JFskiDan

maybe an inch up here by BB....but its a really good inch.

just got back from Frost. excellent conditions, challenge glade nice, glades on thunderbolt could use a little love though, not quite as much coverage. snow guns are working hard on east mountain. i would have to say rivershot will be open tomorrow, they were working on grooming when i left. managed to snap 2 pictures on my recon mission to catch a glimpse of the elevator. 1st picture - my new friend "grumpy", or at least thats what it said on the drivers door. he was groming rivershot. we waved to one another. i make friends everywhere. 2nd picture - the elevator all cleaned up, standing on skiers right of rivershot. it looks like its got some decent coverage on it. floyds hasnt been touched yet, therefore the landing on the elevator only has some natural snow on it, but i am hoping it keeps snowing to at least get a few more inches on it. i dont see the landing not having alot of coverage on it being an issue. my skis should be off long time before i make it to the bottom. the picture clearly doesnt depict at all how steep this thing is. had to make time getting across rivershot from challenge glades, so i didnt get to spend too much time taking this picture. i was kind of dodging my new friend "grumpy". i didnt want to become a mogul, or get a talking to.

nothing happening in the poconos as far as snow....yet. winds have picked up a little. heading out to Frost now.

lets hope so.

it looks as if philly to the shore are big winners for this storm, right now. hopefully like you mentioned it tracks more inland producing more snow in the poconos. i think some people think 3-6" for the poconos, which is nice, but more is always better.

i will be there. saturday and sunday.

I'm ok with this pattern.

this weekends snow is kind of inverted, more along the coast than in the wonderful mountains of PA. i like your thinking for next week. think positive.

this is nice: snowguns working hard!12.16.09 | By Guido Jack Frost Mountain's snowguns are pounding East Mountain. the snowmakers are pushing to get it open this weekend. GM Mark Daubert just told me over 150 guns are running right now, with an ideal temp of 24 and very low humidity.

and there might be something heading up the coast for late weekend, which if develops with the predicted temps, would be snow. could turn out to be sea snow though.

good temps this week and a chance for some natural this weekend should make for some saweeeet conditions again. never fails - whenever i can hit JF on a weekday, its WMMR day, or buy one ticket get nine free, or bring your grandmother to ski day.....etc...

What a great start to the season....12.13.09 | By jessica While I am here in my office at Mount Snow, I am reading PASR. The feedback seems that Jack had a superb start to the season as well as BB had another amazing Saturday as well. I hope that each and everyone of you come out and experience the conditions that our expert team of snowmakers and experienced groomers at both areas have created. For those of you who have encountered the quality conditions JFBB offers, I thank you and hope to see you again. Coming home soon, need JFBB Ale. Jessica apparently they pay attention to what people have to say......

PC and Serch made it there in time to help get the lifts going. met up with PA Ridge Racer and we all made some real nice runs down challange glade. It was just as nice today as it was yesterday. the glades got some nice blow over last night and was real nice fresh stuff this morning. everything was going good until it really started to rain. i rolled out about 11:30.

my plan is to be there to help them turn the lifts on. anyone else?

do they know you by name at the hospital yet? see you tomorrow.

just got back....awesome day. the weather was outstanding. great coverage on everything including challenge glades. the "closed" trails are fun as well. no wait at the lifts really until about 1:00 or so. hopefully tomorrows weather wont suck so bad. jahhdip

i'll catch up to you sometime tomorrow Dom...no worries Can't help out there.....i heard Blue is running some specials?????? sorry...couldnt resist.

just back from a quick session at boulder. got my mug shot taken then lapped little boulder a couple times. the snow was cold, white, etc.... little boulder was really hard packed, but there was a nice little area on skiers right that had a layer of untouched that was nice to play on, just had to avoid the basketball sized boulder towards the end. the lift on little boulder seemed to stuck on "granny" or maybe they were saving some electric. freedom was a little more skied in since thats where the majority of the people were at. my last run i was aiming for the little trail in between freedom and little boulder, which i thought might have gone unnoticed to most, but at some point they had run a machine down it turning it into a boulder field. when i left i saw a snow cat at the top of boulder park doing some work. looked to be quite a bit of snow up there to work with, but i was pretty far away. i overheard 6 trails and four lifts for tomorrow, but dont quote me on that one. 1 pic of little boulder with no one on it, too cold to take more.

"challenge" might not be a green... : . i'm heading up soon to get my pass and make some turns at boulder. saturday at jack looks like the better day, weatherwise. might be some "mixed" precipitation sunday. maybe it will go towards snow, its early.

sweet....thanks for the link

yup....this just in.....WMOE

when i stopped over yesterday it was quite obvious they were concentrating on freedom. we did pick up about 6" of fresh, which is nice, but thats not really going to help todays cause. i think i read on the web site about an "afternoon" opening. nothing firm. i would take a spin over but i am still trying to figure out how i am going to get into my vehicle. its frozen shut.

things are a little snowier up north. its coming down at a pretty good clip now. just about time to go snowdriving.

these are from about 1:30. the guns are silent. however mother nature seems to be helping out some, hopefully they turn them back on soon. if i can keep my hands out of the beer cooler i will venture back out later on.

ha ha ha ha ha ha.... just started with some light snow.....going for round 2, and a samich shortly.