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Sounds like bunk info, DH. Bummer. Sunday and Tues. afternoons are $10 for other passholders...the $15 starts next week.

The scary thing is that it's an absolutely unremarkable crash. It's just something that happened. No problem with netting, no trees, no terrible line choice...jeez, that's just horrible.

If you end up going and are around a computer before you head out, let me know and I'll def take a run or two with you, DH

CB was great today.

Great stuff, Lib!

My phone rang yesterday afternoon and it was none other than one of the founding members of PASR, our own Skidude, on a break from the illustrious Green Mountain Valley School, in Vermont. For those that are new to PASR, Skidude was one of the most grateful kids to ThinkSnow, since he was one of the more regularly banned posters on CB's MB. ThinkSnow gave Skidude a home---as well as a place for all of us---otheriwse, I don't know what road the young, impressionable boy would have taken. Prison, most likely. Instead, The 'Dude became a great racer on the CAT team and has been dating a former Shawnee ski racing breezy, who now also attends GMVS. Here's the conversation: "Ski!" "Dude?" "Yeah, Ski!" "What's up, Dude?" "I'm in town and I have free passes to CB! Let's ski tomorrow!" "It's gonna pour, Dude." "I know! So what?" "See you tomorrow, Dude." So the inaugural Welcome Home Skidude Day was born. Maybe 28 people turned out for the event---eh, not that they knew they were there for it---as heavy rains moved into the Camelback highlands. What was the ride down like for me? Remember, although I grew up at CB, my last visit was going to be my last. A customer service employee, who later posed as his own supervisor, refused to give me a comp ticket for my daughter, despite her being below the height minimum. Blah, blah, blah...but I was feeling a little like I was going to visit my first ex wife. My evil, first ex wife. The 40 minute ride went from drizzle to downpour and I wasn't even sure the lifts would be running. I was early for our 1pm meeting and I didn't see another skier...just a ancient snowboarder with a long-ass beard and a blue Labatt Beer snowboard. Dude booted up in the lodge and we started the afternoon on Marjie's, which turned out to be the best slope of the day. We did a few more runs on the west side, then Dude suggested we hit the east side before the lifts closed over there. CB was closing at 4pm. Cliffy was okay, with just one thin spot at the top flat area. Pharaoh was pretty good, especially below the lift crossing. Back on the east side, we hit the bumps on Rocket, which is now a dedicated bump run. How are the bumps? Well, the weather made them lousy today, but I can say that it is an awesome bump run. The moguls have rhythm, are well set, and you have a good choice of lines. I'd say it's the best bump run I've skied in the Poconos. Ever. Hump was fun, but the rain was really having a bad effect on the headwall---it was as if the snow was washing off. A really strange thing. You edge your ski and you could feel water instead of slush or snow. Asp was pretty good, too. We hit Big Pocono and The Dude showed me an awesome jump out of Dromedary. We skied in the downpour for nearly two hours, making close to 20 runs. We were both drenched. The Dude taught me a trick: instead of wiping your goggles, you just jerk your head really fast and the water flies off. It's a little disconcerting at 40mph, though. I recommend only doing it at low speeds. I'm sure Craig is a little curious about my opinion of CB...and here's the deal: skiing is, or at least should be, more about the people you are with than the mountain you're on. I was mad at CB because I forgot that---I let one guy in some office ruin something for me, which is my own fault. Without the crowds, CB is a great place. I was skiing with an old friend today and it really couldn't have gotten any better. Rain? What rain? Some pics: Rain on Rt.380 The mountain shrouded in clouds Rob was obviously not in the house Did Craig report machine groomed packed powder? Variable? I wanna check out Monica Lewinsky night Lift window inspector They come for the skiing, but stay for the tubing View from the lift: like the French Alps (when someone spills a bag of Skittles) The 'Dude on Marjie's The 'Dude on Cliffy I see dead people A tribute to Doug Me and The 'Dude It was still raining on the way home

Right. I shoot a lot of wrestling---maybe 30 matches every winter (ya think I'd remember). It's a good gig if the home team is better and they pin the other guys in the first period...it's crappy gig if the other team is better and always on top---and overtime sucks.

It's not always a deal breaker, is it?

You are really sarcastic sometimes. A lot of people on NS that are talking are really down on sarcasm.

Wow, that's darkly poetic, Brian

That's pretty amazing. Twelve out of 13, I guess?

Nice pics, PARR! Really.

Jealous that he has a bus driver who rolls his SFRB for him?

Moe, Doug is just trying to incite a riot.

It's just a connector, but without netting (they borrowed them for an event), the trees are going to run into somebody.

It does get better, Doug. Remember the first time you went skiing or tried to take blue jeans off a girl?

Okay, try and understand it this way: the wrestling heavyweight high school state champion cracks a rib and is out for eight weeks. Then, the heavyweight that wrestles JV gets the flu and can't go. The coach turns to the fat kid water boy and stuffs him into a singlet. Sorry, but he is not therefore the best heavyweight wrestler. No great ski racer ever considers himself the greatest when the best competition is injured. Well, Bode's one exception. I've heard you're side of that argument a lot. It's just a fans opinion, just like mine. But I like to instill in my players a sense of wanting to win against a full side---it means more. You're more of the Tonya Harding school of thought.

I plan to grill him about everything.

It'll take a hit from this weather, though.

She's Ty's favorite racer, so I root for her because of that. When Svindal---the best skier in the world got hurt---watching the second best beat up on everyone just lost it's novelty fast.

If it's not pouring rain, Tuesday is Welcome Home Skidude Day at Camelback. Anyone free for some runs (that includes you Craig!), we'll be hitting it up after 1pm. There will be miniature hotdogs and a cash bar to follow.

Since the brand I buy was discontinued around 1980, I was buying all I could for spare parts. I took last year off because I dislocated two shoulders in the prior two years---I got sick of spending every spring hurt. As soon as Ty is in boots big enough to fit them, I'm def setting gates, though. No luck so far for the PASR day, Poc...they were deleted from PASR storage.

Jeez, I'll take a look. I don't know which laptop they're on...

You've never grass skied, Brian? I have five or six sets...we had a PASR day at our community ski hill a few years ago. Even ThinkSnow made the trip Doug came up (2 yrs ago?), but he wasn't a big fan. Just hit me up for an invite this summer.