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Funny that the below post mentioned deciding between hiking Jay or Kmart Thurs, as it happens I did the latter! Judging from your pics I got the better cover but hey a day of skiing is etc.... I went up figuring the middle section would be thin, if not broken, but that I would at least hike/ski...

Thanks. The article/press release seemed to be more about getting the closing date out there than crowing about the conditions. Didn't really need the closing date "confirmed", the only question for me is whether they'll try to close even earlier! Saying the trail crew was "hard at work" wasn't...

So a flat-out admission that you're "eliminating the late season ski operation"? Far cry from last weeks claims of grooming to attract more skiers to same (not that anyone was buying it). <BR> <BR> If K "owes" anything to anyone it's to themselves, not us. A corporation that defaulted on close...

Not sure I'd put money on this thread reaching 140 posts, but it does go to show how strongly skiers feel about the outside edges of the season...and remember, we're just a small sampling of the skiing public! One of the best things about that thread last spring was all the folks that posted...

Here's an interesting article that appeared today. I saw a note about it on the New England Cable News crawl and found a more detailed rundown here on the Rutland paper's site. It's timely to our chat in that it may help to explain the atmosphere around the severely cut-back ASC ski season: <BR>...

There are a couple of pics from closing day yesterday at the K Basin Ski Shop site. None that show the entire trail from afar but a couple that show just how nice the top and bottom sections were (& still are!): <BR> <BR><A HREF="http://www.basinski.com/" TARGET="_top">http://www.basinski.com/</A>

That probably feels good as justification, but the fact is that nobody comes to Superstar in May expecting anything BUT bumps (your more general "bumps as passe 80s thing" was shot down in another thread IIRC). If you were trying to attract more intermediate skiers, there would've been something...

I could've posted this in the previous thread but figured it was worthy of a stand-alone note in passing. Marc's article on the Kmart closing hit the nail on the head re ASC cost cutting, but (unlike Mt Snow at Easter) they didn't exactly end up closing with the stated "seamless cover"! <BR>...

Haven't posted many reports lately since I usually ski the same places and pick my days carefully enough that most reports would read the same, but I just had to check in with this. <BR> <BR> Faithful homey that I am, I went up to check out Mt. Snow yesterday. I know Snow has a bit of a...

>>>Nothing exciting but we were figuring he slid further on his side than the vertical drop of Peek'n'Peek, a small western NY area.>>> <BR> <BR>Jeez, never though I'd see Peek'n'Peak mentioned here. Hell, I grew up skiing there! In fact that was the first place I *ever* put on skis, on a grade...

Hey LftGly be sure to say hi to all our old Breck haunts, onslope and off!

Funny you should mention the Fritschis, NHPH. Just got a pair for Xmas ('bout time, eh LG?). Look forward to mounting them up and putting them though their paces, Ullr (excuse lack of umlauts) willing!

I echo the previous (non)recommendations but if you absolutely must do it then get there mega early, like 7am, to be on the skis and waiting when the lifts start loading at 8am (sometimes they'll even put people on a little before the official opening time). Ha, this is where everyone's...

Killington just changed their site to day they will open tommorrow, Monday 11/10, at noon. Most areas are blowing snow and Kmart will beat them open by a little bit but this just isn't as big a deal as it used to be. It's too bad their policy has changed to pass up the early opportunities, and I...

That New England Cable News weather guy is named Tim Kelly. He can always be counted on to put a skiers spin on the weather as he is one of us. I've chatted with him on email and he's a real nice guy. During the season he narrates the NECN ski report, called the 'Downhill Lowdown', with same-day...

Hell no we didn't ski any more, we got the @#$% outta there! BTW lest anyone think it was a purely solo caper, Mr Gully had done the very same run just minutes before me. I'm a little heavier and weighted a little differently in a slightly different spot and was the proverbial straw that well...

Sure, LG, bring on the rest of the pics from our 'snow arch' outings! Of course, the names are changed to protect the reckless...might want to blur the faces too! A video of the second trip would drive the point home better, or maybe the 'before' shot morphing into the 'after'? Thank Ullr that...

Well actually I, ah....... <BR> <BR>Um, what was the question again?

Sorry for bumping this header to the top (hopefully it'll be temporary), but just have to say I generally agree with LG's comments. I think the ratio of lift-served to backcountry reports is generally reflective of the percentages of those activities amongst skiers, but more of either is always...

No, that was my aim, i.e. go directly to the most recent eastern No Bull reports. That said, I'm sure your western reports are excellent and I will give them a look!