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They didn’t have any available.Oyster crackers in today’s bowl, which also came with corn chips as one of the accoutrements.
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First day on a western trip so of course everyone was up way too early despite not getting nearly enough sleep the night before travel day. Pope was up from about 4am to 7 then managed about an hour more of sleep before breakfast. I was up from about 6 and stayed up. Not sure what time Homie woke up but he was awake on the living room sofa when I hit the head at 6. Took a look out the window and saw that there was about 3 inches of fresh snow covering all the chairs and tables down around the hot tub, a nice bonus. Breakfast in the room, we had ventured back out the night before for room provisions and a dispensary for Pops and Stephen. Stephen decided to make eggs and bacon and home fries for breakfast. Good, but much more than I typically eat that early, ski trip or no. While prepping all the gear for Day 1 the night before, gave Pops his lift ticket. Homie says “Oh yeah, where do I get my lift ticket?” Uhm, in the mail, at your house. Turns out he remembered that it did come and he even packed it — and then switched to a bigger bag, and left it in the other one. 🤦♂️Luckily he stopped by the ticket window first thing and they were able to cancel the old card and issue a new one. Didn’t even charge him $20. So with Pops feeling shitty enough that he wasn’t even coming on Friday night, we decided it would be smart to stay low on the mountain for the first day and ease into things. During the previous evenings excursions he was price comparing those Oxygen boost canisters. Funny enough, the mercantile at the WP base village was cheaper than Safeway so he popped in to get one. But it also got me thinking that renting an oxygen concentrator for him for the room could only help increase our chances for a successful week so I went ahead and ordered one for delivery this afternoon. At the base area there was a pretty decent corral for the gondola, but we bypassed it anyway and took the Gemini express over for a couple of short green runs to get the day started. Hopped on the Discovery double and skied down to the Prospector express. Made 6 runs off the Prospector hitting all the various green and blue groomers accessible over there, and mixed in a ride up the Looking Glass lift, first center pole no bar lift for us. It’s also a “passes over your head” after you disembark lift, thankfully no head injuries. After our trip up Looking Glass and down Mock Turtle, Pops was feeling alright to go a bit higher so we took a ride up the Olympia express so we could run Whistlestop to March Hare to White Rabbit. Where March Hare split to White Rabbit I elected to continue on March Hare while the others zagged to Rabbit. The bottom of March Hare ended up being a nice pitch, but short, filled with mild soft bumps so glad I was alone, but I enjoyed it. Took another ride up Olympia because I wanted to run Lonesome Whistle. Doodled in some super low pitch, wide spaced trees on the way down Hook Up to get to Lonesome Whistle. Very enjoyable run down Lonesome Whistle and it was about noon by this time, so we decided to grab a bite and get in to warm up. I knew exactly what I wanted to eat. The Bison chili at Sunspot. WP is having a promotion in Feb, they have 9 different spots that have chili on the menu around the mountain. If you eat 6 bowls you get a free celebratory beanie and sticker. (Also 25% off each bowl of participating.) As a big chili fan, challenge accepted. Where last years Jay Peak trip was the trip of poutine, this week will be a chili-fest. Took the Looking Glass up from where we were so we could ski down to the Explorer express. Went via the green Alan Phipps which was the most popular run of the day for Pops and Homie. Could really let them run down that trail and we all notched our fastest run of the day on it, for as much as the WP app can be trusted for that stuff. Explorer up to Sunspot and we went in for lunch around 12:25. Got my bison chili and it was quite good. Got my punch card to keep track of my bowls. Realized afterward that the cashier gave me my punch card and didn’t punch it. Now I have to eat 7 bowls of chili this week. Starting to seem unlikely. Spent about 45 minutes there and we decided we were about done for the day. I had been wanting to run Cranmer all day so I decided to take that to Larry Sale for a nice blue run down, and Stephen joined me until he took a wrong turn off Cranmer and went down Village Way instead of Larry Sale. Pops decided he wasn’t pushing any more and downloaded on the gondola. Overall a great first day. We put in 14 runs for 9300 vert, skied 10 miles. Got a bit of a late start with the side missions, and combined with staying low on easier slopes we didn’t get much use out of the fresh, but it made for a nice surface at least, and found a few small pockets to cover the tips in a few places. The fresh snow seemed a bit sticky, especially around the lift boarding areas, so Pops and I were looking to try to drop the skis off for a tune. But when I realized the only place in the village to do so was farther than I wanted to walk in my ski boots right then, we decided to just head back to the condo. We’ll drop them after skiing tomorrow Ended up just spending the rest of the afternoon and evening lazing around the condo. Didn’t even hit the hot tub today, though Its definitely on tap for tomorrow after skiing. Burgers and fries in the condo for dinner. NEXT - Ski day 2 or can you take me high enough?
