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Is that typical? We do have a late Easter this year which could have them wanting to go longer.

We could have had a taco truck on every corner but noooo you had to vote for Trump

Got married at a B&B less.thsn a mile from Belleayre, a place we found when we were mountain biking at Plattekill and realized we forgot our tent. Having the lower mountain as a segregated beginner area wasnt a bad idea actually. It will be less good for beginners with all the faster traffic the gondola base will draw down there. Place is a bit like an inverted Montage. Both with the lodge in the middle and tough stuff one way easy stuff the other.

Touche. But their bottom stuff is more interesting to me than homestretch. At lease it's scenic and wooded. And it actually won't boost their vertical stat at all, it will just be their first TTB lift.

Kids are at school and other activities from 730 to 445 so that's the time I've got to go. Subtract 2 hours on each end for transport and getting gear on, and gotta leave a margin of error to be sure to get them on time at end of day. Will make a weekend trip there one day this winter, as early as my buddy will do it.

Mountain Creek has the worst non-surface lift ever built. Belleayre development is particularly cool in that it will be their first TTB lift, making their runs almost as long as Hunter and Windham. Coolest part is all the terrain of the old Highmount area is also being linked and opened up. Plattekill is pissed.

May well hit Blue on Wednesday to ski about 930-2. Gonna ski Shawnee with kids on Monday. (Or are local schools off Wed for Pres week? If so would not bother)

Between single lines and slower lifts never spent more than 5 min in a lift line at CB. Got in 24 runs starting at 1030. Parked at 10 in lower lot within 20 yards of lodge. Which is to say it was a crowded day there, and yet a much better one than I expect I would have had dealing with crowds at Blue at that time.

So it is. Oops. Fixed.

100% open with real nice conditions including soft bumps on Uncle Bills and Lower Cleopatra. Also particularly enjoyed The Hump, Marges Delight and Cliffhanger. Got in 24 runs from 1030 to 430. Crowds fortunately stuck to the quads and, even there, single line helped a bunch.

Never fall asleep til somewhere between midnight and 1. Wake at 7 and eat some food and coffee. From loading the car to driving up there and getting my gear on I spend about 2:15. Maybe I will hit the slopes by 930. If I break that routine it will either be to go further (Catskills) or cause it's a powder day. I will definitely break the routine when I hit Blue on a weekend going forward too. But for CB I can get a reasonable srsrt and still get a real nice day in. If trails aren't getting scraped I often enjoy them more later in the day when they start to get bumped up too.

Not surprising. But not worth going, while many other places in the Poconos are still very enjoyable at that time. Heading to Camelback tomorrow. Likely pull in around 10 and ski all day without ever spending more than 5 minutes in a lift line. But Blue was fun on Monday. May well be the first time I have ever skied the Poconos 3 days out of 6.

On the bright side that $960 went to help someone less foolish afford health insurance

The idea of kids learning to read from wikipedia is reminiscent of Marie Antoinette

Doctors can certainly do something about insurance companies not paying them. They can opt not to be part of their network and to demand payment up front from patients who then have to seek reimbursement. Lots of doctors do that, if they are in demand enough to be able to pull it off.

Best I can tell she is doing part time intermittent daycare work. I expect she is either relying on Obamacare or rolling the dice. About a week before the divorce she initiated was finalized (a divorce she pursued with a scorched earth legal strategy, firing succesive attorneys when they started advising her to settle) her third divorce attorney came up with some cockamamie scheme to remain technically married while she received alimony so she would not lose her coverage on my insurance. Yeah right, that's gonna happen. Should have thought about that a year ago before setting us down this road. I had been determined to stay in a loveless marriage for the sake of the kids (glad in retrospect that we did not, for them as much as for me).

She gets 7 more months of alimony. Unclear how many more months of Obamacare she will get.

The orthopedist had said she was fine to ski with the cast. I wasn't even going to go there, but my ex wife piped up in the appointment where she got the cast "She shouldn't ski with it, right?" The doctor said. "I would. Anything she can do with the cast is fine for her to do. It will protect her." Thanks ex wife :-)

No I went in Philly, but didn't have a car until senior year. Probably made it past day 30 that year. Then I moved to NYC and started doing a lot more skiing, generally in the Catskills. Really only started skiing when I started driving as my parents did not do it (they took me maybe 4 times before then and I had done a school trip to Elk), and then lacked a car most of college.

Hit Shawnee with the kids this afternoon. First day one of them skied with a cast on her arm (from a fall at Frost a month ago), meaning she could not use poles. Cast was actually scheduled to come off today but doctor cancelled due to snow which is what freed us up to ski. They had gotten 7 inches of real light fluffy powder there. Way different from the heavy wet stuff I had shoveled out of in the AM. Unfortunately the winds were very high so it had blown straight off some of the trails, but we found a few that had real nice powdery stuff to ski in that you rarely find in PA. Deep enough we had to hunt to find a buried ski once. Nicest runs were Country Club and Delaware, with some nice skiable coverage in the trees alongside them as well. Pennsylvania also had a real nice surface. Skied from about 3 to 530. Only had one lift running (high speed quad) but line never exceeded 5 min. Nice midweek bonus. Day 30 for one girl day 29 for the other. About as much skiing as I had done by the end of college. Go dad!

I find all 3 more interesting but it is nice to hit Blue as a change of pace if you can do it on a weekday.

About 5" by me. More at Shawnee where I am now.

Gonna try to get out somewhere today. Step 1: grabbing my shovel

I was at Boulder in 87 once, then not again until 2014

I love Plattekill but would not recommend it for intermediates. Windham is best variety of intermediate terrain in Catskills and also much more vertical and better lifts than Belleayre or Plattekill.