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I'll check it out sometime. I work down in Bucks/MontCo so wouldn't have worked for lunch. For Mexican while working I like Fiesta Habanero in Quakertown. Only a couple outside picnic tables though, so that wasn't happening today.

They left the lights on, at least for now — we can watch it all erode away.

Dang! Now I'm craving Mexican. I know what's for lunch today!

Nice. Assuming you've been in the past few years, since the changeover to Fastpass+? If not, do a little reading on making the most out if that system. Especially in summer, the parks are miserable these days without it. Best place to stay on-property is tough to answer. A lot depends on budget, since Disney has Value, Moderate and Deluxe resorts. In the Deluxe realm, Boardwalk and Beach/Yacht Club are nice for adults with the EPCOT proximity, and the pool at B/Y Club is the nicest on property. For families that care more about the parks, Contemporary is hard to beat. It's on the monorail for MK and EP access, and is really the only resort in true walking distance to MK. Polynesian is also nice and o. The Monorail, but the feature pool has been under construction and I'm not sure it will be reopened by this summer. Wilderness Lodge is nice but is under a bunch of renovations for the foreseeable future as they expand the Disney Vacation Club there. Animal Kingdom Lodge is very nice for families that like to spend some time at the resort, the rooms with savannah views are sweet, and even if staying in the lower priced rooms there are lots of community animal views and the pools at both lodges are super nice. The only moderate I have stayed at was one night at Coronado Springs and thought it was really nice. Sprawling resort, very nice feature pool. I've not stayed at a Value resort, but understand that Art of Animation is the gold standard there. In fact, many consider it it's own category, like a value plus. Beyond that, Pop Century is a notch better than the All Stars. If proximity is more important than the "extras" that come with staying on property (busses, free MagicBands, extra magic hours, 60 day window for booking Fastpasses, charging privileges in parks) Bonnet Creek is supposed to be REALLY nice. It's withing Disney borders but doesn't come with the extras because it is not owned by Disney. The pool there looks awesome.

If you have any Disney questions let me know. Like I said in another thread, I'm a theme park geek.

That's a violation on everyone that was there with you yesterday and didn't remind you. I had hoped you would see my post before you headed out and it would remind you to grab it.

Hit up Camelback today using second day on a triple ticket for there. Would have rather gone yesterday, but it was blacked out. Started out running some of their top to bottom greens getting a feel for the conditions. Started out hard and icy but softened up quickly and were nice through lunch. After lunch maybe a little too soft, only made a few runs after lunch. Partially because of conditions, partially because of fatigue, and partially because they closed all the fixed grip lifts (or at least the convenient ones) while we were in having lunch leaving longer, annoying lines at the quads. Ended up with about 25 runs for just over 20 miles skied, my longest day thus far. Quads are paying for it right now. Covered all the greens and blues, and a couple runs down Pharoah to mix in a black. Runs of the day for me were Nile Mile and my Pharaoh. Took one spill, on Big Pocono. It was bumped up a little and I wasn't ready for it, misjudged a couple and ended up getting thrown in the backseat. Caught the left ski and couldn't power it back on just the right, went down soft and slid 25-30 ft down the slope on my back, which was actually kinda fun, lol. Got up and finished the run with no issues. Was a good day. Next day on the snow is a play hooky from work day this Friday at Blue.

So since I'm planning to buy a season pass for next year which give me the rest of this year gratis, I have a triple ticket that I only used one day off of. I'd like to sell it offset some of the cost of the pass. Like to get $80, it's the weekend version so $40 a day for 2 open-close any days tix seems fair. Paid $180 originally. My dad is in the same boat and offering one up as well, same deal.

Wax and edge on skis was $30, $20 with season pass I think. Not sure how that translates to snowboard. They sell wax there too though, don't they?

Not kidding at all. Member of the American Coaster Enthusiasts and usually make a dozen or so park visits a year. Mostly centered around special events when we get to see friends from all over and get exclusive ride time and stuff. Dippin' Dots be alright–my wife loves them. I'd rather have a good homemade hard ice cream

Yeah, that has been my plan all along, ski on the cheapest deals I could find until Blue announced this deal, then ski on that for the rest of the season. Just didn't expect it so soon from a purely economic standpoint. My main Spring-Fall hobby is roller coasters and theme parks, and they aren't as predictable with when next year's passes go on sale. If I follow though with that plan I'm still holding a couple days on a triple ticket and one of those M-F 2 ticket deals, lol

I'm really surprised they did it this early. I thought it would probably be mid-March based on the short season. I thought they wouldn't want to give the rest of the season away to folks like me after only so many opportunities to get cash out of 'em. I wonder if they had this date picked all along, or if Camel forced their hand by offering their pass starting Monday? Maybe they thought they might lose out on visits to skiers who jumped on the Camel pass and then just went there for the rest of this season since it was already paid for. Came in $80 less than them, too.

2014, although I only took a first timer lesson at Blue that year. Last year I did the same and then went out about 4 more times. Then this year have been out 5 times. So I've only got 11 days on skis. I told you, wicked new!

Yeah, I was really feeling froggy to give it a go after getting my feet wet on Grizzly, but without knowing how much of it was ice, just decided it was best to take my day for the success it was instead of pushing too far. Looks like we'll be hitting up Camelback this Sunday and Blue next Friday as our next two trips, and I'm looking forward to trying some new terrain.

