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Oh yeah, another fun time. If it weren't for making bumps, the place would get boring pretty quick.

Also a lesson learned this weekend there. As you exit the mall, there's a sign that says "All visitors must pay parking here" with a couple of kiosks, so we did thinking they changed the process. Of course, we hung out in the lot and tailgaited for a while. When we went to exit at the gates, they wouldn't raise and kept saying $5.00 balance. WTF? Luckily there was an attendant there to whom I told that I paid inside and asked for the receipt. Luckily I always get receipts and gave it to him. He looked at it and told me that you only have 15 minutes to leave from the time you pay or the system thinks you decided to stay! I told him nowhere did it say that when we paid, so now I know. He let me through. Always pay at the gate!

Indeed! He was in good spirits, as always, and said it felt good even though the doctor told him "No skiing!".

We have herds of them roaming through the yard at various times of day, none of which seem to be bothered by us unless they have Bambi's with them, then the does will huff and puff and stomp their feet to get you to stay away. These stupid things are why the wife can't have any nice plants within their reach, as they'll eat them to the bone, even those plants that deer aren't supposed to eat, they just gobble down. It's like a buffet to them. I spray the stinky anti-deer crap on various shrubs we don't want them to devour, but it just seems like they just like the added flavor.

A bunch of us were at it again over in New Joisey to celebrate Slim's birthday... We got grief from some park rats who didn't like us taking over the side of the park that they don't even use anyway, but they didn't have much to say after they realized there we like 16 of us. "Yous guys do rails? Nope, just ski bumps!" Punks... Some stills from Slim's video. Even Masa was out after suffering an achilles tear at the end of last season.

Because we vacation at Musikfest?

I guess I'm rich then too...

Big Snow has been setting bumps at the end of the month, so we all went to check them out. Originally they had been pretty bad at making them, but they're getting better. They had set them wicked tight, so we ended up making our own line next to theirs.

Yup, R/C planes are cool, but it really cranks when you get to see guys flying shit like this!

Never been running in all the times I've been there.

With all the electricity shutdowns they had this past year, maybe they should have invested in generators instead.

Love the new gun placement!

Wouldn't surprise me in the least.

After going up to Cameltoe on the alien pass and seeing all their new guns/heads, I would have thought Blue would have gone the route of replacing the existing manual guns with automated ones instead of just getting fewer, far more expensive fan guns. They make great snow, just not a lot of it in comparison to the stick guns.

New guns arrive... https://fb.watch/kAm-2qPVgZ/

I did the fabric/mulch and still get weeds in the second year. The fabric is probably 3 feet under by now. I also did the fabric under the stone and am constantly pulling little weed sprouts, but I'd hate to cover that area with mulch all the time. I'd probably need 15 yards just for that area alone. If I had my druthers, I'd prefer astroturf, but the boss has her own plans. HWHL...

We put it on thick, so only do it every other year. In retrospect, I should have gone to landscape stone from the start. Good move! In the back under the deck that doesn't get much sun and grass was nearly impossible to grow, I did goose egg stone which is far easier to maintain.

Here's another one. I saw Pat (guy who's always stretching before open at Blue) around the 14:00 mark.

Yeah, a few were up there. Rick called me about going up but I had 15 yards of mulch being delivered Friday, so that's what I ended up doing instead of skiing.

Pretty much, unless enough can escape on a day during the week.

We end up going about once a month over the summer and set a bump line somewhere. We seemed to have started a trend doing it last year as other bumpers in the area have also started doing it. The patrollers got a kick out of us doing it and didn't stop us and even ran the lines. Gave everyone not in the part something else to do, as the one run is short and gets pretty boring after a couple of runs.

It's a Mennonite farm just north of Bowers where they hold the annual Chili Pepper Festival. We stop at the farm for the Jalapeno ice cream after going to the festival each year. The farm grows a ton of peppers and also has homemade desserts and such. The seedlings are very cheap too.

Plan on heading out to Meadow View Farm out in Kutztown one of these weekends to pick up pepper and tomato seedlings. They have the best assortment of pepper plants that I've found, everything from the mildest on up to scorching reapers.

Went up yesterday with a bunch of Blue mountain bunny bumpers. Sun was shining, nary a cloud in the sky. Snow started out firm and fast but soon the blazing sun turned frozen bumps hero. Spent the day lapping Belleayre Run under the lift line to show off for all those riding the lift. Great day for some spring skiing! They also had their pond skim going, so we went over to check it out. Unfortunately it was on hold as the pond sprung a leak and was only a few inches deep.

Probably got a discount for buying so many...