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Yeah that's a good trail. Pics don't really show that it's actually pretty steep (I would compare it to White Lightning at Montage, but longer and with a runout)

Hey all. I'm back from a session at true mountain the blue mountain. Place was empty even though I didn't get on the snow until 8 20. Hit Sidewinder, lazy, and NMDW to start. Then 2 runs on switchback and lapped come around park. Actually did several rails without any beers being consumed and the jump there was pretty good. Bumps on chute...main street had soft snow but kinda choppy. Stopped riding probably around 10...had a beer in the lot with @mbike-ski. As we were finishing up, @Benmand @enjoralasand pops finished their session. Sausage Sunday with each of us having a double cheeseburger (delicious) and a few beers under the ez up tent. Also in the house was BFG and Falco's crew

Yeah I've done one of the chutes at steamboat...can't remember which. East wall traverse at A Basin too, which wasn't really all that scary. Pretty narrow though. Mountain goat traverse on the backside was worse in my opinion...it was sloped slightly which made it harder to traverse without sliding off

Nice pics Barb...the incident sounds scary but glad you're ok and you were with friends. Stuff like that is always in the back of my mind when I'm fishing or snowboarding solo

Awesome have fun and post pics. Looks like Greek Peak has pretty much everything open. I ate lunch at tracks pub or whatever at the base there. Great beer selection, service and food was good.

Have a good trip salty!

Oh cool...more snowboarder hate.

I didn't realize the pre-check was that cheap. I'll have to look into that when I start going on more trips. I got the real ID last year, but only because I needed to renew my drivers license anyway.

I'm planning on one of the mornings. As of right now, probably Sunday but not sure.

exactly! I usually get a small (and I mean miniscule) "cost of living increase" and then insurance goes up anyway. Last year, the insurance increase was double the amount of the pay increase.

the pass increase sucks, but everything else seems to increase every year (insurance, tolls, etc.) so whatever. I'm actually surprised Montage didn't increase season pass prices too...with all the concerts they missed out on this past year, I'm sure they're hurting for revenue. If everyone decided to move to Montage, I'd be on board with that, but otherwise, I'm good with Blue. Camelback is even further from me and from what I've seen, more of a shitshow as far as crowds.

I'll try to join one this year for sure. I plan on doing more riding (and incorporating fishing into some rides)...I did some walking/fishing on the D&L trail last year - I'm going to do some riding/fishing there this year.

casual ride and beers sound cool. I'm too out of shape to join on most of your rides though.

A luau complete with a mashed potato bar?

Yeah they already changed it from this morning...this morning it said cloudy for Palmerton, now it says morning rain

You sure? Accuweather has Palmerton as rain Saturday, cloudy Sunday...not that it won't change before then

Yeah I've been happy with them every time. They follow you to your spot and shuttle you right to the airport, never really had to wait for a shuttle. I'm sure other reputable parking services are fine too...haven't really used many others though. So I wouldn't be cool if I had a pair? Shit - gotta cancel my order now.

https://www.snowfeetstore.com/ It's the hottest new winter sport. Better order a pair ASAP

You guys are a bunch of a-holes. I'm ordering a pair of these so I can be cool. At least it's not a snowboard.

Sure - some snowboarders do that and it's annoying. Also annoying is the entire Blue Mountain Race Team and large groups of these idiots (who are on skis) stopping at spots like one of the turns on Sidewinder and clogging up most of the trail. I guess we'll just skip over that fact though - those people are clearly OK since they're on skis, not snowboards.

I haven't flown out of PHL recently, but I usually use Smart Park, which is like a 2 minute ride to the airport. I'm sure there are others that are fine too

Not really sure I'd consider snowboarding (or skiing) as transportation, but yeah...traversing anything on a snowboard sucks. Sometimes when I visit my buddy in CO, I'll steal one of his extra ski poles for the day to make traversing not suck as much...especially at places like Steamboat where the hike to terrain ends in a runout that's pretty flat

I like your new eyebrows

Will do. I'm planning on it sometime in the next few weeks

Looks awesome. I need to get up there soon. Planning on a Monday for the $40 ticket. Also, shut up eaf.