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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.

I prefer places that focus less on terrain parks and more on ski trails, as that is what I prefer to ski. I see having a higher % of skiers as a plus, but that doesn't directly impact where I go.

Drastically less than at Blue which is likely more Boarder infested than any place I hit other than Big Boarder (which I hit only when it is the only game in town). I do more or less skip Bear Creek and Mountain Creek entirely.

Surely you have noticed subpar boarders deciding to descend a steep with their board perpendicular to the fall line scraping a 3 foot swath down to ice. JF is pretty boarder free thanks to the presence of "Big Boarder" nearby on the same ticket.

They could build a lodge and parking area 100 yards south and still have the tubing exactly where it is. But then they wouldn't get the run out and the stat. If losing the terrain park meant fewer boarders I suppose I could endure that. Could we make upper sidewinder a ski trail too?

Because they did it by adding something not even worth skiing. Did I not make that clear enough in my earlier posts or did you just want to read it again? Elk skis a lot bigger than Blue IMO. More different trails, whole vertical on all of them, lacks the dull run out. But Elk is about as far from me as Hunter and skis a lot smaller than that.

There is a bit on top to get to the face, so it is probably about 500' of bumps. I won't win any bump competitions, but when they are soft I have a lot more fun giving them my best than cruising down groomed runs.

Didn't do the bumps much as they were scraped out. I like doing them at Montage where they keep a lot more snow in them due to getting maybe 5% of the traffic. Boomer is my fav ski run in NEPA. No runout there, usually all soft bumps wall to wall start to end for 600' of vertical. Surely you have noticed that in spring conditions it can be a chore getting down Homestretch. But I didn't start this thread to bitch about anything, just reacting to your relating the expansion history.

Wasn't that what Blue was doing in raising their vertical stat with a run out that makes Freedom look like the Himalayas? The only folks they passed that are in roughly the same geographic market are Montage and Elk. But Montage also has a BS vertical stat. Of course as someone that tracks vertical who am I to complain. Gave me a 20K day yesterday, and without even skiing anything remotely challenging.

That is exactly what makes it cheesy. An expansion for marketing reasons rather than to improve the experience for skiers. I would be happier without the runout when skiing. And Elk certainly is a more legit thousand foot. Used the bottom lot exactly once - the time I went tubing there. I see no reason to drive up and down the mountain an extra time for the privilege of having to ride a lift before skiing.

Wow kind of cheesy doing that to boost the vertical, and it does seem likely it was done just for that reason as it adds no particular thrill.

She's married but a carpool ski buddy on my block would be nice. Her husband doesn't ski so she drives up alone