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I prefer going a variety of places and find good deals a variety of ways including the PASR card, Liftopia, Windham ski club card, Hunter big lift card, Mountain Sports Club, and kids ski free with adult deals. Last year I skied 21 days at 11 different places within 3 hours of my house, and spent a total of $457 which included 2 free lessons and 13 kids lift tickets in addition to the 21 adult tix. Don't think I could have come close to that deal with a season pass, particularly as I do at least 75% of my skiing on weekends. Really the only thing that would make a pass appealing is the VIP line deal at Blue. But I don't love Blue enough to want to do almost all my skiing there.

Don't see LH as that big a deal. It is super slow and does not get you to the best terrain. Only plus is it gets you to some gentle glades when there is coverage.

Might consider skiing in the rain if I was staying at a mountain and had paid for a multi day ticket. Will not drive hours to pay for the privilege.

$40 lift tix

It is 160 ski areas (including Blue Shawnee Alpine & CB in Eastern PA) banding together to try to say they are having the world's largest lesson based on all the lessons being done simultaneously. Really a PR stunt that makes for lots of ski areas offering really cheap lessons on one day to fill their areas on a Friday and introduce new people to the sport. Currently there is no record for multi-site simultaneous lessons and there is a 500 person record for simultaneous learners at one site (which one site could beat cpnceivably this day, in addition to participating in setting multi-site record) Learntoskiandsnowboard.org

I expect they will have lots of instructors and divide people up into groups of the same size as every other day.

I learned to ski at Spring as did my kids. It is a great local place for that in Montgomery County. There is one interesting narrow trail on the far skiers left that opens up only with natural snow.

If folks don't want to wait for Blue, Spring is beating them to the punch by opening tomorrow :-)

Lots of areas are participating in this. It is not just a Blue thing.

Building base on what they can open seems like the best strategy to make it through a warm rainy high traffic weekend and stay open.

PASR cards get me into Blue. But going with kids I would get 3 cards punched at Blue and only 1 at Shawnee (kids under 46" ski free with paying adult), so when skiing with kids my choice is usually Shawnee, and I save places like Blue for when kids are with their mom. But if there is a real difference in how open the two are, I will often hit the better place over the cheaper one. Also there is more that suits their ability level at Shawnee.

It was about 1:45 getting there from my folks' house and about 2 hours back to mine. But I would have spent 45 min driving home from my folks house anyway, so I added 3 hours of driving, 3 hours of skiing and an hour of dealing with equipment and tickets to our trip home.

Perhaps but will be with kids so will more likely take advantage of Shawnee deal for under 46 inches if they have a comparable amount open.

Had a great afternoon with kids from 1 to 4. Guns were off, pretty nice surface and coverage in adjacent woods on all 3 runs. Proud of my kids for venturing into trees and handling Challenge nicely. Glad we ventured out.

See you out at JF this afternoon. Black jacket and pants, white poles, tan helmet, 2 young girls in green and purple helmets. Say hi.

I will be out there in the afternoon. Wearing black with white poles and a tan helmet and skiing with 2 little girls. Say hi if you see me.

So what all will be open at JF tomorrow? And will they be making snow on open terrain?

Would have taken the kids for 1 trail with $25 tix. Now it's really 2 trails with $55 tix and I am less likely to bother.

Is JF full price now?

May well take the kids out to JF for their first day and my 4th this Sunday.

Gore is not offering that deal

Cool, Belleayre has a deal now where if you buy a ticket for the holiday period you get a free return trip after the holidays, to make up for the limited terrain they have now. You should investigate the details of that.

By the way if you are looking for a ski instructor for young girls I have a great recommendation at Spring Mountain (if it ever opens). She really went the extra mile in every way, making them a group of 2 so they got semi private lessons for group lesson prices and extending lesson time, and was a great friend to my girls who totally loved her. Don't want to give her name out publicly as she might get in trouble for that, but contact me if interested.

Belleayre has beginner stuff open. Both Running Bear which is a complete learning area and Iroquois which is a green with 400 feet of vertical.

Love that I go in from NJ and avoid the NE Ext.