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Hmm, Monday can get there by 4, Tuesday I can get there by 2, Wednesday can't go, Thursday to Sunday free all day. I love end of the semester, I think I'll go up Tuesday if they're open, if they aren't open by then, Thursday to Sunday expect to see my face at least once or twice, although I want to get to the Mountain Creek opening day too and thats like the 8th. You know they will have at least a few jibs up on opening day so, should be worth it to shake out the rust.

My high school trip was 6 tuesdays, which was good because it usually went like mid january to mid march, we usually had a problem with a day or 2 to stretch it out. Once we had cars we went up a lot after school, mountain creek during the week is fine. Weekends are hell. For weekends, bang out all your vernon runs early, it crowds first. Do south next, then bear, and granite never crowds. My best ski club was middle school, 6 nights after school to Shawnee, and then 1 day off of school at Shawnee on a like random wednesday. No crowds, usually march so it was sunny and all hte trails were open. I remember delaminating a pair of skis in 8th grade on the day trip and ducktaping them back together so I could finish the day.

Thats why I would say the swingset one isn't a circus rail. Like, the S rail you pretty much are just trying to make it to the end. The swingset is basically like a rainbow box with a long top section, you can do whatever you want on it.

Heres the deal on Ski Club at Mountain Creek. They'll most likely drop you off at Vernon (check out a trail map). Vernon has 1 trail (Horizon) that a billion people are on all night long. Hit it once to warm up, then get the fuck off it because it will be covered in noobs. If you don't like park, then do a run from the top of Vernon peak, that goes out towards Granite peak, but then take the right hand turn and come back to Vernon base. If eagle/zero G is open, worth hitting but they never really where last year. After you've hit the only 2 good trails on Vernon peak, take the trail from Vernon peak to Granite base, one of the best runs there. Every run on Granite is good, Devil's bit especially. If it is open, hit it, but Granite usually gets snow last. Then take that long as southern sojourn over to South Peak. South and Bear peak have the best riding trails in general. South also has a much better lodge. Hit up all the trails at South and Bear, then eat dinner with your friends in South. (THe chicken strips are epic). If you like the park on south, stick around for it. If you don't, jump on the sojourn double. This is super long, super dark. Make out with a girl, smoke a joint, make the kid in front of you get scared because its dark, whatever that lift is always fun. Do granite once or twice, head back to vernon to finish the night and bomb trails there now that crowds are gone for the end of your night. If you like park, just stay on Vernon all night and do the park over and over. Repeat. I one of those nights 6 times a year for 4 years and it was definitely the best way to go about it. If you want to hit the pipe, either do it first before it freezes at night, or wait until March when the sun is up really late and the pipe is soft for a few hours.

blah i didn't know jibbing was spin to win now too, lame

I agree that new lift + better snowmaking + wider trail + grading + best entrance scheme short of park passes = the best potential in PA for a park. However, realize your strength is jumps not jibs, and other places are going to have better jibs. If blue had a line of 3 big step down jumps, with like 2 ramps each, in a row with no turns, that would be the best rhythmn line in PA. However, the jibs I've seen don't look great. The swingset rail to me looks like it has potential. The bus maybe, the kinked s box is circuses but I'll go for it a few times. However, the thing that makes a park fun is a good mix. If it is ALL circus rails, then that will suck. If it is ALL jumps, that would suck, if it was ALL stock rails, that would suck. I'm worried we're going to end up with circus rails and jumps and not many really nice stock rails.

So the website says they will begin snowmaking this weekend. I called today about my season pass, they are aiming for the 8th or 9th of December, depending on weather. I got the usual 'depends on the weather' bullshit, but also a mention that the decision will be posted around Wednesday Dec 6th. Most likely, 1 trail on Bear Peak, 1 trail on South. Although they will have a whole week of snowmaking temperatures, with almost 24 hours temps for a day or two, so possibly more. That is just what they usually have. I don't have my hopes up because they usually have poor snowmaking early. I think it has to do with the mountain being so spread out, takes longer to get from trail to trail, have to pump water/air a lot longer, etc. Plus making all the snow on southern sojourn is about equal to two or three trails elsewhere.

I'm going to be at JFBB on opening day. Sick video. I'm assuming all that snow they made has melted by now, so they're starting from scratch next time, oh well looks like end of this week cold returns for a while. Did anyone else notice that the video is hosted on the diablo park server (mountain creek)? Thats a little strange.

We had Line prophets and chronics for months, but our invaders came in on friday.

yea I went to a meeting about the U Delaware team for the autonomous car, and that shit was WAY over my head as a freshman, give me a few years. I'm probably going to end up with a concentration in robotics here, that shit is so interesting. Our schools speciality is teams of robots working together, they have a whole lab here where they have like 10 mini robots working together to do a task. Pretty nuts when you get into it.

