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I gave up on NHN a while ago. And have been using space heaters occasionally too. Doesn't really matter since I already lost, but do fireplaces count?

Special access for pass holders? Maybe this can make up for the season passholder party I've missed for the past 4 years

How was the Epic Mountain Express? I saw a lot of those little busses and vans last year but didn't' know of anyone to actually use the service.

Seems like slim Pickens and I have a broken arm but I'll likely put in a short session Saturday.

I suppose I can chime in on this TR for a bit. Travel for those interested was on SAS (Scandanavian Air). Newark> Stockholm> Geneva. Then we booked a "mini bus" that would take us to the mountains. Turns out it was a full sized and completely full motor coach. Lots of traffic, but not terrible, pretty comfy ride. The only issue was that there was a transfer in the town of Moutiers. It's pretty much just a train/bus station town and we had an hour to kill since the traffic meant we missed the connection. Tried to eat at a restaurant, but in a small French town service is 100% on their schedule so we bailed after 10 minutes of trying to get a waiter to actually want to wait on us. At this point I wandered the town in search of a grocery store I found on the map. Slightly harder to find in person and I ended up running around like a mad man grabbing beer, wine, champagne, snacks, apples, and a huge hunk of cheese. A mad dash back to the transit station ensued with a backpack full of booze and a case of glass bottles and a bag of apples in my hands. Made the connection by the skin of our teeth. Bus dropped us off in the middle of Meribel, and it was a short walk to the Chalet. We were on the "3rd floor" which really meant going up a steep driveway from a hilly road, then up 2 flights of steps to the main entry, then another flight, then there was an elevator to get you to our floor, and when you opened the door you were faced with an interior flight of stairs which brought you up to the main floor of our 2 floor penthouse. This was obviously fun with bags and gear. Gorgeous place though and the views were sweet. After a long day of travel, the group popped a few bottles of wine and we made our way to L'igloo for some pizza and more wine. L ' IGLOO (2) (meribel-restaurants.com, and turned in ready to get up and get the first ski day in.

Not from today, but a teaser for an up coming Trip Report

I don't really want to drive out to Roundtop, but uphill has me 5% interested.

Making me want to run up tonight now. Definitely in for Sat and Sun

Temper your excitement on April...

Do either Epic or Ikon offer the rest of this season too?

My understanding is that one crew of two people can run just about any train now. Even if there are two locomotives they are hooked up so that they are controlled by the first one. There's also a new trend of putting two locomotives in the middle of a mile plus long train that are controlled by the one in the front as well. So in that situation there could be a crew of two running 4 engines, two of which are 3/4 of a mile behind them.

I'm banking on a Thursday night this week. @MattEDGE expressed interest too.

Tomorrow will be a wake up, forecast check, webcam check, and we will see. Sunday for sure

I'm in the middle of watching a documentary on Max about these guys. They seemed pretty harmless for a cult until the whole Kool-ade thing.

I cannot imagine a less "ski trip" drink than that