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I'm still working on keeping my hands forward and taking the gates off my shoulders rather than always with my forearms. It just seems like the gates end up inches from your goggles. I'm at the Tampa airport using free wireless broadband to surf ski sites and this MB, of course, waiting for my oldest to meet up with us. This airport is great. I wish our house had free wireless broadband. Starbucks coffee is over-rated, though. McDonald's now has better coffee.

Yeah, great stuff, Shadows.

BTW, I'm done with you in this thread, Rob. I'll just ignore anything else you say. You've already shown that you follow through on threats when you put my family at risk by posting our personal info on newschoolers. I'd hate to be the one responsible for pushing you into causing problems for Sno Mountain's expansion. I don't know any adult with such character problems as you. We'll just deal with this in person next winter.

I think it's disgusting that you posted that photo. It's amazing how popular it became, but I just don't think it's for a cool reason.

No, that's a lie. I explained how I came across it TWICE. "You missed the original post? I looked up "skiing" or "ski" and it came up on the 20th or so page that day. So I did a little experiment, since a lot of pedos use the newsgroup sites. I believe I tried "boy peeing"/"pre-teen boy peeing"/"peeing skier"/"young boy pee", and they all had first page hits with your photo. I wanted to see how bad it is to post photos of a boy peeing on the internet... Well, you got him "noticed", for sure." So now you are trying to slander me. That's a road you really don't want to go down any further. Can you be a little more specific with your threat? You want to do what? Petition them to cause problems for the expansion? I've never met more of a tool than you, Rob. I wonder how other skiers/riders feel about a threat like that?

You missed the original post? I looked up "skiing" or "ski" and it came up on the 20th or so page that day. So I did a little experiment, since a lot of pedos use the newsgroup sites. I believe I tried "boy peeing"/"pre-teen boy peeing"/"peeing skier"/"young boy pee", and they all had first page hits with your photo. I wanted to see how bad it is to post photos of a boy peeing on the internet... Well, you got him "noticed", for sure.

The adult woman RUBBED her BREASTS on his face...that is sexual molestation. If a man did something like that to my child, I'd press charges right after beating him near death. Back on topic: here's an interesting take on the concert parking in a letter to the T-T editor: "...As a parent, I instead had the pleasure of sitting in the stadium parking lot at the bottom of the mountain for 1? hours, waiting for my teenage daughter and her friends to catch a shuttle bus down. During that time, I witnessed much, and quickly regretted having allowed my 16-year-old to attend this event. I watched shuttle after shuttle arrive from the top of the mountain, some so overcrowded, people were standing in the aisles. Not a safe ride down the mountain. I watched people getting off the buses

What's a wishful hideaway? And was that a slam? If so, I don't get it. I sort of like living among Pocono ski areas. And on our way back from Florida, we're flying back via Wyoming to gets some pics of our new property and talk to some people about yurt possibilities. Then we're heading home to take a few days at our shore house. In other words, having $500 car payments to drive around in Earth destroying vehicles doesn't impress me. (I picture a face turning red and keys pounding out: I PAID CASH!) Aaaaah, Doug, before you get in trouble, lemme remind everyone that at a newsgroup image bank, Rob's avatar (actually, the large original version) comes up under searches for "boy peeing", as well as some worse searches.

You can almost watch Rob's personality disorder at work. (BTW, that's not a personal attack, since he's referenced it a number of times).

The pavillion is separate from Sno Mountain; they didn't buy it. I'm sure Sno can confirm this, since he listened better than us at the meeting.

The tree huggers have it held up at the United Nations Security Council, but it'll def. be ready for the 2027 season.

"All it takes is one fanatic (tree hugger) in the county conservation office to make getting approvals difficult. The complexity becomes expotential when you are dealing with steep slopes, combine that with acres of rock along with inexperienced developers and you have the word DELAY written all over the project. There are so many approvals needed that I am not sure that I can list them all. Wouldn't I feel like a real ass for not letting someone know? I just wanted you guys to have the info/ammo to make sure that the new owners hold true to thier promise of trail expansion. I do not have engineering degrees. ...the one thing schools don't teach is the politics and diplomacy of the submission and subsequent approval process at each municipality." Rob, do you ever reach a point where even you recognize what you do? That your post about feeling like a "real ass" should have already happened countless times? You went from going with the 'tree huggers' going to nix the deal, to so many approvals needed it boggled your mind, to admitting you don't have an engineering degree (do you have a high school diploma?) and just wing this shit for your uncle's business. Do you know more about contract law than the president of Sno Mountain LLC? Do you know more about engineering than the staff engineer at SMLLC? Do you know more about architecture than the company hired by SMLLC? Rob, what do you think the guys on a job site say about you when you walk away?

Doug, the first time we bought a house, I got all upset that after our offer was accepted, the FOR SALE sign didn't come right down that minute. But there's a whole bunch of paperwork that needs to be collected and signed at a closing date and realtors and lawyers are incredibly casual about the days running up to closing, while it's such a huge deal for the buyers/sellers.... And, yes, if Sno Mountain feels confident that there will be no major snags---and the president said he's 100% certain every last detail is going to be worked out---they can ABSOLUTELY pay SMI and have them begin work on the order. Why the hell not? Oh, I forgot...it was just another chance for Rob to get his jollies by saying it can't happen. Sno Mountain can also begin placing orders for new pipes and fittings. Sno Mountain can also order new plastic season pass holders and leashes.

