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Challenge and Main Street were both filled with cookies when I started at 11:30 but softened up nicely before I left after 20 runs at 345. Troughs in the bumps om NMDW and Barneys were too scraped to be much fun. More fun in the small gladed areas. Best conditions were on Switchback followed by Burma, but most of the rubs were decent groomed conditions. Weird how the line on the 6 pack varied from run to run with a 5 min wait one run and nothing on the next. Met a woman on the lift who lives on my block so we may carpool to do some skiing in the future.

Gonna hit the hill today from about 11 to 4. Get it before the rain kills it. First Blue session since March or so. Anyone else gonna be out there?

Posted a report from my day at CB on Sunday, but not in the blue thread this time. Gonna hit Shawnee with the kids tomorrow if I can sufficiently shake this bug that is bringing me down about now.

Nice day at the CB today. Some runs were Snocone over ice but there were nice conditions on Cliffhanger (fast, firm but carvable) and lower Cleopatra (big soft snowy bumps). Avoided any significant lines. My friend chickened out at the top of Hump when I shared with him the events of the past week.

No doubt. And an even higher chance of dying from leading the kind of sedentary lifestyle where you avoid doing anything that could cause you to fall.

To be clear, they say he went off the trail and hit a rock

Thanks for the reports from those there today, though their content is depressing.

Going to CB Sunday with a friend. Only question is if I double down and go Sat AM to Blue as well. Or perhaps go to Skillz Sat. Surprised to see no weekend thread here yet.

Ugh. Was thinking I could actually make it out early tomorrow, but does not sound worth it. Can't say it is a surprise with the weather we have been having.

So what kind of conditions are folks expecting for tomorrow AM?

Now up for sale via Michael Baxter and Associates. Seeking offers of at least 750k through 2/15. If you were ever looking to own a beginner ski hill further away from population centers than other beginner ski hills in the region, this is your chance. And no doubt surrounded by white supremacist Trump voters. But hey the lodge was rennovated a year or two ago.

CB says they are anticipating 3-5" of snow tonight. Other Pocono ski areas anticipating similar snow?

The first time I said a word about Jack Frost or Montage in this thread was when you asked me "How was Floyds?" You should have asked me that question in the Jack Frost thread where I had posted about my day there. If you ask me a question about it here, I will answer it here. Before that my comment was only about the fog that was being discussed here having dissapated as I drove further north.

I usually ski behind them to more easily help them if they fall. The only exception is if I want to show them a route to take to maneuver around obstacles or ice, in which case I keep turning my head back to check thwy are close. Just got a new set of Bolle goggles a few weeks ago as my last pair of goggles cracked in December. New ones work real nice and do fit over the glasses. But they don't add any benefit for me when skiing slow with kids in 48 degree weather. I was unzipping my jacket and taking off my gloves.

When skiing with a 9 year old I don't ski that fast. And goggles over glasses are a PITA so when it's 48 degrees I avoid them. Didn't even wear gloves most of the day. Didn't do Floyds, but it looked nice. Was psyched my girl made it down River Shot and Exhibitions bumps without a spill. Everything was soft and springy.

Drove through thick fog up the TPK til about 5 miles south of route 80, at which point it was gone and was a beautiful sunny day. Too warm for goggles so I was wishing I had sunglasses.

Nice day of spring skiing at Frost today. One of my 9yos made it down River Shot as well as handling bumps on Exhibition and some trees. Not a lot of base so worried about how well it will hold up to the rain forecast for this week, but today was a fine day, albeit with slow snow.

Nice deal and it even seems to be refundable til early April if I am reading it correctly.

We are just going down for the day on Sat. The Donald should be back in NYC getting his golden showers by then.

I will be at Blue at least 3 times this year with my PS&R cards. Will definitely try to make it for opening if they are on the weekend. To use my cards up I will be 3 days each at Blue, CB and Shawnee and 2 more at Frost. Also hope to go to CO in late March. I ski pretty much every weekend (may miss this one to go March on Washington with my little Women) and hope to top my lifetime best of 21 days and 200k vertical this year. 9 in so far.

Scratch thoughts of Elk on president day weekend. They black out the 4th grade ski passport then. Won't be making it there this year.

Yeah I enjoy Elk more than anywhere else in PA. But from Central NJ it is really no closer than Hunter, which has more challenge and vertical and faster lifts. So I almost never get to Elk. Down side of Hunter is the 6th Boro aspect of it. May well go there presidents day weekend, taking advantage of the Kids PA 4th grade ski passport that lets them ski free there - on a weekend when few other deals are available, and the Pocono Ski and Ride Card I use for CB, Blue, Shawnee and JFBB is blacked out.

I was there from 11 to 430 skiing the Northface exclusively. It was the most crowded I have ever seen it, but even at the peak period from 130 to 245 the longest I waited for a lift was 5 min. Being a single helped, but not that much as there was no dedicated single line. It was the first time I had see them actually put a person out there matching people up to try to get 4 on each chair. Didn't spend much time in the lodge other than booting up and then going in when the line peeked for men's room and a slice of pizza. I really didn't see anything I would describe as ice, though there was hard packed snow on the groomed Runway and Cannonball. I did those occasionally for a change of pace, but mostly stuck to the ungroomed Smoke (had nice med sized soft bumps formed on about a third of it), Boomer (soft bumps all the way down), and White Lightning (plenty of snow to dig into on the sttepest headwall in PA). Rattler may have been the most challenging run as it was fairly slick, 15 feet wide, steep and with some must do turns. But didn't have any problem on this run either. Got 26 runs in overall for my most productive ski day of the season so far. Day 9. At least one of those guys with a backpack had it filled with beers as he offered me 3 different varieties on one lift ride. Turned them all down. I don't enjoy mixing skiing and beer, as it makes my legs get more sore. While an after ski beer can be fun if I am not doing much driving, a 2:10 drive home in the dark when I was beat seemed unlikely to be assisted by that either. Thanked him for the generous offer though. My one pet peeve is that they have no water fountain and only hot water in the bathroms, so the only way to get a Sim is to ask for a cup of water at the bar. Maybe some of those backpacks were filled with bottles water. Clear that they have not opened the Long Haul TTB lift even once this season as they have not even made snow on and groomed the path to it - and if not for MLK with the mountain 90% open (including all black runs) then when? Not that it it a real draw except when the trees to the skiers right of it are in play. Should probably drop it off the map to stop misleading people though.

Was a beautiful day at Montage with 3 fresh natural inches and some fresh man made along with it. White Lightning, Boomer, Smoke and Rattler all left ungroomed. Got 26 runs in, each better that the last. It was as crowded as I have ever seen Montage, which meant that from 130 to 245 lines got as long as 5 minutes at times.

Heading back either Sat or Sunday to avoid the crowds elsewhere and use my other prepaid $30 lift ticket. Looks like all 4 Northface runs will be open.