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Way to do you, for realz. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Black Friday would have been one of the earliest starts I can recall. I'm not talking about anyone here but mad peeps clamoring for them to open will ride like 8 days all season. The answer is always the same, they will open when it's cold and right now the cold is just trying to get a free drink from us. Give it a bit and she'll be back and hungry.

Ski2live! You dog!!

Pair of these on the way…

If they manage to go from dirt to selling tickets in eight hours I'll eat a glove. They have the firepower in the pump room - seriously, they could make Challenge look like Superstar - but they really don't have the right snowguns or the 20 person per shift snowmaking crew to make it happen. The automatic low energy towers are miracles but they spread that firepower out across six or eight trails at once.

I couldn’t resist. I still wanted a pair of backcountry XC skis. Picked up these Madshus Panorama 78’s

Even better I got a personal viewing with special guest appearances by Boo and little boo ! Negative I have those but they need a mount, these are the 193.

Worth it to me to drive for an extra weekend with skiing and really I don't need much on day 1 as mostly about reminding muscles not used since April what I expect of them. Belleayre will likely have 926' of vertical open with 3 runs including blue, black and double black. Remains to be seen if Hunter will open but if they do it will be 1463' of vertical with blue and black terrain. Either are close enough to day trip. Worth it for me, even if I have to buy 3 tix to ski off pass at Belleayre. Going to Beaver Creek in a month and want to get my teens in good skiing shape for the season well before then. If we don't do it Fri then next day I could take them would be Dec 10. Ski it when you can.

Will Sidewinder be open?

Im wondering when they will give up on that idea. I mean, at this point, lets be realistic. the funny thing is the comments on FB.....but i guess people dont pay that close attention to the weather. people are asking what trails will be open, and that it will be "sick"

Temps are so borderline, and with 3/4" rain predicted, im pretty surprised they are doing anything. i will give them credit for putting on a show and wasting some PPL energy. Again, i wanna ski Friday, but that shit aint happening. Good news is temps did trend a little colder for friday and saturday nights, and next week still show cold overnight temps. we need good overnight temps, not 28 degrees, cloudy, and high humidity.

it looks like we'll be skiing the tubing hill.

oof

@saltyant after this monsoon, there will be plenty of water in the snowmaking ponds…remember the snowmaking that has occurred so far was just a test..it was only a test..

Hope they get those chairs off the new 6 and under cover on the storage rails soon so they don't get all iced up in the blizzard!

its still early but 8hr wknd tix are surprisingly cheap. posting screenshot for posterity.

She isn't even divorced yet 🙃

Whats worth driving for? Its early season, most likely any place will be pretty crowded, i mean, except where you go, that will be ski on every time. Killington has like 4 trails, i mean, sure if i was within earshot i would be all over what ever there was to offer. if im gonna drive a bunch, i want it to be worth while, not just something to do.

This is the Blue forum, take it to the 23-24 ski season thread.

do one of your cool internet things on that with a pic this morning, and a pic tomorrow morning after the rain.

Whales

Lots of dead Ash trees. My power comes through a mile or so of a gauntlet. Hurricane Sandy did a good job of pruning but now the Ash trees are coming down from the invasive borers. I was trying to count power line splices in the lines on the way home lol. Too many to count. Getting a bit dangerous at times too . I took down a tree yesterday that had a huge piece hanging in . It doesn’t help to have a cheap neighbor who won’t spend a dime to take down obviously threatening ones.

Does anyone else have a hankerin’ for a creamsicle? just me?

The cold will come, the night of Zee Lights will come. Opening day being fun for all of one hour as the 8 open trails which really mean 1.5 trails get boring and/or skied off will come. I'm going to enjoy one more weekend of sleeping in before the inevitability of waking up early and constantly having beer in my car sets in.

i don't think i've ever seen something like this before.

Took a walk out earlier with the wife, smelled and felt (damp) like snow, but haven't gotten squat.

My neighborhood is probably somewhere around 5k people with one of the nicest, largest most expensive old folks compound down the street. Last one we had no power for nearly 2 days and the one before was 20hrs, both were bangers but nothing crazy. My theory is when they went interstate consortium with modernization they run with way less excess capacity. Which combines with fracking/ng economics, general privatization from utility to run super lean and transfer the wealth from the system to private individuals. Add in longer runs as they shut down the old coal monsters and it's kinda surprising it isn't down more. Super smells like snow out, pellet core here though quickly melts when it lands. It's getting closer and I'm bullish on a pre Christmas storm.