Oh believe me I don't think business school is easy. My best friend is in finance and believe me that shit is hard. My dad is a marketing executive so I certaintly don't hate on it cuz he makes a hell of a lot more than most engineers. My point was freshman year, engineers have to do an insane amount of work. And it is pretty much bullshit work, but the point is to scare away anyone who isn't committed. If you fuck up in business your business goes down but no one gets hurt. You fuck up in engineering and people can get hurt or killed. Our professor did a bunch of the design for the Space Shuttle and the F-16, and so he was taking us through a lecture about the Challenger incident and how the managers told the engineers who were warning them to think like managers instead of engineers, and the next day it flew and a bunch of people died even though the engineers warned against it. So right now they are trying to seperate the men from the boys. By graduation our starting class of 130 mechanical engineers should be about 40. My brother is in architecture at NJIT and they went from 90 down to about 30 over the last 4 years. sidenote, if anyone is interested in engineering/schools cuz I know there are a lot of high school kids around here, check out my engineering teams website. You can figure out who I am based on the Burton shirt fairly easily. http://udel.edu/~kevinsch/

Whats your major? Some people here don't work much at all (English, Business, History, Polysci majors). The engineers work a hell of a lot. But it makes sense, a marketing major fucks up an ad, some business is lost. Engineers fuck up a wing and people die, so I'd like to think they give us this much work to weed out the people who can't hack it. (We've lost 30 out of 120 from the major in the first semester)

BUt at least camelback aims to open runs for freeriding so if they're snowmaking tonight it will be a lot. JFBB I think went more for their railjam on friday than anything else. We'll see what JFBB does tonight but I think its just a bit of the park.

I agree Blue has like the big showy circus rail feel to it, but mixed in with big jumps it could be good. We'll see. I think the rail on the top of bus is either going to be insanely hard, or it is going to be buried under so much snow it won't be that high and will be less impressive. I'd set it up insanely hard and have it near the bottom as a signature type feature. MC does that at teh bottom of the main park, last year it was the 48 foot battleship box that was abou8 feet high, next to a long flat round rail, before that it was the rollercoaster next to the S rail. It basically is just scary but if you get it, lots of people are watching. The swing set and sliding box or whatever it is, could be fun they are long wide flat boxes in wierd shapes. Not sure about the C rail that will be a setup issue. I won't judge Blue until the season starts because they haev a lot of snowmaking and the longest trail so if setup well, could have a great flow to it. But we'll see. If it sucks, I gaurentee next year they take a look at the circus rail thing they are doing if all the other parks are going towards stock stuff set up well (which it looks like). Its going to be fun looking at the JFBB/BC/Blue rivalry. We'll see where Shawnee stands but I don't think they'll keep up. Mountain Creek has been really silent about their shit too so I dunno what will happen there.

Yea if you get off your ass its not that hard to hold down a job in high school on top of the work. I worked that many hours and didn't miss a friday or saturday night for 4 years either so, people complain that their social life will suck but who goes out before 8 anyway? you can do 3 - 7 everyday after school and get 20 hours in, come home do your homework, and work 8-10 hours on saturday, and do 28 hours a week easily. work longer after school and less days, you can go up to the mountain twice afterschool a week plus a weekend day. do your work during your free time in school. Pull something that busy and you will be well prepared for college.

Last year it wasn't 100% open, the year before it was. Last year it was tops like 75% but they missed every good friggin trail. Last year the 4 good trails on South were closed and they never even got close to grooming zero G, it was disgusting.

Snow being made in the park right now, NICE.

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I swung 30 hours on top of getting a 4.0 in high school, worked at McDonalds for 2 years, then a ski shop for 2 and an engineering firm this summer, its doable. You will pay taxes though, not much but they take a cut for sure. Its doable but check out the Line Prophet with the 80mm waist, they are cheaper than the Metrons and the Axis, and pretty cool twin tip all mountain skis. Elan Magfire series are great skis and usually cheaper than their equivalent competitor as well.

Careful with that board on big jumps, they were breaking like tooth picks a season or two ago.

Well the humidity is about 60%, so they need about 31 degrees or less to fire it up. Accuweather says 31 at 7pm, 29 by 8pm, down to 24 by 5am, with clear skies after midnight. Even if they start at 10pm it probably won't warm up past the freezing point until about 8am, they could get 8 hours in tonight if they wanted to. (It even says snowshower!) High of 47, snowmaking temperatures tomorrow night High of 56 and 59 for wednesday/thursday, no snowmaking temperatures. The temperatures don't return until Tuesday the 28th. So, if they want to have their Thanksgiving rail jam, they need to make snow tonight and tomorrow. And since they won't be able to make snow next monday so I think that means tonight. So I expect to see snow by wednesday morning!

Well lets put it this way, they don't start burning electricity for the fun of it. Those lights are expensive and they're not useful for marketing (Blue Mountain, the first to turn on our lights in PA!, doesn't sell lift tickets). The only reason for them on would be to work. The only work you do at night in November is making snow. They may not make it tonight, maybe tonight they wanted to check out the lights. But I wouldn't be shocked if they blew a little snow tonight to blow the cobwebs out, make sure there are no problems. I wouldn't expect them to start making a base tonight though. I remember when Mountain Creek installed all of their fan guns for the Superpipe they ran them one night in early October when it dropped just barely cold enough, put out a few inchs on the pipe and took some pictures just to get people excited, that was cool.

If you want a better one, check out low end GNU (Carbon High Beam) some of the Rides go pretty cheap too at the lower end, even a K2. Check especially last years stuff. I'd rather take a last year or even used higher end board with a stone grind, and it will last you a lot longer and ride a lot better.

Yea everyone in Vermont has to be laying it down right now.

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