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They Just Now Up and Closed for the Season! Bummer!

Looks like Sat. 3/29/14 is Elks last day - from their ski conditions page" "March 29 will be the last day of the 2013/2014 Season!"

Camelback offering a free Camel Card to passholders from other mountains, starting March 3. First lift ticket is free. http://skicamelback.com/ski-areas-pa.aspx#trader

First - Greek Peak was recently sold at a bankruptcy auction. The new owners are 2 younger (40's) gentlemen form Elmira NY. One owns Chemung Supply company and the other owns 4 businesses. They picked up everything - The entire ski area, the adventure center (mountain coaster, zip lines, tubing center, lodge building), Hope Lake Lodge/waterpark and land (HLL is only a few years old and cost like 34 million to build, and 25 acres on which a golf course could be built, and several condos/townhouses directly across the street from the ski area. They are long time Greek skiers and have a condo there. They have young kids that ski. Anyway they only will pay a total of 7.5 million for everything - bid was for 6.75 million. (second highest bidder was a Hotel owning entity out of Canada and 3rd highest was a construction - road building company from Towanda Pa, Mr. Dirt). (speculation was that a minimum bid of 12 million would be required and everything would probably go for about 25 million). So 6.75 million is almost a steal. The Bankruptcy Judge from Syracuse and the FDIC both approved this sale. Seasons passes for next year are only $299 if bought before April 21. So skied Greek on Sat. 4/6 from 10:00 til closing, which was 6pm. Upon arriving, I ran into Camo-John (he always wears camo pants skiing), and I asked him if the base had softened up yet and he said yes. Then I asked him if he was coming back tomorrow (Sunday), and he said "THEY ARE SAYING THEY WILL BE CLOSED TOMORROW BECAUSE OF THE FORECASTED RAIN!) Greek says they will try to open on Sat. 4/13 - seems unlikely, with next weeks weather forecast. Anyways skiing was GREAT, warm, no clouds, sun pounding down. Here are a few pics:

Nice report. Sounds like great skiing. I think you may be skiing with Cornhead and Scotty. I live near Cornhead and have skied with him at Greek Peak, Elk (last year), Plattekill (last year) and at Snow Ridge. He tends to ski fairly FAST. I think those two are characters... you sound like a nice guy.

Today is Thurs. 3/21/13. On the front page of Elk's website, it states that they are open daily, through Friday March 29th, from 8:30 till 4:30.

I got out my calculator. Seeing as how Elk opened on Dec. 18th - as of March 24 Sun. they will have in 97 days. So if my calculations are correct Elk will have to go to Wed. 3/27/13 to reach 100 days open.

Was wondering when Elk might close. Seems like Sun. 3/24 maybe. But if the 100 day guarantee for seasons passholders hasn't been met they may go a little longer. So does anybody know the date when 100 days open is complete? (Greek Peak as of Fri. 3/15 was on day number 86 and Sun. 3/24 would be day number 95)

On Sat. March 23rd, season passholders from other ski areas can get a free lift ticket to Plattekill in the Catskill Mtns. This is a great deal. I did it last year and it was great. From the Platekill website: http://plattekill.com/events/winter-events-calendar March 23 - Season Passholder Day - FREE lift ticket with a season pass from any other mtn!

http://www.skicamelback.com/Tickets-and-Passes/Discount-Ticket-Offers.aspx Had trouble finding the Alien pass info. on their website, finally found it, by searching the net.

So - checked out Sno's facebook page and some dude is asking if it's true that they are closing for the season on Feb. 28th. GEEZ!

Could some of you guys tell me how Sno compares to Elk Mtn.? The closest ski areas to me are: Greek Peak - 34 miles (40 minutes). Elk - 45 miles (50 minutes). Sno Mtn. 57-60 miles (probably about an hour). If Sno's trails and skiing are on a comparable level to Elk, Maybe I should try to check it out on one of those $10 Tuesdays. I always buy a seasons pass to Greek Peak but they are also in bankruptcy now and the FDIC told them to try and find a buyer.... rumors have it that Jay Peak, Windham and Bristol may be interested in buying and a few others. Anyways the news articles way back said Greek was 36 million in debt, but the actual figure seems to be 50 million - WOW!! All this debt is from building a huge Hotel - Water Park complex and an Adventure center with a mountain coaster, Zip lines, and year round tubing center geared mostly at 14 year olds.

Never skied Sno Mountain. My question is - on those non-holiday $10 Tuesdays, is the whole mountain open or do they not run some of the lifts therefore limiting terrain on a typical Tues.?

Small print says not good on holidays. They have Tues. 2/19/13 listed as a holiday period - presidents week.