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Snyder, seriously, if you want to make a point go right ahead, but for everyone's sake please make it legible. Punctuation and correct spelling and grammar go a long way around here. To counter your point, Tubing is a huge money maker for every resort. While they probably didn't have to spend as much on it as they did, you have to respect the dollars that tubing brings in and learn to live with it.

Just by googling really quick, JFBB is 20 miles and 25 minutes farther from Philly than Blue.

Pictures really do say a 1000 words. Now if GSS could only get that concept!

Awesome I had a friend call me from back home to go up to Sno today. He was telling me that it took him over an hour to drive from his house to his dad's shop, which is normally a 7 minute ride I love snow.

Nice

Thats what threw me off then. I was going by what was on the conditions page and it only showed the bunny lift and the Phoebe Snow to be open.

Not that I've been there since opening day, but i'm kind of disappointed in what looks to be open there. Most mountains are nearing 100% and Sno hardly has anything open as of right now. I really can't see any good reason for this. If everyone else can do it why aren't we even moving forward in a trail count?

I might be there on Sunday morning, unless I go to Killington

Well thanks for the encouragement guys. I'm not really looking for a performance boot I guess, I'll probably go the route of rentals for a few times. The only reason I'm even going to skiing is because Tussey is such a joke of a mountain I made a deal with some people that when we went the snowboarders would learn how to ski and the skiers would learn how to snowboard. There are only so many times you can bomb 350 verts and slide a flat box before you want a little more thrill

Its stuff like this that makes me a little apprehensive about trying to make the crossover this year.

Nice TR. I can't wait to get on the North Face. It looks like there is a lot of snow in the woods there. Pretty sweet.

The pass system at Boulder is pretty weird. You get a card and each day you have to take it into the office and get a lift ticket.

I always thought that was one of the weirdest things Sno did when they came in. Whistler was always a trail that you felt lucky if there was enough snow and you ducked the rope to hit. The really weird thing about Whistler being a priority is that it doesn't have any lights. It gets a little spillover from some of the tall tower lights, but not a single one actually on that trail.

You should be ok. Snow overnight and tomorrow morning and they do a great job of clearing it here.

There it is in a nutshell As for current weather, its raining here, a lot of it is freezing onto cars and buildings, its supposed to switch over to snow tonight and by morning we are looking at between 1 and 3 inches.

You know, sometimes I miss the Daves....

Just a quick idea, if the tarp could potentially have some sort of gutter system on the edges, I would suggest drilling a small hole through the snowpack and funneling the water down through it (with a sleeve in the snow of course) so that all the water that lands on a whale will go right under the snow and into the ground causing the least amount of damage possible. I would suggest a long inflatable tube on the edge of the tarp. When inflated it would cause a little gully between the edge of the tarp and it, giving the water somewhere to pool and then drain. Kinda makes me want to draw something up but I've got wayyy too many lab reports to take the time.

Thanks Mark. It sucks to see you guys lose snow/money, but its something very interesting to think about.

I hope Grilled Steeze sees that in time!

I've always wondered the same thing Method, thanks for asking that good question

45 here and the rain stopped early in the morning. The mountains have snow and they all are set to weather the warm spells. Might as well enjoy going to class and not freezing for a day!

Anyone else notice that gear attack doesn't tell you the price for each item? Just tells you the MSRP and then the percentage off. If i was ambitious enough to do the math I wouldn't be on a website that lets me check everything that fast.

rastasquid, the blue coats at Sno are instructors.

I guess I have a bad memory. I love tracking early openings, but it doesn't mean much for me because I'm stuck at school.

Since when has December 9th been "this early"? Its not like they are the only place open. Everyone, even the really small guys like Tussey are open now.