Ski2Live Live2Ski

Yep that's how it looks now. Yesterday AM they were calling it for it to happen last night. Oh well. Still psyched as we are getting ready for another awesome day of skiing. At least we got the 16" of freshness at BC thursday. Daughter had some altitude sickness 3 am last night but felt better after some crushed Advil mixed in hot cocoa. Glad we are staying somewhere with housekeeping service.

We are all having an awesome time. I can't believe the level of skiers they have proved themselves to be today.

Supposed to get a fresh 4 to 8 inches tonight. Off to the hot tub.

11 awesome runs with the girls tackling trees and moguls. Check out the Cabriolet from our hotel to the base and our lunch break at the peak :-)

Took the kind of flights that got 3 free roundtrips with miles. Return is direct.

Took the Home James shuttle to the Vintage Inn. Rode the Cabriolet to the resort (like being in Mountain Creek but without the drive and with a plane ride instead). Now eating at the Back Bowl before picking up our rental gear at Christy's. Plan to hit the outdoor hot tub then call it an early night on account of about 3 hours total sleep including on plane.

Discovered a benefit of wearing ski helmet on plane as wearing it it works as a pretty good pillow when leaning your head on side of plane to catch some Zs. Breakfasting in Florida airport because how else would you fly from PA to CO? For those who wanted pix

So someone can give me crap for not taking pix while I ski?

Heading to Winter Park with the kids

Empty in the AM got crowded on the front lift by 1, but the lift by the better stuff stayed pretty free. Left at 2.

Enjoying BC. They say they got 16 and I believe them. All the blacks and some blues ungroomed, and it is deep in trees.

Heading out to ski with girls today. Most likely Blue though if they want to try someplace new to them we may head for BC which could be nice with some of the new snow likely staying untracked longer. Gonna excavate car now then wake em up and make the call.

Don't want to risk the drive home today. May well be there tomorrow.

I have never looked at weekday not holiday rates. Weekends are high enough thst I never considered it.

Free of charge, just like CO and 40+ other ski days.

$159 to stay over tonight and they throw in 4 lift tix. A big advantage of a place with on site lodging. If schools cancel tonight for tomorrow, I may do it. Includes water park passes too.

Damn.

Hampton Inn about 3 miles from Montage works nice for my standards. Definitely the hotels I stay at the most.

Ski2live did you ever consider how posting up an itemized report for every facet of every damn thing you do sorta sets you up for some of this ridicule? This is a ski forum not a form 1040A. Take your kids out and post up what a memorable and awesome it was. The dollars and cents spent (and by whom) report is your business but when you put it out there you have to expect people are going to react. But whatever. you do your thing though. It's definitely entertaining. Fortunately being ridiculed in an online forum really doesn't bother me and I am glad to he fodder for conversation, though I would rather folks keep it civil. We do our family thing and have a grand time doing it.

No they are way luckier than I was starting at 12 or 13. Paid for lots at 10 that they don't pay for. I was an independent guy riding my bike and taking trains to malls, bowling alleys, arcades and movies while they largely get chauffered and treated. That's not acceptable today, but I try to give them as many opportunities to make spending decisions as I can, and I feel good about this one. They are now paying for their own movies too unless it's something I really want to see.

I have spent thousands of dollars taking my kids skiing. They want to go somewhere that was going to cost us money to ski and be an extra two hours of driving, instead of somewhere we all can ski free, I think it is good parenting for them to be exposed to a little of the cost rather than thinking everything comes free. What they spent was their allowance from this week and next, and I bought them each a ski pin that was the cost of half of their contribution. You know how many lift tix my parents bought me my whole life? 2 or 3.

Throw in gas, tolls, food , ski pins I easily spent $100. They contributed $10 each and each took home a $5 ski pin and got an awesome day of skiing. They feel good about how they spent their money. Awesome day

$47 from 1230 to 430, kids free with PA Ski passport.

Awesome day of skiing. Plenty of tree lines to be had, and we were not the only ones skiing them. The snow in the trees and on the sides of trails was unreal. The kind of light foamy powder you slide through with zero resistance, that I have virtually never encountered in PA and hardly ever this side of Utah. Definitely my fav PA Ski destination. Only the 4th time I have been there in 4 decades. Re VT, one of my kids on our run down the narrow natural snow trail Lehigh said "this reminds me of Bromley," which is where she had her fav ski day ever. They also both said they thought it was well worth the $10 they contributed to the extra cost of skiing Elk when we had Blue passes. Bought them each a ski pin to end the day :-)

This is the first time I have ever encountered such an effort on this forum to talk someone out of skiing Blue.