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Went for a couple quick runs with my DW on Friday afternoon. Didn't know it was WNMR day. What a zoo. Never seen it so crowded, even on a Saturday. Turned out really be a couple of runs, but not quick. Saturday morning was a whole lot nicer. Couldn't believe how well they repaired the slopes - Friday afternoon they were all torn up. Especially Floyds from wannabe snowboarders sliding down it on their butt.

Ouch, the chairs were slippery this weekend. Never could convince my race kid to put the safety bar down unless I was with him.

Great conditions, East Mountain was foggy on top, but cleared up at the top of the first headwall, soft packed powder conditions. Thunderbolt from the Challenge Lift - Had to wait until there were people on the slope to take pictures of.

I'm running cleansnipe in Firefox, and added an addon called 'Reload Every' to refresh it every 5 minutes. I also have a freeware program called 'Always on Top Maker' to keep it on top of other windows.

I had some Swix purple wax left over from Saturday, and it was a little sticky in the warmer conditions on Sunday - needed some red wax on.

Thanks for the info, but I'm shufflin off to Buffalo tomorrow - Weekend Warrior these days.

Hate to say it, but although I live 15 miles from the Brodhead, I've never been on it, so if you catch it running, drop me a line.

Actually I used to have a handle of xC1er, I'm afraid I've descended from the pinnacle of paddling to being merely a lowly kayaker. Mostly on the Lehigh and Tohickon. My web page is a www.balajthy.com I was scanning in some old war photos of my Dad's, and had a bunch of B-24 pics from Italy in the same directory that I put today's pics in. The plane is the Ferp Finesco, lost over Ploesti. If you look closely there is some nose art on it. The wide trail is the first headwall of Thunderbolt. What I like about JF is the top to bottom wide trails and great grooming.

Got to the top of Challenge at 8am and were the second tracks down. Thunderbolt was groomed to perfection, but they must have put the B team on Challenge. A couple of chunks out and ruts from the Cat, and half was freshly groomed and the right half was soft. Everyone was on Thunderbolt, so I did laps for a couple of hours and then hit the showers. Some phone cam pics of the top of Challenge and the Thunderbolt headwall from the chair. One of looking back up at the top East Mountain-Challenge connector. That's me lining up to take off down Challenge

JF was unbelievable for first day after all the rain we had Thursday. Got there at 8 and did laps on Challenge until 10:30 - about 30 runs. Perfect grooming - groomed it and blew snow on it last night and had about an inch os soft stuff on top. They had the right half of Exhibition open, but the guns were going down the whole slope. So who has the H3 and Spanish Fly on their racks today? Don't you know boating season is over?

It looked like just some race kids with their dads running some drills. I didn't see any of the instructors or Jim D there. About 1/2 dozen kids in all, I think. With basically only one slope open, it wouldn't be practical to have the whole team there. Jon is off to college, so I'm on my own this year.

From the WAWA bags in the parking lot, it looks like you are not the only one hitting it for breakfast - I was third row back. Nice day on Sunday though, it cleared up pretty quickly and got sunny out. Did some runs and left about 10 after the race team started hitting the slope. Snowdrift was a lot more bumped up than last week, so only tried it a couple of times - wasn't pretty so I lapped Boulder park the rest of the time.

No, I've never noticed that. (sorry, just had to)

Looking at the Jack Frost trail map on the snow reports section of the website - Did they cut a bunch of new cross trails on east mountain and redo Thunderbolt? or is it just poor map drawing?

Thanks for the info - he took quite a shot from the gate and had all of us pretty worried - looked pretty good until then.

Anyone have any info - what club and if he is OK?

That's it for Floyds - long runout back to the lift at the bottom. There are two headwalls in the parallel trail (Rivershot) from the point where Floyds starts.

They added a essay section to the math and reading sections. Most schools don't use that section for evaluation of a student yet.

It looks like they updated the website, and it agrees with the emails now for unlimited pass skiing at 7:30 - now we just have to get out of bed early enough.

The email says it is for unlimited season pass holders - but the website says the 7:30 ski is for VIP pass holders only - $100 more than the adult unlimited (although you get to forgo getting the ticket and just use your pass for the lifts). Wonder which one is correct? I don't think the unwashed unlimited holders would get to ski at 7:30 with 'top management' as the email says.

It was pretty quiet Sunday afternoon. But we old guys might go into cardiac arrest if someone skis too fast near us. ;)

Maybe the problem was your 'shooting back on to the trail'. If you come out of the trees and hammer someone on the trail - I don't think that would be appreciated. Especially if you come back on the trail just below one of the little headwalls so people on the trail can't see you. I keep telling my son if he is going to do something unexpected look up the trail to be sure it's clear. The glades are great at JF, and if you wrap yourself around a tree its your problem, but if you blind spot a 12 year old on the trail JF is going to have to reconsider the glade policy.

Was at JF early Sunday, conditions were great. Didn't have East Mountain or Exhibition open, but DeMattes, Thunderbolt and Challenge were covered edge to edge, no ice or bare spots, and the grooming was impeccable. Was worried after the spotty grooming last year, but if they keep this up, my knees will thank them. Did a great job cleaning out the glades between Thunderbolt and Challenge and also downhill right of Challenge - still thin cover there though. Glad I got the season ticket this year - almost didn't after last year.

So Camelback and Blue Mountain started blowing snow - any action yet at Jack Frost?