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I stood at the top of the Falls after my last run on Sunday, a great run down Lazy with no one else around, and great snow, edge to edge coverage which is unheard of for last weekend in March, and I really wanted to take a couple more runs. But then I thought, you know, if that was the last run of my Blue Mountain season, I can live with that memory until November. No regerts.

Interesting. Lift Tickets were definitely there as a category at about 9:30 am today. I checked Saturday, it was $35 without even having to put anything in about having a pass. Gone now? Probably not a good sign.

Current forecast for the weekend is rain starting 8 am Saturday and not stopping until 2am Sunday into Monday. If that holds, no way they open. Maybe they can scrape something together for a Friday 10a-6p send off day to say they were open in April

Then fuck off. Not sayin', just sayin'.

Huddling together for cold . . .

The ultimate hedge, they can close after this weekend if they have to! lol

Today was a helluva day! Thanks everyone for eating. And of course thanks to everyone who brought their own tasty delights. Dan's breakfast entree was the perfect kickoff, and per usual I was fashionably late but having the van with the microwave to eat it hot right off the jump was was clutch. Those stuffed pretzels from Frankenstein were probably the best thing I ate all day. Mike's pepperoni bread delicious too. Many others I didn't get to try . . . See everyone for at least one more weekend!

No pond skim scheduled, they'll open next weekend even if it's only Vista lift. 🤣 But it won't be.

Will be there Saturday, with plans to hit the season passholder party after skiing. 50/50 on Sunday.

Brisket may be MIA. For i think the first time ever, Restaurant Depot had zero briskets when I stopped in after work today. Did pick up some ribs

I've got the thin steaks for salt block steak, some pork belly, will likely pick up a brisket. Some chicken wings, pork tenderloin, of course some sausage. Maybe a fatty. Should we do some cheeseteaks? They were pretty tasty the one day we did them this season. Pizza oven? Raclette is gonna be out this year unless someone wants to source the cheese and stuff, just holler and I'll bring the heater.

Mixed drink machine?

Should we go next week? Do we want to risk pushing to the weekend of 3-29/30?

Saw that yesterday. Guessing they think they will close Sunday

This plus Buddy passes from this year and the free first timer thing expire at the end of this season (or earlier, i think, for the lesson thing) so maybe she was talking about that too

Don't you put that evil on Knoebels

Probably coming out this weekend, still getting over the end of trip illness, but feeling about 80% so that should also improve rapidly. I really should try to spend at least one of the days up in Tannersville if I ski both days . . . .

No, flew into Hayden, less than 30 min drive and we were gonna be out in town getting groceries anyway. The bag got left in Denver but SW put it on the next plane. Wasn't going to rent a car since the bus and condo shuttles are so good there, but for 5 of us to get round trip airport shuttle was gonna be $585 plus tips to the drivers/bag slingers, and the car was $640 all in, so made sense. If just Pops and I, we would have gotten a shuttle from the airport, and then I would have had them deliver them

Southwest lost my skis in Denver en route to Steamboat. Well, not lost them, they just didn't make the connection, and when I checked with the service desk they looked it up and knew right where they were, so it was no big deal. I was worried for a minute because I left everyone else to get bags while I got the rental car, and then went out to check out the rental car since they didn't have my car type and I had to make sure it was big enough, and while I was doing that they all came out with all the bags except the skis, so for a bit no one was watching for them. Was worried someone walked off with my bag since there was another double bag left behind. Was actually relieved to find out they never made the plane. There was another flight 4 hours later and they offered to deliver them to the condo, but since we had the rental car I drove back out to pick them up for a $250 voucher. Figured might as well.

You and Pops can hang out in the lot. Or at the bar up top, I'll let you use my mug. He fell out in CO and hurt his knee. Urgent care out there said nothing broken nothing torn, but he's going tomorrow to have it checked out.

Bet I could cook on it.

Will be up Saturday because Grayson has WAC, but not skiing. Probably be in the Last Run Lounge all morning. 🤣 Sunday 630 am flight.

Camelback perks include 5 buddy passes, no money off, but like Blue if they do something like that they may only send it to their current passholders, it's only $50 off for renewing. Other perks at Camelback that folks may or may not use, so value will vary, are 4 snowtubing tickets, a season pass for the outdoor waterpark in the summer, and 4 tickets to each of the Mountain Coaster, Sunbowl tubing and the 1000 ft zipline in the green season. $25 day tickets for passholder and up to 3 guests at the indoor waterpark is actually a decent perk, that sucker is expensive. Might do a morning ski up there on our passes followed by an afternoon in the waterpark next month.

Camelback lowered their child pass age to 9 to match Blue so no incentive to even think about them next season. With 5 buddy passes there each, peak to peak for Pops and I could make sense if we get the boys up there in March and they love it, but, eh. Though it would be nice if Blue introduced a youth anytime pass like Camelback has.