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Good they got 'em... http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/breaking-news/index.ssf/2012/02/juveniles_accused_of_stealing.html

No more drink for you!!! http://www.aspendailynews.com/section/home/151695

Mmmmm.....Milk Stout.

Some mountains are requiring you to go through an online test to get a certificate. If ski patrol catches you in the park multiple times without the cert, they'll lift your ticket.

Oh yeah. I'm sure they're hurting (along with all the other eastern PA mountains) this year. With the warm weather and rain this past week and lack of natural snow, I'm sure people are thinking there's just nothing on the mountain. Better for passholders, but I'm sure they're gonna try to recoup on season pass prices this year...

Just remarkable conditions despite some of the crappiest winter weather in a while. Nice, soft, carvable snow on almost all the runs right from the get-go. Got to do some fast runs down Razor's before the race team closed it off. It and Challenge seemed a bit harder than all the others, probably due to the lack of skiers on them, which made for some fast snow on them. Made a few runs down Sidewinder to see what's what. Couple sets of down-rails down to the big jumps. No picnic table as other years. The big jumps look to get bigger with each jump down to the big wall. They've got a big lip at the bottom of the wall, which made for a lot of people biting it by getting hung up on the lip. Down from that they've got the wood wall tucked in the corner. Next to that is the Teflon table. Out in the middle is the big tire. Down from them is the big cannon rail and another booter next to it. Continuing down are another couple sets of rails. All the jibbers were happy now that the park is open. Just couldn't believe the lack of crowd. We stayed until 12:15 or so and there was nary a line at the 6 or the quad. The doubles only had 1 running and that was like a ghost-town. Main street had nice soft snow and Switchback was also beautiful. Just an absolutely wonderful day at Blue.

They probably just don't want to have to guard any cars down there...

Yeah, you know as well as I, that when the weather starts to warm, people stop coming out and it doesn't pay BM to stay open.

Guess I got my answer: BM Twitter say's it's gonna be opening tomorrow.

Wonder if they'll be able to get out the big air bag this year???

Blue's text and Facebook pages have Sidewinder opening this Saturday.

F'ing weather blows big time!

Indeed! Especially nowadays with Facebook and Twitter making it far easier to rapidly dispense opinions on quality, service, etc.

Afternoon/Evening conditions used to be pretty good when they did twice daily grooming. It was actually worth it to go up in the evening, as you'd get almost opening hour conditions. Now by mid-day, everything's so plowed off, there's no joy in going up for the evenings anymore, especially if you don't have a season pass.

Sounds interesting. Will give it a go next time up. Thanks! Funny Saturday morning on Mountain Road seeing Bug and BMW stuck trying to climb the hill. Thought the Germans built cars for snow? Suby had no problems getting up or down.

That's an interesting way to squeeze some more revenue out of skiers.

Crowds were really light early, but started to build later as the snow tapered off. Got the fill of fresh powdah early, left the chowdah for the latecomers... Thought Jackson was supposed to get 50+"?

Did you take it? How's that road? I don't ever remember being on it. Might have to try it out.

Awesome day in the Pocono powder! Got some nice float down Challenge, Razors and Dreamweaver, until it got skied off. Then it was a battle of the bumps. Lots of hard pack from the other day between the soft stuff. Still blowing on entire Sidewinder up until about 10, then they shut down on the lower portion (I'm thinking, they're thinking they have enough?), but continued to blow on upper half. Looks like they're still light on snow for the booters. They were also blowing hard on Switchback. I'm guessing they'll probably open that tomorrow, as it looks like they've got some wicked deep wells on the lower portion.

Oh yeah, been to some kick-ass parties at people's places back there!

I just make it an adjunct to Razor's. Keep to middle of Razor's while approaching entrance to Razorback, cut in high and get some air off Razorback's lip. Nice change to Razor's almost straight run.

Wanna bet they name that little cattrail that goes from Razor's over to falls?

Bet the people that live back there are going to just love all the extra traffic coming through, once people figure out that way. I followed a bunch of cars last night that took the detour, was like a parade through farmland.

Oh, I tried cottonwood the other day, that route seems to take forever, over hill, over dale, winding around. Not for me.