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Good luck Ride! Hope you've got some Dogfish Head to party with!

Getting a bad deja vu feeling.... Early October cold, snows up north... Mother Nature teasing us bad I think. Totally expecting mid-winter summer now.

Body odor makes the ambiance.

Pikes Peak got snow.

It's a bit nipply out there this morning!

Leaves were falling all over the place in the Lehigh Valley yesterday...

AccuWeather's Winter Outlook... http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/snow-for-i-95-corridor-northeast-winter/69820

Yeah, everyone knows these long range forecasts are for the birds. Just fun stoking the stoke meter!

Supposedly this year's Farmer's Almanac forecast....

Just hoping for cold weather. No snow keeps the crowds down!

I remember those prices!

Thought the same thing!

Like we didn't already know. http://blogs.denverpost.com/thebalancesheet/2012/05/07/official-201112-ski-season-worst-20-years-51-million-visits/4629/

Lower Saucon are the worst. They once pulled the wife over on suspicion for having tires on the yellow line on a curve...

They like to sit along 378 South on the back side downgrade of South Mountain. That's where a buddy got nabbed a while back.

Ditto! Need to find a good place to which to retire with good local skiing and consistent snow!

Oh no, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that the "pros" are anyone posting on this forum. I know people posting here are much too civilized, intelligent, etc. to be out of control on beginner slopes. The "pros" to which I'm referring are those that come out once or twice a year just after watching a weekend's worth of X-Games or something similar, and think they're the next gold medalist by screaming down beginner slopes. They have no consideration for anyone else on the slopes besides themselves. Must have been hit/miss on Paradise. Early in the season I was going down the side, well away from anyone and a SP told me to slow down. Was pretty much the last time I went down it the rest of the year.

My biggest and pretty much only peeve is about the "professionals" skiing/boarding on beginner slopes at full speed (and typically out of control) where people are still trying to learn to ski/board. If they think they're so good, they shouldn't be on the beginner slopes, but on runs that don't invoke fear and panic in those just trying to learn to like the sport. Beginners have enough problems without the added stress of crazies coming down behind them making them think they're gonna be run into. Have to say Blue seemed to have stepped up the patrols on Burma and Paradise this season. The few trips I made down them, showed a lot more SPs out whistling speed violators.

And be willing to give it away!!! http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/actor-bruce-willis-says-hes-willing-to-give-away-idaho-ski-area-to-a-nonprofit/2012/04/04/gIQAdZRhvS_story.html

Should be a good dialogue spark... http://www.boston.com/travel/explorene/specials/ski/blog/2012/04/skiing_pet_peev.html

Quoits in this neck of the woods!

"We gotta ski ice, rocks, mud, pow, rain and we have fun doing it." Reminded me of skiing Blue this past weekend. http://www.skitheeas...-grasso-feature

Good 'ol Mo-Mo...

http://www.wfmz.com/...9z/-/index.html It was definitely a fun day up at Blue yesterday. For those that didn't get to get up to the mountain, Channel 69 covered the pond skimming a bit. Got there around 11 to a pretty good fog bank, with streams, rivers, ponds, puddles everywhere. It felt like there was more water skiing than snow skiing going on! By the time the pond skimming started, the sun had burned off almost all the fog and broke into full goggle-tan strength shortly thereafter. By far, the best run was Sidewinder, with its soft snow make the big jumps lots of fun. Plenty of people out taking part, with some pretty large bumps on the left side just below the cannon. By the end of the day, lower park had a river across it just below the airbag, which to my surprise they still had running up until about 4pm. Regardless of the limited terrain being open, it was still a great day to be out on Blue's slopes for the final time this year. Until next year....