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"from JFBB.com... 08.26.09 | By chris "Jack Frost Mountain staff under the direction of Mark Daubert have been busy clearing out more glades, adding tower guns, replacing snowmaking pipe, and "elevator" work. Here are some teasers of what has been going on this summer. Riders this coming winter will be treated to glade expansions on Challenge and Jane's Lane. The glade on skier's right of Challenge has been extended to the East Mountain Lift. Jane's Lane has new glades also on skier's right that go to D Lift. The crews have been busy installing 18 30' tower guns on various slopes including Thunderbolt and Exhibition!" This is all good news. The challenge glade sounds like it will be sweet although it already skied down to the lift, just had some rocks and logs to look out for. Jane's glade sounds like it'll be fun too and can't wait for the Elevator." good stuff right there. and another - "Some folks can be happy skiing around alone all day at a hill in PA. I would go nuts. I need some type of 'crew' to ride with, goof off with, ride lifts with, etc..." pretty much sums it up right there....not really where you ski, but who you are skiing with. everyone has thier "home" mountain which they ski at for some good reason or another. the JF crew might be a small group, buts its a good group. good times for the short time i have known them.

i like what i am hearing. 18 tower guns? thats huge right there. man, if my hellicopter wasnt in the shop for the driveshaft return springs recall, i would do a fly-by.

yup...all downhill from there. lots and lots of snow a trip up north JFBB crew the new stuff at JF actually getting some exercise

sounds good.....so far....i was really hoping to hear that the elevator was coming along nicely though.

most likely scenerio (scroll down) ski.pdf

hello? (sound of crickets chirping)

curious to hear from the good folks over at JF about how the elevator is coming along. what else do we have to look forward to this year?

measurable snow in the poconos by thanksgiving. courtesy of Roots calculations, 142 days until black friday. still seems like forever. lets hope somethings white by thanksgiving.

i figure its 6 months until boulder should be open. i would just like to get this god awful year over with, and be able to ski again.

i really like what they are doing at frost, which is doing what they said they would, plus more. it comes down to the fact that they listen to what we have to say here, and are making it happen..keeps the customer coming back. so glad i bought my pass to JFBB. a high speed lift sure would be nice, but i am sure if they were to put one in, it wouldnt service east mountain, which is where i spend most of my time. i am just real happy about some new terrain to explore. glades are something new to me, so i definetly have something to work on for this season. if i had never met up with PC and PA ridge racer, i would have never really gotten to know the little nooks and crannies of frost. how's that big air bag lookin thing working out for blue? that looks like money well spent. keep up the good work JFBB!!

i am taking that to mean big boulder slope, or boulder park. last time i drove thru the parking lot the three jumps were still there on big boulder, but pretty much everything else was looking pretty un-snow covered.

you guys are the best!!

mayday...nice.....more importantly, hows the elevator coming along?

PE's are still stupid cheap from REI. http://www.rei.com/product/758421 seems to come and go though.

this from a guy who posted conditions at frost as "cocaine snow". good luck with your site.

put me in the "maybe" column.

nope. i dont think anyone has ever doubted you about conditions at jack frost. just, sometimes a little odd.... "cocaine snow"?? come on now.

pulled into a deserted parking lot at 8:15 to find Phillycore and Serch already booted up and headed towards the snow. everything was nice fresh soft cord. we met up on east mountain where we made quite a few real nice runs. from there we hit challenge, t-bolt, exhibition and one park, each for a few runs. by the time we made it back over to east mountain things were starting to really loosen up with piles of sugary snow. the last few runs PC and myself spent bombing exhibition wile Serch was practicing some moves in the park. east mountain was real nice early on, but conditions on challenge, t-bolt, exhibition, and one park were still real nice when we all left at about noon. i think there was about 25 people on the whole mountain. real nice last day at frost. JAHHDIP

who's coming up for the last weekend at frost? i'm thinking i will be skiing the early session on saturday.

that blows. check ebay everyonce and a while. great place to sell stolen merchandise.

got to frost at about 8 am, empty parking lot, empty slopes. started at lehigh and made my way over to east mountain for a few runs. everything was groomed real nice. floyds was super fast. everything started to loosen up nice at after about 9 am. at about 9:30 i started making my way over towards frosty where i was pretty confident i would be able to locate phillycore, serch and PC jr jr.(zachery) sure enough there was PC with the young one in tow. hooked up with serch and we made our way over to east mountain for a few more runs before heading back to check zachery's progress. we stumbled across PA ridge racer as he was also passing on the skiing tradition to his daughter. we all made a run down powder puff to learn that PC's youngest also has a thirst for skiing in the trees. this time may have been somewhat accidental though. made anouther run or two and headed into the lodge for our season passholders party, and if i may say so myself, had a real nice spread put out for everyone with plenty of food for all. after a long discussion whether todays conditions were chalky powder, snow cone, or sticky granular, we all decided we would go back outside to put some on our gloves to take a closer look. sorry, no video. anyways, thats when we split back up, i made a few more runs and left at about 1:30. JAHHDIP

top of east mountain, say 9:45 ish?

who's coming up? where should we meet up? i am shooting for being there at 8am. i know PC is going to be lapping some of the easier slopes with PC jr jr. i think he will be pretty easy to find. PC, let me know what slope you will be starting out on, and i will meet you and Serch on the slope and we will take it from there. everyone meet at noon for lunch?

thats not exactly the best news....