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An unenclosed one with no seats would not. And really if I am going to take off my skis for any Gondola I want it to be a much longer run than is available at Blue or MC.

Yep that "Cabriolet" lift, along with the other main peak being all park, kills it for me.

To be clear, I am going to continue to pay my taxes. I will be less happy about it and will be more aggressive in finding legal deductions I can take. I do not advocate that anybody should pay more than they are required by law to pay. I will be decreasing donations to charity and redirecting those funds to groups determined to organize resistence to the incoming fourth reich administration, as I believe efforts to undermine this administration are the most important way to improve our society for the next four years.

Yes there are limits to how much should be provided to needy people and it is worth making sure the system is not ripe for abuse. My view is that we are not doing enough. I would also like to see more government spending on infrastructure repairs and improvements and believe that taxes should be raised in a progressive fashion to fund that.

Folks without jobs need food and shelter and doctors too. And folks with low paying jobs need enough money for those things as well.

No but I voluntarily donate money to charity, don't seek tax breaks, and vote for the candidates most likely to raise taxes. I will be more active in seeking to avoid federal taxes starting this year as I believe the federal government will become purely evil in 6 weeks. I don't want to support the 4th Reich.

Yeah we do irrational things sometime. I once spent 10 minutes extra in a grocery store line getting them to honor a $1 for 18 eggs deal. No way that was worth it, but when they try to not give to you the deal you thought you were getting the natural impulse is to push your point, not just accept it.

I am probably not in the minority with that thinking as I expect lots of poor people agree with me, though they are less likely to vote. I am probably in the minority among folks in my tax bracket.

For just me, no. For me and two kids to save 150 or so could be worth it.

Check out the NY ski blog forum and see the posts there. Also $5 vouchers for that day available from the Ski Company, with the closest location in Tully NY

No problem with taxes. They should be higher. We need to redistribute more money from wealthy people to needy people.

Seeing some talk about these guys getting slammed with a foot of snow before they reopen Sunday.

Nevermind

I am a lawyer who spends money prudently and prioritizes things like saving for retirement and for his kids college over driving a flashy car. And also pays a lot of alimony for 9 more months and bought my first house this year. College savings starts after alimony ends.

Lawyer, yes. Is that surprising?

Did they replace their tents with lodges since I was last there?

Yep that's what I meant. Fixed now. Thanks.

Doubt anyone was really counting on skiing at CB this weekend when they reserved rooms They have a lot of other options for guests there between zip lines, segway tours, indoor waterpark. Not a one trick pony like all the other Pocono areas.

Mazda 3. Averages 37 mpg for me.

That map is so bogus. I am a lawyer who drives a high mpg non hybrid.

Most years they sell a $99 card good for any three days.

Not a real fan of Mountain Creek. Of the two main peaks one is all park and the other is only served TTB by the Cabriolet lift which I consider the worst of three worlds in terms of lifts. You have to take off your skis to ride it like a gondola, but it is open air so you get cold and you have to stand the whole way up like a tram. About the only way they could make it worse would to be to make you hold on to the rope that pulls the thing up yourself. There is one good steep run off the middle peak, but it is served by a slow lift and is one of the last things they open. And the clientele is young, mostly boarders, mostly New Yorkers and, adding that all up, about as rude as you woukd expect. But I used to live 45 minutes away so I have been there a lot. Though even then I sometime opted for the much smaller place that was virtually in its shadow - Hidden Valley (no longer operating) - which while smaller was cheaper, empty, nice people, normal chair lift. If you are a boarder who loves doing park you may well love Mtn Crk. But for me, now that it is no longer half the distance of the closest other options, I am unlikely to go back very often. Have not been for at least 5 years.

No worries. Worked out.

I forgot it because I decided not to wear my regular pants, just the sweats I wear under my ski pants. Wallet stayed in my pants. Was lucky I had gassed up the night before as I made it home with less than a gallon in the tank.

I was going as fast as 80 in a 65, but not passing lots of people or anything. It was 165 miles each way. I tried three strategies to get a ticket. 1. Went to guest services to see if I could pay via Chase Quick Pay which I could authorize from my bank via my phone. They said no, and also rejected holding something as collateral til I came back to pay them for a ticket next week. Said they might have done it when they were family owned, but no shot now that they were part of a bigger corporation. 2. PM'd someone from this site who said he was going to be at Hunter that day to see if I could get some assistance. Did not get a reply. Can't fault them as I don't generally hang out on my phone checking for messages on this site while skiing either. 3. Figured out I could buy a ticket for the same day on Liftopia. Then called someone I knew well to get them to provide me with their credit card info so I could use that to buy a ticket via my phone. So an hour after discovering the missing wallet I was skiing.