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I took Monday off originally to ski sugarloaf but my lazy ass wanted to take some time off the clock driving home and went to Stratton. From the first run down standard it was perfect, absolutely empty and super smooth perfect corn. Run after run just me and myself harvesting the corn. I ran standard top to bottom 8 or 9 times as the gondy was empty but really everything outside of captain Janeway was 11/10. This was one of the best spring trips I've ever had and I can't remember a better 4 day stretch skiing the east in a long long time. I agree if possible I would like to end my season up there. I fucking despise the end of skiing, I hate when Blue closes and I super hate when my season is getting to an end.......Winter should be 9 months long

My face at the end of ski season

My aunt had sex with warren Beatty. Have you ever seen the movie Bullworth. I only know of James Taylor because my dad had a James Taylor tape when I was a kid.

Never a fan of either one . The song is a Warren Beatty rejection dig . Eclipse reference popped into my head .........You'll be old some day too LOL , Next year will be 49 years on Skis!

Theoretically. They have an agreement with the Forest Service with a firm close date. So they can't go around making last minute changes because they just got a foot of snow (last year, not this year). However, for some weird reason (Utah? Tahoe?), visitors were way off the January and February numbers in March. I think maybe people booking for March are watching the early season numbers before booking. Which makes total sense. I swore last year in Lech I'd never ever travel for skiing in March, it's too unpredictable. Anyway, by the 3rd week of March, it was approaching ghost town status. Part of that might be the snow. We had an abysmal year in terms of snowfall, even though what we got held up well because of so many really frigid days. So, they wouldn't have even wanted to stay open, bears or no bears. (It was in fact empty enough on Gray Wolf that I was actively looking for bears on it. Bears have even been IN TOWN for weeks.) Hellroaring Basin always closes April 1 because of grizzly dens near the creek area down low. But, people stop coming and I am sure that is the main reason no matter what they claim. They also say they need to give employees a "release date" and that they can't react due to that. And maybe that's also a factor because a lot of the long time local employees do construction in the summer as it's the natural seasonal shift. They will all be eager to go to their much higher-paying construction jobs. And the kids from South America will have airplane tickets already bought. Whitefish Mountain Resort also has a huge summer business they need to prep for. Believe it or not, they actually have had to bulldoze snow out of the way some years to prep the mountain biking trails. So "grizzlies"? One factor. It sounds cool. (Not saying there aren't any, hell, I know personally they are in the area. I just think that BUSINESS reasons are the bigger factor.)

Pretty view from Catskill Thunder Gondola

Great weekend. Gotta close out my season like this every year!

Nice to see you guys on your way home. Nice thing about the Crown Vic - skis fit in the trunk cross-wise. Got 23 mpg for the trip. Not too shabby for something that size. Went "off pass" this weekend at Plattekill and Belleayre, spent the night at Twilight Lodge (in Tannersville as decision to hit Belleayre instead of Hunter on Sun was made after I booked room - based on reports of not great conditions at Hunter on Sat). Still got nice deals - $25 at Platte and $48 at Belle. Next up will be Breck April 15-17 making for at least a 35 day Skison

Day 43. Closing day.