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Frost today. Should have driven to Hunter.

At least the runs are a bit longer, the headwalls steeper, the river views prettier, and the lines shorter.

Long lines for slow lifts feeding short runs on tame terrain. At least they still blow snow in the trees. It is a lot closer than Hunter, but will not do it again this season without East open.

My kids split a hot chocolate so that the break takes 15 min instead of 30. I am criticizing them for making a change that led to staffing issues that prevent them operating on the promised schedule.

A ridiculous move. Close to zero cost for them to offer than benefit.

I have no idea if Hunter will be open this weekend, but with that being uncertain and JF already having Sat sold out for reservations I cancelled my Hunter Sunday reservation to make a Sunday JF reservation while they were still available - as you can only reserve one Epic Mt per day.

With the issues going down at Hunter I'll be hitting PA's own JF this Sunday. First PA trip of the Skison Beats not skiing.

Hunter closed tomorrow too. What does "excluded out of work" even mean? Maybe worth hiring someone who speaks fluent English to post these updates?

Hope it wasn't the patroller who shared a 6 pack lift with me Sunday. At least we both stayed masked.

Me own "parody" lyrics based on his "Carolina In My Mind"

It is possible I would bring mine, but my skis are not optimal for the conditions I would hope to ski in and excess baggage costs might well equal rental costs - depending on length of trip. Either way I would pay something to have skis there.

Undecided if I am going out West this season. Have not made a plan to do so yet. If I do it will be going to Vail without the girls and staying at the Evergreen. It would be a virtually free trip as I have airline credit and hotel credit from cancelled trip in April 2020. Only costs would be renting skis and transit to and from airports and spending a bit more to eat than if I stayed home. But haven't yet made the decision. I am at the point that I plan to ask GF this week how she would feel about my making such a trip - as any Covid risk I expose myself to also indirectly exposes her.

Pretty much where I have landed. But when limited to a day trip the 5:30 RT to Hunter makes for a much longer day than the 3:20 RT to Blue or CB. JF is a closer call with a 4hr RT to a place with 1/3 the vertical of Hunter and slow lifts - likely not worth it unless they have East Mt and/or glades in play.

Analyze the options for their pricing and offerings in painstaking detail and make a decision. But Vail's PA options will be much less of a factor unless their treatment of PA hills shapes up fast - as through the first 6 weeks of Skison (reserved this coming Sat and Sun at Hunter) it has been worth driving further for better skiing every time. May yet try JF or RT on Jan 9 or 10.

Bummer the whole East Mt remains closed. Best PA skiing on Epic this season so far is likely Roundtop. The other 4 PA hills are really getting the shaft from Vail. Which is a bummer as the main reason I went for Epic rather than ORDA pass was the availability of PA options.

Eagle eyed folks here. Yeah I really just keep stats for my own benefit not figuring they would bother others. Fudged the number of runs at the aptly initialled BS to avoid outlier effect. We actually did 20 runs to get 3200 vert, and didn't want 20 teeny runs skewing my avg run length, so made it 3 runs totalling same vert so all still shorter than my avg elsewhere but not as far an outlier. Apologize if anyone is trying to compare themselves to me. Vertical per day is always accurate. And yeah a little paranoid too.

For folks who live in neither VT not PA they are equally off limits. No enforcement whatsoever here beyond signing a form at hotel check in agreeing to comply.

At least we have a decently nice hotel room in Waterbury VT to spend the day in while not skiing at Stowe. Yesterday was fun though. On to Okemo tomorrow. As icy as it should be at least they are great at grooming. If we only have a wash out one of our 6 days in VT that isn't so bad.

I've never seen the 4 person tubes anywhere but Blue.

Yes I know her kids.

She will probably go elsewhere as no family tubes anymore. Anyway I am not going or paying, just researching. Basically told her "tubing is fun for those who can't ski". P.S. bummed nobody noticed my new avatar

Looks like Blue did away with family tubes and replaced them with double tubes. Covid related? Or why buy a bunch of new tubes? (GF wants to take her kids tubing)

ORDA is the NYS govt entity that operates all three - they both sell the cards and made the decision not to honor as advertised. Decision could be reasonable given Covid, but some compensation should be given.

Wow that is low. They should offer some sort of compensation. Glad at least they are not blocking season pass holders.

What are card reloads? Please explain what this means they are doing?