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Sorry to add to the detour away from Plattekill but there's plenty of green and blue terrain at Santa Fe. Here are some pix from many moons ago (Dec 2002 and Feb 2009) to give you an idea and the trail map hasn't changed a bit since then. Similar to what RA said, many people mention SF as their...

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Didn't realize that the player who got the ball on the blown fake punt was the one who almost died on-field last season. https://nypost.com/2024/01/22/sports/bills-sean-mcdermott-under-fire-for-bizarre-damar-hamlin-fake-punt/

I remember that from a dozen years ago -- I assumed from the name that it'd be the same pitch as the one at Plattekill.

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Wow: 24,000 employees across the country? I assume that includes the people who work at 1,000+ Burger Kings? I wonder if it's considered one of the largest employers that's based in CNY? I may have mentioned up-thread that when I moved back to Syracuse in 1988 for a couple years, I lived just...

CNY street cred! It was the ultimate uncool station for parents but had the best school-closure announcements.

I've mentioned before how my school district west of Syracuse was always the one that refused to call a snow day, even when we got a two-foot dump, because our superintendent grew up in Maine with the "when I was a kid in the 1940s, we walked barefoot through the snow uphill to go to school...

Congrats on getting fresh snow for your Platte day. Would be interesting to see a listing of conditions that the event has had over the past decade. I've gone a few times and don't recall anything resembling a powder day -- all I usually remember is the beer in the bar!

Snowing hard in NNJ but Jason has downgraded us to 1-3 inches!

The sand dunes sequence at 8:55!

I neglected to report on the conclusion to my mouse story. As mentioned above, I let the mouse go a football field from my house and two days later the bugger returned! I bought a couple of these traps and he somehow evaded them for a week before finally giving in to the temptation of guberment...

You're right. The link posted on the previous page was for Jan 1 to Dec 31. This is for winter seasons and thus far 2023-24 is 9.8 inches. That sounds more accurate!

See the YTD below for 23-24. 55 inches by Xmas is a decent-sized number and doesn't seem to correlate to reports I've been seeing. Can anyone confirm?

Years ago, I copy/pasted that list compiled by Russ LaChapelle into an Excel sheet, eliminated redundancies, and came up with 483 ski areas. Of course, a good percentage of them were probably very small "town hill" operations but still, an impressive number!

Thanks for digging out that chart! Two observations: People often accuse me of exaggerating how much snow I had to shovel during my years growing up in CNY (see table below). They confirm my claims. Look at that stretch from 1922 to 1944: comparatively paltry. Is it possible that they weren't...

From the Catskills ski-area list, only five are still in operation: 😕 Andes Ski Center Bearpen Mountain/Princeton Ski Bowl Belleayre Mountain Buck-Horn Lodge Bobcat/Catskill Ski Center Windham Mountain/Cave Mountain Cortina Valley Davos DePitt's Mt. Lodge Ski Center in Fleischmanns...

The Delaware County Historical Association reminds us that Bobcat opened 60 years ago yesterday. Remember? Back when there was natural snow on the ground in December!

How does a ski mountain operator get connected with potential rental customers? I assume that businesses planning a teambuilding experience don't immediate think -- "hey, let's rent a ski area for the day!"