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Guess it's just a 3 decade habit from when there was no lower lot.

Why not park up top? It's closer for me.

Shawnee with kids on tuesday

Started my kids on a pin collection this week, inspired by this thread. After 5 visits, they have now made it down every trail at Shawnee (terrain parks excluded), and I let them each pick out a Shawnee pin to commemorate their achievement. I will do the same at each mountain they manage to do that, while still not letting them try anything they can't handle (they didn't go down Tecumseh while it was bumped this week but had tried it another time when it was groomed). This will give them a collection only of pins from fairly tame areas (unless they buy others themselves), but you gotta start somewhere.

Work closed and I spent a paid day off skiing so I can't complain

Are you a member of WSC? Seems pretty interesting. What do they charge to join?

Weird how their trail map has trails that are blue at top and black at bottom. Seems like that could cause trouble for beginners.

It's like mad river glen skiing without the drive :-)

Plan to take the kids one day this year due to PASR card. Was there once in the late 80s.

Answering myself, the happy land glade off challenge was skiable, but it was more skied off than the slopes, so only did it a couple times. Subaru fest meant they gave me and anyone else interested free private lesson, my first in decades, which was a source of good pointers and made for no lift lines for a while. Lines were minimal everywhere anyway and non existent on East Mtn. So Frost was the right call for me today.

What is a roller?

Thanks for the info. May head up Saturday.

Was surprised to learn from both my 14 year old nephew (who skis) and my 11 year old niece (who rides) that skiing is more popular than riding among their friends. They said they thought this was because there are lots of rich people in Darien CT (where they live) who start out doing what their parents do, which was usually ski. Any stats on whether the trend towards riding is reversing, or any other anecdotal evidence on this front?

Thinking about skiing JF this weekend. What is the coverage like in the glades now? And who can tell me what Subaru Winterfest is. Not many details on their page. Is this something only for Subaru owners? Will it make crowds worse than otherwise for a holiday weekend?

Thanks. I will either do Frost or Hunter (where West side rarely has crowds). Got enough prepaid tix between the various things I have bought that I risk leaving some unused if I don't start using them.

Yeah, Montage is where I generally go to avoid holiday weekend crowds. But I've got these PA Ski and Ride cards I've paid for that get me in to those three places at no cost, so I'm gonna ski them til I have used my free tix up. Also have a prepaid ticket to Hunter, but I can't see that being any better. My hunch is that JFrost might be the best if I stick to the East Mountain lifts which only service the "expert" terrain

What do you think the lines will be like at Blue, Camelback and JFrost? And will Sat or Sun crowds be worse?

What is bumblebee bowl? My fav things about Blue: - Closest place with 1000' vertical - Served by high speed lifts - Reasonably steep terrain, some of which is allowed to bump up. - Nice that they opened a bit of Glades, limited though they are - Sentimental appeal as I've been skiing there since Little Gap days.

The Romantics

They sure arent coming there for the glades

I skied there a good bit when I lived 45 minutes away from it in North Jersey as anywhere else with comparable vertical was at least twice as far, but have not been back since. Even with their $89-99 triple ticket deals I have seen, it's not worth it. If you like skiing/riding park they have a whole peak devoted to that, with no Cabriloet, so it's great for that sort of thing. But that's something I only do occasionally.

And the only trail there as challenging as quite a few runs at Blue is the one double black Pipeline, which only has an 850' vertical and is on the middle peak Granite Peak, which is the one that is open least often (since you can only enter the resort via the two other peaks). It was almost always groomed when I last frequented the place, but it is quite steep. At least if you are skiing Pipeline you avoid the Cabriolet. But skiing the same run over and over gets a bit old.

They make you take your skis off and on like it's a gondola, but it's open to the out doors so you stay cold, you have to stand the whole way so your legs don't get a rest, and they cram a lot of people onto the thing. It's like somebody thought of taking the worst part of every way of getting up the mountain and bolting them together into this thing. I honestly might prefer a surface lift to this contraption

Think you'd have to offer me a free ticket to get me back there. Don't love skiing park, hate the cabriolet (worst lift ever), there's like one steep trail I like on the middle peak.

I think that is clearly the correct way to mark trails. If you list a trail that feeds only into black terrain as blue or green, you are going to wind up with people on black terrain who can't handle it, which creates a hazard for themselves and others and leads to them snowplowing down and scraping off all the loose snow. IMO the purpose of trail markings is really to guide people who are less familiar with the mountain and can't handle more challenging terrain.