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Anyone ever been? Any good SWAG or discount tickets? http://www.easternpaskicouncil.org/15/images/philaexpoB.pdf

Great deal! Thanks for posting mbike.

Big Bear is better than the trail map suggests. The slopes are generally steeper than Alpine but the only real steep trail is Screaming Demon which is short. Great lodge with a nice restaurant and bar. It was never crowded when I was there. Get there for opening and you'll have the slopes to yourselves for most of the morning. Check it out and let us know what you think.

If you lived 20 minutes from Spring Mt. and that was the first place the you ever skied, we'd all be reading trip reports from Spring Mt. and what you ate on the way home and how many times you pooped in a day instead of the same thing from Blue Mt. (and no pictures to see what the conditions really are like) Of all the people on this site, who has more opportunity to ski different places and go to different places? Most people are married with kids and have responsibilities and are limited to where they go and have expenses, and don't work for Daddy, so their options are limited. You're 35 yrs. old, single and could go to places and send reports that would actually matter and help people to learn about where they would like to go when they had the opportunity.Have you ever been to Plattekill? I guess not. They have "slow" lifts. But no, you ski Blue Mt. and Jackson Hole every year and really no where else. Have you skied UT or CA or MT? What a loser. How many times have you pooped today? Oh, and you are really the creepy old guy, the college girls are only into you buying them beers. LOSER!

Where did you hear this? Website still says 1:00 to 9:00 Monday to Thursday. I didn't see anything on their facebook page either.

Nice summary and report on the renovations. I always recommend Alpine for beginners/first timers. It's a much less crowded place to learn without the hoards at CB or Blue.

Plattekill is a well kept secret. They have really been adding to their snowmaking the last few years. Thanks for the report and pics.

I think mid Atlantic suburban kids gravitate to a board because they associate it with a skate board. If you ski in New England or out West, the percentage of skiers is much higher than boarders. The trend has been for boarders to switch to skiing. Skis are just so much more versatile in the park or anywhere. Not bashing boarders. It's just physics. Two edges vs. one, better balance, can change stance, etc. Expert boarders see the skiers going higher out of the halfpipe and able to do more gnarly tricks on the jumps and features and switch.

If you want to use the card, JF would be the best bet. Get there for opening and stay on the expert trails. Montage will likely be the least crowded. The $29.00 morning ticket is a good deal from 8:30 to 1:00

Wow! Another mature post from the 35 yr. old virgin. You must be really sexually frustrated. I guess the college girls aren't impressed by a 35 old virgin who lives in a one-bedroom apartment and drives a crappy car. If you save some money or ask Daddy for an advance maybe you can pick up a hooker at the casino and stop being annoying to everyone else around you. 4 year olds like trains and Sheldon likes trains, and he's a virgin too..but then he is smart and funny, so I guess the similarity ends there.

Haven't heard anyone over 12 use that term. I guess not only are you an immature 35 yr. old virgin, you're also uneducated in that you couldn't think of a better adjective and actually articulate the problem. I'm sure the college girls are impressed by Creepy Old Guy's vocabulary.

35 year old virgins have to take out their frustrations somewhere. it doesn't have to be here. They get kicked off other of other sites that actually provide some useful information. There is a difference between joking around and being a jackass. No one can take advantage of you unless you let them.

White Lightning had some bumps beginning to form last Friday. The bumps are usually not very consistent on WL due to the steepness of the trail. Boomer had nice soft bumps.

And he calls his bottle his baba.

KC, Just ignore GSS. Anyone who reads just a few of his posts soon realizes that he is a 34 virgin who doesn't have a life and responds to every post here like he is 6 years old. He works for his Daddy and would probably be living in the basement if his father hadn't hired him just so he didn't have to live in his basement. You can figure out pretty quick that he responds to every post on every subject here all day long, so he can't have a lot of responsibility, or even much work, at Daddy's business. Probably doesn't want him screwing things up so he lets him play on the internet all day. He thinks he has a shot at losing his virginity at karaoke night, but even though he acts like he is 6 years old, he doesn't yet realize that the college girls consider him "Creepy Old Guy." It's pretty sad when the person who posts the most contributes the least. No wonder there are not many new members on here. We hear how many times he goes potty a day just like a little kid in daycare. His post don't really add any value and I'm sure Blue Mountain would prefer he be banned like he was on Alpine Zone for acting like a 6 year old there.

