JFskiDan

So through a little www research, it seems like to make your peak pass epic, you have to pay to play. (Imagine that). So to go epic, it looks like its the difference between what you paid for your peak pass, and $939(cost to be epic). So, the less you paid for your peak pass, the more you pay to make yourself epic. I think the people down at liberty etc are just going to lose their shit next year when just the local pass for them is even more than the peak pass was. They got shafted by peak, and it looks like they will bend over even further for vail. Thats a funny area down there. I think most of them just want to ski their little local hill and be left alone. The question is, how much influence will vail have at the 5 PA resorts for day to day operations? Or will vail just kind of take a “just dont burn the place down, ok?” stance and let them sort of run the way they have been? (Mostly applies to JFBB, since the other three were new to peak last year) the interesting stat that we will never know is, how many PA peak passholders upgrade to epic.

Accurate. People thinking JFBB get “vailed up”, are probably going to be disappointed. Maybe some new scanners to read all the epic passes from people visiting from out west. I will give peak some credit for 2 relatively smart things they did. 1) turn big boulder into one big terrain park, and open at 3 pm on weekedays. When Blue Ridge had it, the place was a ghost town during the day. 2) buy liberty, roundtop, and whitetail last year. It most likely put them in a better position in all of this.

I think its is unlikely there will be any kind of change in any type of skier from Blue because of this. I think this would attract the occasional PA skier that possibly would take advantage of the other mountains associated with this pass. Basically what Toast has posted is the more likely scenerio. A frequent Blue mountain skier, isnt going to settle for skiing at JFBB (trust me, its where i spent many years) just to ski the other mountains out west on the pass. Frequent trips to JFBB for an advanced skier will put them on pills. JFBB only interests the "advanced" skier if they go back about 8 years, when they really paid attention to the stuff off trail. Thats what makes JF a little attractive to the "advanced" skier. I went there one day like 2 years ago - no trees, no elevator, and the runs seemed shorter than ever. i was pretty bored after about an hour. I heard the new pass will come with 1,000 frontier miles as well. The only catch is you have to connect through Florida, and Texas, and then take a bus from SLC to get to Vail. QFT, but you need to remember who you are quoting.

You know thats unlikely, and i dont know why you would post that, other than you just feel like posting. This is pretty interesting news. I guess when Blue wont sell, you go buy the completion. Will they grab some of Blues clientele with an Epic pass? I'm not sure if this would change a thing for us, since i would say 90% of passholders have already bought their pass. What would they offer to lure some of Blues day pass people to JFBB? They cant make either mountain bigger, so they would need to cut prices. Peak did a fantastic job of pissing everybody from Roundtop, liberty and the other one down there, forcing them into the Peak Pass, and no longer having a local Pass. It will be fun to watch this unfold. I wonder where JFBB will really be in a few years. I just cant see these being viable resorts to hold on to. i wonder if they will get parted out in time. Im gonna go back to work now, as i am pretty sure this will have no benefit (like less crowds) at Blue. And i agree with Justo. Blue's "investor" (if there will be one) will be someone that has no prior experience in the ski business. And to be honest, that could be a good thing, or a bad thing.

BSI (ball sweat index) will be a 10 today. With a shout out to Primanti.

If you thought CB was a little trashy, beltsville wont score high marks. Which is a shame, it could be a pretty cool place.

This. i would rather go hang out with the trashy people from PA at Montage, than the trashy people from NJ/NY at Camelback. But i would also rather just run under the hose than drag myself to a waterpark.

https://no9minemuseum.wixsite.com/museum I really want to check this out, so if by chance you go, let me know what its like. Notice they recommend you bring a light jacket since the mine is about 50 degrees year round.

Were are you going? hopefully somewhere a little cooler? Does your camper/apartment thing have A/C?

The news is doing a good job of getting people all riled up about the heat. I did here maybe Sat will be the hottest its been in like 7 years. thats pretty hot. Seriously? you weighed before and after? thats a shitload to loose over the course of a run if you ask me. You are right about the humidity. My hair is so fucked its not funny. One day i want to experience "dry" heat, to see if like 115 degrees and really low humidity is better than what we have now. I'm pretty much staying inside this weekend after about 10 am.

