Popular Post mbike-ski Posted November 26, 2016 Popular Post Report Posted November 26, 2016 Well I've ski'd GP one more time this year than I did last season... The bio clock was on weekday time so I woke Mrs SnoBunski up at 5:30 and headed to Greek to start the season. Picked up our passes after the foggy ride up, got on the snow just before 10. By that time the trail count was down to 11 = 2 ways down. God bless the beginners on the skid mark that was karyitis. Elysian had good coverage up top, not so much the lower you got. The top was bumping up nicely, bottom becoming more tech until we bugged out around noon with cortland industrial IPA to wash down some wings and an escarole pie at trax . Was raining prett steady on the walk back to the car. No better gravy than skiing some smashed taters Thanksgiving weekend! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 10 Quote
AtomicSkier Posted November 26, 2016 Report Posted November 26, 2016 Awesome. Hopefully we have something here in a few weeks Quote
Ride Delaware ? Posted November 26, 2016 Report Posted November 26, 2016 Soft turns are better than hard turns. Glad to see GP open as early as possible for its pass holders. Sounds like the new owners are doing well enough. Quote
theprogram4 Posted November 26, 2016 Report Posted November 26, 2016 Greek Peak was the first time ive ever ridden powder or glades. always had a good time there. mbike ski, does the place still look like its stuck in the 1970's? i havent been there since high school but would like to go back Quote
tnt Posted November 26, 2016 Report Posted November 26, 2016 We stayed in the new hotel in the summer a few years back. Pretty nice - always keep an eye out for an overnight deal in the winter, but hasn't come together yet. Quote
Ski2Live Live2Ski Posted December 7, 2016 Report Posted December 7, 2016 Seeing some talk about these guys getting slammed with a foot of snow before they reopen Sunday. Quote
tarponhead Posted December 7, 2016 Report Posted December 7, 2016 Seeing some talk about these guys getting slammed with a foot of snow before they reopen Sunday. Elaborate please 1 Quote
Ski2Live Live2Ski Posted December 7, 2016 Report Posted December 7, 2016 (edited) Check out the NY ski blog forum and see the posts there. Also $5 vouchers for that day available from the Ski Company, with the closest location in Tully NY Edited December 7, 2016 by Ski2Live Live2Ski Quote
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted December 7, 2016 Report Posted December 7, 2016 Wow MBike mile posts over there. So a foot is forecast for Greek peak this weekend?? Tully NY is 24 miles past Greek peak. Would you drive an extra 48 miles for a $5 lift ticket?? Quote
Ski2Live Live2Ski Posted December 7, 2016 Report Posted December 7, 2016 (edited) Wow MBike mile posts over there. So a foot is forecast for Greek peak this weekend?? Tully NY is 24 miles past Greek peak. Would you drive an extra 48 miles for a $5 lift ticket?? For just me, no. For me and two kids to save 150 or so could be worth it. Edited December 7, 2016 by Ski2Live Live2Ski Quote
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted December 7, 2016 Report Posted December 7, 2016 For just me, no. For me and two kids to save 150 or so could be worth it. Interesting I was just looking at maps didn't realize how close Greek peak is to Syracuse. I like doing cost benefit analysis. It's cool to visually how much money your time is worth. Like the kids who camp out all night when a new chic fil A opens up as the reward for being the first 100 or so is a free combo meal a week for a year which has a value of about $350 Quote
Ski2Live Live2Ski Posted December 7, 2016 Report Posted December 7, 2016 (edited) Yeah we do irrational things sometime. I once spent 10 minutes extra in a grocery store line getting them to honor a $1 for 18 eggs deal. No way that was worth it, but when they try to not give to you the deal you thought you were getting the natural impulse is to push your point, not just accept it. Edited December 7, 2016 by Ski2Live Live2Ski Quote
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted December 7, 2016 Report Posted December 7, 2016 Yeah we do irrational things sometime. I once spent 10 minutes extra in a grocery store line getting them to honor a $1 for 18 eggs deal. No way that was worth it, but when they try to not give to you the deal you thought you were getting the natural impulse is to push your point, not just accept it. I like haggling on hotel rooms...saving money is the same thing as making money. When my customers wanna wheel and deal I make concessions as I'd be a hypocrite not to since I love wheeling and dealing. One of our suppliers we do $100,000 in business with always gave us a 15% discount well now if we pay in 15 days instead of 30 days they give us a 17% discount..$2,000 a year savings by writing checks 15 days earlier is well worth it. Quote
