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Sounds great. Thanks for the offer. Just sent you a PM.

Wow, I guess the warm weather sent everyone golfing. Pretty big crowd at Shawnee yesterday, though lines stayed under 5 minutes.

Awesome. Taking the day off for some turns tomorrow.

Wondering if anyone has insight into how crowded Blue is midweek this week. Is it crowded today? I see snow tubing is sold out, which has me concerned. Thinking about taking tomorrow off to ski from about 930 to 2, but not if it will be packed.

If I am skiing with the kids I always spring for a hot cocoa for them to split while eating the lunch we brought. Support the local economy and all.

Kids best ski day yet in spring conditions. Got 15 runs in, including doing each Black Diamond at least twice. No falls at all.

Heading back here with the kids for ex-President's day

Almost never buy food at a ski lodge. But almost never eat the food I bring inside the lodge either. Usually just have snacks in my pockets I eat on the lift.

With the weather forecast for the next week this seems quite optimistic.

My arm got seriously twisted to make the trip

No seems unlikely I will get to ski there. Going for a Bar Mitzvah.

Yeah off for a week and a half. Going to Japan for a week then somewhere with the kids for a long weekend.

Figure somewhere in VT if nowhere closer. They have gotten a lot of snow recently in New England.

Wondering how far I will have to go this year for some skiing April 13-17 (late spring break).

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.