JFskiDan

Slopes are great, trees are kinda un-skiable with the heavy crust on it. Elevator has some straight up glacier ice in spots, weird. Kinda thinking about montage tomorrow, but undecided at this point.

Nor do you have pallets of salt, i am sure. This is one example of when a reply from you is not necessary.

Can i buy a couple pallets off of you then?

Any one know where to buy a couple pallets of salt? Its starting to become a hot commodity.

EPAWA is pretty good. been paying attention to them for a while now. i dont think they hype shit, and they really haven't said much about the weekend storm other than its there on the models, and could be pretty significant. They were really on top of Sandy, when everyone was saying that was going out to sea, and it wouldnt affect us. And yes, there are a ton of facebook weather sites, posting model runs from a week or two out, which is just silly. with facebook anybody can be a weatherman.

Challenge glad was in great shape 3 about 3 weeks ago, right before a huge rain, followed by the huge freeze. Tbolt glade is basically nonesense since it doesnt get much manmade. One park glade is great, but that too hasnt gotten the love it deserves from a snowmaking standpoint. Crazy to kind of think the glades were in better shape last year. If frost got the same heavy snow i got here in philly, it should make for the start of nice week of getting things filled in.

I'm coming up with 37" so far this year for Philadelphia. That number was derived from the internet, and i believe it is before today, so take it just as that. i do think philly has had more snow than northern areas, which is dumb.

We are in warrensburg, where they roll the sidewalks up at about 7 pm. More gas stations around here than anything else. They do sell beer though. The hotel is pretty cool, but it might be worthwhile next time to stay in lake george, where i would imagine there is a little bit more in the way of food and beverages.

snowed all day but didnt really amount to much. lots of fun trails. unfortunately they have been plagued by the same weather pattern as the Poconos, thus, the glades are un-skiable. lunch was excellent. real nice skiing with a few "oh shit" moments thrown in there with some ice.

Definitely will be better conditions than last weekend. rolled in around 10:30 or so. East Mountain was nice, floyds was probably the best it has been all year. Challenge glade not much better than last weekend, a little dust on crust, and rocks to avoid in the usual places. Elevator was ok, better grip than last weekend, with some avalanche snow at the bottom that looks softer than it is. they pulled the rope on Exhibition about 11:30, and it was nice soft ungroomed man made. made a bunch of runs on Exhibition, which were really fun, but pretty frigid on the face skiing under the guns.

Could it be that montage gets more fresh powder tomorrow than JH? I got the morning ticket 2 weeks ago and was on the snow before 9 am. They did check tickets at 1 pm though.

I keep running that PASR day at Frost through my mind, when a bunch of us jumped of the East Mountain lift. Grumpy lifts suck.

Spied these extremists on my last liftride getting first tracks on gonzos base grind. How people think 3" of fresh puts everything into play is beyond me.

Didnt look quite that nice when i got there. Left a few minutes late and got behind too many vehicles going too slow. Still nice conditions. Trails that didnt get freshened up are down to ice, like floyds. Crowded except east chair.

Such a shame. Challenge glade was spectacular last friday. Hopefully they freshen things up for the weekend.

No radio day will ever be as crowded as MMR's day off on the slopes. i doubt very much that day would be crowded.

The new owners have really put some dough into the place, and it looks great. Definitely need to stop in the lodge to see what they have done with it. The morning lift ticket is still a great deal White lightning. Pic really doesnt show how good this was.

We got more snow this year so far than last, (i think) but have less to show for it this year. i'm looking forward to the second half of winter, which will hopefully produce more sustained "winter" weather.

Opps. Let me finish. Lots more man made in the Elevator as well, the baller route is no longer sketchy, boulders have been covered up and the bottom is not quite as treacherous with the ice/snow boulders pretty much covered up. Floyds was closed again with huge whales on it. Started grooming it about 1 pm. I looks like they will finally have it squared away for tomorrow. They definitely had some issues with the cold temps and blowing snow as crews were out on east mt thawing pipes. The run out to east lift was also strangely icy, and there were some other spots where it looks like they had to open the water valves to drain covering a few areas in what R2 used to refer to as glacier ice. Pics. Happyland. E glade Elevator

Excellent conditions today mostly everywhere. They blew a shit ton of snow on the mountain it looks like paid a little extra attention on the fun stuff. Happyland had really good coverage today, it was a blast. best it has been thus far. It is top to bottom now. It wouldnt be happyland without a few rocks to avoid. Eglade also had great coverage and skied just as well.

Fun night last night. Had a great time. Thanks to mbike for the hookup on the passes. Sweet deal.

Im in for tonight. Prob 4 - 4:30 arrival.

Anybody thinking of Friday? i might give it a go.