Schif

He's not looking for anything good. He's looking at something he can destroy on a ramp and a pool and not feel bad about.

I've got reports from people who stayed back at school a few extra days that they had some wet snow yesterday.

Tussey is what it is. About 400 feet of verts serviced by a kind of weird quad chair. You've got an out and back kind of green circle with a lot of little fun things to do on the side of the trail. Most of these are little up and over light poles/barriers and such, and then on the second half of the trail some cool little quarterpipe kind of things on the skiers left. Then there is a pretty solid top to bottom blue that runs along the side of the lift, pretty fun. Next to that is a diamond/blue trail that the ski team usually trains on. The top of this one actually has some solid pitch and is fun. Crowds are never an issue, and the park is almost non existent. It consists of some tiny single barrel flat rails (2 at most if they are set up) a 5 ft long flat rail, a small wooden (yes it is made of wood, even the surface you slide on) battle ship box, a pretty crazy double barrel rainbow (wayyyy too steep, but you can still have some fun messing around on it) and then the best thing in there, a 25 ft ish flat box. Sometimes it has skirting on the side, sometimes it doesn't, but it slides great and everything is always gap on so you can just hike this thing for a while and have a good time. Later on in the year and definitely before the PSU open they will build a jump, this years was actually pretty nice. The jump this year was on the bottom of the black/blue and the rails are always at the bottom of the blue. They have pretty good specials on Tuesday/Thursday nights where the tix are only $10 and thats pretty much the only time I go. (It really really doesn't seem worth it for me to pay any more for this place) Ok, long story short. If you're a PSU freshman there is no other choice for you. You need a car to get to Blue Knob and there is a bus that will take you from East Halls (where you will live) right to Tussey, and then one that takes you right back. The whole time you're there you're going to joke about how bad it is, but you'll always come back. Its not much, but if you go with the right attitude, you can have a ton of fun there. If you have any specific questions shoot. I'm a Junior here at Penn State. Congrats for getting in here! LETS GO STATE!

About an hour and a half according to the mapquesting I did over the winter, but I've never actually gone.

Its come up a few times about how too short of a ropelength can throw off a High Speed lift. Does anyone know the +/- distance that the chairs get on the line? Its been said that all HSQs have to be recalibrated every so often but how long do they get? I would imagine that a longer lift would need to be fixed much less i.e. Blue has more time between chair repositioning than Camelback. Any of the lift guys on here have any idea on this kind of thing?

Thats a great place to go. I've never been up there in the winter to look at the mountains, but It sure is fun in the summer. Its fun at night too, when you can see all the lights of Wilkes-Barre and Scranton.

Thanks FGT, I was looking for something exactly like that earlier but couldn't find it before class. Maybe GrilledSteeze, but thats what the bathroom of the lodge, the car, and hotel are for. Like I said before, I think its a really cool concept, I just can't see myself waiting for 9 chairs to go by just so i can sit in a gondola, even if gondo-head was available. I'll take more runs over that any day. (at least in the winter)

Noble idea I guess. I know I won't be waiting around for every 10th chair just so i can be in a gondola cabin though.

This is really disappointing. Especially because I think everyone knows that that 22 foot pipe will be sticking around for quite some time now.

Have fun and don't forget to write a trip report

Beat me to it. I was the only PASR on a board for most of Gaper Day and I still had a blast. Ok, cool whatever. PASR sucks at linking people up. Why don't you try match.com or eharmony.com or you can even PM doug about jdate if you really want.

Ok TT C6 we get it. You came here to make a post, have a bunch of people jump on it, and go skiing with them. You also came here to make a post, have a bunch of people jump on it, and buy a house. Neither of them worked and they will continue to not work. Drop it. PASR skis together all the time. We don't have big festivals and hooplah but we're the hardcore skiers/riders at all the pocono mountains. You CANNOT go to any place in the poconos and not have at least one PASR on the snow. No one wants to buy a condo/house at boulder because most people on this board live close enough that its not practical. Nothing against your idea, its just not a good one for most of the members here. While gatherings happen, its not the main goal of the site. We provide very good and very fast and realistic conditions to our community. TRs pop up from almost every mountain almost every day. You want to know whats really happening on the snow in PA, you check here. Thats the main reason I started posting. The cool sense of community and the fun people to meet/ski with was a huge bonus. Long story short. PASR is not a trip oriented board. Never has been, never will be. I'm sorry if thats what you were looking for but its not what we offer.

Hey, FYI I tried to do the online only ticket thing last week and the site was broken. It just wouldn't let me buy it.

Good all around conditions on the mountain. The only trail w/ some brown showing was Nile Mile. Just avoid that and you'll be fine.

Yesterday's festivities were definitely a good time. I'm glad I finally got to get out w/ a few more PASR's. I couldn't believe how lax they were with the beer thing though. I kind of thought we would have to start and finish them on the lift ride, but no one seemed to care when we cruised down and got back on the 6-pack holding the contents of a 6-pack.

Here are the pics of Melissa stuck in the net. Snoskier is helping her out. It was certainly interesting to come around that corner and see her off the side of the trail and wrapped up though haha. Sorry Melissa, you're not hurt so we can laugh about it a little now.

So the plan is to meet at the top of the 6 pack at 9 am. Got it. I'll try to be there earlier than that but not sure what time exactly. I guess it just depends on what time i can get myself out of bed. How much beer/food is everyone bringing? I've got some beer here, but its not exactly a case or anything. Is there anywhere that will be open to buy it that early/on the way to Blue? .

Awesome I'd also like to throw it out there that they were cutting the 22 foot pipe at the end of the night on wednesday.

Not a bad job with the $20 all day online deal either. I'll be taking advantage of that today.

Just picked up my gaperific jacket at the thrift store.

Wow, if it gets any bigger I might have to downgrade beer and pick up a case of Natural Light.

I'll have to pick up some beer for gaper day too. I know Miller Lite comes in 8 oz cans if needed for stashing a few on me.

Super pumped now. I'll be there early w/ my gaper gear ready. I"ll have to remember to pick up some beer on Thursday night. How many people are planning on showing up? Lets start a roll call, but don't let the roll call interfere with the chatter, its good stuff. 1. Schifdawg (Mike) 2.

I just got a great idea! Anyone wanna let me use an old clock for a Flava Flav necklace?

Eh, it won't be that bad SMS. I"m planning on heading to Blue in the morning (drank in the morning last week, so i dont' feel the need to do it again) and if I leave at noon when the crowds hit, i can be in the city by 1 and still have 13 hours left to drink.