No but if you don’t want to be with somebody anymore then get divorced despite the cost. I also think it’s crazy some women when they get divorced still keep ex husbands last name. I think people get married so they can combine assets as well.

Have you ever tried getting divorced? It is an expensive and emotionally draining process unless both parties are in complete alignment on what they want the financial and custodial terms of thebdivorce to be. I would say having experienced how challenging it is to get a divorce makes it unlikely we will get married even after she gets divorced. Neither of us plan to have more kids - which is IMO the best reason for people to get married. We would rather remain in a relationship as long as it suits us without making it so we would have to go through that process again if we ever wanted to end it.

I’m glad I took off that day. See you there homie!

Blues new anticipated opening date is December 1st. I’m glad I didn’t set up a morning appointment that day.

Shows over.

i had the neutral from the meter to the panel corroding.....any time something with any amp draw would start up, the lights would dim, and the computer speakers would crackle. That was interesting.

I had a crazy one 2 years ago. Wife calls me and says some power out in parts of the house? I’m like??? I come home and find a tree came down on the transformer on the pole and took out one leg , so anything 240 didn’t work and half the rest of the circuits . Luckily no damage to anything inside.

Honestly it’s only Black Friday. It would be nice but if it doesn’t happen (which it won’t) we’ll all survive. Forecast looks promising for 12-1 which is still early. Props to blue for even having the balls to call a Black Friday opener way early when, meanwhile, camelback is Dec 15 and JFBB hasn’t even said anything yet.

Maybe I take that back... some guns just lit up top of home stretch and base area....

Your wish is my command.

Excited! A turn is better than no turns.

If they can get the whales big enough in tonights window the rain wont be a death sentence to the progress. Rain kills pushed out snow way faster.

We had a portable gasoline generator that put out 2 phases, and put in a 2 phase plug and socket on the power line to the well and fabbed up a little adapter so we could hook it up to 110 cords coming from each side of the generator to the well. High level alarm from the septic pump tank was also put on the generator. Also cut into the furnace power with a dedicated outlet and pigtail coming from the kill switch so we could supply that with the generator. Probably not code, but it is all in the basement, so doing a rewire if there is a fuss when we sell the house isn’t a big deal.

you going to big snow or something?

Look into aqua bricks. That’s what we got. A box of 6, they are 3 gallons a piece so easily moveable and lock together like legos when you stack them to take up less space. Just change out water every 6 months.

my old house had frequent outages, the big deal there was the sump pump. every house had one, and always ran when it rained. during a huge storm, the power went out across the street, and my neighbors basement was destroyed. after that i install a battery back up for the pump that would run it at least long enough to were i could get home and hook up the generator. Then i was gifted a Honda 6500 inverter, so i installed a sub-panel with a generator hook up. the generator was totally over the top for what i needed since i was on city water and sewer. Of course, after i went through all of that, i think i used it once. i moved in 2019, i have the generator still, but have never lost power at that house for any length of time. Fun story - my boss (who i got the gen from) his previous home had frequent outages. his power went out. maybe he wasnt home or whatever, but waited a while before setting up the generator. Hooks up the generator, but everything is kind of odd, things are making weird humming noises, the lights on his fridge arent right, water pressure isnt good. so he calls me to come over. he was set up for his whole panel to run off this generator, but what happened was everything was trying to start at the same time, well, fridges, etc. turned everything off, then back on one at a time and everything was fine. Kinda surprised he didnt cook at least the electronics in the one fancy kitchen fridge.

Did they come with a COA?

Scored some longship variant corvus's last night, not only are they my long coveted midnight in Cairo graphics they were once owned by a legit pro. Historical provenance is often thought of with fine cars or such but legend has it mute himself once rode these down the icy slopes of Palmerton.

We hit the Buckman sale for the grandkids, got 2 pairs of skis and 2 pairs of boots. Skis were really rough looking but an hour on my workbench and the edges and bases look like new. I think the total cost on the skis was like $15 so a great purchase! The Buckman tune up costs look high to me, just saying. Hitting bases with a grind and edges with grinds does a great job shortening the life of the ski IMHO. I prefer light file and diamond hone to keep edges versus grinds and heavy filing.

New Oakley jacket.

Ah the subtle positive stoke.

i didn't know there was a term for it, but we are in the same boat with PPL. we have around 80 ppl. if there's just a run of the mill outage, it gets fixed pretty quickly. in a big storm scenario though, with lots of outages, we are definitely waiting.