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Heading North to ski somewhere in NY will check reports en route

Dont know that I will make it there tomorrow. I am performing late tonight and likely wont get home before 1230 am at the earliest, which is not real consistent with skiing 3.5 hrs away tomorrow - especially as I am typically too revved up after performing to fall asleep quickly Just giving a heads up for those who can make it. Given my schedule, a late arrival at Blue once it softens up to get some runs in before pass holders party seems more likely, but we shall see. Or if Frost gets snow more than rain maybe head there. Could get sloppy seconds at Plattekill Sunday when they conveniently allow other mountains pass holders to ski free.

Sounds like they are getting a dump at Plattekill tomorrow day and night making for an awesome day on Sat.

Pretty much self taught. I took a year of guitar lessons at a local music store to learn the basics and am an entirely self taught on everything else. Oddly my parents strongly pressured both my sisters to take expensive classical lessons on 2 instruments each, which they have not touched in 30 years, while I was the rebel who refused music lessons - and I am the one leading 20 piece ensembles, performing, composing and recording. So I am very skeptical about pressuring kids to take lessons - though mine have seen how much joy I get out of it and have opted for lessons.

I also play keys, but prefer playing guitar so I find others to play it with the band when we use keys. I do write some stuff on piano. Also play a little ukulele (live and on the CD) and percussion (on the CD) and mandolin (never with band).

An original of mine Only used those Snoopy shirts (which I actually found for sale on someone else's site) that one time, before designing my own logo.

Thanks, it is a D'Angelico EX-SS Deluxe that I got 2 years ago.

Thanks. Easel is actually a brand new touch. Thing is we often play places at big public outdoor events where people just pass by and hear us and listen for a bit, and unless we announce who we are between songs, nobody would know who we are or how to find us. And having a sign is less disruptive than announcing between songs.

Her exception She also made an exception for Do You Want To Build a Snowman

In 6 days we are performing 12 original tunes at Havana in New Hope. Performing original material is our main priority. But doing these tribute shows gets our name out there and makes more people aware of us, and is fun. In terms of more recent covers, we have recently done: Shallow (Lady Gaga & Brad Cooper) Heartbeat (Carrie Underwood) Take Your Time (Sam Hunt) Four Five Seconds (Rihanna & Kanye) Down By The Water (Decemberists) Perfect Duet (Ed Sheeran & Beyonce) But those covers are most often with other singers. If something was written in Vanessa's life time, it is generally beneath her to cover it. She made an exception for Four Five Seconds.

Wont get too early a start Sat as doing another Beagles Celebrarion of Motown show Fri Nt. This is from last week

On Sunday Plattekill is giving free lift tix to anyone with a current season pass to another mt - though if you want to use Blue pass I suggest bringing receipt as there is no year listed on pass.

Live music from a DJ? Does this mean he is spinning Frampton Comes Alive?

No they have not been to Hunter. I dont find the crowds or patrons there any worse than at Blue. I view Hunter and Blue as Catskills/Blue equivalents - the largest and most crowded places in each with the most folks skiing beyond their abilities. Though as with all things Catskills, it is larger and more challenging than PA "equivalents" If they dont like Hunter, they will do more Frost and Snow. Hunter will most likely be my go to place without them. Def the most challenging high speed lift served terrain I can day trip to.

Will more likely have more 2 ski day weekends next year due to trips to Hunter and Snow

Oddly there is no way that this year - my first with a pass - I will hit the 31 I skied last year (my record). Largely cause last year had a bunch of snow days mid week while this year I have skied only weekends and holidays. Plus extended season with late April trip to Sunday River piggybacked on work flying me to MA.

Ski2Live just got a Peak Pass at Whitetail Sunday, so no. But even at $35 each it is a nice of offer and cool for someone to post to share it with folks on our site.

Not me

Antics with pass dates and quantities are BS. These things arent rare earth minerals, just arbitrary self created shortages designed to manipulate prospective purchasers. Weaker even than the farewell tours that the Who have been doing for more than half of their career. You announce a date things are available til, you should stick to it.

Apparently for some reason the $99 6th grade passes stopped working after 365 days due to some glitsch they could not solve, so they offered as many comp passes as we need. I said fine figuring VIP line no longer an issue this late in season. We were alread getting a late start Sat, knowing lines not an issue this late in season. Then 30 min into trip my daughter said "Dad, where are your skis?" Set back another hour we did not want to deal with Frost both being further and closing at 4, so back to Blue instead.

Had to go to the lift ticket line and deal with a supervisor on Sat because there was an issue with my daughters season passes so they put comp days on them instead, and they asked how many we would need given that Blue closing day would be 3/31/19. So I take that as pretty definitive closing date.

Took 2:50 from Jenkintown to get there, so about Elk distance. A plus in the event of snowy conditions is that the drive there was completely flat. Truly driving through nowheresville farm country with large mounds of what smelled like manure fertilizer as we neared it. We did not wait in a single lift line. Oddly, for the first hour, at least the main lift had nobody outside the booth to even scan our pass. They had a cool lift for the green stuff (which we rode once for a free ice cream giveaway event, but then skipped ice cream due to line) which had you stand on a moving carpet going almost as fast as the fixed grip lift when boarding. It is nice that they have sep lifts servicing the green, blue and black stuff - though the blue lift is the longest vertical and only high speed one

Some of the views

Not the best form for sure, but making it down that, loving every minute, and asking to hit it again is quite an achievement at her age