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Ski your cares away. Work is for another day.

Might take my kids there for closing day.

Last day of their season will be March 26

Tentative closing April 1 at 430 pm

Right anyone that forecasts weekend rain at ski areas is definitely "fake weather" :-)

Hourly forecast only goes out 48 hours but it shows (for Blue) 50% chance at 8 up to 55% for 9 and 10. Will see how it evolves between now and Sat.

Weather Channel App (same source as Weather.com) says 80% chance rain Sat and 50% chance Sunday at Blue, pretty similar for CB (90% Sat there) and Montage (60% Sat). Looking at 1/4" rain Sat at Blue

Awesome. Look forward to hearing your reports from the week before I go.

At this point the forecast looks a bit better for Sunday than Saturday but pretty dismal for both days - for Blue as well as Poconos. Looking at the forecast for rain Sat through Tues and then again for rain next weekend, I would not fault some ski areas in PA for calling a sooner end to the season. Still hope to get out in PA again if it does not mean doing a Gene Kelley ("I'm skiing in the rain")

That is the plan. Keeping it for a while as the points are worth 50% more if used on travel than if redeemed for cash (worth only $1000 in cash), so going to use as much as I can for travel (hence all the vacas I have booked), then transfer the rest to my no fee Chase card. I game CCs almost as well as I game lift tix :-)

For some reason they keep offering me more cards with better reward deals, notwithstanding my paying in full every month. Chase just gave me $1500 worth of ultimate reward points for taking a card with a $150 annual fee.

Others have commented they go to Shawnee as well. But clearly it is mostly a Blue crowd here and not many of you ski with kids. Good place to go with young ones and also the quickest drive for me.

Shawnee has already said they are only committed through this weekend

Sat is the day. Will not be shocked if it is the last many places in PA.

Not at Blue for Sat but it is elsewhere in Poconos

Bummed it is looking like a rainy weekend starting Friday through Tuesday. Maybe a let up on Saturday to get some turns in. Makes April seem a lot less promising and has me wondering if a bunch of PA resorts may throw in the towel on the skison.

CC companies hate me too. Have not paid them any interest in at least 25-30 years. Did a few times as a student.

Yeah I hear you. It will be an exhausting weekend. Schedule was my buddy's idea and I went along. See how it goes. Monday will be rough.

I have deals enough places that I have been able to choose what suits each day best to a tee, depending on factors like road conditions, anticipated crowds, and whether I am skiing with kids (which makes easier places more worth skiing). Not any days this year that I wished I was skiing elsewhere. I woukd say the two main impacts seeking out deals has had on my skiing choices are 1. Getting me to ski more to use up prepaid tix. 2. Getting me to drive further and check out areas I would not otherwise go to. That is a plus too because I enjoy checking out a variety of places more than skiing one place many many times in a season. The one real example of 2 this year was last weekend when I went to Big Bear. It was a perfectly good place to ski with the kids, being 100% open with 30" of fresh snow and no lines at all. But I would gone somewhere closer if we did not have 4 free tix to there. Fortunately one of those free tix went to the person who did the driving :-)

I have bought about 40 lift tickets so far this year for a total that I expect is $500-$600, not having done the math yet. Window price would have been easily $2200. Would that have broken the bank? No. But it is a significant chunk of change to me. It adds up And I enjoy finding deals. Doesn't feel like work to me.

Share a bag is the latest thinking if 4 boots fit in one bag. This is not all planned out thoroughly yet but we have plane tix and I spent $39 :-)

Yep, I am going to travel very light, going for only 2 nights. Done it before. Plan is to pay for one bag each way between two of us to bring our boots. Rent skis there. Can't beat the timing of flights that let me fly out Friday after work and red eye back before Monday. Vacation time now at a premium as I am already taking off 9 days in April, 5 in Aug, 5 in Sept, 3 in Dec.

Yeah, pretty much :-) But I have fun. May well be going right from work to airport via train which adds to hassle of bringing lots of stuff.

Yes I have a boot bag. No I am definitely not bringing skis with me, renting there. Cheaper to rent than to bring the skis on plane and less hassle. Not sure if I am bringing boots or renting there.

From what I read all the major airlines will soon be introducing economy class fares where you pay extra for bags so as to compete better with Frontier et al. Which really makes good sense, otherwise you are effectively making all pay for bags that only some need. Bundling the cost in with the fare does not make it free. I am lucky that I tend to fit well in a wide range of boots. Might consider paying some extra for a boot bag though.