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Agreed. Hope they get Curzt's Cabin open if it's Vista only. Probably just close it for the race team tho.

I'm tryin'

Yeah, no idea what they mean by horseshoe area. Maybe Frontier Alley, as it forms kind of a horseshoe with Homestretch, and makes sense that the light upgrades would be contiguous? Either way, it's nice to see new lighting on Paradise. Hopefully they move the LED upgrades across the mountain each year. Those lights on Freefall are awesom.

I don't disagree with the observation that everything at Blue takes forever, but I'm still leaning supply chain/manufacturer timing more than Blue because there are few lift parts to speak of on site. I think if it were just Blue running behind then there would be an entire lift sitting in the lower lot and there's barely anything there yet. Also, KSL doesn't seem to be behind at all on their other lift, and they're in charge now. But everything at Blue DOES take forever. Except ski tunes.

I guess they are building their own control room? LP probably quoted them xxxx.xx for the prefab, prewired one and yyy.yy to truck it across the country and KSL was like, hell no! This is the Lehigh Valley, we'll have a couple Amish guys raise it and then we can wire it inhouse.

Shuttle widened as well, with new automated snow guns. Here's the list of snowmaking updates: "Did you know Blue Mountain Resort is home to one of the most powerful snowmaking systems on the East Coast? We’ve made more improvements to our already top-of-the-line system this year! 9 new TT10 fan guns and 3 new TL8 Lances have been added Shuttle trail is now automated with the addition of 5 B6s Shuttle trail has been widened for improved capacity The lower portion of Burma Road has been regraded for ease of transition to the new lift 75 new LED lights have been added to Paradise trail, Homestretch trail, and the horseshoe area We’ve made upgrades to our air and water main systems 90 YB hydrants have been upgraded" Also some other excerpts from their About Us: About the new logo - "The arch represents the minimalist mountain view, unmatched views of sunrises and sunsets, and a nod to the Victorian architecture found in our neighboring town, Jim Thorpe." Snowtubing update - "Music and light features are being added to the park for a unique nighttime experience"

Also, Terrain Run renamed to Trail's End. Easy Out not listed on the map, but there is a separate green circle for it so probably an oversight.

You're burying the lede. Widowmaker name change? WTF is Curzt's Cabin?!?

Doing some work in the hole today, including installing some steel too heavy to handle by hand which has to be a positive, lol

Dress in layers . . . That way you’re ready for any temperature AND strip poker

Don't worry about any of that. . . Anyone headed up after work?

Looks really familiar

I'm actually good with it, although it means my kids soccer game with be competing with my phone for my attention. 330 would have been perfect

Honestly, I assumed it was the haul rope, and started doing a bunch of calculations to see if the weight to length ratio makes sense after @AirheadD8's comment. I was figuring the volume of treating 1 foot of rope as a sphere (from Comcast Jeopardy I happen to know that 1/4 inch zinc coated steel wire weighs .121 lb per foot and 3/8 inch weighs .270 lb per foot, lol) and I went to the pic and zoomed to see if it had the diameter on it to compare. When I saw what it said the 25PR immediately jumped out at me, since that's the standard telephony grouping for twisted pair. The AWG was obvious, and I figured the 1/4 must be a messenger since 25 pair would be larger than 1/4 inch. Then I googled, lol. But yeah, telecom cable can be several inches in diameter for trunk cables, 500+ pair. Makes a good support for laying your ladder against at the mid-span 😂

It's mislabeled then. PE38 19AWG 25 PR 1/4" should be aerial 25 pair twisted pair cable with 19 Guage conductors and a 1/4 inch integrated steel messenger support cable. Certainly can be used for low voltage, but definitely telecom cable, unless the label is wrong. Interesting that they are BOTH labeled that.

If Penn State - Michigan is a night game we’re gonna need an outdoor tv, lol

This is the communication cable, not the haul rope, but it’s still about 1.25 inch diameter. Not sure how thick the haul rope would be comparatively. The 1599 meter length stamped on the reel translates pretty exactly to the footage, though

Did you pick it up? You should start collecting cans you see to turn in and pay for your parking at Stough.

I prefer to think of it as KSL has already had discussions about the expansion pod, which of course would be the East Side 😅

Perhaps Nick was interim mountain ops manager and might not be being replaced per se, but that was posted just a week ago. Nick was Director of Snowmaking as recently as 2-3 years ago

Might be getting another new one too? https://www.salary.com/job/blue-mountain-resort/mountain-operations-manager/j202205030223023697552

I think they definitely still intend to expand east. In the board meeting where they discussed buying that farm a few years ago Barb mentioned they wanted to add slopes over there. A hotel is going to happen of course. I think with KSL in charge it’s likely to go at the base. I get the feeling Barb was super emotionally invested in having it at the top and KSL is more likely to go with common sense. Will probably have an indoor waterpark unless they think the market saturation is too much and it would cannibalize Camelback too much. I’ve got even money odds on a mountain coaster next year. That a quick, relatively cheap addition. I wonder if there are any mountain coasters that load at the top then cart the rider back up to unload? Seems like that would be the most logical way to set it up and lump it in with the Summit Adventure stuff, unless they add more base activities at the same time.

Definitely tiers below Fogo, but also much cheaper. On par with Rios over in Nazareth. The meats at both are all good and tasty, you aren't going to get the top end cuts like filet. The "sides" bar at both is also very minimal and *nothing* like at Fogo. I need to go back to Fogo, lol

There's a new Brazilian Rodizio in Palmerton that we ate at once this summer. It was pretty good.

No, she was quite clear. It's in Pall Merr Ton