JFskiDan

im a huge fan of heat pumps. Basically all the Older homes up by me in the Poconos are electric baseboard. So of course people are always on FB asking how to combat $300-400 a month electric bills, even though they are part time. I have been saying heat pump for years, and i get the "its too cold for heat pumps in this area", from the experts on FB. I have to be going on 10 years since i put the one in, and then i moved that one to a bedroom, and bought a huge one to replace that one that was in the living room, which is also the kitchen and dining room. I just got my bill yesterday, last month was $85. Granted, there was just one real cold snap, but i was also there for 8 days around Christmas, and i think my shed is better insulated than my house......its so bad. I put both of them on 50 when i leave, and they probably do 75% of the heating when im not there. I would put one in my primary home, but that one is gas, and its probably pretty break even between gas and elcetric most times. As much as i like mini-splits, i dont like the octopus climbing up your wall going to multiple head units. i did a pretty good job of disguising mine. Does yours auto switch between oil and heat pump? what degree?

i dont think i have ever skied the 118' of trail that is Upper Switchback.

confidence a little low? well, yeah, same here. I can wait. The only thing a successful ride on that thing is going to gain you is the upper part of Widow maker. Dont get me wrong, happy its gonna spin, but its not like it opens up another part of the mountain, or takes you directly to the scrapple shack. thats why i had "kinda" in there.

i mean, yeah cool, but its just a ski lift. Theres two next to it that kinda do the same thing.

Forecasts are just all over the place, even with temps. I cant stop myself from looking, but i am putting less faith in things even 2-3 days out. Forget looking a week out, it will just change, and i will be sad.

Just as an FYI, when i chatted up Pria via webchat, she said mine had been sent out, but she was kind enough to re-send it and i got it within a very short window. i am ususally very careful when it comes to deleting emails in my inbox, but i hardly ever look in my spam, i usually just delete. And i think when they sent it the second time it went to spam. Telling me they had sent it, could have also been what she had on her flash cards as far as standard response to "where is my $50 GC" who knows.

Trying to keep my happy face on, but, the forecast is dismall. possibly some snowmaking oppurtunities this weekend, of course after it rains, but these small overnight sessions arent going to allow us to get the jam on NMDW. Meanwhile, it wont quit fucking snowing out west.

looks like they did a decent job filling in the shit stain on Main, or at least made it look a little less shitty. it looked bad yesterday.

im putting my money on they will top off NMDW to get it open, finish getting challenge, side, switch, etc open before going back to NMDW to waste snow. all of this of course after freshening up whats open.

Well thats progress.

it would just be cheaper for Blue to go clean it up.

Last week i rode the lift with some loud British woman with her freind, and overheard her say it was disgusting and it really made me think that it is pretty sad that we (as patrons of Blue) just assume its ok to do, and that someone else will clean it up. Thats kinda fucked up. i dont get how people are able to carry the beers full in thier pockets, but once they are empty they can no longer carry them.

Spring wasnt open? what about the sno cone snowmaking thing they bought? supposed to make snow in any temp.

I heard taylor swift and the jonas brothers were busy that day.

I told a friend JFBB would never host the Cardboard Classic ever again, and if anybody was going to do it, it would be Montage. Enough about how smart i am, this is just over the top smart on Montage's part. Have the Cardboard Classic, and then a music festival. you can do the sled race for free, but if you wanna see some live music, you will need to open up the purse strings. Allow MMR to advertise for you, and also bring a few thousand people up to the mountain that day. Well played Montage. Well played. https://www.montagemountainresorts.com/mountainfest/#tickets

Weather.com and Accuweather show some snowmaking temps starting Sunday night. Weatherbug says a little tickle on Sunday night, then keep waiting. All three use different weather models, so i say we have a 75% of overnight snowmaking starting Sunday night. Getting through this coming weekend could be rough.

With as grumpy as Blues lifts can be, you would think they would run the back ups often. Wouldnt the backup have to be run for inspection?

I sort of threw that scenerio around. At one point it was billowing out of a very concentrated area under the building, like it was coming out of an exhaust pipe. If it was the diesel, (1) it needs some work. (2) i get having the exhaust somewhere where water wont go down it, but having it dump out under the building where the chairs load seems kinda odd. and yeah, it did run shortly after the smoke show, so leaning towards diesel makes sense. That much smoke being electrical should have fried something, and most likely caught fire, like with some nice new year sparkly stuff.

im basing my statement on the fact that racewidowcuz's hasnt come around to "good" yet.

oh, another big night sesh... Also, someone made a FB comment "good coverage on Razors" So, if you were looking for something nice to say about it, there it is.

I thought first run might not be bad, but the odds were definitely against it being good. We opted for the safe bet, which was coming soon, which has always been good first. So yeah, on our second ride up the quad, maybe 5 runs in or so, we were looking at Razors like "actually it doesnt look that bad". So deceiving. i knew the first headwall was gonna be bad, but what the fuck, like baseball sized cookies. imagine Boulder Field at Hickory run turned on its end bad. i laughed the entire ride down it was so fucking bad, and it still didnt ski good even where it looked like it would further down the slope. Why on earth we saw people making multiple passes on that garbage, i have no idea what they were thinking. I guess it was the "gotta ski the steepest stuff even though its pure shit" crowd. Jesus.....go ski where the snow is good. But, other than that, everything else was good to decent. lower main skiers left was really nice. Another good day, sans Razors. My guess tomorrows Razors is brutally firm. We shall see. Blue Mt has no idea when the lift is going to open, so why would the guy working on it?.....lol.

Razors and come around for tomorrow.

crowds were rolling in today for sure. Good morning, maybe not quite as good as yesterday. Widoracecuz's went from yesterdays brick to cookies today. Should be good for tomorrow. Burma was hysterical. seems like Midway is everybodys least favorite trail, which is good. nothin like getting yelled at to slow down on Paridise..........when there is nobody on it.

True, sometimes Blues logic seems.....off, but snowmaking comes to a brisk halt here sometime this morning for what looks to be a while. So, maybe just running on whats about to open, to build it up makes some sense. Hopefully there is enough down on NMDW to get that open. i think upper main should be good to go, and it looked like come around had some decent snow on it as well. but yeah, those mountains on Razors are crazy.

The guy that parked next to me said Friday January 13th. Anyways, pretty damn good morning if you ask me. Conditions were better than yesterday. Could conditions be better tomorrow than today? They wont have to groom Cuz's widowmaker raceway, thats for sure. that shit was firm. The people that like to stop, stand around in the worst spot, or make a left from the right hand turn lane, are out in force on the slopes.