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Lol, I think this means was it crowded, if so it started out not bad at all, by the time I left around 1245 it had picked up but still not bad considering only 4 real runs open. Nice corn snow was starting to get real soft and pushed around, but the low crowds kept it from getting bad. There was significant traffic in both the Big Boulder and Love parks, with skiers and riders alike actually making use of the features and big jumps. I took 20 laps, pretty evenly split between Bunny's Elbow/Schuss and Draufganger, save one run each down the parks (skirting the features) that I took early on before the crowd actually using them rolled in. There was a decided lack of real inexperienced skiers out, there were only a handful or so of people that were struggling to even make turns, so it made for a real nice day.

Man, I thought Bear Creek was small. Great snow conditions, but I'm 7 runs in sand just cracked 2100 vert. Beggars, choosers and all that, tho.

Shoot, they say they're still building new features. If the morning report still shows the 3 trails I think I'm gonna run up there. Worth a $25 ticket to give them a go. I enjoyed my last day at Blue, but my last run was less than satisfactory. Wouldn't mind replacing its memory with a new last run of the season, lol

Wish they had some non-park terrain open. EDIT: Hmm, maybe they do. The one trail report mentions only parks, but another says the two blues and one black are open

Wow, what a dirty move! They announce they are closed with literally only an hour's time for Saturday check-in guests to cancel without increased penalty, and after Thursday or Friday check-in guests can do so. Not cool.

I called it too. Third year in a row they closed earlier than they said they were going to.

Will probably go up Saturday morning. If they open.

Their outdoor water park is pretty nice if someone was looking for something fun to do in the summer. I haven't been to the indoor one yet. Hoping to have some family up for a weekend at the lodge next season

Because before that front moved out they were going to have 4 nights to do it, and the last 2 were low 20s with 30% humidity or less. They could have made enough to ensure this coming weekend, maybe even the one after. Now as it turns out the forecast changed and yeah, that's not possible. But they made it sound like it was a dumb idea, using hindsight to negate what was a valid point at the time. EDIT: My original comment was Friday afternoon, they responded a couple hours ago

Camelback tried to give me shade on their Facebook page because I called them out for not making snow.

Good to meet everyone, and hang out after. Looks like my season is done unless Camel pulls off next weekend, and even then it's only 50/50. Time to start looking at new skis!

Pond skim moved to tomorrow instead of Sunday. Wonder if they are worried about not making Sunday? Can't imagine that's the case if they make snot tonight and tomorrow. Thought it was weird though.

They also closed earlier than they said they were going to two years running, so this weekend will probably be it for them no matter what they say. Maybe if they blow snow thru Tuesday . . .

They claim to be planning on staying open for Easter weekend — though they do of course throw in the "if conditions allow" caveat.

Yeah, I've heard of that. I wouldn't think you'd want to do that on the slope that feeds 50% of your mountain to 80% of your lift capacity though

In other words, things people would rather talk about more than Shawnee! Just kidding. Actually had planned on hitting a day up there this year but got bit by the short season. I'm sure I'll check them out next year.

Wow, homestretch looks terrible. I'm sure they'll find the snow somewhere

Blue confirms they will be blowing snow:

Will be there Saturday morning, probably miss Sunday. If anyone needs a ticket I still have that triple that I never unloaded. Free, just would like for someone to use it.

Grape St reopened a few months ago. It's as good as ever, best buffet sushi selection around. The three I mentioned all have sushi and hibachi, both are mandatory for me for a chinese buffet. I did enjoy the one by Dorney as well, only been there twice. I really enjoyed the buffets at Rio and Planet Hollywood while in Vegas about 4 years ago. We eat at either the Borgata or Harrahs buffet one night when we spend the weekend in AC.

I'm a big buffet fan too (shocker, right?) the Chinese buffet up on Grape St by the mall is the best around. 4th st in Allentown and 191 over near Bethlehem are top choices too. I like buffets more for the variety than the quantity, like to have a lot of different things. Yeah, I overeat there, but not as bad as you would think for a fat guy at an AYCE. I'm an installer/repair for Comcast down in Bucks/Mont/Berks counties, working with the business clients.

There's lots of places to eat that aren't fast food per se, but with 30 minutes for lunch (if I'm lucky) and often no idea what time of the day that will be, it's tough to hit any of them up. I do try to eat better for dinner. For instance, last nights dinner was a pan-seared pork tenderloin finished in the oven with some roasted potatoes with rosemary and dill, and steamed broccoli with a little sea salt. Just gotta try a little harder for lunch, cut out so much soda, and get a little more exercise.

No worries about keeping up. We'll ride the chair together every three times y'all do down, lol. I wish I liked beer. Tried many times, can't do it. For shot like Bbqs and tailgates I go with girly drinks like Mike's and his various spin offs. At home and out usually cocktails, rum and coke, vodka cran or redbull, whatever.

It's a bastardization of one of the characters from Les Miserables. I was a yoot of eclectic tastes: on the football team, the debate team, the school paper and the drama club in high school. I graduated in 95 and went off to Penn State just as the Internet was pretty much exploding. Joined a couple web forums/chat rooms (cybersex used to be a thing!) and needed an alias. Went to the Les Mis well, but found the proper characters name (Enjolras) was usually already taken. Misspelled it once and realized if I kept doing it that way it would probably always be available. That's what I mean about no privacy. I use that same screen name for just about everything but my Ashley Madison account. Just kidding. Hehe. If you look that username up you could probably find me all over the web. Hell, I think if you put it after Facebook.com it will take you right to my profile. *shrug* I made peace with the online thing a long time ago. Good thing I'm modest enough to wear a reef shirt or you'd really see some tits!

Here, I'll get you started. That's one of my sisters on the left. Sorry the hand is covering most of the cleavage. That's my wife in the water. Sorry she's modest enough to wear a reef shirt.