The Phoebe lift is 610' vertical. The top of Runaway and Fast track are flat. Most people don't ski top to bottom. The better skiers ski the bottom and the novices ski the top of the mountain. Montage is laid out top to bottom the way most areas are laid out side to side. It's pretty easy to ski from the top of the Phoebe to the bottom of the Iron Horse. No skating involved. They improved the crossover from top to bottom and vice versa. KC, good to see you back. Someone who actually contributes valuable information.

I doubt that but regardless, I'll take quality over quantity anytime. Oh, by the way, the name is now back to Montage.

No Long Haul. Fastrack and Runaway are not open. You don't really need Long Haul and even when it is running not many people use it. They improved the cross trails in the middle of the mountain to get from the top to the bottom and vice versa. It still cracks me up how people will stand in a long line to get on a fast lift. I'd rather ski right onto a slow lift and get to the top faster. The conditions are much better than CB and Blue due to better snowmaking and less crowds. The Blue Crew only skis till ten because the lines get long and the conditions deteriorate. You can ski at Montage all day on good conditions or sleep in and get there late if you only want to ski two hours on good conditions. And yours are........nonexistent.

No crowds on the Northface. Only line I saw was a short one for the beginners slope and the lift in front of the lodge. Lot was about 1/3 to 1/2 full when I left at 1:00 and people were still buying tickets. Really worth the extra half hour drive from CB or Blue to avoid the crowds and the conditions usually hold up all day. Plus the $29 9 to 1 ticket is a better deal than anything at CB or Blue.

Skied Montage today from 9 to 1 on my $23.20 ticket bought on groupon or wherever back in October. Conditions were great on everything open. They were blowing on Switch, Spike, & Lower Runaway, and started grooming out Smoke with an expected opening in the afternoon. No lift lines to speak of. Pretty much ski-on.I'd say they could open Switch and Spike by tomorrow unless they want to wait until after the r@!n event. They may have started slow but I'd say they have much acres open as Blue and the snow is much better quality. Love that fan gun snow. Smoke was grooming out nice with no sign of the cookies that Blue makes. Boomer had nice soft bumps and White Lightning skied really well. Started getting a bit scratchy at the bottom after noon in spots but still very edge-able. Cannonball had nice soft, fast snow. The lodge wasn't crowded with grandmoms, grandpops, moms & dads because snow tubing has not opened yet. They need to market to the masses that were yardsaling at Blue. Great morning at a great price.

Any feeling for what they might have open tomorrow? I was thinking of using one of my morning tickets since they are good on holidays.

The rocks were likely a result of the thin cover. The groomers dig them up when the snow is not deep enough to groom. I'll likely get there once on my Pocono Card but I usually leave by noon.

Temps were in the low 40's and sun was out when I got there. Not blaming Blue. They can only work with the weather they have. Ski areas are taking a beating this week. This is usually their busiest week.

Bar was down. Skis got caught on the tower? She must have had her skis twisted sideways. http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Woman-dies-after-falling-off-Hunter-Mountain-ski-5983295.php

I went up for a night session because I had things to do today and didn't want to pay a fortune for a ticket when the conditions were iffy. I got a $30 ticket at my borough office and got on the slopes right at 4:00. They turned on the snow making at 5:15 on all the open trails. Temps were very marginal and it was a very wet snow if it was snow at all. I was wiping water off of my goggles, not snow. But it was freezing up after a while. I expected the base to be softer with all the warm weather but it was bulletproof cat tracks with frozen granular piles on the sides. Newbies were yardsaling all over the place and most boarder were sliding down Chute and Midway with their boards perpendicular to the slopes with there asses on the ice. Left at 6:00. Conditions were the worst that I can remember skiing on in years. Between the bad surface and the wet "snow"making making the visibility bad, it was almost unskiable. Brought back memories from the 70's.