Mid-Atlantic 2021-2022 Poconos and Greater Area Ski Resorts/Conditions/Meetups

[Jersey Skier]

First day at Blue today for the season. Snow guns were blowing and the ropes dropped on Razors for the first time this year. In typical Blue fashion Razors was like skiing on a billion ice cubes the size of golf balls. One and done for everyone I spoke to.

Hiked from the top of the Challenge 6 pack lift up to Coming Soon aka Free Fall. Got a dozen or so powder turns since the snow guns were actually blasting snow instead of frozen golf balls over there.

4 hour lift ticket was plenty with only 24 of 40 trails open.

 

[4aprice]

Another sputter. I'm getting old. Skipped today as I just couldn't face -6 windchills and opted for staying in bed. I know CBK opened more terrain with Nile Mile and it looks like Scarab to Pocono Raceway. Plan is 1st tracks tomorrow till it gets overrun. Regardless of the outcome of this storm coming up (Pokes will get some unfrozen) down the line looks pretty cold and I would assume (big word these days) the entire mountain will be open in the not too distant future. Can only hope for something like last year were the big snow came just after the entire mountain opened and the next month was some of the best Pocono skiing I've done. (pandemic and all)

 

[4aprice]

Hammered out 15 runs from 7 30 to 9 30. Was getting busy but it was more the cold then the crowd that drove me in. Early bird gets the worm as conditions were very good first thing. Really got to open it up on an empty corded Nile Mile. Plenty of snow making going on and more terrain will be opening soon.

 

[johnnyvw]

Had about 4 inches of snow, then it turned to rain...yuck. Well, at least it will stay put on the slopes. Supposed to turn back to snow and get very windy.

 

[Willyum215]

Measuring 9” of heavy, wet snow here next to Elk.

 

[Wendy]

Well, what do you expect from a Pocono area that charges $95 for a weekend lift ticket?

I won't be seen on the slopes there. Done...

Edit:
Just checked lift tcket prices for Blue Mountain this Saturday. $124??? Glad I'm moving out of this area, it's honestly getting too expensive for me to ski around here.

I hear ya. Where we are moving it’s cheaper to ski, and the skiing is better (more snow).
I have a season pass at Blue, so I don’t see these day ticket prices, but that is ridiculous..
I wanted to ski Montage on a Friday; the ticket price was $90. Wow.

 

[Wendy]

Had about 4 inches of snow, then it turned to rain...yuck. Well, at least it will stay put on the slopes. Supposed to turn back to snow and get very windy.

Yeah, same here. Now it’s snowing lightly. Typical eastern PA crap storm.

 

[johnnyvw]

Montage has some weird pricing. Monday-Wednesday (non-holiday) it's $40 for anyone. Thursday and Friday it's $79 for anyone. The extended ticket is $89, maybe that's the price you got?

 

[Philpug]

I wanted to ski Montage on a Friday; the ticket price was $90. Wow.

Northstar was $216 or something on Sunday.

 

[Willyum215]

Northstar was $216 or something on Sunday.

That's super steep - but at least you are getting some serious terrain for your MLK weekend money.
$90 for Montage, even for open to close, is pretty ridiculous.

 

[Willyum215]

Got my pre-work power hour in at Elk today. Definitely a good leg workout in the heavy snow, but got some nice first tracks.
The crowd was really flowing in as I was leaving around 9:45 am, so it won't be long until it's all chopped up.

 

[kitchener]

Hammered out 15 runs from 7 30 to 9 30.

Did they fire up the Marc Antony by the time you left? Wondering if they’ll use it on weekends, like they used to.

 

[DaveD]

In case anyone hasn't seen this about Jack Frost

Brutal Holiday Lift Lines Reported At Small Vail Resorts Ski Area

Cecily Tynan is a long-standing news anchor for ABC6 in Philadelphia, and funny enough, she was one of my first crushes as a young boy growing up in

unofficialnetworks.com

 

[jessnie]

In case anyone hasn't seen this about Jack Frost

Brutal Holiday Lift Lines Reported At Small Vail Resorts Ski Area

Cecily Tynan is a long-standing news anchor for ABC6 in Philadelphia, and funny enough, she was one of my first crushes as a young boy growing up in

unofficialnetworks.com

Even though the tweet came in today, but based on the mountain cam doesn't seem to be that bad?

Mountain Cams | Jack Frost Big Boulder Resort

www.jfbb.com

 

[DaveD]

Even though the tweet came in today, but based on the mountain cam doesn't seem to be that bad?

Mountain Cams | Jack Frost Big Boulder Resort

www.jfbb.com

I suppose it would be interesting if they had cams down in the valley to even show the lift lines. Status page says they have 5 of 20 lifts operating now, on MLK day.

 

[jessnie]

I suppose it would be interesting if they had cams down in the valley to even show the lift lines.

They certainly don't (or wouldn't want to) have cam pointing to the lift lines. I usually use their cam to gauge how much of a crowd they have on the day, and it seems to me that they don't really have much people at the top of the slope, that's why I was confused by the 1 hour line tweeted, perhaps it was a late tweet for the crazy situation last Saturday? Anyways JF seems to get hit pretty hard these days...

 

[johnnyvw]

top tower cam shows only one of the two side-by-side lifts running....not surprised there is a huge lift line. WTF???

 

[4aprice]

Did they fire up the Marc Antony by the time you left? Wondering if they’ll use it on weekends, like they used to.

They did not, but I don't think that, that is a permanent situation. They seem to be doing a good job snow making playing catch up from just a brutally warm December. That middle section of the mountain isn't open yet so Antony wouldn't be much help anyways. They got Pocono Raceway and were working on Rodo and Near East on Sunday. Nile Mile was open and I did 4 to 5 back to back runs on Stevenson just skiing on to the lift. Not sure about later (I got out of there) but the cold was the killer earlier yesterday.

Now 1 complaint. Camelback needs to learn how to efficiently use the RFID gates. I'm a fan of the gates and obviously use them all over the place on my Ikon, but it seems to me most places set the groups before scanning the ticket. Winter Park, Copper you go through the gates with your group. At Sullivan they are passing 6 through the gates at a time for a four person chair so you can imagine the cluster-you-know-what feeding on to the loading platform. Hopefully they will figure it out

 

[kitchener]

They did not, but I don't think that, that is a permanent situation.

At Sullivan they are passing 6 through the gates at a time for a four person chair so you can imagine the cluster-you-know-what feeding on to the loading platform. Hopefully they will figure it out

It was similar at Elk yesterday (herding after the electronic gates).

Hope you're right about Marc Antony -- I find that mountain (on a crowded day) to be much different when that release valve is working.

 

[Willyum215]

Bumps were everywhere this morning...