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Adding both Cbk and Blue to Ikon is my real hope, as they are all affilated with KSL / Alterra

If a joint Blue /Camel one becomes an option I will see if they want to consider that, but on the whole they seem to prefer variety. Still would be nice to take them back for a day if Friday is clear

Just got the email - available any weekday and any weekend/holiday eve. Nice deal. If forecast turns out to be wrong for Friday and it is not raining a good chunk of the day, I may take my girls there for the first time in a while with this deal.

Nothing planned yet but I hope to go some time after March 10. Til then I am too busy due to playing guitar in a HS production of Grease (rehearsals are why I can't ski Monday and what I did yesterday afternoon).

Bummed about the forecast. Seems everywhere in NE gets major rain and thaw on Friday then a deep freeze overnight to ice everything up formthe Pres Wknd hordes. Will likely sit Sat out and hope they can groom it into something worth skiing by Sun as I have commitments for Mon. Bummer for a weekend I had hoped to ski Fri Sat and Sun. This may well be the year I ski the least number of days in quite a while, though at least I have already matched the 16 I hit in 2015/16. My lowest total since then was the 25 I skied in 2018/19 when we had the Blue passes. I expect I will need a positive change to current weather trends or a couple western trips to top that this year. No chance of getting near the 41 I skied in 20/21.

Nice enjoyed it yestersay

Girls 1st trip down White Lighning today. No falls. Good time to give it a try when snow softened up this afternoon and it had been recently groomed. Tells me they can now ski anything in PA when conditions are decent.

Not sure what all this discussion of being an expert skier is doing in a PA skiing (& riding) forum. OK there are seriously steep (albeit short) headwalls on WhiteLightning, GunBarrel and (reportedly, I havent skied these) WildCat and Extrovert.

Montage also has lots of blue runs open, but I find their black ones more exciting. Unlike Blue, Montage has all their black runs open

JFrost is 100% open

I am thinking Montage Sat - got all the blacks and double blacks open and never much of a line - use our 2nd IndyPass day there

I go to JFrost rarely, but it is worth reporting on its status and conditions in a PA skiing forum. Closest thing I have to a home mountain is Hunter (4 of my 15 days this skison) which has at least double the open terrain Blue has.

JF now reporting listed trails 100% open. Glades, elevator not included in that. What other PA hills have made it to 100% open this season?

I stayed on Paradise lift (new quad on East Mountain), and got 10 runs in 2-415. As a single I never waited more than 5 min and half the time 1-2 min. In PM it was hard pack and slick on Floyd's (lots of yard sales) and Challenge. Much nicer carveable surface on TBolt and upper runs of East Mtn.

Was at JF this afternoon. Everything open but RiverShot and the glades now. River is covered with whales that just need to be groomed out. Should be at 100% immanently.

If there are any other posts you would like to pay me over $500 not to make please notify me in advance. I have been back there a few times courtesy of folks buddy passes 🙂

I've spent exactly zero skiing Blue since 59 months ago when I spent $597 on 3 passes that got us 42 ski days for $14.25/person/day. (Excluding gas and hot cocoas)

Maybe River Shot too - not sure. Gonna hit either this or RoundTop on Sunday. If anyone is free Sat Nt come see our tribute to Stevie Nicks. Details at https://fb.me/e/7CHwml5Nx Here is our version of Rhiannon https://fb.watch/irRDew3Ba-/

I cant read minds but it would be reasonable to not do so knowing it was going to warm up and rain so drastically a few days later that all the $ put into snowmaking would Xmas weekend woulf be washed away NYears weekend before those $ were recouped in extra lift ticket sales.

3 nights followed by 2x24 hr periods is enough time to fully blanked a bare mountain with good ski conditions. Hope they make the most of it and hope the forecast is wrong about the 10 days after that.

This seems to be the only real snowmaking opportunity forecast in 1st half of Feb

Restored

Tough break Montage Ops getting shut down by power outage in a rare prime snow making window.

Yes I usually do a Western trip sometime Feb-April. Nice to have local options too. So far it is the winter that never was in NJ.

Depressing is trends for next week