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1 hour ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
This is the blue forum.
You were discussing what it would cost you to ski elsewhere in PA after Blue kills its season ahead of the PA hills that actually try to give their pass holders their $ worth.
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Montage has $40 tix rest of season
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Gonna be open through this weekend and try to re open April 1-2.
Rentals included with tix if you arrive before 3
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Camelback also open to 2nd per employees there.
Elk closing after 26th
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First skis/boots/poles I owned were Little Gap used rentals.
Main differences:
- rental gear is a lot better 4 decades later
- I paid for my skis myself (ok I paid for theirs myself too)
- cooler Camelback logo
They've been skiing on seasonal rentals for 9 seasons (after 1 of daily rentals). Now they will have pretty equivalent skis and boots to keep as their own and take to college in 2.5 years, rather than returning them each May. When they decide to upgrade that is on them
Next I'm going to look for a car for them to start learning to drive on in a month. It will also be well used and the best deal I can find that will keep them safe.
SMH at taking my kids skiing 120x and getting called cheap by someone who lives in a motel and whose most consequential financial decision is what beer to open at 10am
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Happening at Cbk now https://www.camelbackresort.com/mec-events/equipment-sale/
Picked up skis and boots for my two kids - moving on from getting new seasonal rentals every year.
$150 for a set of skis & boots ($125 if kids sizes).
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57 minutes ago, JFskiDan said:
JF, BB are both in Carbon County.
Cute edit. Certainly would not call Blue steep. But it is better than JF or BB when it is not over crowded.
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22 hours ago, toast21602 said:
It is impressive to see how long they have made it considering the season we have had. Just another reason why Blue is the best ski area in all of Carbon County, regardless of what Ski2liv says.
What other areas are in Carbon County? I'm sure it doesn't include Elk so the only contender would be Camelback.
Nothing wrong with Blue as a ski area. It's just too crowded for my taste during peak skiing times 10-2 non work days. But crowds are a sign of an otherwise good product.
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Wow - that is a brand new lift this season
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15 hours ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
Keep us updated!!!
If I forget you can always check my stats
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On 3/9/2023 at 7:40 PM, saltyant said:
Roundtop is done this Sunday. RIP Roundtop.
Alas. At least we still have Frost, Hunter, Okemo, Snow, Stowe, Sunapee, Wildcat, Vail, Breck, BC and Keystone to ski. Planning on another month of turns and hoping to make it my 2nd most days yet in a Skison.
Was considering giving Blue a go Friday for $45, but sounds like they got crap from this storm. Will likely hit Frost or Hunter instead.
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Did not do Goat. Did Chin Clip, Upper Smuggler's, Nosedive, Liftline, Haystack, Centerline and plenty of glades. Girls have done most of that too.
Also skied lots of awesome glades with girls at Magic on Saturday.
Skied 6 of the past 8 days
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Yep - in for Epic Local for 676 unless Ikon adds a decent PA option.
And the new Teen pricing tier on Epic Local ($547) makes it cheaper for us than last years pricing.
So we will get 3 Epics and no Indy for 23-24
Gonna max out visiting Indy resorts this Skison - after my 2nd consecutive Stowe day today.
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Hit West today on way up to Stowe. Nice to finally ski it in a fully open state.
Pretty similar place to Blue and well worth 3 hrs of skiing as break in the middle of 7nhrs driving.
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Nice to see Epic Local now has reduced price for teens.
Bye Bye Indy. Epic for 3 (unless Ikon adds in PA)
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Cool to see they are leaving money on the table while all the PA hills with one or two mountain passes are gouging folks.
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Nice soft snow on Floyd's and River Shot today, gently bumping up on the headwalls. No lines on 19 runs off Paradise lift 1030-2
Challenge and Thunderbolt were a bit thin and scratchy with no trees in play.
Didn't make it to other side.
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Seeing as how Salty's Buddy Pass to Blue seems likely to be going elsewhere I had a real nice.time at JF today. 19 runs off Paradise lift with zero lines. Soft snow bumping up over course of day on River Shot and Floyd's. No trees in play. They seem to be planning to make more snow and stay open at least a couple more weeks, but I expect this will be my last day skiing PA this season barring a March snowstorm.
Heading up to Hunter Tues on way to 2 days at Stowe
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3 minutes ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
Airhead is getting saltys buddy pass.
I know this. Try to keep up dude.
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ORDA keeps their pricing at last year's level - making it a more attractive option as others are raising theirs.
The passes with no holiday blackouts (the only ones I would consider are)
Belleayre 669 adult, 369 20s, 339 teens, 239 youth
All ORDA 859 adult, 699 20s, 439 teens, 339 youth
And they throw in the rest of this year and summer activities and buddy tix
So for the 3 of us it would run $1547
Not a bad price for that, but it means at least a 6 hr r/t every time we ski meaning we generally do all overnight trips. Will pay a bunch in gas/tolls/lodging.
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I figured, just keeping it on topic in the Blue thread.
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Sunday would be the day I would hit Blue this season if Salty's buddy pass freed up.
If not, I will enjoy the beautiful view of the Lehigh River from JFrost, where I hear some of the glades are now skiable.
Also playing guitar for Grease this weekend. Opened last night, shows at 7 tonight and at 1 and 7 tomorrow.
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Planning to ski Hunter 3/7, Stowe 3/8-9
Might hit JF Sunday 3/5 and some combo of Catamount/B.East/Magic/Greek 3/11-12
Should be the best stretch of skiing yet this season
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2 hours ago, saltyant said:
If Montage would replace Long Haul with a high speed lift it might be worth it. But it just takes way too long to get to the top of the mountain riding those old slow lifts. On a Perder day I only did one top-to-bottom, which was rad, but it took like 15 minutes riding 2 lifts to get up. Ugh
The top of the mountain is honestly irrelevant to me unless the gladed areas off Snake are open. And based on topography doing top to bottom runs confines you to the least exciting parts of the northface. So I'm not really troubled by it.
It is nice that the northface lift ride is kept to reasonable duration by not covering the lame part of the mountain. It's like the cool layout Blue had for half of their trails before they removed the lifts with smaller lines that let you skip homestretch.
It's all about Rattler, Cannonball, Smoke, Boomer, White Lightning with occasional variety from Lower Fast Track and Lower Runaway.
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$40 lift tix rest of this season
in Montage Mountain
Posted · Edited by Ski2Live Live2Ski
There may be some folks who actually lurk here hoping to pick up useful information about PA skiing and riding rather than details about tailgating at Blue.
I posted more useful info than 99% of the content posted here.