looks great...very jealous!

the mountain itself is county rec land, and while i do not know the particulars regarding the operating lease, i do know that the buckmans have generally been very cool about folks hiking and biking...

someone who was rushing to do it before he got antsy :oops:

Since we've never had a sustained warm-up here in eastern PA I had a notion that there still may be a good amount of snow left on our local hills. I also thought that it might be a good time get my...

i think it was open for 1 day this year...too bad as it's a nice long cruiser

Elk closing today 100% open except for Lehigh trail...wtf...why not stay open through the weekend?

looking good, mr corn! :lol:

if you stare at it long enough you will achieve ultimate consciousness

i stuffed my thermals that i had worn several days into a row into my boot before i came home from CO...long story short i won't be wearing those anymore...che puzza

my cut off point is going to be >1" thick...it's like that guy that started painting a baseball, and just kept adding layers of paint until it was about 6 feet wide

Elk still uses the metal wickets and sticky tickets (metal wickets and sticky tickets is the name of my new album, coincidentally), and i'm too lazy to take it off every time i go, so i just stick...

when i was a kid we went to bolton valley alot and would sled down the very end of the (very flat) condo run and would get going so fast we'd crash into the condos...i guess my point is you can get...

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now see i've always pronounced it "Ganj-Ola" aka "the clambake"

nice report, mr v...thanks for posting and glad you got some goods

geoff does the lord's work

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based on that logic, block and freefall are the 'most difficult' trails at platty, only relative to their other trails, not trails at other resorts

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top o' the quad to ya, laddy

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"cold got to me early"

yeah, mr scott neglected to mention that he was skiing in a sweater...i think the temp was about 19F when i pulled into the lot

mr scott was skiing hungry and thusly off his game a little...glad to hear the waffles finished the job that the hot dog hamburger and cheesecake could not

elk was great, given the recent...

yeah, mr scott...do it!!!

Elk claims to be making snow as well...kudos to them

loving daylight savings...after work rides in the daylight are back on the agenda

thanks, mr scott...if you get your auto issues worked out it'd be great if can join us