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2 free days at Blue after Jan 5, and will use them on full price days. Not gonna go straight up to Catskills as I don't want to pay for lodging and if I ski hard first day of season, my legs may need a break before day 2. OK, no more skison. I get silly amidst early season stokage. Definitely hitting Blue day 1, just doing public service analysis as part of getting psyched to ski

There's that :-) You know the vertical of Main St chair? Did I guess right or was I a little short?

So here's the comparison for this sat/sun weekend (all prices best available including online in advance, and there are some smaller runs at many of those places as well as those listed): Windham - 2 1600' vertical routes, with some shorter runs too, high speed lift, $52 Hunter - 2 1600' vertical routes, with some alternate runs, high speed lift, $32 online Belleayre - one 800' vertical route $25 Blue - one 800' vertical route, with some alternate runs, $40 for 6 hrs (is that accurate vertical - not certain) Big Boulder - one 200' vertical route $20 While Blue is more expensive than Hunter or Belleayre, anyone going with no more than 2 people in a car from PA/Central NJ would spend more going to Hunter or Belleayre when gas and tolls are considered. Blue is my choice for Saturday as 800' vertical is enough for me my first day of the "skison". Might consider heading to one of the Catskills places Sunday if I can't get enough.

Best way to look at the terrain they've got planned: it's all the expert terrain at Little Gap (save widowmaker) fired up for opening day in mid November.

What does "then lot" mean, and how would I find folks

Alright! Guess I will do Blue on Saturday. Fine way to start the "skison." What time they open and any PASR meet up plans?

And the answer is BB opens tomorrow with just Freedom, and with the 10 cans special only Thurs 3-9. $20 tix all weekend. $25 at Belleayre sounding good to me, though not counting out Hunder/Windham depending on what deals they offer and what terrain they open

Just Freedom per their site. Thurs 3-9 you get in with 10 cans of food. Rest of the weekend it's $20. Since it's just Freedom, I expect I'll hit one of the Catskills options instead

If Boulder is open top to bottom that's like 475 feet vertical for $8 Belleayre is 800 feet for $25 Hunter/Windham are 1600 feet for $70 or so. After 7 months off skis warming up my legs somewhere small and cheap could be good, then go somewhere bigger/further/pricier the next day. See what my potential ski companions feel about the options as well. Anyway you slice it, not a bad decision to have to make before slicing your turkey.

Just called up BB and they said they expect to announce opening day tonight, and will be doing the BB Gives Back (free skiing with 10 cans of food or $10 toy) deal on opening day.

Just called up BB and they said they expect to announce opening day tonight, and will be doing the BB Gives Back (free skiing with 10 cans of food or $10 toy) deal on opening day.

Hunter's about an hour more drive than Boulder for me, add another 15 for Belleayre or Windham If Big Boulder park is open with no features and canned food deal on Sat, that's probably my deal, and may do one of the others Sunday. But can't count that chicken in yet.

No they haven't announced anything but it seems they usually do that ski for 10 cans thing on opening day

From what they are making snow on it could be two top to bottom runs (one intermed, one expert) as well as some lower mountain stuff, so its not that different from Hunter. The nice thing is that having three Catskill places open should reduce the crowds at all of them

Might consider Big Boulder one day with the canned food deal depending on what they have open. But I'm not a park guy. Doing something cheap for the first day out is appealing.

WIndham says they are opening Friday the 21st and currently making snow on Upper & Lower Whistler, Warpath Chute, Wide Connection, Upper & Lower Wolverine, Warm Up, What’s Next, Lower Wall Street, Wooly Bear, and Whisper Run. Plattekill has a pretty lame snowmaking system and gives no indication they are opening soon

Belleayre is now saying they will have triple chair 7 open serving both upper and lower Onterora. That's 800 feet of vertical with at least half of it double black terrain. Can't beat it for $25 before Thanksgiving. Lift line could get worse then Hunter as it is not highspeed, but I expect a lot of folks will get off at the midstation leaving at least the good stuff not too crowded.

got some more details but lets move this discussion over to the topi I created for it

They say triple chair 7 open for expert and intermediate terrain. No specification of which trails yet.

Belleayre just announced they are opening this Sat with $25 tix available online in advance. Expect I will go there rather than Hunter, though I'll wait to see what terrain each of Belleayre, Hunter and Big Boulder have to offer for this weekend. May even get out to two places this weekend, who knows?

Looking at pix on their site it seems pretty certain Belt Parkway will be open. BUT Belleayre just announced opening this weekend with $25 tix if you buy online in advance. Expect I will go there to avoid the crowds.

That blue run feeding straight into a black (21 to 1) broke the collarbone of a newbie buddy on that 88 trip

I don't want to work I just want to carve razor's edge all day

Might check out Alpine with my kids this year as it is part of the Pocono Ski and Ride card I got. Was there once in 88. Anything change since then?

If they open this weekend I will be there