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Enjoyed a mid April 70 degree day skiing BB with the kids last year when everything else in PA and Catskills was closed and they were 75% open

2 hours is realistic time from exiting GWB to pulling into Hunter if no traffic. Allow extra time for getting to and over GWB, and for traffic, especially on the way home. Add 15 for Windham or Belleayre, add 45 for Plattekill. Mountain Creek under an hour from GWB.

Nice. Hope it holds up til I make it there for Sat and Sun.

4 more days

Hopefully not ones where you bought a season pass

The season or the "mountain"? Cool. Will do. Sweet gig patrolling there?

I grew up in PA and lived there when I started skiing. But yeah, in NJ now, and PA is the closest skiing and by far the easiest to do as a day trip.

90% of my ski days in Poconos the first 10 and last 5 years I have skied. 90% Catskills about 20 years in between. Made about 15 trips further North and about 10 West in those 35 years. Can't say I am most proud of the Poconos part, but it works for my location for the forsee able future.

Skiing PA more a point of convenience than a point of pride

If they have enough open I may bring the kids Saturday. But I doubt that will be the case. Kids aren't park rats.

What will be open?

Hamilton. Closer and easier to park.

Not able to move (actually under contract to buy a house now) . Gotta deal with commute. But it's all on train so I can read and do stuff on my phone the whole time.

Commute ranges from 1:15 to 1:30. Last year I had a 25 min commute, but I make about 35% better $ with longer commute.

Got 2 early season BOGOs for K so my buddy and I will ski 2 days for price of one. Booked a room at Inn at Long Trail. I suspect by that weekend K will have as much to offer as a fully open Blue. If after Sat we feel we want something else we may hit a different place on Sunday. Also leaving from work in Jersey City Friday which cuts the drive considerably. I can be at the Inn only about 3 hours later than I would get home from work.

Belleayre now projecting Dec. 4 Unless BB surprises, closest skiing this holiday weekend will be Gore or Jiminy. And once you are going that far, I would think it made more sense to drive to K for the longer runs. Looks like the start to my Skison will be Dec 5 at Killington

The kind of bonus that keeps a ski area solvent.

No more walking at K as of today. Full runs off K1. Hunter announced not opening this weekend on FB. Belleayre announcement promised today.

That is exactly my point. Surprise open today with tix for canned food. Then make real money on Friday to sunday.

If they want to be open this weekend I expect they will do a surprise opening tomorrow as they won't want to blow holiday weekend revenue on the ski for canned food thing

K now predicting t2b for Turkey weekend with 1640 vertical runs from the k1 express gondola

Belleayre indicates tentative plans to open on Black Friday. If they pull it off that would be the first available skiing for someone who's got a good reason for taking the easy way out (that is, a day tripper)

At least it's closer to the Rockies

Wonder what the last new real trail was in Eastern PA. Was it Nightmare?

PSAA site indicates this trail will be open in their 40th anniversary season (2016-7)