next year. One would think there would be a sharp decline next year.

Wound up at B.East instead of Magic yesterday, as Magic's lift to summit went down 2 hours after it opened the previous day. They had 5 low key runs open all with decent coverage and soft snow that turned to soft bumps by mid day. Delightful spring skiing. Had good weather at Jay on 30th, which had a good bit more open and nice conditions on the groomed runs, but had a good number of runs with thin cover and bare spots counted among open trails, and they were a chore to get down in places. Found a beautiful virtually untouched powdery run that was a highlight, but then required a significant hike to desired lift so we only did it once

Apparently they all went to Alta who has a union and better wages. I don't know if that's true but that is what the local peeps were saying. The ski patrol who eventually came down had no idea the lift wasn't running and 4 lifts never ran. I saw 0 ski patrol on the hill, no lift line people and at most 2 lifties top and bottom, most had one and the head maintenance guy was running Motherlode lift. The obvious answer is throw money at a core contingent of workers but VR is publicly traded and they don't want to show rising labor costs. Most of this week is people spending serious loot to take their family on vacation and if I was one of those people I would be fuck vail too. I don't care because every morning it's been skiing knee deep untracked and Alta got 2 inches in 30 mins like 2hrs ago.

Beltzville starting to get a little movement…

Where have you been? Did you see how many warehouses they are building in the Lehigh Valley? They are all offering over $20/hr. to start plus benefits. Not just warehouses but every business is looking for people and all paying over $20/hr. I don't know what they are paying at JF but at other NE areas they are below the local going rate. If they wanted to get people they would spend a little of the $1.5 billion they have on hand. If people in the Poconos don't want to drive a half hour for more money, you can't fix stupid. Vail is what happens when you let the bean counters who only look at current numbers run things instead of someone who looks at the big picture.

I always look up Dallas and Lubbock school district spring break dates before planning my trips. Usually 2nd week in march.

I don't think this is any kind of revelation but any PASR peeps traveling to VR hills be aware they are hyper short on workers. I was at PCMR today, 15" and shit was pure railing rainbow coke off the finestest of asses but first chair on town lift was 950. They had no ski patrol to do a lift line recon so they couldn't run town lift. None of the 4 lifts from the base were running before 920. The lifty told us they currently have 4 groomers and had all but the base lodge closed for anything other than peeing. They aren't currently grooming Canyons at all and had only the 5 or 6 majors groomed pc all week though I only saw it myself today. Honestly if your a certain type of skiier it's awesome, pow turns everywhere until late in the day and no frills so those people seemed to stay at home. However they were close to not having enough personel to operate and outside of Vail itself I highly doubt this is unique to PCMR. It has been this way all season so far since they got snow and could actually ski. Basically make sure to have snacks in your pockets and be prepared to be chill, shit is fucking wild right now.

Pray to the Church of Powder Day Saints for snow. Please and thank you. Some cold weather and snow would greatly improve my outlook

I always chuckle when it pops up that @indiggiohas liked 10+ things at maybe 5am.

Condition projections have been updated. Says they're open with challenge lift spinning.

Where have i been? Not looking for a fucking job, thats for sure. but you have no fucking idea about people in the poconos around jfbb. They do not want to travel to the lehigh valley for one of your high paying warehouse jobs, i know that for sure.

First thing I thought was I hope they don’t eat it.

I'm off Monday and plan on going full NHL regulation hockey rink Monday am....if they're open.

Blue didn’t announce that they’re closed today on their FB Page until an hour ago. That’s kind of shitty of them.

Happy New Years ! Better weather in the new year is coming

Cloudy with calm winds. Stoke city man.

Hunter is grate! Very rad conditions, basically a 10/10. I got up at 4:30 am to get after it but it's been totally worth it. Not too crowded and grate perd! Current taking a coffee break at the Sonic and eating Captains Wafers and a bernaner, then time to get after it for 2 more hours. Sickbird

A stiff north wind plus lake effect plus orographic lifting and the Kittatinny ridge creates what is know as white magic..aka snow aka frozen droplets intermixed with air combined with candy coated rainbow titty sparkles will have you skiing nipple deep pow pow on widowmaker aka raceway aka shicola chute aka Saltys revenge...it will have your Herman twisted like a pretzel.

I think this year is worse than last. Stores were packed before Christmas, no one wearing a mask. I started wearing a mask when I go to the store again, even though I’m fully vaxed. We are getting a lot of really sick younger folks that need to be admitted to the hospital. Guess what, not vaccinated. And every hospital in the area is packed, people wait in the lobby for HOURS shoulder to shoulder. For really stupid stuff. It’s just amazing to me.

Ugh. So over this weather. God and Jesus, please throw the skiing health care workers a bone. We’re at the end of our ropes.

I think what was left of the snow on Blue is now running down the Aquashicola.

Great! Looking forward to pictures. It’s miserable on the east coast right now.

Scanning PASR is pretty far down on the daily to-do list…

Thank goodness. Might be a small buoy bouncy that brings some V light fluff Thursday night which would be good for stoke, if nothing else.

You wake up at indiggio thirty. From age 12 to 16 I woke up at 520am to do my paper route and I was out the door by 530 and done with my route by 630. If I didn’t set an alarm I’d either wake up at 445am or sometime after it gets light out.

This talk makes me wonder when I set an alarm last.

Is that for real ? A sweet street truck is like a dream. If I could ski and get a dope pie that would be all time

Same here.

I guess I’ll set alarms.

i know the LV encompasses a pretty big area, but 99% of people in the poconos (at least what the visitors bureau considers it to be) would need a helicopter to get to the LV proper in a half hour. hell jfbb to just the atown exit is prob 45 min + toll.

Can backpack plus clicked into skis in the parking lot. That's definitely a family of legit skiers

There was a guy skiing the bumps yesterday stabbing them as hard as he possibly could, but he seemed to be enjoying himself, perhaps taking out some deep-rooted aggression or something. He ended up coming out each time with a big-azz smile. Whatever floats your boat. Thought it was @saltyant the first time I saw him, but then I remembered he doesn't like the bumps...yet.

Yeah, I kept looking last night and nothing. What's up with that?

We'd each get separate rooms or cells just like in the movie.

Chair 5 Tuesday at Vail. Article..Epic crowds collide with labor shortages https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/epic-crowds-collide-with-labor-shortages-at-ski-areas/

Just ski like Salty...do the pocono shuffle.

And ding dongs from MacAdoo

Don’t feed the troll 😈

Sunday night, I'm bringing that cold air back

Ski the bump line we seeded on lower main and partial bumps on midway. Make you smile smile Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Lapping lazy at this point. Snow pic... For stoke

Nah, they didn't make them big enough, so we had to step in.