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Lock one up elsewhere for 30 min later and cancel it if National comes thru

Pops drove, so the big red truck is absent. Had a blast. Soaked like a drowned rat. Would’ve kept skiing but Pops was done and I didn’t drive.

This is good news. It means Blue cares about their season passholders almost as much at Camelback cares about theirs.

Damn. I shoulda stayed.

Have to. You can always relax if COVID pulls a late stage Swine Flu exit. But if you promote no restrictions and then have to implement them, that’s a bad look.

If there’s one thing you can trust implicitly to be without bias, 100 percent accurate and fair, it’s internet reviews.

For me it was not doing the fat guy shuffle to a bench with my shoes in one hand, belt in the other, dragging a carryon trying to keep my pants from falling down.

Yeah, I knew it wasn’t much more, but living 2 miles from ABE and then having that special signup when they brought Pre there is what made me choose Pre. Now I’ll probably renew Pre until I think I might go out of country, since I think I can just renew online and pay for the next 5 years with no effort.

Yeah, it’s a pretty effective way to get people to realize the value

It made total sense to me even before ski trip flights were on my radar since we go to Disney so much. Whenever anyone asks me if it’s worth it I tell them if you fly once a year average it’s a no brainer. I say “It’s $85 for 5 years. That’s $19 a year. If you fly once, it’s $10 each way. If someone walked up to you and said you could hand them a $10 bill to get in this shorter line, leave your shoes on, belt on, light jacket on, laptop in bag, liquids in bag and go thru the metal detector instead of the hands up, don’t shoot machine, would you spend the ten?” My answer was every time, so it was a no brainer.

When I got Pre it didn’t seem worth it to do Global Entry, I never leave the country and that’s not likely to change anytime soon. I signed up for Pre when they had the special sign up drive at ABE so it made it super easy

On the topic of passports, there’s a big backlog so anyone who’s expires soon, get on it early. Mine expires next spring so I’ll probably send it in for renewal soon. I also need to check on the renewal of my PreCheck. That should be coming up soon too

Like many others, I plan to pick up helmet stickers wherever possible when I hit new mountains.

Actually they will, minus the ease part. One of my Jeopardy players lost her purse at Disney two years ago and was able to fly back without ID. The TSA website recommended showing up at the airport as far in advance of your flight as possible if it happens to you. She was with security for like 3 hours, no one allowed to go with her. I didn’t ask what all she had to fill out or what they verified because she was really annoying and I didn’t want to get her started. 😂 Nothing wrong with flying with passport domestically though. Used mine on this past trip, mostly because my DL had expired and renewal hadn’t come, didn’t feel like dealing with the potential question about the expiration and showing the temporary paper printout. Neither the Southwest nor TSA agents batted an eye.

That was quick today. There were literally hundreds of slots when I locked up Pops right before posting. For anyone those appointments help, it looks like they load them every Friday at 8 (ish, was about 805 today) for the next weeks clinics. They post on Facebook if they are or aren’t going to.

Bethlehem just opened next weeks clinics, Lehigh and Northampton county residents OR residents of a county that doesn’t have a county health department are eligible. Got Pops one for next Thursday

I thought they did that when they called a trail Coming Soon, it took 4 years before anyone rode it, and then it barely lasted?

Pops and mini-me are headed up right now, I should be there about 530. Maybe sneak off for a couple runs before I go check in at the school hill

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Thanks @skiincy for the link. Had appointments lined up for Pops twice then they evaporated, gonna keep trying. Seems easy availability in Erie.

Bringing an EZ up for the lot. Probably no Sausage Sunday. I’m on a budget now. My skiing costs have suddenly increased.

Use an online BMI calculator. It’s just a height to weight ratio for BMI, which is what they are using for qualification.

All of this being said, when you do institute a large increase, I think it’s definitely fair to hold their feet to the fire a bit on things like lot conditions (good on them for addressing it) and lift operations, both timing of capacity changes and personnel for crowd control. And grooming.

In reality, we should probably look at this as a reversion to previous pass prices. It’s not so much that they are jacking their pass price up a ton as much as they gave us two years of greatly discounted passes. I think it comes down to the previous two Springs, Blue seems to have needed a cash influx NOW, and this year with a more successful winter, perhaps they don’t. In reality, this is right about what I expected, and probably about right for their size in the region. It’s fun to be outraged though, so I’ll continue to be.

At least it wasn’t trees.