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good to know. i wonder when they will close...

98% chance of that happening

looks great.

only 3 days of skiing? major bummer. at least you had some great weather on all three days!

trouble.

WATCH YOUR MOUTH. THIS IS A FAMILY SITE. ***consider this your last fucking warning***

that's what i heard. i guess 100% complete by 2016? who knows. if its anything like the rest of the stuff Blue does (nightmare and dreamweaver) , it will be done by 2025.

Blue should have a glade cutting day. Just let people come up and thin out some trees. I would gladly do it for free, but they don't see that. Last year they had a day where people could come up and do trail work for the mountain bike trails and they asked for people to send in resumes with previous trail work. wtf? free help is free help.

can't we all just get along?

tunnel. looks good to me! good pics!

grow up.

sorry to hear that. it sucks when its so deep. you get all of this snow in your face. here's to hoping for no snow and groomed trails!

that doesn't look waist deep - but glad you having a good time already.

looks great.

About a mile About a mile

Up here now. Measured it to 603.4 with my super duper altometer that was given to me by the navy seals. Also, I'm drunk. Also, I'm drunk. Also, I'm drunk.

Fuck yeah! Love a good mineral run before it gets tracked as shit. Get at it!

The first phase is moving the access road so the park can be built where the old one is. They can't start construction on the physical water park until that road is gone. That's why I think it will be a while. I believe the 'start' of the project is just improving the access and parking and tree removal - then water park crap. I could be wrong, but that makes the most sense I believe that's what I heard.

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-blue-mountain-water-park-plan-20130225,0,293286.story By Daniel Patrick Sheehan, Of The Morning Call 5:16 a.m. EST, February 26, 2013 Turn your thoughts away from these dreary February days and think ahead to the hot and hazy days of summer. Not this summer, but summer 2016. By then, if all goes well, the Blue Mountain Ski Area and Resort will also be home to a massive water park called Summit Splash — wave pool, water slides and a "lazy river" feature where you'll drift along like old Huck Finn on the Mississippi. Enticing, yes? Groundbreaking on the roughly $30 million project is scheduled for April 1, said Matthias Fenstermacher, vice president of Serfass Construction in Allentown and project executive for the long-planned park. "A very cool thing," Fenstermacher said, speaking specifically of the panoramic views that visitors will enjoy from the wave pool but more broadly of the project itself, which will be built in phases and ultimately cover about 60 acres of the Palmerton-area resort. Serfass was awarded the construction contract earlier this month. The project, however, which will create about 100 full-time and 400 part-time jobs, has been discussed for years. "I started here about five years ago and one of the first things I was hearing from customers during the winter months was, 'Why don't you have a hotel here?' " Blue Mountain President Barbara Green said. "So we did a feasibility study for a hotel, and they said it's a 'no go' without a summer activity." Green reviewed all the warm-weather activities offered at similar resorts — zip lines, mountain biking — and concluded none would create enough business to sustain a hotel. But a water park? Camelback Ski Resort in Tannersville, less than an hour from Blue Mountain, had hit a home run with its own, Camelbeach, touted as the largest water park in Pennsylvania. A park at Blue Mountain could draw up to 3,000 visitors a day, studies estimated. "It's a good operational fit," Green said. "Between 3 and 5 percent of people will ski or snowboard and about 85 percent will go to a water park. To me it's a natural fit with a ski area. And Camelback has proven it can be done and done well." Blue Mountain already offers such non-skiing attractions as disc golf and mountain biking. It also hosts weddings and other events, including a blues festival. Green said the addition of the water park should be more than enough to fill the planned 110-room hotel. Blue Mountain is hardly the only resort looking to expand beyond the cold months, and the reason touches on one of the hot topics of the day — climate change. In December, the New York Times reported that fears of climate change were prompting many ski areas to convert into four-season destinations, adding spas, pools and other attractions. The newspaper cited one report that said more than half of the Northeast's 103 ski resorts would not be able to sustain a 100-day ski season by 2039 because of warming. Green, however, said the Blue Mountain project had nothing to do with climate change. "What entered my calculus is that we would service 350,000 to 400,000 visitors [during the ski season] and for nine months lay dormant," she said. "It doesn't make financial sense to have all this property and not do anything with it." daniel.sheehan@mcall.com 610-820-6598 Copyright © 2013, The Morning Call

have fun. can't wait to hear about your day today!

lovely. that's the most boring airport i have ever been in.

any pictures yet?

hopefully the sun comes out for ya soon! still looking good! seems to be a great season for you so far.

one of my buddies who works at Snowbasin - yesterday:

This! Ditto.