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Day 1 cont. - Landed at DEN and pulled out my phone and checked on the rental car while taxiing to the gate. Was offered a couple of Kia Sportage 2WD options, a couple of minivans, a 2022 Mitsubishi Outlander and a 2023 GMC Acadia. Looked at the differences between the Outlander and the Acadia and decided to get the GMC, but when I went to reserve it it wasn't available anymore. Refreshed a bunch of times while heading to baggage claim and saw a bunch of options. Always the Kias amd minivans, and several different Outlanders. The most interesting one was a 2022 Ford Expedition that popped up on about half of the refreshes. About 2/3 of the times it showed up it said "Upgrade $33 per day" and the rest of the time it was a free upgrade. Was ready to take the 2022 Outlander with about 16k miles, did one last refresh and there was a 2023 Dodge Durango with 1195 miles so snagged that. Took awhile to get luggage because the ski carousel was jammed and they were bringing ski bags out on a cart 6-8 at a time. Finally got the ski bag amd headed to the Avis shuttle. Got to the lot, straight to the car and after a longer line than there should have been (Preferred exit closed) we were on the road to Winter Park. No traffic to speak of and got to Winter Park at about 2pm. Can't get I to the condo until 4 so decided to cruise past the resort and get the lay of the town and nearby Fraser. We were also hungry so decided to keep an eye out for the Mexican good joint that PSUFly recommended to me 6 or 7 times. Okay, it was only 3x, but I figured when someone mentions you should eat somewhere that many times, it probably doesn't suck.I couldn't remember the name but I knew that it was short and simple and I would know it when I saw it, something like The Shack or The Dump. We drove through Winter Park and through Fraser and down the road awhile more and weren't spotting it. Spun around and headed back and figured we'd look some more and eat somewhere in WP. On the way back I asked my sisters BF Stephen whonis with us where he rented skis from so we could pick them up while we were in town. He didn't remember the name. Uhm, okay. Can you look for an email? Can't find an email. Has a text message from them confirming pickup for 2/5 and a price. No name? No name. No address? No address. Google the number. No good hits. Called it and it was a computer. Driving back through Fraser and WP amd Stephen is in the backseat calling like 4 different ski rental jawns off "Winter Park Ski Rentals" and asking if they have a rental in his name for pickup today. Can't make this shit up. 🤣 Almost back through Winter Park and still haven't spotted The Hut or whatever so pull the car into a garage to figure out where to eat and where homie's rentals need to be picked up. Walking toward the shops there trying to decide between the brewpub and a couple other places. "Hey, we should go to The Ditch. Right across the damn street, lol. Walk up and get seated amd now have the difficult decision of deciding between all the delicious items on the menu. The burgers all sounded awesome, including the sliders on the app menu. But going to a place like that and getting a burger would be like going to a cheesesteak place in Philly and ordering a hot dog. (A brother in law did that.) So I got the Murphy which was their basic burrito (which is anything but basic) but also stuffed with a Chile relleno amd topped with French fries and cheese before being smothered in their red or green chili sauce, or Xmas style, both. Went Xmas style, natch. It was phenomenal, with the relleno being the star. Smashed the whole thing and probably would have eaten another relleno if one happened to be present. Great food and a great rec by Fly. At some point during the meal I started helping Stephen track down his skis. I figured if I made started making a dummy reservation amd it was the same price it could help. First place I went to asked for renters name amd DOB, put his info in and got "Welcome returning customer!" Mystery solved, lol. Picked up his rentals and headed back to the resort just in time to get into the room. Very happy with the room and location vs price paid. Good view from the balcony. We were all looking forward to hitting some good snow in the morning. First trip out west for Stephen. NEXT - ski day 1 or everybody get low low low low
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Pops and I were up at dark ass o'clock to catch the "flight" out of Allentown to Philthy. 6:05 departure so we left for ABE about 4:30. Didn't want to mess with missing the bag cutoff or anything. After checking in and checking bags we had about a 45 minute wait until boarding. The bus ride to PHL was uneventful and comfortable. Luxury bus, seats as good as the back of most planes. Charging ports at each seat and air vents and reading lights like a plane. Since all ticketed passengers showed up early we departed a bit early and made it to PHL nice and early with no traffic. Drops off at F terminal so security was a real breeze. I have Pre so even more so. Through security in about 3 min for me and 10 for Pops and we jumped on the shuttle to B. Grabbed some gummy Starburst and Mentos for the plane amd a SEC on pretzel roll from Auntie Anne's to eat at the gate. Flight left on time and no issues on the flight. Love those newer big overheads where rollers can sit on edge instead of flat. No storage space drama at all on this flight. NEXT ‐ Airport to the resort, or "Where the f$*# are your skis?"
