trackbiker

I hope that's an April Fools joke. If not, that is not a good thing.

Nice place but nothing hard. Mostly blue cruisers. Their steepest but short trail, Screamin' Demon, is closed. Nice lodge with a nice bar. I don't know what trail map GSS is looking at but their website does have their own map. It's not a good map. The area is actually better than the map. If you like blue cruisers go. If you like steeps and bumps go somewhere else.

So tell us something we already know...... Why are you infatuated with this? It would just be a waste of money to run the Long Haul on a weekday without upper Fast Track open or even if it was open. The only time it makes sense to run it is on a weekend with the whole mountain open. Have you ever even skied there? I'll save you some time..... 2/5/16: Closed today.

Ray used to do the 4:00 groom. Night skiing was much better then.

Blue will be mobbed on Sunday with the "snow in the backyard crowd" even though there will be more snow in their backyard than at Blue.

^What Schif said.

If you've ever skied Montage you would know that the Long Haul is not a well placed or designed lift. Montage skis like two areas one on top of the other as opposed to side by side like most areas. Novices and intermediates ski the top of the mountain. Better skiers ski the bottom North Face. If you want to ski top to bottom take the Phoebe and the Iron Horse. If the Long Haul not running is keeping someone from not skiing there, good. Less lift lines for everyone else.

You can get tickets for less if you buy on line and reload an RFID card.

Those 8 yr. olds ski moss and rocks and come into the lodge and tell you how good the conditions are. I don't care how good your kid is in NASTAR in PA. They'll kick his ass. Those kids can ski!

No need to YELL. Ever hear of a place called Bear Creek?

Seven Springs does.

Sorry. My mistake. The WNEP Card has Gore but not Whiteface. That is worth it to me because a good friend has a place 20 minutes from Gore and I go there several times per year and it's hard to find discounts for Saturdays at Gore. If I wasn't going to Gore I would go with ski club Pocono Card. The MyChamplainValleyCard has Gore and Whiteface, I'll use that at Gore, Whiteface, Burke, Cannon, MRG, Middlebury, Bolton, and Smuggs. No Jay this year but still a great deal.

I joined the Princeton Ski Club last year for $30 just to get the card. You mail your application in and order the card at the same time. Contact info here http://www.princetonski.org or check out any of the ski clubs here. http://www.njssc.org Didn't do it this year. Bought the WNEP Card because it has Gore and Whiteface.

Those Hall lifts run forever. They've been upgraded and are inspected every year. No worries.

Magic does a great job of grooming. They have a lot of easy trails off the top of the mountain that are long groomers and they aren't crowded. Your wife would probably love Magic.

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.