Schif

I will be the first few times I try to use skis.

It's kind of a daunting move though. I honestly wouldn't even know where to begin on buying a pair of skis or boots.

I'll be a blue passholder next year for sure. I'l wind up buying it at the end of this year to try to ride out a few weeks. I planned on being up at blue pretty much every weekend by now but unfortunately life has gotten in the way a little bit. I'm hoping the off snow things slow down soon and I'll be riding the six pack and drinking six packs in a week or two. I didn't get converted by anything but location really. To me my home mountain will always be Montage, there is just something about that place that will always have my heart. Blue is the closest mountain to me, not counting Spring mountain which is 5 miles away. I'm not really looking forward to the commute to and from Blue, but I guess you have to do what you have to do. The upside is that I'll get to see all of you guys on a regular basis instead of just sporadically, and once I've got that pass I'll try to make the full transition to skis.

A few weeks I hope. I just came back from the funeral of one of my oldest friends and the guy that I've spent the most amount of time on a mountain with. Kind of bummed out and not really in the mood to get out on the mountain yet. This will be the first season since I was 11 that I won't get to ride with him. So I'll definitely be up at Blue, but I don't think I'm ready yet.

I didn't even know that the freezing rain was coming since I was out of town for the weekend. Then I got a call from a guy who sounded like the impending weather meant the sky was falling and he cancelled my meeting with him. Weird. So I got to go home early and watch 15 minutes of ice fall. I guess it did give my car a good coating, but the roads didn't seem that bad.

I was under the impression that they only let them on one trail and then closed that one to skiers. Guess I haven't paid too much attention to the airboard world lately. Glad to see that Montage is making some serious progress with terrain expansion. I was up that way for Christmas but didn't get a chance to get on the snow.

A few years ago they attempted to have a small shack (pretty much exactly what the PASR shack would be) with ticket windows on it right in the parking lot next to the snow at the Phoebe Snow lift. There was a small fire pit, some benches and I think they might have had some light snacks and hot chocolate for sale. They were trying to cater to the guys that wanted to just boot up and head right down Smoke or Boomer, but that idea and the shack were ditched along with the Moose a number of years ago. Good idea in theory, but realistically I don't think there are enough non passholders that want to completely avoid the main lodge that bad to warrant having it there.

Beautiful layout. I have a similar PRR steam engine but I'm an O-scale guy.

I saw a guy in Scranton the night before Thanksgiving rollerblading around the hill section. Probably one of the more strange things I've seen this month.

Maybe the announcement is that they built a new waterslide on Marjie's

I showed the picture of that cosmic tubing to my girlfriend and before I could say "look how dumb that is" she got really excited and asked if we could go. I'm hoping she forgets about it soon.

I did an open to close at CB when I was like 14. Haven't come close to a day like that since.

Montage doesn't have a small, narrow kind of universal trail that they can just blast and open quickly with one or two chairs. Not to mention at the base in front of the lodge they have to cover up the water park with a decent amount of snow. Their problem is that things are just so wide and spread out. I mean they have to blow a Freedom's amount of snow just to put snow across the whole base area

Guess I'll be heading up there a few times a week now

68 all day and all night at my place. My girlfriend hates being chilly at night. When I lived alone I would keep it around 64 and then I shut the heat completely to my bedroom at night.

The sale of the triple packs ends before black friday, so i'm on the fence about what to do.

I seem to recall someone on here saying that Blue does black Friday specials on their website for lift tickets and such. Is that the case? I was going to buy a few of those triple ticket packs but might hold off until Black Friday if there are deals available

I'm in the same boat. I love trivia, but people seem to be "responsible" and "busy" midweek.

I didn't even think about this. It's daytime and we are watching the guns fire up. Definitely not the norm.

According to a post on their facebook page, Montage has lit up the guns today too.

The cold this morning really surprised me when I took the dog out. I guess it really is almost that time!

I usually read biographies and/or history or other nonfiction kind of things. People have done some cool stuff over the past few thousand years might as well learn about it. I'm between a rock and hard place where I just moved to in terms of libraries now. As far as I can tell Montgomery County Library system doesn't have a location anywhere near me, I work close to Doylestown so I could hit up the library there but I don't live in Bucks county, and the nearby one in Lansdale is only for residents of that town so I would have to pay a monthly fee to use the library.

Logical and fair

Why not just run a natural gas line? It should be pretty easy to trench through that parking lot.

2.5 weeks. Just curious, Dee and SallyCat, how did you guys find this place? I'm hoping the answer is from a sticker placed on a lift pole in 2005 but I'm probably wrong on that.