JFskiDan

East mountain is awesome. Ungroomed fun.

It really looked like it should have had some grip to it, but it really didnt. I took a similar picture after i slid about halfway down it. The bottom is tricky too with ice/snow boulders under some man made.

Currently making some snow at JFBB. That little warm weather spell sucked.

Floyds was "interesting".

12 days of christmas thing....log in "12days"......password "lights" Click "go shopping" This is an "anytime ticket", so i would assume no blackouts.

Nothing is really "closed", at Frost per say, it just takes a little discretion, as to whether or not something is skiable. See above posts. Post #4 is Challenge glade. Post #12 is the Elevator Glade, Which i know they were putting down some more there earlier this week. I would be cautious about the glades on Thunderbolt, as a general rule unless we continue getting fresh snow. it doesnt seem to get quite love that some of the other glades get. Top part of Tbolt glade is usually ok, but as you go down it tends to get rockier and needs alot of snow to fill in. I have seen a bunch of people eat rocks on the lower part of tbolt. One park glade looked nice, but i didnt ski it. i would say it has nice coverage.

Really fun day....kind of one of those days were its hard to quit. it would have been spectacular if we hadnt gotten the sleet/freezing rain on top. The untracked stuff looked so delicious, but was pretty hard to make turns in. Once it got broken up it skied real nice. this snow will really help to get all the fun stuff in play....December snow is a gift. Floyds looked rough....like for some reason they dont cut it. They were setting up for snowmaking there about 11 am. i would think they would be 100% open by this coming weeknd.

How did i know you were gonna ask that? No.

I would say 10" easy.

They have one of the spare jfbb rulers.

Crust on dust. Its nice underneath but needs to get broken up more. .

Not trying to be debbie downer. Trust me i am more than excited to have snow in december. It just happens on a weekend i cant make it work, so i will do the best to enjoy it via webcam. My point was basically reaffirming what GSS said. If u want to ski powder in the poconos, u need to ski while its snowing. The snow will be great this weekend, and i think we will be on the higher end of snow totals predicted.

Sunday would be good at Frost if there was a decent base in the trees. its probably better than last weekend, but it was sketchy then. I dont see East being open either. We all know all the Pa Hills will groom out gods gift to skiers to perfection by Sunday AM.

Off the top of my head.....very early in the '90's.

Southwest is about $500 round trip, unless you catch a deal, and they seem to be less and less frequent these days. Its so easy to rack up a free flight every year with their card. I think the most expensive lift ticket you will find in Utah is to the Bird, and i dont think the window price has even hit $80 yet. Get tickets at the ski shop on the way to the mountain and save a few more bucks. kind of ridiculous how cheap the tix are in Utah compared to Co. Last year i booked our car through southwest, and it seemed like depending on what day it was, the price of the car was different. I want to say the car cost us ~ $250 for 4-5 days.

I'm in the same boat....and its fucking killing me. have to be back in the Delco area by 5 PM Saturday. Not sure i wanna take the chance of sitting on 476, similar to last weekends fun. I wish Chadds Peak was still open.

Vinny - if you get a few guys together, look into a rental house. around 3 people it starts to become quite a viable option.

Snow has begun to fall on East Mountain. No signs of Sasquatch.

This is absolutely the truth. JF is never really that crowded, and its redeeming feature for lack of vert is the trees. (which are pretty far from being skiable) They are pretty limited on slopes right now, but i guess Tuesday they can really crank things up again. Blue has the most open, i believe.

Glad i got off at lansdale and took some back roads. I thought 476 was gonna turn into a parking lot. Rejoined the circus on 476 in plymouth meeting though. People coming home from skiing should be the only ones allowed on the roads in that type of situation.

I'm in for this weekend.

Might be some snow on the back end of fridays rain.

I was there both days for a morning session, left about noon on both days. Saturdays snow resembled Blue's surface from Friday, just on a little smaller scale. Sunday the snow was real nice. Snow drift was fun to play in, as long as you could imagine the trees being there. Attendance was definitely nothing spectacular. maybe the afternoon/evening was better, but i never waited in a line. bunny swish should be open this weekend. They opened Upper Skidmark Sunday, which is the trail that connects Love to Freedom. It seems as though they are using fan guns only to make snow. Progress seems a little slow just using the fan guns. Overheard the girl on the phone tell someone Frost would be open Saturday. hopefully they hit it hard last week, From the pics i have seen, the ski school area looks deep. They were blowing on Challange as well.

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