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Some of you may recognize a familiar face . . . thanks to this gentleman for his work at the base of the AE2. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/poststar/name/michael-durkin-obituary?id=56648220

After a heart incident in December (not a heart attack, but ventricular tachycardia) and having my life saved in the ER, three days later the doctors put in an Implanted Cardioverter/Defibrillator, which is similar to a pacemaker in terms of muscle location (on top of left pec muscle) and...

Good.skiing today. Crappy service at the bar however.

Sun is out, snow is softening up, great day to be out! No crowds!

Sitting in mid mountain lodge -- again, no fire. I've been here twice this season, very cold days, no fire going. Makes no sense.

Hope not! We are heading up tonight for an early start tomorrow.

this is a new kind of horror

Good question, there is nothing anywhere at the base indicating what is open and what isn't. (Maybe I missed it but I looked a few places.) I asked one of the lifties at the gondola loading station-- reply was "I don't know, they don't tell us anything." So I guess it is customers and staff...

Skied today . . . we drove up last night and stayed at the Super 8 in Warrensburg as I did not want to do a 5:30 a.m. departure from Poughkeepsie. (Clean and cheap -- would stay again.) Got there before they started sending people up. Early runs were hard and fast, but hard to see because of...

OK, so I grew up in Queens (Howard Beach), and now I live in Poughkeepsie, so I think I have a good understanding. "Upstate" is like "young" and "old" in that it is relative. When you are 20, anyone under 16 is "young" and anyone over 30 is "old". When you are in your 50s, "young" is anyone...

I had the opposite feeling -- when I was in the upstairs lodge at Platty, with a bunch of people sitting unmasked eating in what felt like a close, stuffy, unventilated space (which I know folks are allowed to do, and if I had little kids I'd likely be in the warm spot as well), I was kind of...

That is awesome . . . I moved to Pok in 2004 -- is this from when there was a ski hill at Beacon?

Was there today. Can confirm, about 4-5 inches of fresh powder on top of icy base on the steeps. Trees looked mostly untracked. My daughter had a ball -- but a lot of work for me, I'm more of a cruiser.

Probably about 18-20 inches in Poughkeepsie

As a lawyer, I can confirm that!