Ski

I bet Craig and Ashleigh will be at Sno this Saturday to take advantage of the $10 tickets for season passholders from other mountains...making some turns on freshly blown snow.

Your idea of "uncrowded runs night skiing" and my idea are different, I suppose. But it's cool that you can work around that crowded subway-like skiing and squeeze in runs when it's not too terrible. And that you don't mind lots of night time sloppy seconds to be able to get a little elbow room just shows how well you've learned to adapt to that kind of situation. Cool!

It's cool that you Booter guys finally get a benefit from the mid-season overcrowded, wall-to-wall, packed Camelback-like slopes...you end up with enough people during 60 degree midweek spring days to stay open. Hmmm...tough choice, I suppose, but I guess I'd rather sacrifice three days of spring skiing for nearly empty midwinter headwalls...would you?

That's part of the plan, for sure...

Congrats NATIONAL CHAMP!

Oh, yeah, thanks...see how I get all excited and sh*t? Then I'm taking Saturday off...let them take their own freaking pictures. Tennis is stupid, anyway.

I just became unavailable for work Friday morning I think Rob should call CB to see if they are still making snow...

Anyone that still says we don't have the best fucking owners is an idiot...from the website: "It's Snowing Again at Sn

Man, the slopes look like hell from 80...

Well, there are two really cold nights coming up...I have an idea

Nice, Nick. Some good use of foregrounds, like the trees in the lower link. A photog--whether still or vid--generally tries to split an image into three pieces: foreground, main subject, and background. How you mix them decides how dynamic each image is...a lot of the footage was successful and interesting, technically speaking. Just needed some blood, though---maybe cut to some piercing close-ups...

Just got back from a late afternoon at Sno...the snow and slopes are MUCH better than they were over the weekend. The bad spot is from the Phoebe down to the top of Cannonball or around to the Iron Horse. Some nasty rocks and the snow is 1/3 mud. I took a few runs down Boomer and the coverage is great. Edge to edge and pretty deep. Then I hit Smoke, which has some sketchy spots at the top, but really nice bumps through the middle. The moguls are soft and actually have some rythym. Cannonball, once you get to it, is the best, with good snow all the way down. The snow around the bottom of the Phoebe lift is fine, so there are some good laps to be had even if you don't pull out your rock skis. I took one trip up the Iron Horse...Switch looked okay, but the sun has it down to just a few inch base. Whistler looked to be in much better shape and would make for the best blue square laps. I skied over to Upper Runaway, which was in really good shape, despite how wide and flat it is. I hit Lower Runaway, which had full coverage and you could rip down it. The moisture has dropped out of the snow, so it was the first really good day of spring skiing. If they can push some snow up around the Phoebe and have a decent path to Cannonball, it would be even better. I skied my slalom rock skis, so I wasn't too worried...no dings, though. I'd definitely recommend hitting up Sno this week...

If they close another five runs, I'd definitely stay home. The mountain is seriously filled with open cravasses; you make a wrong turn and you can fall a hundred feet. And there's been two flash floods in the Hobacks, which usually doesn't happen until late May. Six skiers and two boarders were washed from South Hoback to the Moose Creek Quad...if you go, definitely look for signs for Pooh Bear and Antelope Flats and rock those...

At least 121 next season They are a sponsor---$2 post race Yuenglings... Yeah baby!

And all the beer and wine you could drink...and chicken and pizza and quiche and other stuff...plus, they gave away a couple free season passes. Good stuff.

The huge pile of free jumbo shrimp made CB's passholder party seem like dog food.

Jeez, Shadows, you waited until a spring week of 50 degree temps and three days of rain to visit? Shit, that's like skinny dipping with a hot chick in really cold water... And, yeah, a fast new quad and some WHITE lights would really help...

7500 vert per hr x 6 hrs per day x 100 days per season = 4.5 million vert. You're the ultimate vert whore.

Uh ho...the fat lady is warming up...eh, not you Ashleigh...

So where in the Poconos do you feel more challenged and not bored? Just curious...CB? Shawnee? Alpine? Tanglwood? "Trim" WL? That's the funniest suggestion so far. If they can cut a top to bottom trail with a better sustained early pitch, then that'd be great---but I can't see it with the given topography. Dude, they can cut trees, grade rollers, and blast outcroppings, but you don't change what a mountain is.

At the meetings, they were hyping the fact that they'd be the only place in the region with four mile-long trails. That really would be a great selling point to use in commercials: the most acreage in the Poconos, plus four mile-long trails. The Long Haul didn't run much under county ownership for combined reasons: bad plumbing kept them from making snow on Runaway and Fast Track, and it had constant mechanical problems. I don't know if they've bothered to complelety fix the mechanical issues, but there is rarely enough traffic to run it most days. I've seen it running midweek and thought they were just testing it----then there would be one chair filled out of 100, or so. There just isn't access to the bottom for intermediates to use it. And unless it's running, it's tough for newbies to skate all the way up and around to use Fast Track. And Lower Fast Track has a pretty steep headwall...Right now, the vast majority of newbies ski the upper slopes, then cut over to Iron Horse. Busiest lifts? I'd guess Shuttle gets the most total traffic---Highball and Mainline are pretty filled on weekends. Then Phoebe Snow, followed by Iron Horse. But I'd bet the exact numbers would be really close. It would be nice if the Phoebe ran just a little faster, but I can't see any major changes for it. The only bad mistake they could make would be to somewhere cut a blue square down to the Phoebe. I'm sure it wouldn't happen, though, but since they'll be bringing snowtubing down close to WL, who knows what will fit over there. Aside from that change, anything else will probably be pretty interesting.

Oh, and duh, this thread should have said: Today's conditions 3/22/7

Yep. It started out as a sunglasses day...no helmet. It was like skiing on glue...not that I've actually skied on glue.

I picked Ty up after school and it was in the mid-50's and sunny...until we got to the mountain, just as this crappy, rainy front came through. The snow is slow and grippy as hell. Coverage is holding up, although Smoke was really weird; there were bumps surrounded by really wet snow in the troughs. They looked like white islands. And the sound of running water is pretty loud down on the NF. Everything is still open and the only bare spots are around the terrain park and just a small spot on the top Smoke headwall. The moisture content in the snow is really high because of the misting rain, so it'll get much better even if it warms up. The forecast is for 50's during the days and 30's at night---at this rate, Sno could stay open for weeks if people show up...but I keep getting asked if the ski season is over. It would have been a great day if we'd cut school and been there earlier--stupid school...