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Yeah, right!

Woo, new tubing webcam!

Would have liked to go up tonight, but work and threat of freezing rain keeping me away. I'll drive in anything else, but not in freezing rain... From the webcams, looks like a few flakes falling too.

Yeah, if/when they get wet, I put them on the dryer. Once they're dry, I lather on some of the conditioning goop to bring them back to their soft, supple condition.

My 5-fingered Hestras are on their 6th season of being ridden hard and put away wet. Couple of seams have started to tear, but a little thread took care of them. However, I did steal the son's Hestra Lobster mitten liners which were 5-fingered, as my thumbs developed holes too big to be repaired. Love the bungie strap to prevent accidental drop from the lift when checking phone, etc. Not good in the rain at all, as the leather just soaks up water and then they weigh a ton.

We had one up at Jay, owed the kid one for a few years and had to finally pay up...

Thought I read somewhere where they didn't have the bar down at Granby either...

Pics or it didn't happen...

It's already titty-deep from last night's storm, no need to waste their time...

Is Switchback open yet?

Take off your damn backpack, camelbak, whatever, before loading the lift! Geez! http://www.denverpost.com/2017/01/05/arapahoe-basin-chairlift-rescue/

I think it's more like $80 for a case up there.

Heady @ 8%, Focal @ 7%, but I think the flavor of Focal far makes up for the slight difference in alcohol, if one's a hop-head...

Fluffy powder you can use a leaf blower.

Practice makes perfect!

World Wide Stout and/or 120 Minute IPA at about 18-22% ABV... Focal Banger's not bad at 7%, session beer!

Focal Banger is the shit! Heady gets all the attention, but Focal has far better flavor IMO...

Definitely a must when sleeting...

Still blowing on Razor's and it even looks like they're over-blowing the bumps this morning!

Mainly because you get nothing letting it sit in a bank anymore...

Also not gonna help that gas prices set to go up in PA as well. Feeling the pinch from all angles lately.

No, definitely not everyone is paying full price as there are bargains out there to be had out there. Being a passholder, I really don't know how many and of what value exist.

Mmmm.... I'm thinking they don't think on that level or they would have implemented something already. However, I've not heard of any resorts being progressive with their pricing... It boggles my mind to see all the cars on a beautiful winter Sat/Sun and knowing they're paying single day prices! If it weren't for (somewhat reasonable) season pass prices, I surely wouldn't be dropping $70 for a day of skiing, no matter how much I enjoyed it. Back in college, we'd do the $18 Sunday evening ticket and make sure we'd ski enough runs to get to $1/run or less. Luckily they still did twice daily groomings back then! Really miss Ray for that!

It would be interesting to know how Barb comes up with the ticket price each year. Is it just take last year's price and add some inflationary factor to it based on everything else going up? Or is it based on what profit/loss last year held? Or some other method (yank it from the yoinker)? Rumor was during Ray years, he'd wait until others (Cameltoe) would release their prices and he'd set the price below theirs, just to be cheaper. It must be a big gamble at setting the price up front, because there's no telling what the weather holds and how much it will cost to cover the mountain in snow and/or how often it'll have to be done. Also, they run the hairy edge of putting people off with the ticket price. Like everything else, if it's priced too high, people won't buy. If it's priced too low, you're cutting into profits and run the risk of having the place so crowded, it's a bad experience (lines way too long). Wondering how a sliding ticket price like Liftopia might work? Say you have N number of runs open, you can determine a safe number of people that those trails can safely bear, so you open with ticket prices at a low price to get people out, but ding the late arrivals with higher prices as you approach that safe number. Heck, with RFID in place, you could even tie everything together and have a floating ticket price, so like in the evening when nobody's there, ticket prices would be super low to bring people out. Thus, you'd probably pull out more people because of the low price and make some money instead of people not coming out at all because it's too expensive.

Tarpon found an airbnb for $38 in Slatington...