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Motion activated cameras in the trees

Nice. Any speculation on when they will be T2B?

Killington opening Tues Oct 25. Who will be next?

When they fly to Denver it is usually direct as Denver is their main hub. They do not offer service there from Trenton at all times though.

For me Frontier flying out of Trenton is the easiest option by far. Hope they run some convenient flights from there to Denver this winter.

Definitely not putting kids on a plane to ski for a while. May get them to VT this year. So far they have done poconos.

I would leave home 4 hours before a flight departed given TSA delays. Then arriving at the other end I would need to spend time colkectong baggage, renting a car and skis (travelling with skis Jacks up the price and hassle and I don't have great powder skis) and a few hours driving to where I ski and stay. So at best that is 12 hours from home to hotel. I can do many places in VT in less than half that time and save close to $1000 between flights and car and ski rentals. Sure I will fly to ski at times, but I can ski 2 days in VT on a weekend without missing a day of work or spending on anything but lifts, gas, tolls, food and hotels. Especially easy if I go to and from where I work in North Jersey.

True re vt. Getting out west is a lot more effort and expense, though worth it if you can swing it.

Opening for this season per laurelmountainski.com with a new high speed lift and a trail about as steep as white lightning. Cool their tix will also be good at seven springs and hidden valley, making for a nice weekend trip.

It was a lot colder this morning than it was my last time skiing

I see Blue is offering 6 midweek tix for $165. I imagine these are blacked out for holidays. Anyone know blackout dates for aure?

Pre-halloween weekend at BB?

Occurred to me this summer that Boston area, NJ/PA and LA are the only three places in the country where you get beaches and skiing within about 2.5 hours of one another. Maybe somewhere in the Northwest too, but the beaches are too freaking cold there for it to matter. We are blessed.

Again, I did not ask for him to be banned. I am not asking for him to remain banned. I can take whatever he or anyone else wants to dish out verbally. If the admins decide some kind of posts merit banning that is their decision not mine. For my own part, I prefer to discuss things in a civil and rational manner. Spent a week in the pokes this summer including hiking in Hickory Run and Ricketts Glen, rafting on the Lehigh and touring the Martin factory. Spent a week in LA including Disney, Hollywood, WB studio tour and Santa Monica. Played a bunch of music with my group The Beagles and saw some concerts including McCartney, Black Sabbath, Monkees and Springsteen. Ready for ski season to start again.

Gee maybe it was because be "hoped" something horrible would happen to me and my family and spewed a lot of foul language and some anti semitic innuendo in response to comments about how people buy and sell cars. Not that I asked for anyone to ban him, but some civility would be appreciated. If that was the issue, I am personally fine with him continuing to post here as I am a free speech guy and can take it, but free speech works best if people can express their ideas without resorting to that crap. But who knows, maybe he lashed out at someone else too.

For all wondering why I seem to be going on and on about car sales above, there were quite a few now deleted posts from TP4 that brought the topic up, and then responded to my posts in an increasingly antagonistic manner.

Sunday River tested snow making today. Winter is on its way.

I am not saying I would do anything like that as I have made clear I have never and have no expectation that I will ever buy a car from a used car dealer. But I do expect that most buyers will seek the lowest price and sellers the highest price. You can always beat someone else's price to make the sale, if you can, even if it means sacrificing some of your commission. Seems a kind of basic concept that someone in sales should get.

If one customer offered you $100 more for a car than another, who would you sell it to? If you would sell it to the one offering less, just because they were there first, then you are not doing a good job for your employer.

I think you should get a commission on the sales you make. I'm not telling you what to do just reacting to your complaints and pleas for pity here. But being more polite to your customers than you are being this morning might get you some more sales.

On the whole I do think skiing is a lot more awesome than snowboarding, but I don't believe I ever said you shouldn't snowboard. Certainly if you snowboard while others are selling cars, you will sell fewer cars.

Go ahead and eat and snowboard. Nobody owes you a sale though. Not sure why you are appealing for pity here or who you think you are going to impress by insulting me and threatening my family.

Bonuses but not commission based. I am not condemning anyone here for placing their own self interest first in a sales negotiation. My preference for buying from individuals is that cutting a dealers profit out tends to make the transaction better for buyer and seller, though it is less convenient. I do find high pressure sales tactics annoying and the combination of better deals available elsewhere and not dealing with such tactics outweighs the convenience of looking at many cars at a dealer.

Sorry, I miss where being a used car salesman working on comission that has you trying to maximize the dollars you get from a customer is an altruistic occupation. I am not behaving selfishly to you. I am describing the way the world works. In sales negotiations people on both sides are in it for themselves. You seem to be living in some fantasy land where you believe that anyone you bring a cup of coffee while trying to sell them a car should owe some debt of loyalty to you. And I haven't personally done this to anyone as I have never bought a used car from a dealer. I prefer not to deal with such people and would rather buy from owners.

Someone wants to buy a car and has money to spend on the best deal they can get. Not really seeing why they should care who gets the commission unless you are offering to split your commission with them. Its not like car salesmen are motivated by anything other than their self interest. Want the sale, be there at all times the dealer is open. You snooze you lose. No friends on powder days.