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When there’s not really a race but you still want to shut down some slopes . . .
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I know that's a popular opinion, I think the opposite. If they don't get the rest of the mountain open, then the high traffic on the trails they do have are just going to have them beat to shit in 2 hours on a weekend morning anyway. They've been blowing for 48 hours, and it will be another 60+ before they have to shut the guns off. They could have expanded.
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I'm disappointed that they aren't trying to open more runs
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2/4-2/5 weekend roll call thread..
enjoralas replied to GrilledSteezeSandwich's topic in Blue Mountain
Will be up there Saturday while the kids ski, but not planning on skiing. Plan to have my gear all packed to leave at 430 Sunday morning. So obviously not Sunday. -
Will be there Saturday until at least 1230, lol. Pops under the weather so he's out this weekend. Sunday will depend on how good Saturday is, or isn't.
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Depends on what you could get it for. Cheap enough, and get some years out of it, the value loss doesn't sting so much. I'm starting to wonder how many more mega warehouses they'll put in Allen Township before my property value plummets . . .Maybe there will always be a strong resale market for people who work at the mega warehouses
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I like the red rope tow in the middle
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Yeah, they bought that a couple years back. They grow food there for Slopeside in the green season and gave hayrides over there to there during Oktoberfest. They have a decent amount of land over that way, more on the top than the bottom. Would have to continue to swing trails wide then bring them back for the runout
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I'd love to see a live cam, with sound of course, of Matt Edge's classroom for one day
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The beginning is actually Big Pocono. Uncle Bills is just the narrow bit off to the left that comes back around to rejoin Big Pocono
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1/21-1/22 weekend roll call thread…
enjoralas replied to GrilledSteezeSandwich's topic in Blue Mountain
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1/21-1/22 weekend roll call thread…
enjoralas replied to GrilledSteezeSandwich's topic in Blue Mountain
Definitely both days. Probably not cooking with iffy weather Sunday. We'll see. -
Of course that's the RIGHT way to do it . . but that's why I said "at least". 😂 $20 charge after one "courtesy replacement" (if you are lucky, it seems) isn't even the least
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Pass holders should at least get a "replacement credit" on their account for every year they haven't needed a mid-season replacement.
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Blue owns all three of those parcels. The one directly to the left of then on BM drive is the one owned by PPL.
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Half a million. I found it on a property transfer website somewhere, posted this in GSS’ 12/12 daily report thread when he started talking about it: Apparently D Scott Curzi lived in Pburg all his life until he died in 2009. Famous Pburg high wrestler and a historian. His son sold the lot to Blue in August: Justin Scott Curzi to BMR Resort LLC, Denver, Colorado, property at 415 Blue Mountain Road and Lot 1, Richard A. Person Subdivision, $500,000. EDIT: link https://www.tnonline.com/20220811/carbon-county-property-transfers-838/
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Fuckin Stephon Diggs couldn’t stay on his feet for 5 more yards . . .
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Was going to comment the same, could see it from the road near my house over by the airport. Big cloud over there this afternoon
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I think you mean Mrs Garrett or Scott Steiner