JFskiDan

you are just full of joy today, aint cha?

Widow all the way to Midway? Either way i will take it, but i will be impressed if its to Midway. I do feel like they are throttling back the snowmaking at times, whether its their call or not. It might be some KSL influence too. And it could be directly proportional as to how many cars are parked in the paid parking.

its hard to tell if they are working on NMDW, which is what someone said they started yesterday. it kinda looks like they are, but its hard to tell. if you look at the vista cam, up in the very left hand corner it looks like some snow clouds, maybe the lower part of come around? Ok, from the tubing cam it looks like DW is definitely on. Personally, i dont feel they ever run full blast. Ever. Compared to what other resorts have in capacity, and how much (slopewise) they run, its not impressive to me. I think Frost is 6K gpm, and it kinda seems like thats about what Blue runs. I think shortly Frost will be 100%. Granted, its smaller, and a little better temps, but i kinda feel the powerhouse Blue claims to have, they should pace them or beat them to 100%.

I just saw in a FB comment, Blue said Raisins will be open friday. Looking deep. Time to move on to some other slopes.

i cant wait until they are done working on Raisins, and Widowmaker, so they can get started on some other trails we will be able to ski.

i have always wondered why when they have the lights on, all of them are on, yet they are blowing on main street. Im not like a super cheap guy, but when i get home i dont turn on every light i have, just cause.

We had someone show up at work before Christmas saying we needed to switch off of PECO, and i never really got who they were with. the first time they showed up they talked to the receptionist, who is just the nicest person in the world, but if someone walks in here and tells her "they can save us all sorts of money" she will run over a bus load of nuns to help them get to the right person so that we can save $2. Shes not the only one, though, some other people here fall for the "im gonna save you so much money" thing i usually am the one wasting my time with them only to find out we wont save anything going with what ever snake oil they are selling. Tire salesman are the worst. i have guys in here trying to sell me tires all the time. Problem is, we dont look at just prices, its a package thing.....service/scrap/availability/ etc. Oh, and most homeowners are stupid, so they fall into the category where they dont understand there are 2 pieces to the price of their electric puzzle, but when they are being sold a new supplier, they are only told the one price, so it makes them feel like its almost half of what they are paying now. Then they jump on FB and show the world exactly how stupid they are by saying they saved $.07 kwh by switching to Bobs Electric Wind Power as a supplier.

As much as we complain about the price of electric, its pretty affordable in this area. if you look around like out west, it might be almost double what we pay. When i bought my house in the Poconos, i was amazed at how cheap PPL was. its caught up to Peco a little these days, but still cheaper.

And the irony is.......it was someone that was going tubing. Go figure.

in hopes that i can prevent anyone from jumping off of a bridge, the Blue Mountain Snowmaking machine has been fired back up.

Need to get people into that paid parking so they can feed the snowmaking meter.

and this is where the really weird shit goes on.

disregard. Could go down the wormhole on that one, but this is a family friendly site.

Blowing at JF and Montage as well, but just because they are, doesnt mean it isnt a PPL thing. it could be a Palmerton grid thing, or just a straight up Palmerton thing. If the grid around Blue is overloaded with Palmerainians charging up their Teslas, and electric heat, they will shut down or fav mountain. Who knows, maybe electricity has trouble getting over the mountain when its cold.

when i looked sometime around 5:30am they were on. Im pretty sure they were on Rasins, definitely saw some blow over onto main from like a gun around where the weenie wagon is. i was kinda surprised they were on based on temps/PPL/Blue Mt, etc.

so, yeah, how does either of those white cars leave? Coming soon to a ski resort near you.......

did you go see a doctor, or just hoping the problem will go away on its own?

Everybody that skied today had cookies and some sugar, so why not stick with the theme.

Got a good look at upper main from the lift, it helped that the lift stopped a few times in that area. It looked so bad i made a hard pass on it. Lazy and paradise good. Saw what looked like open rooftop box debris on my way up the hill on my way out. We really need some more trails open.

i think ikoners are not passholders. i think they will need to work on that, but i'm on board with the changes at least from this side of the internet.

https://www.facebook.com/SkiBlueMt/videos/1088689262173060 New VIP lanes. So, at least they listen.

Turn on gps, turn off brain. i have found people using a gps and they were in the wrong state. no lie. all of our trucks have trackers on them, so occasionally i will see one, and be like what the fuck is that guy doing there?

The only tech i see is a radar to tell them how deep the base is, as far as i could tell, from what i watched. As cool as it is, its only as good as the people that use it, and how they use it. Every piece of equipment has a huge computer screen on it these days. Its a problem for the older generation. you know, the guys that wont use an iphone, and struggle with a flip phone....those types. I have guys at work that struggle with sending emails from an iphone. And just blatantly wont do it because its "new" and it will take them 20 minutes to learn how. We have a really expensive brand new paver that we struggle with, because its less levers and cables, and all done by wires, and, you guessed it, has a huge computer screen on it, and does fancy shit like self adjust based on points you put in it, or reads off of a curb. Lots of tech for a bunch of low tech guys. Cant teach an old dog, new tricks.

Yeah i dont think Blue will be unlimited on the Ikon, even with an upgrade. I think since it was announced kinda late in the year, next year they will be "officially" Ikon. Like skiitooloves and his double black diamond skier twins, he has already given us warning he is going Ikon. And from this past event, i dont think the Ikon thing is going to bode well for us.