mbike-ski Posted February 19, 2017 Author Report Posted February 19, 2017 (edited) Had planned on "sleeping in" and skiing blue with you shitheads but the damn dog [emoji190] started barking and wanted to go out at 4:30 so I packed up the truck and headed to Greek. They got 18" or so since last weekend so got my tree jones on.. 12 tree and bump runs before lunch and beers with the famous azone and nyskiblog cornhead. Trees were sweet! Headed up the hill on the way home to get my xc on, great coverage, a bit slow but not rotten sticky Gotta love xc in a t! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Edited February 19, 2017 by mbike-ski 8 Quote
RidgeRacer Posted February 19, 2017 Report Posted February 19, 2017 Awesome man. You'll need to host a PASR day up there. 2 Quote
Ride Delaware ? Posted February 22, 2017 Report Posted February 22, 2017 Looks like a blast. One day I'll make my return. Quote
mbike-ski Posted March 8, 2017 Author Report Posted March 8, 2017 Had a fun family gp weekend, the first in at least 3 year with the bad winters and the oldest in grad school. saturday was nice (and cold) with a fresh kote of grabby snow, squalls and the mountain to ourselves and about 6,500 spartan racers. We ran into more pa folks then locals for sure, including justo's friend Tyler and a BMR family. Nearby song mountain was offering $10 tix for gp refugees. limited terrain - basically karyiatis, elysian/stoic/christies and iliad - but what was open was nice with some wales blown overnight to noodle around on for junior. no park setup which seems odd to draw out the jib honks and kiddies. it would be easy to throw a few features on whatever the little offshoot of stoic is called!? the snow got better and faster as the day went on and the fresh snow got ski'd into the base below. It was fun to watch and cheer the racers on, we heard nothing but good feedback on the event other than the cold. left around 2:30 to hit micro breweries hopshire farms and cortland beer with my daughters boyfriend while the girls did the spa. then back to trax bar at gp lodge later for a fun cover band. sunday cold and clear, some high quality gunpow on upper iliad. decent snow, i ski'd tele most of the day to make the 3 ways down a bit more interesting until the legs gave out. a few bare spots and rocks were starting to poke through. swapped skis and did some afternoon karyiatis cruisers with non-skiing younger daughter who joined us for a few obligatory runs. sunday night they groomed the wales into a fine corduroy carpet perfect for mixing in short radius and high speed big gs turns monday morning, especially after the sun broke the flat light around 10:30. temps rose from low 20's into the 30's quickly and we left around 1:00 when the snow started to get a little sticky. all in all a good weekend, good snow on limited terrain, gonna need some real snow to last much longer! At 8 days, that will likely be it for me at greek until next year unless they get a decent dump Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 8 Quote
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted March 8, 2017 Report Posted March 8, 2017 Nice Greek peak report!!!! Most you skied Greek in a season since 2010-11..way to get after it!! Quote
JFskiDan Posted March 8, 2017 Report Posted March 8, 2017 all in all a good weekend, good snow on limited terrain, gonna need some real snow to last much longer! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Thats not quite what i wanted to hear, but none the less, good info. Quote
Shadows Posted March 8, 2017 Report Posted March 8, 2017 Whats with the gp fascination? Pretty random mtn to go to so often. Just wondering Quote
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted March 8, 2017 Report Posted March 8, 2017 (edited) Whats with the gp fascination? Pretty random mtn to go to so often. Just wondering He has a timeshare there which includes a season pass Edited March 8, 2017 by GrilledSteezeSandwich Quote
mbike-ski Posted March 8, 2017 Author Report Posted March 8, 2017 Whats with the gp fascination? this: and what dougy said 6 Quote
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