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Cool, I'll make sure to try to check it out. Yeah, Pops is coming with. I didn't think I'd be headed out west this coming season, figured we'd make a trip or two to Vermont or something as the next step in a progression, but a guy at work knows someone who is organizing a group trip, and the price seemed too good to pass up. Definitely another one to add to the list to check out. Love me some BBQ. Bought a new pellet grill/smoker this summer. Wife wasn't happy, lol. Can't blame her, it *is* outdoor cooking appliance number 10. Got a great deal though.

Plan to ski the shit out of Blue on the weekends and 2-3 weeknights late after work. Might try to get a few of those Pocono cards because I do like Camelback and enjoyed Jack Frost last year, will probably hit Montage once or twice, had fun there last year too. Headed to Steamboat first week in February. Really looking forward to it

Some interesting things from that article: I hadn't seen that particular artist's rendering before, and it was interesting to get a better look at the location. From the pics I had seen in the past and the description, I thought it was more of an expansion/revamp of the upper lodge to extend up the hill, and I couldn't quite figure out how it was incorporated. This is the first I've seen mention of a split concept between timeshare and regular hotel rooms. From the story it looks like they are planning at least 55 regular hotel rooms and up to 80 timeshare rooms.

I don't get why they don't do it the first weekend in May. There had to be more snow around then. If all you want is to say you opened for a day in May, why wait to mid to late month?

Is this the roll call?

Never been but I know people who spent some time there when it was known as Traction Park. Their alpine slide was apparently one of the most brutal around for wrecks and road rash. And some of the free form concrete water slides were supposed to be out of control. There are still a few of the tamer ones of those left. Would like to get there this summer, assuming they open. Also, this slide was A Thing there:

$25 for a $50 giftcard tomorrow morning at 9:00 am: http://www.sweetdealscumulus.com/deal/allentown/blue-mountain-ski-resort-27

CamelBlue. When does the zip line go in?

Short, crappy closing day edit: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=621Tx6ztykE

I also use ski tracks

Still 30 left on this round. Not flying off the shelves at all. 6 of the 20 sold were me and my dad, lol. Could really do some damage with multiple email addresses. Or the gmail + trick. This round is allowing multiples per credit card. TP4 could drop $300 and really save on that pass!

Pretty much. Never know when they're gonna stop doing it. Only real risk to sitting on a bunch of gift card value is that they go out of business. EDIT: That being said, if e'eryone is tired of the posts I'll stop. Hopefully they're helping someone.

I don't know what the hecks going on, maybe Barb has another loan payment due, but they are back in again with an unprecedented middle of the day drop: http://www.sweetdealscumulus.com/deal/allentown/blue-mountain-resort-4 $50 gets you $100 again, and they're back to print on demand

Happened across an unannounced sale this morning. Only 5 left, $50 for a $100 gift card this time and looks like they will be mailing the voucher instead of print at home. http://www.sweetdealscumulus.com/deal/allentown/blue-mountain-ski-resort-24 Looks like they are now limited to one per email address AND one per payment card, so that's probably why there are still a few available.

Just finishing up lunch at Boulder View Tavern after a nice day on the snow at Boulder. We arrived at about 9:30 for the 10:00 opening and headed into the snow right about ten after buying tickets and booting up in the lodge. We jumped on the Merry Widow lift to head down Mittle-Weg. Snow was nice spring corn with some firmness to it due to the cold temps overnight. Headed right at the bottom of the hill to hit the Big Boulder lift and check out Draufganger. On the way up it looked like Bunny's Elbow/Schuss was open, and it was. Not sure why they didn't have them listed as open on the website, With those two trails they had 50% more trails and 100% more non-freestyle terrain open than advertised. We decided to hit Bunny since it was open and found pretty much the same snow conditions, maybe a bit softer because of the flatter trail getting hit by the sun already. Coverage was nice on all trails, wall to wall with pretty much sufficient depth. All three trails did start showing some dirt by the end of the day in a few spots. Went back up the triple and ran Draufganger, which was for me the run of the day. Same firm corn as Mittle, and it stayed very uncrowded all day so there was little worry about traffic at the bottom where Bunny merges in. We stayed on the Big Boulder lift for all of the rest of our 28 runs for the day. Mostly Draufganger with 8-10 Bunny runs and 3 or 4 Mittle-Weg thrown in. Would have run MW more if it wasn't a pain to get to. Snow got progressively more mashed potato-ey as the morning and early afternoon went on. By the time we called it quits at about 1:30 it was pretty soft all over, and some areas were starting to bump up pretty good with piles of mashed. Skated over and skied down Love Park to finish as close to the lodge as possible. After debooting and dropping gear in the car we popped into the shop to check out the sale. Seemed good with a "Buy one item, get one for $4" deal on soft goods, and same deal but $17 for the second item for glasses, goggles and helmets. Left without buying tho, didn't see anything that jumped at us, and only a few options for my fat ass anyway. They're supposed to be open again tomorrow and I see no reason they wouldn't be able to have the same 6 trails open. They could probably make it to next week with a t least a trail or two, but based on the crowd I would bet tomorrow is it. Either way, today was the last day on the skis for me for this season. Really enjoyed the hell out of it and definitely progressed as a skier. Put in 31 days at 5 different PA hills (2 new to me) for about 209k vertical skied. Now I guess it's roller coaster and theme park time. Disney in 27 days!

Boulder is opening tomorrow and Sunday, 10-6 with 4 trails, Draufganger, Mittleweg, Boulder Park and Love Park, with $30 tickets. Probably gonna head up tomorrow.

That's the gist. Probably too much effort for sure for one card, but last time I got 5 that I still haven't traded in. Hopefully will again. I want to go up this spring or summer and check out disc golf, I'll just convert them all then. I know it helps that I'm close, but for $250 free it'd be worth the trip.

Bump for gift cards on sale tomorrow morning: http://www.sweetdealscumulus.com/deal/allentown/blue-mountain-ski-resort-22 I'll try to post a reminder in the AM but might not get around to it, so here is your reminder, lol. Last round they limited to one per email address, and of course they sell out quick as mentioned every other time. They do not seem to limit by credit card or address (at least yet) but any orders over 1 were adjusted down at checkout. Be ready with multiple emails if you want more than one.

I don't know if they do sometimes or have before, but last spring and the year before I saw them going from the edge of the upper lot, right side as you are driving out on the outermost row. Grassy area behind some big rocks. Didn't really see any of them this year.

Crane was/is right by where the paragliders usually launch from. Someone told Pops and I that they were told by a Blue employee that the were filming a scene for the Kevin Hart/Bryan Cranston/Nicole Kidman movie that has been filming down in Philadelphia. It did look like some sort of lighting rigging or something was hanging from the crane when we left the upper lot around 3:15, we had to stop up so dad could pick up his mug from the Last Run Lounge.

Great ending to a good season at Blue. Til next year!

Ski near me, no one will notice, lol. Of course, I don't try to keep up with these guys anyway. Plan to ski early, fire the grill up around 10 or so in the lot, head up to catch a little skimming, then hit the slopes for a few afternoon runs too.

Veggies and hummus is Win. Should make up some of my homemade guacamole.

By popular demand looks like grilling day too. Gonna look for some sort of steak to make. Maybe sliders. Not gonna overdo it, last day so I'm definitely gonna wanna go back out after tailgate