Johnny Law

Looking pretty damn good up there......thanks RD

Nice to see them open, has to be the earliest ever.

Blowing weather is on the way out. Blue maybe could do tonight will poor production and maybe tomorrow with a little better production. W,T, and Friday are out, with a good chance of heavyish rain Friday during the day. Once that air mass moves out Friday night a cold pattern looks to be in place for sometime. Sunday's high maybe sub 32 which should get most of the PA hills open and near 100% assuming they want to be open. (looking at you Elk)

Webcams look good, if they can blow some tonight and tomorrow night they should be in good shape for Friday.

Bojangles>all others The only one I know that is in the NE is in Reading, it's dirty as fuck and delicious.

But how ? Clearly that isn't possible as Elk Mtn is the greatest place in the whole world. What did we pay this year for Blue ? Elk pass is 880 hahahahhaha

[video=youtube;FErYhMt_-Cw] Snowed this morning near Reading, crapped out at about 11 when I was on my way to work.

I respectfully disagree. Aspen isn't real, Snowbird isn't real. These are the 1 in a billion places, they are like a mythical shangri la. They have snow, and big mtns and at least in Aspen, vagina, which is hard to come by in a ski town. If you are lucky enough to be born there or move there everyday is a testament to how unreal those places are. Blue mtn......blue mtn is as real as it gets, well maybe Spring mtn. The weather is terrible, it's cold and windy and when it's real cold it generally isn't snowing. When it does snow we are almost always on the rain/snow line so we get heavy heavy chunder, hills here are so lame they mostly groom that shit out anyways. The 99.9% of the time it's not snowing, its generally rock hard ice, we use big expensive machines to turn that shit into something resembling legit snow. Most of the hills do not have the vert for anything more than 3 turns and then your back on the lift which is multiple of the time you spend riding. Most of the peeps around are well intentioned but don't know fuck all about skiing and riding, your mostly trying not to be hit by them or do the hitting as they generally find the best place to sit down is on a blind turn under a lip, this ensures a clean decapitation I guess. Yet even in these gritty pockets you got your hard core mofo's. Riding the concrete shit lap after lap, day after day, year after year. By any reasonable measure they aren't really mtns. but they still sing that hypnotic song that brings you back. The friends and the booze helps but that isn't enough to counter all the money you spend, all the shit you blow off to go ride. Alta or Bear Creek your still chasing that same feeling, that minute of floating where the entire universe comes together, where your entire body is in concert with your mind. At Alta your odds are going to be alot better and pow is always the holy grail, yet there is something to be said for being able to ride two 1/4inch pieces of stainless around a 20 degree bend at 40mph while dogging wanna be's from NJ, probably while high or drunk in what is generally the worst snow imaginable. If that ain't keeping it real I don't know what is. You got boots ? I got 17 of everything else if you want to ride. I even have boots but they are all retired for a reason......

Won't be there Friday, got a thing in DC. Will be there all weekend and since my wife is now slinging helicopter parts I have no scheduling issues.

Are you like 9 ? Seriously, my daughter would phrase that similarly. It is dangerous to use the entirety of one's vocabulary in a single sentence. By the way do you live in VT now ? I'm not sure as you have only mentioned it 100000 times in sentences in which it had no relevance.

Can't even rip on Huntah anymore.....whatever that dude was that loved the joint is long gone....

Extreme at Denton is steeper and the best skiing in PA is Blue Knob and it's not even close. The Knob has legit glades with a pseudo bowl and it actually snows there, 7 Springs is also probably in the running but the crowds there get crazy. You want to get legit challenged in PA ride at the Knob take upper Extrovert to D-Trail down to East Wall Glades. Once your done call me on the phone and tell me where else in PA you can ride terrain like that outside of the Pine Creek Gorge and there your walking. I don't mean you GSS, I mean the royal you if you will. Telluride is heaven on earth but that village is a monstrosity. It's almost always empty, the people that do have properties there don't live in CO let alone Telluride. It's a waste that turned perhaps the most beautiful place in the lower 48 into a wanna be.

Gotta give them credit they are really pushing for Black Friday, it appears as if in the last year or so they've done a complete 180 in terms of opening and closing.

I don't know, there used to be one that ran next to the Pine Creek but it's been a rails to trail for like 20 years now. I did see three bears there once about 17 years back. Best train spot is in the fine town of Altoona. My other cousin, who didn't put a ski pole through his leg at Denton, wanted to attend ye ole Penn State but wanted to spend his first two years not in Reading so Altoona it is. Altoona is like if a whole town looked like Tyler Durden's house on Paper St., he had a fine estate that was missing a load bearing wall in the basement and the porch hung off the house like a 60 year old ladies titties. The finest entertainment in Altoona if you don't like meth addict strippers is the Horseshoe Curve. A long time ago PA needed a rail connection between Philly and Pittsburgh, the easiest passage over the Allegheny mtns meant building the curve rather than using a time consuming portage. The Nazi's in WW2 apparently targeted the curve but obviously never got the job done. Now homeless people and train aficionado's can enjoy the curve which is something like 200 degrees.