Thanks for taking the time Schif...

Ha, not so fast, Sno...according to Rob and his amazing insight into the current SMLLC agreements with the County, they may be years away from being able to build the snow tubing lodge and clearing all those tubing runs down that slope. Isn't the Iron Horse lift convenient enough? I'm just asking...I just always assumed it was. It's great to have it for NASTAR laps, although it's soooo freaking slow.

From Rob's history, it seems he figures the more baloney he spews, the more people will take him seriously. He calls true experts incompetent, then backs off and says he's just the harbinger. Happens just as much on his fishing MB's as it does on ski MB's. He still believes taping a kid to a chair and leaving him in a public square to be rubbed on and touched by adult strangers isn't hazing. His goal in this thread is to attempt to upset people. When BC wants to cut a trail, did he start talking about tree huggers and how nearly impossible it'll be? He's hating on me with this bullsh*t. He hasn't seen a topo map, proposed trail map, or read any of the documents presented to the County by SMLLC. He's simply spewing negative crap. Does Rob know whether the County had applied for and received permits for expansion in 2001? No, he doesn't know sh*t. He doesn't know whether or not extentions for renewal had been granted, or what the terms were. His only goal is to missinform and be negative about my home hill. But it's okay, I've dealt with 3 yr olds, 4 yr olds, and Robyearolds.

Hahahahaha! You're too funny, Doug. College? Hahahahaha!

Shut up, Rob. You know what you were doing; I know what you were doing. You act like a dancing monkey just to get a rise out of people...you give out half-assed info in a field you're are suppose to be an expert. Did you ignore the most important issue in a project like this on purpose, or out of ignorance? Have you ever heard of "recent transaction"? Go ask your current project lawyer. Ask him why it's far easier to get permits for a small business that needs to do some sort of land work when they are located adjacent to a major project, say in a 200:1 ratio. In this case, the major project includes 90 days of blasting rock and dozens of acres of tree clearing. And this case also involves a business on the other end that employs former county employees and is under 10 year contract to use all possible means to remain in business. It's like the perfect storm for the fast track to getting approval. You were just trying to be a dick by presenting part of the information. Oh, and maybe at some point from the 1960's to the 1990's you had some some work done in Central Jersey and used Alpaugh Excavating, a mid-size excavation company just north of Round Valley Reservoir, in Lebanon, NJ. The players are Lackawanna County's majority commissioners and Sno Mountain LLC. The same players that are finalizing everything as we post and are preparing for closing. And that's my point: SMLLC has been working out all conditions with Lackawanna County prior to this sale. The new trail expansion was documented and presented to the County during the public meeting and discussed further just before the deal was announced. Rob is suggesting that SMLLC and the County are pretending like the expansion isn't an issue prior to sale. Like it'll be popping up as some new issue. But he's DEAD wrong. Both party's intentions have been made clear. And, as I wrote, they aren't doing trail expansion for this season. They have over a year to get the project lined up.

Ha, I let Ty play Airblasteroids, or whatever it was called...I probably shouldn't post her opinion of it, but she went back to her Gameboy after about 30 seconds.

Gotta follow me around, DH? Nothing better to do? The signature has another meaning, but if it upsets you, then all the better, pizza boy.

Edited: too many references to Rob's narcissistic personality dissorder, in which he believes what he says is true.

I have been polite. I have provided the facts as I know them. You are about the last fucking person on Earth to talk about reality. Go back to singing "Another One Bites the Dust" after your great NASTAR family moments in history. Yeah, I know that's what you guys do and I think it's creepy as hell. Look at an aerial shot of the current projects going on at the mountain. A couple of runs is about .01% of what's happening. IMPACT DOES MATTER. You must work for a family member; no fucking way anyone could possible hire you for anything. Everything you ever post is bullshit. I'm not even sure you believe it, since you are so into "hype". Go stir up shit someplace else. And remember, Rob: reclaim your manhood: buy a Hummer. Oh, crap, you already tried that.

Sno Mountain looked at CB and Elk expansions, so I can only assume they know the drill. The prez of SMLLC is a Center City lawyer. I know CB got hammered with a fine two years ago for a minor grade change or something equally trivial. The bottom line is that it comes back to Lackawanna County's approval. The state may take application, but that's mostly just to get a fee and forward it to the local authority. Lackawanna is so interested in Sno Mountain's success that it's made them guarantee to stay in operation for 10 years, using all reasonable means.

The expansion plan just requires the paperwork being filed just like for me getting the two building permits for my addition. Sno Mountain made it perfectly clear what they needed and have the majority commissioners on their side. We spent the entire spring season watching little dynamite mushroom clouds rise over the mall construction adjacent to the ski area. Approval for the new runs is as much of a sure thing as can be, the way I see it.

Their plan, as I understood it, was to set Sno Mountain ahead of the competition by having FOUR 1.5 mile top to bottom runs, along with a high speed lift that ran next to Long Haul. It isn't planned for this season. This season's most important upgrade will be the 180 new snow guns and upgrades to Long Haul. The committment to snowmaking is a first for Sno Mountain. I don't think there's any further approval needed from the state/county to cut the proposed trails. A VERY snow covered Upper/Lower Runaway and Fast Track should be open and directly lift served for this season. No more Phoebe to Iron Horse to an uphill ski.