No, no crowds at all. Never waited more than 3-4 chairs at the most, and most were going up decidedly less than full. Of my 30 trips up the lifts, probably 18-20 were solo and more would have been if I hadn't invited myself along with a few other singles

Yeah, I thought hard about running up to Blue instead, since I live halfway between the two mountains. But my pops and I each have two days left on a triple ticket we bought so I figured we wouldn't be even up anymore if I burned one today. Since we only ski once a week, those two days, the one day I have from that Sweet Deal and two days on a Camelback triple ticket which should get us just about to the end of the season. We're going to be looking to purchase Blue passes for next year once they put them on sale, particularly if they throw in the rest of this year like usual. My previous high for vert was back on 1/16 at Blue with about 10.5k

Had a nice day today at Bear. Been skiing with my dad but he's come down with the ick so he wasn't up to going out this weekend. Decided since I was running solo I would hit up Bear Creek for the first time to scope it out. Slept in while deciding whether or not to go and made it over about 10 am. Snagged a locker and booted up, stuck my hands in my gloves and they were still damp from Monday at Blue. Ewww. Saw they were having a 25% off everything sale at the shop (40% w/ season pass) so popped in to see if they had something reasonable and picked up a pair and a new balaclava for under $50. Nice. Ended up making 30 runs according to Ski Tracks on my phone, although a few of those were real short green runs off the triple when I was running everything in my ability level just to check it out since it was my first visit. Most of the early runs were Broadway, Kodiak or Timberline, or variations of these like cutting through the short blues off Broadway. I also ran the first blacks I've done today, mostly after lunch. The wife was planning on shopping in the area so she came up with my two boys and we had a $35 cafeteria lunch. Went back out and ran Kodiak a few times and finished up lapping Grizzly. Conditions were mostly hard pack, never softened up with the cold temps. There were some cookies on almost every run with some worse than others. Timberline had significant cookies, Easy Street was really bad so most of my Grizzly runs I either bailed early to Broadway or ran out Coaster to Sun Bear to get back to the lift. Best conditions I found were on Grizzly which had a few scraped off spots but for the most part was either packed powder or even some soft powder, I think it was getting refreshed from blown snow out of the trees. Extreme was closed, according to a patroller I rode up the lift with they didn't get a good groom on it after blowing last night. Could see from the lift that there were more cookies than a Nabisco factory. Overall had a real nice day, my longest day of the season with over 6 hours on the skis, and farthest skied as well. Just over 15.5 miles skied and just over 11k vert. Lotta laps. Was glad to challenge myself on some steeper terrain than I had been used to. Went back and forth with myself about whether to give Sasquatch a go, but ended up deciding to save that for next time.

From her Wikipedia entry: "Seyfried has a taxidermy collection which includes a baby horse, a fox, an owl, a moose, a goat, a hybrid taxidermy deer and butterflies." You can take the girl out of the Lehigh Valley . . .

It's nice. Not crowded at all, conditions are hit and miss. Decent on Paradise and Lazy, going to run Dreamweaver and Switchback after getting the skis back, they're getting waxed right now. Burma was pretty good too. Bottom part of Lazy chewed to hell with skied off patches everywhere there's not giant sugar piles. Wish I was advanced enough to bail out to Falls. Can't speak to the blacks cause I'm barely intermediate skier, lol. But to get down to the serious business, food at Slopeside was on point. Calamari was great again, the roasted tomato sauce they put it over is bangin'. I had the Groomer burger mid-rare, cooked good and delicious, if a bit messy. Shredded lettuce has no business on a $14 burger. $1.50 upgrade to Old Bay fries wasn't worth it

Nah, you're good. I wouldn't post that bunny hill shit in here for you guys. EZ slope is what they refer to the 8 hour ticket you buy online, cuz it's direct to slope. Except in this case it's not cause you have to turn in the voucher. But normally you get a 6 hour ticket at the window, or 8 hour of you buy online. My pops and I got two 8 hour all mountain tickets. Been on the sixer three times. No worries, you're good to go and saved some cashish

Used one of these today. A little confusion (probably because it was only hours old promo) but after a phone call by the supervisor they sorted it out. We were given two RFID passes and an old school hang tag that said $40 Slopeside credit on it. Food credit says it must be used all at once, there are no restrictions printed on the lift tickets. Presumably since they aren't activated until you go thru the scanner at the lift they could be used on two separate days.

It's def not a scam, I've bought lots of things from Sweet Deals, for local restaurants and stuff. They even have $50 giftcards from Blue for $25 occasionally. Those go in like 3 minutes flat though. I think they call it a $99 value because they normally sell that package at a discount for $99 on their website, where they call it over 30% off, worth over $150. So good call. 30% off, plus 50% off of that, super slick! I picked one up too, my pops and I are headed up in about 30 min to use it today. Picked up a second to use on the 26th. Had some good calamari there a couple weeks ago.

The only thing I wonder is if one person could use both on separate days, I'm sure when you redeem they give you two cards with a lift and $20 on it, could you stash one in the car to use another day? Clearly the deal is designed for 2 ppl to redeem and use together

I know most of you guys have passes, but this is a pretty good deal from Cat Country's Sweet Deals. 2 M-F 8 hour lifts and $40 Slopeside credit for $50. http://www.sweetdealscumulus.com/deal/allentown/blue-mountain-resort-12017 Selling fast, probably on 30 min or less before sellout

They need a service where you can call and pay with a credit card for them to dig you out, brush you off, etc, right before you get there.