You know who else didn't like tree skiing ? Hitler and we all know how that worked out. Seriously though how the fuck can anyone support that kinda shit...... I don't know why everyone busts a nut on Elk, the trails are boring straight down the fall line. I get the low crowds, good snow shit and it has some coolness about it but it ain't even VT's dirty sweaty nutsack....Lackawanna Spur though is pretty hot trail name, definitely top 10.

Tis true, perhaps the wilds of Coudersport aren't for everyone. However that area of PA is often forgotten about and there is some cool shit there. Leonard Harrison with the Pine creek may not live up to it's Grand Canyon of PA but it's pretty dope and Wellsborough is now the fracking capital of PA, lots of Forrest skanks stripping for CO, SD, TX frackers looking to fight and get off. It may lack refinement but boring it's not. I try.

Daks drops off up around Lake Placid on 87, VZ is working with NY state to provide coverage on the thruway but that will probably take a 100 years, I believe it would be a peer agreement so every provider could use their signal. It drops pretty much exactly at the sign. Once in the high peaks it's all line of sight. On the Algonquin side we could watch NHL games with 3 bars of 4g, two miles away near Phelps you ain't getting jack shit. Vt is pretty much relative to people. Do lots of people live near by ? Then you have service, if all you see are trees get fucked. The exception to this is MRV, lots of spots their with jack service. Also there are some weird no zones in around Montpelier and down by Suicide Six. NH has pretty good coverage, you can get 4 bars at King Ravine but your line of sight is very good. Mt W there is a very famous corner of a bench at Hojo's were if you stand just right you can get calls out. Anything above Berlin, NH is get fucked you got carrier signal if your lucky. ME is all 95. Anything around 95 is good the further you get away the worse it gets. Poor coverage near Acadia. West of 95 from Bangor north excluding the 95 corridor near Caribou you ain't got jack shit. The worst coverage in the US is WV, large areas of WV ain't got fuck all. I have VZ.

Models and some general weather knowledge but if you look at NOAA you can clearly see a pattern change Sat-Sun. Not to be a debbie downer but it looks like there will be a early dec warm up, the phasing is prolly not right for full on winter yet. As for general advice do not believe anything other than NOAA, the rest are bullshit peddlers.

It's the shit, middle of nowhere and steep. Has the only triple diamond !!!!!!!! Seriously though Extreme is steep for NE, they get a fair amount of snow and it's almost never crowded. Was run by the state for awhile and now they lease it out to somebody. My cousin's cousin put about 6" of a ski pole through his leg there way back in the 90's. Don't listen to Sib, drive there and experience the Denton, it's like the Knob or even more accurate Suicide Six. Either you get it or you don't. There are cabins you can rent on the cheap if you want a quiet place to murder someone or just have a hell of a party without having to worry about anyone bothering you. It's old school, it has style and a soul.

Best shot is 23-26th, single digits are not impossible.

I'm always surprised Macungie meth heads haven't stolen them for scrap money....... Is the s rail with the franken legs resting forever in this elephant's grave yard ? That thing was cool but brutal.......

Remember outside of WC most of this stuff is done by drunk probably stoned persons for 8$ and hour, it's not all that complex. Certainly WC guys get to the complex things but nobody is riding here with that kind of required precision. Go to tognar, read and then buy some tools. You'll end up with a better finished product and even if you let a shop do it you can actually tell them I want a 1-1 bevel or whatever.

Noice!!! Jonesing dude those pics look hot.

The 27.5 boot is a 27 shell and the 26.5 boot is a 26 shell so the difference is pretty minor once the liners pack out a little. You might as well go plugs at this point, Dobies with the a good shave job....Lange has the WC RPZA which are 92mm.......can you ride 140 boots all day off groomers ? Regardless your Lange evangelism must be working thinking about grabbing a pair of RX 120's

Bretton Woods is one of the few hills on the EC that has experienced legit slides inbounds, I took Avy 1 and 2 with EMS and the instructor was a professor from Middlebury College. Dude said he was up somewhere around Bode's run and he runs into a 100 yard section that slide maybe 200ft, nobody at the hill would believe him until he showed them first hand. Apparently it's happened more than once which is crazy. Would like to ride the Stickney Glades which gets bonus points for being accessible only via tbar. Newbs hate surface lifts but I say more tbars running to the good shit.