According to peco's outage map, the people across the street from me still dont have pow wow. Just saw on the FB a couple roads are still closed.

Rained incredibly hard for like 10-15 mins. Then it was pretty much done.

Pretty wicked storm last night. I'm feeling pretty lucky my power was stayed on. Homes across the street were dark this morning with a lone generator humming in the background.

70 degrees now. Pretty nice out. Almost time to fire up mr. bbq.

Storms kinda meh in delco. I was sort of hoping for a lighting show.

i have stone in one bed, and it seems like thats where i do the most weeding. i am a total noob when it comes to landscaping a whatnot. I wouldnt do well on the gameshow "flower or weed." i really have mostly just had grass at previous homes. But i'm gonna have a hard time ripping all the landscaping out around here.....the PO was loved by all the neighbors and all of them have told me how much he cared for the outside, and all his wonderful flowers/shrubs/plants, and how great the place looks when everything is in bloom. I doubt anybody is going to come up to me and say "i think that asphalt looks way better in those planters than any of those shrub/bushes/flowers that were there." I really did think about cutting my own lawn, but that would require me to go out and purchase lawn equipment, and there is no fucking way a push mower would be on the shopping list, i would want to sit and get it done fast, so i would buy some fancy thing like you have. And then i would have to get a new shed since the existing one is in less than stellar shape, and is super damp inside, and there is no way im putting a mower in the garage. The cars would be pissed. With what the lawn elves charge me, it would be years before i was in the black on the mower anyways, and i am more than happy sitting on my porch watching the grass grow instead of mowing it.

Im with you. Personally i think both toast and nmski must have some type of disorder to be this obsessed with lawn cutting. Or its just that i have so little patience for lawn care. I do have more landscaping at this house in the way of flower beds and whatnot that need weeding more often then not. Unfortunately i found out the hard way i have poison ivy out front. Fuck that weeding bullshit at this point to. Im gonna pave over everything and put up the prettiest fake bushes/shrubs/flower thingys i can find.

Lawn elves showed up at my house yesterday sometime.

so far, this year we have had more rain than last year. Crazy. rained its ass off last year too. i guess this is the new normal.

I have a 2500 gallon white water tank at work, that we pull alot of water out of daily, but still manages to grow algae. not a super big deal as we arent trying to drink this water or water plants with it. The blue is supposed to help with algae, black is supposed to be ok too. i added a black tank this year. i will post my scientific findings on algae between the two tanks at the end of the year to let you know. My actual serious question is, can this become a breeding ground for mosquitoes?

@toast21602 Comminuted tibial fracture - life long debilitating injury? The settlement seems excessive to me, but i dont know shit on the subject, but i feel people are just ready to sue for anything. I kind of want to say this guy aint bright enough to figure out he is on a closed trail? But it also sounds like he may have been on BB trail, then jumped the platform onto snowdrift. I get that there was a snow gun there, but assumed risk means nothing?

If that was Delco, there would still be people eating on the trashcans. Oh, news flash, its gonna rain some more soon. It like 99% humidity right now too. My hair is a disaster.

No ball bust here, but your hotel/diner/vending machine lifestyle is working against you. I do get that you love living in a hotel, but you are making this harder on yourself than it needs to be, which, like last year, will probably end in you saying "fuck it, where are the pretzels and ding dongs."

Just for the record, i like Steamboat. I wasnt overly in love with Winter Park for some reason, but that doesnt mean it sucks. Just means i didnt like it.

Ehh, i guess that depends on how flexible your schedule in the winter is. With my knee issue, i booked both of my trips just a little bit more than a month out. If you are going to book stuff ahead of time, my advice would be to make sure you can cancel, or rebook without spending more than a few bucks to do so. I think someone here booked some non-refundable lodging last year, and for the life of me i can figure out why anyone would do that. If you dont have some type of rewards CC or travel CC, do that now. Southwest is a great airline for skiers, and is great for getting to CO, and good for getting to SLC. They will not get you to Jackson Hole, but AA will. You are opening yourself up to a whole new great experience going out west. Pretty much any place you chose to go will be awesome, so go on a trip with some other PASR's (highly recommend this, even if people are of different skill sets) but if you dont end up going with a group, (1) pick a mountain that isnt on the Ikon pass. (2) Pick a mountain with historically lower daily attendance.