Moe Ghoul
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There is little to no ATT cell service in and around Elk, FYI.
Wed: Arrived in the rain/sleet around 4PM at Orazzi's Blue Ridge Inn, check in is at 5, so we headed into Carbondale and pounded Rock n Rye shots and mugs of RR at Moran's Pub until about 6:30, then headed back to the motel and checked in. Small room, tiny bathroom, late 90's Ikea furniture. Dante the owner set us up with wings and O-rings at the bar, Sammy winter lagers and a big pizza to follow. Met a Mom/daughter team from Haverford that were staying there as well for the first time. Drank and chatted, crashed at 11. Light snow falling.
Thurs: Overcast, mid-20's at 6AM, light flurrying as we left Orazzi's by 7 and headed up to Elk. Got to the upper lot by 7:20, had a egg, sausage & steeze sandwich and 1st chaired by 8:30. Elk does a fine grooming job and the mountain is about 70% open. Our first run was down Susquehanna, fresh cord, no ice, and it was hard to tell that it poured the day before. Headed over to the quad and lapped Tunkhannock, Chipewa and Tecumseh for most of the morning as light to moderate snow fell, few crowds before 2PM so we did a lot of laps. Brownbagged lunch around 1PM and finished the day by 3:45, skiing the same runs off the quad. Top of Tunkhannock was getting scraped off and icy by 3.
Headed back to the motel, and just stayed at the bar with Dante and the Haverford gals, who we skied with that afternoon and a little bit on Friday afternoon. The only thing worth ordering off the menu that is "homemade" is the Chicken Marsala. Everything else on the menu is frozen or pre-fab food. Drank heavily with Fred and the gals until 11PM and crashed. It was still flurrying a bit.
FRI: Rinse and repeat Thursday AM, we packed up our gear and checked out of the motel. Got to Elk in time for nearly first chair. 18 degrees in the upper lot when we pulled in, partly sunny, little wind. Everything was regroomed with fresh cord, and total accumulation over the past 24 hours was in the 2-3" range. They blew fresh snow, 3-5" on Upper Tunkhannock and we did 90% of our runs there that day as it was ungroomed and bumped up during the course of the day. Hooked up with about 10 peeps we know that showed up later that morning. Brownbag lunch and Caucasians in the bar for lunch, then a final 6 runs before calling it a day. We hit the road by 3PM, had a #9 at Chet's and booked a coupla rooms for a 2 niter in 2 weeks. Orazzi's Blue Ridge Inn is an adequate CHEAP place to stay, about a 15 minute ride from the mountain, located on Rte. 106 in Greenfield Twp.
A few pix:
1st chair on Thurs., Friday's ungroomed Tunkhannock getting bumped and sunrise on the quad.
Wed: Arrived in the rain/sleet around 4PM at Orazzi's Blue Ridge Inn, check in is at 5, so we headed into Carbondale and pounded Rock n Rye shots and mugs of RR at Moran's Pub until about 6:30, then headed back to the motel and checked in. Small room, tiny bathroom, late 90's Ikea furniture. Dante the owner set us up with wings and O-rings at the bar, Sammy winter lagers and a big pizza to follow. Met a Mom/daughter team from Haverford that were staying there as well for the first time. Drank and chatted, crashed at 11. Light snow falling.
Thurs: Overcast, mid-20's at 6AM, light flurrying as we left Orazzi's by 7 and headed up to Elk. Got to the upper lot by 7:20, had a egg, sausage & steeze sandwich and 1st chaired by 8:30. Elk does a fine grooming job and the mountain is about 70% open. Our first run was down Susquehanna, fresh cord, no ice, and it was hard to tell that it poured the day before. Headed over to the quad and lapped Tunkhannock, Chipewa and Tecumseh for most of the morning as light to moderate snow fell, few crowds before 2PM so we did a lot of laps. Brownbagged lunch around 1PM and finished the day by 3:45, skiing the same runs off the quad. Top of Tunkhannock was getting scraped off and icy by 3.
Headed back to the motel, and just stayed at the bar with Dante and the Haverford gals, who we skied with that afternoon and a little bit on Friday afternoon. The only thing worth ordering off the menu that is "homemade" is the Chicken Marsala. Everything else on the menu is frozen or pre-fab food. Drank heavily with Fred and the gals until 11PM and crashed. It was still flurrying a bit.
FRI: Rinse and repeat Thursday AM, we packed up our gear and checked out of the motel. Got to Elk in time for nearly first chair. 18 degrees in the upper lot when we pulled in, partly sunny, little wind. Everything was regroomed with fresh cord, and total accumulation over the past 24 hours was in the 2-3" range. They blew fresh snow, 3-5" on Upper Tunkhannock and we did 90% of our runs there that day as it was ungroomed and bumped up during the course of the day. Hooked up with about 10 peeps we know that showed up later that morning. Brownbag lunch and Caucasians in the bar for lunch, then a final 6 runs before calling it a day. We hit the road by 3PM, had a #9 at Chet's and booked a coupla rooms for a 2 niter in 2 weeks. Orazzi's Blue Ridge Inn is an adequate CHEAP place to stay, about a 15 minute ride from the mountain, located on Rte. 106 in Greenfield Twp.
A few pix:
1st chair on Thurs., Friday's ungroomed Tunkhannock getting bumped and sunrise on the quad.
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